On College Basketball: It’s no easy road to the Final Four

After a sweep of the Oregon schools over the weekend, UCLA vaulted back up the polls to No. 2, its highest ranking since spending six weeks at No. 1 earlier in the season. Florida remains the top-ranked team in the land, and rightly was named unanimously so by The Associated Press. The Bruins were able […]

On College Basketball: East Coast teams slip into icy spell

It seems that basketball teams on the East Coast have been paralleling the weather, namely cooling down. Way down. In the NBA, no true contender has shown itself capable of being the Beast of the East and challenging a Western conference team in the finals, and the same has been true in the college game. […]

NCAA Tournament: Tar Heels stomp out championship hopes for women’s soccer

CARY, N.C. “”mdash; With the forecast calling for rain Friday night, the weather and sky held up but UCLA could not manage to do the same against North Carolina, as the Bruins fell 2-0 in the College Cup semifinals. In a tough, hard-fought game before a highly partisan crowd of 8,412, the Tar Heels got […]