Bruins on right track as first season under Chip Kelly reflects positive change

The Bruins’ first season under Chip Kelly is in the books. UCLA football closed out its 2018 campaign with a 3-9 overall record after an 0-5 start and finished with a conference record of 3-6 – good for fifth place in the Pac-12 South. Despite the constant ebbs and flows throughout the season, sophomore cornerback […]

Around the League: Few Pac-12 football teams make bowl, eight women’s volleyball teams make bracket

FootballSam Connon, assistant Sports editor Nine Pac-12 football programs went bowling in 2017. This year, that number dropped to seven – the second-fewest representatives since the conference expanded to 12 teams in 2011. Just two Pac-12 South teams – No. 17 Utah (9-3, 6-3 Pac-12) and unranked Arizona State (7-5, 5-4) – clinched a postseason […]

Despite record-setting performances, football continues losing streak to Stanford

It’s Sept. 5, 2015, and UCLA leads Virginia with five minutes left in the third quarter. Cavalier quarterback Matt Johns takes a short drop and tosses up a sideline fade. Then-redshirt freshman safety Adarius Pickett – playing in his first collegiate game – reads the quarterback’s eyes, runs to the ball and catches it before […]

UCLA football’s decade-long losing streak to Stanford continues with shootout loss

This post was updated Nov. 24 at 6:04 p.m. Freshman running back Martell Irby raced into the end zone untouched for his first career touchdown, and UCLA tied Stanford less than three minutes into the second half. The Bruins’ 10-year losing streak against the Cardinal was teetering on the edge of existence. With nine minutes […]

UCLA football heads into halftime down 27-20 to Stanford in last game of season

Senior Day couldn’t have started any better for the Bruins. Redshirt senior safety Adarius Pickett intercepted a pass less than a minute into his last collegiate game. But for the rest of the first half, Stanford quarterback KJ Costello flung the ball all over UCLA’s defense. He completed 14-of-24 passes for 192 yards and two […]

UCLA football hopes to outsmart Stanford, end losing streak with Cardinal

Freshman quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson hadn’t been born yet. Chip Kelly was the offensive line coach at the University of New Hampshire. Next’s “Too Close” finished atop the year-end Billboard charts in the United States. It’s been awhile since UCLA last swept all three of its in-state Pac-12 rivals in 1998. That streak – and the […]

The Rundown: Nov. 21

FootballRyan Smith, Sports editor The Pac-12 named redshirt junior running back Joshua Kelley its Offensive Player of the Week on Monday afternoon. Kelley ran for a season-high 289 yards and reached the end zone twice in UCLA football’s (3-8, 3-5 Pac-12) 34-27 victory over USC (5-6, 4-5) on Saturday. It was also the most rushing […]