UCLA football earns one first-team, eight second-team All-Pac-12 honors

Junior defensive tackle Kenny Clark was the only UCLA player named to the All-Pac-12 Conference football first team, announced Tuesday. Eight Bruins were selected for second-team honors and three more received honorable mentions. Redshirt junior running back Paul Perkins, the Pac-12’s third-leading rusher, earned a second-team offense nod, along with junior receiver Thomas Duarte (selected […]

Men’s cross country finishes 14th at NCAA championship

At first, he said they were “content.” But coach Forest Braden knew that wasn’t the right word to describe his runners’ feelings after the national meet. The cross country coach corrected himself, explaining that the men’s team was “accepting” of its 14th-place finish at Saturday’s NCAA championship. “They realize the magnitude of that race and […]

Women’s volleyball falls to Arizona despite strong performance

Sunday might have hurt his team’s chances at a top-16 seed in the NCAA Tournament, but coach Michael Sealy didn’t care. The final result, a 3-2 loss to the No. 23 Arizona Wildcats (18-12, 8-10 Pac-12), mattered less to the women’s volleyball coach than the valiant comeback effort staged by the No. 11 Bruins (22-6, […]

Seasoned men’s team seeks top-ten finish at NCAA cross country finals

If you were scripting a short film about the cross country season, the regular season would flash by in a zippy montage, a string of inconsequential races interspersed with close-up shots of one date on a calendar circled in thick, red ink. That date: Nov. 21. The national championship meet on Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky, […]

Matter of Fact: Sean Miller’s jab at UCLA only highlights his own frustration

Sean Miller’s 2016 recruiting class has a combined height of 6 feet, 11 inches, a statistic that would be more interesting if it was a result of the Arizona coach losing his mind and committing wholeheartedly to playing small ball. But he hasn’t. Well, at least not the small ball part – Miller won’t be […]

Freshman runner makes big impact at UCLA following European success

It’s the morning of Oct. 16, and no one knows about Carolina Johnson. She has made a name for herself in Europe, a silver medalist at the European Athletics Junior Championships who holds the third-best time in Swedish history in the under-20 steeplechase. But to the world of NCAA cross country, Johnson is just one […]