Monday, 8/25/97 Wooden Center hosts Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament MARTIAL ARTS: Rickson Gracie’s family dynasty of Jiu-Jitsu masters offers a martial arts focused on strategy and self control By Steve Kim Daily Bruin Contributor Chokes, kicks, flips, grapples, joint-locks and plenty of other fight moves will take place in UCLA’s John Wooden Center from August 30 […]
Category Archives: Sports
Baseball’s heroes no role models in sport’s implicit double standard
Monday, 8/25/97 Baseball’s heroes no role models in sport’s implicit double standard COLUMN: Phillip’s arrest soils already dirty image of all-American pastime Just when you thought that our national pastime was back on its feet, once again a controversy tarnishes Major League Baseball. A long three years after the players’ strike shortened the 1994 season, […]
World University Games Brief
Monday, August 18, 1997 This summer, 12 UCLA student-athletes and two head coaches will embrace the warm Mediterranean sun of Sicily, Italy, not to enjoy their vacations, but to compete in the 1997 World University Summer Games. The games start today and continue until Aug. 31. The World University Games return to Italy after having […]
Recruit decides not to attend UCLA
Monday, August 18, 1997 Recruit decides not to attend UCLA FOOTBALL: Simms cites personal problems as reason for withdrawalBy Mark Dittmer Daily Bruin Staff Jesse Simms, a UCLA football recruit and grandson of Bruin sports legend Jackie Robinson, has decided not to attend UCLA this fall. The defensive tackle from Norwalk, Conn., had signed a […]
A fall from victory
Monday, August 18, 1997 Errors in estimation  falling  cost UCLA gymnasts a place on the American world championship team By Steve Kim Daily Bruin Contributor A fall … Not only is falling down in front of thousands of spectators embarrassing, it’s also very costly in gymnastics competitions. And falling is not hard to […]
mazeika
Monday, August 18, 1997 People deserve chance to redeem themselves COLUMN: Media quick to convict athletes, judge them only by bad actions Imagine this: My name is Michael Irvin. I wake up early in the morning and begin my everyday routine. Almost as soon as I get out of bed I go outside and jog […]
Davenport
Monday, 8/11/97 Hard-hitting women stun Acura Championship TENNIS: Davenport beats out No. 1 Hingis but falls to Seles in finals By Stan Johnson Jr. Daily Bruin Senior Staff The game of women’s tennis has risen dramatically. A couple of years ago, the women’s tour did not hit as hard as they do now. This was […]