Come Saturday afternoon, every eye in the Rose Bowl will – as usual – be focused on a dynamic, mobile quarterback. It just won’t be the one most attendees are used to. Two of college football’s premier signal callers – UCLA’s Brett Hundley and Oregon’s Marcus Mariota – will share the field this weekend when […]
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Long line of issues lead to UCLA’s exorbitant sacks-allowed total
The way redshirt junior quarterback Brett Hundley held his ground in the pocket as a swarm of Utah pass rushers engulfed him was almost poetic – a captain going down with his sinking ship. The Bruins may not have accepted their fate – a 30-28 loss to the Utes – but when Hundley was taken […]
UCLA’s loss to Utah takes toll on national championship hopes
If there ever was an opportunity to be distracted from the moment, this was it. UCLA watched its next opponent, then-No. 2 Oregon, lose to Arizona Thursday. Then, as the Bruins waited for their 7:30 p.m. kickoff Saturday at the Rose Bowl, they saw three other top-six teams tumble. The College Football Playoff picture appeared […]
UCLA looks to repeat past success against Utah at Rose Bowl
A lot can change in one week in college football. Just over a week ago, UCLA was shrouded in doubt, with uncertainty about redshirt junior quarterback Brett Hundley’s health matching the uncertainty surrounding whether the team deserving its then-No. 11 ranking. Meanwhile, Utah was coming off its third straight double-digit win, this time on the […]
UCLA football adjusts to new schedule as quarter kicks in
It’s a division that amounts to 38 days for the Bruin football team. UCLA, on the quarter system, starts school on Thursday Oct. 2. Utah, on the semester system, started school way back on Aug. 25. From one perspective, consider it the luck of the draw for UCLA. For schools on the quarter system, much […]
UCLA lecturer’s work on prison program allows inmates exposure to arts
They told him they didn’t want a bureaucrat, so Tom Skelly took the job at Chino prison. At the state institution, sprawled across 2,500 acres of land in San Bernardino County, Skelly’s job as the prison’s new arts facilitator started simply. It was 1980 and the 28-year-old had never been in a jail or in […]
Syncopated Ladies taps into innovative techniques in Fowler performance
The Syncopated Ladies are not a typical jazz tap group, incorporating hip-hop moves through every simultaneous stomp and click of the heels. The all-female tap dance group won national attention this May with its performance on the popular dance competition show, “So You Think You Can Dance.” On Sunday, the group performed some of its […]