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Stanford defense poses final hurdle in UCLA’s Pac-12 South title run

With everything – the Pac-12 South title, a spot in the conference championship game and the possibility of a playoff spot – laid out before them, the Bruins are doing their best not to look back. Not to last Saturday’s victory over USC. Not to the two losses suffered at home earlier in the season. […]

Brothers’ passion for freestyle football inspires, trascends norms

There’s white lab coats and long lab hours, then there’s freestyle football. Peter and Daniel Azzam are brothers pursuing their dreams in the medical field as fourth-year physical sciences and third-year neuroscience students, respectively. They are also professional freestyle football athletes. The brothers started Bruin Freestyle Soccer Academy at UCLA in fall 2013, a club […]

Alum Michael Soll self-publishes first novel, ‘Scorched’

Between classes, UCLA alumnus Michael Soll navigated the stories that unfolded in his imagination. These thoughts often progressed to the next phases of Soll’s writing processes, into his phone, then to his computer, on which he would write from his dorm room desk.

No. 2 seed men’s soccer seeks redemption in NCAA tournament

Then-No. 1 UCLA men’s soccer was rolling. The Bruins hadn’t lost in over a month and were leading 2-0 through the first 15 minutes of their third-round NCAA Tournament game against the unseeded University of Connecticut Huskies on Dec. 1, 2013. It was almost a foregone conclusion: the Bruins were going to the NCAA quarterfinals […]

UCLA club water ski members find niche at Ironwood Lake

With the sun reflecting off the calm lake and a cool breeze in the blue skies, laughter can be heard in the distance from the smiling faces scattered around the shore. A boat zooms past, rocking up and down on the water of Ironwood Lake with an individual in tow gliding across the top of […]

Bruins hold seventh annual Prom Dress Rugby game

The average girl does not accessorize her prom dress with a mouthpiece. But members of the women’s club rugby team did just that on Monday, sporting flamboyant gowns as they participated in the club’s seventh annual Prom Dress Rugby game, an intra-squad challenge designed to promote the team and the sport. “It gets the people’s […]