For the Bruins’ final home game of the regular season, the lights of Wallis Annenberg Stadium will shine on their seniors. Following Sunday’s 1-0 loss to No. 6 Stanford (11-2-4, 7-1-1 Pac-12), UCLA men’s soccer (10-7-0, 5-4-0) will face off against San Diego State (6-10-1, 1-8-0) to wrap up its season Thursday night. Before kickoff, […]
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UCLA football weighs Thompson-Robinson, Speight as starting quarterbacks
The Bruins ended the quarterback competition in August and graduate transfer Wilton Speight came out on top. But over two months later, the position battle still hasn’t been fully resolved. Speight and true freshman quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson have split time for UCLA football (2-7, 2-4 Pac-12) this season, due to multiple injuries to each player. […]
Women’s basketball falls to LMU in season-opener despite fourth-quarter comeback
A late fourth-quarter run was not enough for the Bruins to notch a win. UCLA women’s basketball (0-1) dropped the first game of its 2018-2019 season to Loyola Marymount (1-0) 69-63 on Tuesday night, although it wasn’t without a late-game comeback from senior guards Japreece Dean and Kennedy Burke. An 8-0 run was sparked by […]
Water polo player Jake Cavano hones his craft on the pottery wheel and in the pool
As Jake Cavano walked out of the Broad Art Center, he stopped by the lab technician’s office to ask about taking a class: ceramics. The UCLA men’s water polo freshman attacker said that after experiencing the wheel for the first time as a Bruin, he remembered how peaceful it was to throw a block of […]
Women’s tennis prepares to fight for more wins this fall at the ITA championships
The Bruins will send players for singles and doubles matches with an opportunity to close out the fall season with another title. UCLA women’s tennis will send five players to compete at the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships, which runs from Wednesday through Sunday. Freshman Elysia Bolton will be competing in singles competition along with […]
Football addresses shortcomings in play leading up to last three games of season
An appearance in the Pac-12 championship game later this month is still possible for UCLA football, but that’s not the chief motivation for the Bruins. The day-to-day grind – especially after coach Chip Kelly counted 12 missed tackles and six dropped passes against Oregon on Saturday – is more pressing. “Improving, growing on the field, […]
Men’s basketball scores first win of season against Purdue Fort Wayne
The Bruins ran by the competition in their season-opener – literally. UCLA men’s basketball (1-0) defeated Purdue Fort Wayne (0-1) 96-71 at Pauley Pavilion on Tuesday night for its seventh straight season-opening victory, and did so with a pace rating that would have been good for second in the country last season. The Bruins recorded 85 […]