Category Archives: Sports

By Hye Kwon Daily Bruin Staff Capping the anything but stellar recruiting year, the UCLA men’s basketball team was dealt a blow by the NCAA at the start of this new school year. Rico "Dunkin’" Hines, a 6-foot-4-inch shooting guard from Frederick, Md. – the only freshman recruit for Jim Harrick this season – was […]

By Mark Shapiro Daily Bruin Staff It has been an up-and-down early season for the 10th-ranked UCLA men’s soccer team. The Bruins started off by posting a pair of huge early season victories on their way to capturing the Indiana Adidas/MetLife Classic and the No. 3 ranking. The Bruins then came crashing back down to […]

By Rick Banks Daily Bruin Contributor For the first and only time during the regular season, the UCLA men’s water polo team will leave the state of California to compete. They will head to Colorado Springs to participate in the Air Force Tournament where they will face off against four teams ranked among the top […]

Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, step right up and witness as The Great Roberno solves the National Basketball Association’s most daunting problem. Behold the world’s greatest sports magician and his epic struggle against a beast that threatens to tear the very league apart!!!! What is the fearsome creature that threatens the very fabric […]

By John Kelly Daily Bruin Contributor Question: Where can someone find a bound hooker at UCLA? Answer: The Bruin Rugby Team. Describing a rather large and burly gentleman as a "hooker" is often bad for one’s health, but it is a weekly event on the Intramural Field. The hooker, the center of the rugby scrum […]

If winning your conference opener means capturing the conference title then Pacific 10 opponents beware. In the 10 years of volleyball existence in the Pac-10, the UCLA women’s volleyball team has taken the conference title six times. And every championship team has been victorious in the conference opener. Last Friday, UCLA began Pac-10 play by […]

By Arthur Choung Daily Bruin Contributor Home has been very good to the UCLA Bruins, but the road has not. The Bruins’ three wins have all come at home and their four losses all took place either on the road or on a neutral surface. But the opponents on the road were much tougher (North […]