Category Archives: Sports

Thursday, January 30, 1997 M. HOOPS: Oregon team full of talent but unable to pull out of Pacific 10 conference slumpBy Emmanuelle Ejercito Daily Bruin Staff The UCLA men’s basketball team will visit McArthur Court to take on the University of Oregon tonight, bringing shoulder pads and helmets with them. Two seasons ago, when the […]

Thursday, January 30, 1997 OPINION: 27-minute ‘extravaganza’ even more boring than Super Bowl Rob Kariakin Ladies and gentlemen, something has got to be done. Like hundreds of millions of other suckers around the world, I sat in front of my television on Sunday, disgusted by what I saw. Nothing had changed from years past. In […]

Thursday, January 30, 1997 M. VOLLEYBALL: Bruins hit .469, shut down top CSUN hitters in victoryBy Vytas Mazeika Daily Bruin Contributor If it begins like a massacre, if it looks like a massacre, and if it ends like a massacre, then it is a massacre. The UCLA men’s volleyball team mopped the floor with Cal […]

Thursday, January 30, 1997 SOFTBALL: Freshman Christa Williams strikes out 10 in first UCLA startBy Melissa Anderson Daily Bruin Staff UCLA softball coach Sue Enquist predicted before the season started that pitching would be essential to her team’s success this year. How right she was. Through the combined effort of all three UCLA pitchers, the […]

Thursday, January 30, 1997 If only points were rebounds If points were rebounds, the Bruins would be 13-3. UCLA has outrebounded 13 of 16 opponents this year. The average margin has been five more per game. Permanent fixtures Juniors Tawana Grimes and Aisha Veasley have both gone their entire Bruin careers without missing a game. […]

Wednesday, January 29, 1997 Bruin pole vaulter wins Reno title Junior pole vaulter Scott Slover set a new personal best last weekend en route to winning the Indoor Pole Vault Invitational at Reno, Nev. The 18-foot, 2 1/2-inch vault tied him for the second-best mark in UCLA history. It tied the mark set by his […]

Wednesday, January 29, 1997 COMMENTARY: UCLA’s team should help propel popularity of the sport Hye Kwon Today, we’re here to talk about a great American sport ­ one that was invented by a YMCA physical education teacher in Holyoke, Mass. in 1895. After 100 years of development and maturation, it has indeed become one of […]