Author Archives: Sagar Parikh

Less than 24 hours after their biggest win of the season, the Bruins received some sobering news Sunday when they found out senior receiver Junior Taylor would be out for the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. The date of the surgery has not been set, but it is likely […]

Earlier this week, UCLA coach Karl Dorrell played off the notion that Oklahoma was a statement game for his football program. Caught up in the emotion of UCLA’s 41-24 victory over the No. 21 Sooners, it was obvious that the UCLA players did not follow Dorrell in treating Saturday’s game as just any other game. […]

Throughout the week at practice, UCLA coach Karl Dorrell stressed how the Bruin defense would have to stop Rice’s option running attack, the top rushing team in the NCAA last season and an offensive strategy the Bruins hadn’t seen in years. It turned out that Dorrell didn’t have to worry about the Owls’ offensive production […]

SAN DIEGO “”mdash; Entering Saturday’s season-opener against San Diego State, one of UCLA coach Karl Dorrell’s stated goals was to “˜unleash’ preseason All-American tight end Marcedes Lewis, a player who’s stats do not indicate the hype surrounding his talented repertoire of speed and strength. After Lewis delivered a career performance Saturday night, fans of the […]

Correction appended Eight-hundred-fifty-eight receiving yards, seven touchdowns, and 58 receptions. Those were the combined statistics of now-departed and current NFL wide receivers Tab Perry and Craig Bragg in 2004. They are lofty numbers by any standards, but particularly difficult for a young group of wide receivers that have 14 career starts and six career touchdowns […]

When opposing offenses prepared to face the UCLA defense last season, their main focus was on the Bruins’ linebackers and secondary. Each unit contained an All-American and an All-Pac-10 performer in linebacker Spencer Havner and cornerback Matt Clark. Who opposing offensive coordinators didn’t gameplan for was the Bruins’ defensive line, a unit that was young, […]

UCLA football coach Karl Dorrell announced Saturday that senior quarterback Drew Olson will be the starter over redshirt freshman Ben Olson for Sept. 3’s season opener against San Diego State. The decision comes after three weeks of indecision from Dorrell and a day after Drew Olson said that he had become tired and frustrated of […]