UCLA men’s soccer enters Pac-12 play this weekend trending in the opposite direction of its first conference opponents. Having lost four of their last five games and mired in their worst start in the past decade, the unranked Bruins (4-4-0) rebounded with a pair of comeback wins last week. Over the next three days, UCLA […]
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Tanner’s Take: Fall sports power rankings – Oct. 1
It’s the middle of week one for most of the UCLA campus, but for fall sports teams it’s currently the middle of the fall season. To get caught up on everything you’ve missed since August, here are my midseason fall sports power rankings. 1. Men’s water polo Record: 11-0 National ranking: No. 1 In brief: […]
Tanner’s Take: Men’s soccer comeback offers possible turning point
I was done with my story, but I had so many questions. As the stunned home crowd sat in silence, the Drake Stadium scoreboard was painfully clear: UC Irvine 3, UCLA 0. I sent out a quick tweet – “Disaster in Westwood.” – and looked at the UCLA men’s soccer team that was slowly walking […]
Men’s soccer stuns UCI in four-goal overtime comeback win
As the moon emerged over Drake Stadium from behind the Earth’s shadow, it certainly would have been poetic if the practically nonexistent Bruin offense made its own long-awaited arrival. But Sunday night appeared to be anything but poetry. For 68 minutes, the UCLA men’s soccer team (4-4-0) looked overmatched and underprepared across the pitch, stumbling […]
The Rundown: Sept. 25
Check out a breakdown of the UCLA sports stories you might have missed this week. Speraw and the U.S. qualify for Rio 2016 The U.S. Men’s National Volleyball Team, led by head coach John Speraw, qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro by winning the FIVB World Cup this week. Speraw, the […]
Men’s soccer remains mired in early-season struggles
The Bruins have made plenty of history this season, and they desperately want to put an end to it. The early-season free fall began when then-No. 1 UCLA men’s soccer dropped a pair of road games to Maryland and Georgetown. Returning home, the team was upset by unranked UC Riverside for the first time in […]
Tanner’s Take: Rooter Bus inefficiencies mar football game day experience
I waited 10 months to make my triumphant return to the Rose Bowl and on Saturday I waited two more hours. They were two very miserable hours. After lining up for the Rooter Bus at 5:30 p.m. with a group of friends, it took until almost 8 p.m. for us to arrive at our seats […]