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Nov. 28, 2011 “”mdash; Senior staff Sam Strong and Ryan Eshoff come to terms with UCLA football’s 50-0 loss against USC on Saturday. In the segment “Bruin Locker Room” they share some postgame reactions from Coach Rick Neuheisel and a few players. Later on in the show, their expert analysis helps explain UCLA basketball’s 1-3 record.
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Ha’ahea means “proud” or “to cherish with pride,” and it’s a word befitting of the Hawaiians, who are immensely proud ““ and rightfully so ““ of their home, their culture and their pineapple.
50-0 just has some mathematical elegance to it, some perverse poetry.
By no means is Kansas even the most formidable team in this field; had the Bruins beat the Jayhawks, they would have faced the Duke Blue Devils tonight in the championship game, and probably the only thing that would have made that game interesting would have been if Ben Howland and Mike Krzyzewski decided to coach it in grass skirts and coconut bras.
The Bruins got off to a shaky start and gave themselves too much of a deficit to overcome, a valiant comeback coming up short in a 72-56 loss to the Kansas Jayhawks in the semifinals of the EA Sports Maui Invitational.
A few UCLA fans stood and clapped when Reeves Nelson went to the scorers’ table three minutes into the second half, the Bruins clinging to a small lead.
Certain long-standing conditions of the trade dictate that I should spend football games in a catatonically sealed press box, clad in professional attire and engaging in unspoken contests with my fellow journalists to see which of us can come up with the most popular Tweets.
