Author Archives: Seth Fast Glass

With the UCLA men’s basketball team missing four of its potential starters because of injury, determining the significance of Friday night’s exhibition could have been difficult. UCLA freshman point guard Darren Collison made it easy. In his first collegiate game, Collison paced the Bruins with 13 points, five assists, three rebounds and two steals, racing […]

At Thursday’s Pac-10 men’s basketball media day, most of the conference’s 10 coaches chose to start their opening statements by proclaiming how excited they were for the upcoming season. UCLA men’s basketball coach Ben Howland, however, opted to begin his address with a reluctant admission. “It’s been a rocky start for us,” Howland said. The […]

With the Bruins down 21 points and in need of a change of momentum, UCLA offensive coordinator Tom Cable employed the two-minute offense for the first time this season against Stanford last Saturday. It worked so well that UCLA scored not one, but two touchdowns in only one minute, 56 seconds to claw back into […]

While UCLA players say they’re not looking ahead to what looks to be an epic showdown with USC on Dec. 3, their fans already have been for weeks. The game at the 92,000-seat Los Angeles Coliseum, which is still over a month away, is being billed as the biggest college football game in Los Angeles […]

PALO ALTO “”mdash; After Bruin sophomore wide receiver Marcus Everett fumbled with 11:41 remaining in the fourth quarter, pockets of UCLA fans began migrating toward Stanford Stadium’s exits. Many more followed nearly three minutes later when Stanford’s Nick Frank rumbled in for a touchdown to give his team a seemingly insurmountable 21-point lead. While a […]

It’s the minimal crowd noise that’s reminiscent of a high school game. It’s the half-empty seats vacated by an apathetic fan base. It’s the wooden infrastructure that seemingly belongs in the 1930s. Together, and there’s very little to suggest Stanford Stadium is a tough venue to play a football game, which makes UCLA’s recent troubles […]

Introductions are commonly reserved for the beginning of a season, not seven games into it. Yet when UCLA quarterback Drew Olson looked around the huddle midway through the first quarter Saturday against Oregon State, he saw a couple of faces he was not used to. With center Mike McCloskey having sprained his right shoulder and […]