PASADENA “”mdash; A horde of reporters congregated at the south end of the UCLA locker room and pretended to busy themselves while Richard Brehaut hastily pulled on his clothes.
Author Archives: Matt Stevens
Men’s basketball defeats Westmont in exhibition, 95-59
If the first game is any indicator, 2010 will be an altogether different ““ and better ““ season for the UCLA men’s basketball team.
Welcome Home: Homecoming at UCLA
There are probably a few slow-working graduate students left on campus who can recall a different kind of Homecoming at UCLA.
Back in October of 2002, a parade poured into Westwood, floats rolling in behind 1,600 Bruins, a DJ spinning tunes, chants of “UC-LA” filling the air.
The next year, the event doubled in size to nearly 4,000 people.
Bruins basketball focuses on a season for redemption
Things proceeded in orderly fashion on the floor of Pauley Pavilion on Wednesday at UCLA’s annual Media Day.
What Bitsegui’s mother taught me about family
I contemplated whether to sit or simply lean in close to Kono Ateba Mary Theresa.
Comfortably reclining her heavy-set frame into her armchair, the mother of a former basketball star habitually tucks her fingers underneath her chin and assumes a gaze that can mesmerize her grandchildren.
A world away
The poor quarter of Etoudi pulsates with life as the sun begins to set.
In the center of the neighborhood, taxis are honking their way down the main road, barely missing the street vendors who are playing cards under umbrellas. And on an elevated plateau, children selling goods are watching a basketball game unfold on the chipped concrete.
Almost miserable
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon “”mdash; It’s Holiday, and Biliga Marvel Bemelingue does not have school.