Category Archives: Sports

49ers strike blue and gold with J.J. By Eric Branch Daily Bruin Senior Staff Saturday at the NFL draft in New York the rich got richer and former UCLA All-American wide receiver J.J. Stokes found the perfect place to begin his NFL career. While other teams questioned Stokes 4.7 speed and nodded in agreement as […]

Bay Area schools skunk netters Men’s, women’s teams lose matches to Cardinal, Bears By Sarah Harrison and Chris Isidro PALO ALTO — It is every tennis player’s dream ­ a packed tennis stadium, including season ticket holders, little kids poised at the net ready to chase your balls, television cameras and expensive programs with your […]

W. gym takes fourth at NCAA team finals By Esther Hui Daily Bruin Senior Staff ATHENS, Ga. — It was a bittersweet ending for UCLA gymnast Kareema Marrow, Friday night at the NCAA Super Six team championships, as she scored the second perfect 10.0 of her career, but watched UCLA fall to fourth place overall. […]

Softball sweeps Bears at Easton, 5-3 and 2-0 By Rick Pal Beneath the warmth of a sunny Saturday afternoon, when most of the UCLA softball team went into deep freeze against the pesky California Golden Bears, the top-ranked Bruins escaped unscathed with 2-0 and 5-3 victories thanks to Herculean efforts of pitcher Tanya Harding and […]

Trojans take three from Bruins By Ross Bersot If this weekend’s three-game series between UCLA and USC was the Six-Pac’s version of the Freeway Series, then the Bruins (23-20 overall, 10-14 Six-Pac) were run off of the road. Capitalizing on each and every Bruin mistake, the Trojans (34-15, 16-8) swept the home-and-away series to extend […]

Track polishes act at Meet of Champions By Scott Yamaguchi and Tim Costner Daily Bruin Senior Staff While most members of the UCLA track and field teams took the weekend off to prepare for next week’s more important Penn Relays and California/Nevada state championship, a handful of athletes used Saturday’s Meet of Champions in Azusa […]

Trojans unravel in Pauley No. 1 volleyball falls behind, but comes back to win By Eric Branch Daily Bruin Senior Staff Three times Saturday night in Pauley Pavilion the No. 11 USC men’s volleyball team had top-ranked UCLA on the ropes. And three times the Trojans took a mighty swing and an equally mighty fall, […]