After a dismal weekend, the UCLA softball team hopes to speed its recovery with a taste of home-cooked Highlander when the Bruins take on UC Riverside today. The third-ranked Bruin team hopes that their great play at home, good for a .822 winning percentage, will aid in a recovery from the Kajiwara Classic. In coach […]
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Softball rocky in season-opening Classic
It was a rough start to the Kelly Inouye-Perez era in UCLA softball. Friday saw the start of the Arizona-based Kajiwara Classic, with the No. 3 Bruins (2-3) losing a 1-0 heartbreaker to No. 17 Texas (4-1). The team rebounded with a 14-6 squashing of Syracuse (0-4). Saturday was worse, with coach Inouye-Perez’s team falling […]
Martial arts learning experience continues
Surprisingly, my Korean vocabulary now stands at five words. Horrifically mispronounced words, sure ““ including one that I have absolutely no idea how to go about ““ but the fact still stands. I am, against my best efforts, becoming trilingual. My tae kwon do ignorance is becoming more precious as it dwindles into nothing. Or […]
Club offers ample kicks
Over the summer, I spent some time with the eight-year-old son of my first-grade teacher. Among other things that I learned from his youth was an ability to break a pine board, or two, with my fist. It’s definitely not much, especially in the way of introductions, but it’s a nice party trick, along the […]
Tennis spends weekend at tourneys
The dog days of summer are now officially over, especially for the UCLA tennis squads, who awakened from seasonal collegiate hibernation to find themselves mired in a pair of briar patches. The men traveled to Tulsa, Okla., to play in the Polo Ralph Lauren All-American Tennis Championships, while the women stayed relatively local with the […]
UCLA rows into 12th place in NCAA Championships
As the UCLA rowing team’s Varsity Eight entered last weekend’s NCAA Championships, there was the faintest glimmer of hope that they would post a top-five finish in the event. It would have been an outstanding upset for the No. 12 Bruins to place ahead of a bevy of elite programs on the East Coast. But […]
Rowers pull for chance at 100th national title
It could happen this weekend. On Wednesday, the UCLA rowing team made the trip to West Windsor, N.J., with the intent to make good on its at-large berth in the NCAA Championships. The 17th-ranked Bruins received one of four at-large bids, which allows teams to bring a Varsity Eight boat. This is the second year […]