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 […]

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, […]

Football’s McCullough fills big shoes in secondary Goodwin’s departure prompts strong safety to grow up in a hurry By Randy Satterburg Daily Bruin Staff In the start of his college career, sophomore strong safety Abdul McCullough helped to revolutionize the way people describe big hits. It was the Bruins’ season opener against Tennessee, and after […]