Category Archives: Sports

Back-to-back meets on deck for w. gym Bruins travel to Cal, then home for Boise this weekend By Esther Hui Daily Bruin Senior Staff The NCAA Championships in women’s gymnastics are known as much for the killer format as the scores of cut throat competition. The schedule begins with a preliminary team competition in which […]

W. hoops crushed by Stanford, 88-49 By Hye Kwon Kicking off one of the most challenging road trips of the season, the UCLA women’s basketball team suffered a 88-49 loss to No. 4 Stanford in Palo Alto on Thursday night. It was a case of too much talent from a very refined Cardinal team, which […]

Fair is foul, foul is fair: UCLA beats Stanford UCLA and Stanford combine 54 fouls as No. 4 Bruins take a close one, 77-74 By Scott Yamaguchi Daily Bruin Senior Staff Talk about too close for comfort. The fourth-ranked UCLA men’s basketball team narrowly escaped defeat Thursday night, holding off No. 17 Stanford in the […]

Wonder from Down Under powers Bruin tennis Latest recruit Matt Breen adds depth to impressive squad By Mark Singerton As if the 1995 UCLA men’s tennis team doesn’t have enough talent already, they recruited yet another potential star from over 8,000 miles away. Australia, the land of koala bears, kangaroos and eucalyptus trees, is also […]

Fab frosh Jenkins making waves for Bruins High school All-American eases into role as UCLA’s elite sprint swimmer By Ross Bersot Comments regarding J.R. Henderson or Toby Bailey are about as common on the UCLA campus as puddles these days. The first-year basketballers have risen to the forefront of an outstanding freshman foursome and have […]

And in this corner: Let’s bring boxing to the NCAA The newly formed World Boxing Union (WBU) is awarding over, er, heavyweight champion George Foreman its belt tomorrow, muddling further the alphabet soup of boxing. In addition to the much-coveted title of the WBU, boxing waist lines have to stretch to wear the belts of […]

Stanford is harvesting a new crop of talents By Christian Schreiber Daily Bruin Staff Torrential rains that have flooded Northern California haven’t hurt Mike Montgomery, a farmer of sorts in the Bay Area. In fact, Montgomery, Stanford’s head basketball coach, may just end up harvesting a cash crop if things stay just the way they […]