Category Archives: Sports

Bruins aim for No. 1 against Irish, Hoosiers Men’s soccer vies for top ranking in weekend tourney By Tim Costner Daily Bruin Senior Staff The UCLA men’s soccer season is almost two months old, but this weekend is when it really begins. The Bruins, currently ranked No. 4, host Notre Dame and No. 1 Indiana […]

Spikers heading to Northwest By Eric Branch Daily Bruin Staff "The whole UCLA attitude nauseates me. Their whole attitude is that there is nothing beyond Westwood and if anyone gives them any trouble, they’re stunned. They probably don’t even know who they’re playing." -University of Washington head volleyball coach Bill Neville Before playing the UCLA […]

Stenstrom leads Stanford Cardinal QB poses threat to Bruins’ secondary squad By Scott Yamaguchi Daily Bruin Senior Staff Never, never, never was it supposed to come to this. No, not in anyone’s right mind was it imagined that Saturday’s 3:30 p.m. showdown between Stanford and UCLA at the Rose Bowl would be a matchup of […]

Stanford’s were-Wolf roams into Westwood Poloist leads No. 1 Cardinal against No. 5 Bruin team By Esther Hui Daily Bruin Senior Staff Wolf Wigo just sounds dangerous. The Stanford water poloist plays hard, and his aggressive presence has been known to spark tempers in the pool. But most athletes will say his intensity brings the […]

Cross-country off to Pac-10s Postseason begins in Palo Alto with conference finals By Mark Singerton It’s now or never for the UCLA men’s cross-country team. They’re unranked and have only an outside shot at winning the Pac-10 championships Saturday, but the team is surprisingly relaxed heading into the event. "I think we have a shot […]

Swimmers dive headlong into new season Young Bruins look to improve on seventh-place national finish By Scott Yamaguchi Daily Bruin Senior Staff Standout underclassmen in the so-called world of "major" college sports are often overcome by an itch to take their game to a higher level, and apparently, the trend of leaving school early has […]

He views athletics in a different light Chris Schreiber You have undoubtedly seen him walking across campus, but it is a safe bet that he has not seen you. You may have marveled at his uncanny sense of timing or the will that you know he possesses but have never had occasion to observe. You, […]