I am a Bruin. Since I was 10 years old, putting my knee pads on for my first club volleyball practice, I’ve dreamed of saying those four words. I was 16 when I verbally committed to UCLA – a major life decision when I barely had a driver’s license. I remember visiting campus for the […]
Category Archives: Sports Columns
Senior signoffs: Kari Korver grateful for five years of UCLA basketball
UCLA was my dream school growing up. Who doesn’t love the blue and gold and living in Southern California? However, like many, I didn’t think I would make the cut. By my junior year of high school I was getting recruited by a good number of Pac-12 schools, but UCLA still had not batted an […]
Claire-ification: Experiences as a Daily Bruin Sports writer and editor
There are a lot of perks to covering sports for the Daily Bruin. I got to attend almost every football and basketball game last year, travelled to six different games in three different states and was paid to write about it all. I was given a platform to voice my opinions, concerns and insecurities about […]
Wang’s Word: NBA superteams should not be condemned for dominating playoff games
My finals week starts Thursday. While most students are at least a week away from hunkering down at 24-hour Powell or chugging cups of coffee that make 7-Eleven’s Big Gulps look like shot glasses, I’ll be sacrificing sleep and my grades to watch the “three-match” between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers in […]
Li for 3: Lonzo Ball can revamp Lakers the way he transformed UCLA
The once improbable now seems inevitable – Lonzo Ball will be a Los Angeles Laker. We heard it incessantly from his father LaVar Ball, who started it all by claiming his son would only play for the Lakers before walking back a bit on the statement. Los Angeles only had a 31.3 percent chance of […]
Tanner’s Take: Maybe champions are really made in Palo Alto
The UCLA Athletics marketing department has a challenge ahead. For 21 years, every piece of promotional material – even the athletics home page until Monday – proudly touted the Bruins’ place atop the collegiate world with the most NCAA championships in history. Those days are very nearly over. A recent dry spell of only five […]
The Dam Truth: Coaches, schools must better protect student-athletes from harassment
As cliche as it is, you can almost always expect athletes at the postgame press conference to blame themselves for the loss. The more heartbreaking the defeat, the more they’ll usually talk about how they could’ve executed a play differently, how it wasn’t anyone else’s fault and how they could’ve done more. Why shouldn’t we […]