The UCLA women’s soccer team came out cold Friday night. It made sense why it would. The Bruins were fresh off a heartbreaking overtime loss against Florida and the players had just watched their male counterparts lose on an 88th minute wonderstrike. It was past 8 p.m. in a cavernous Drake Stadium, with the temperature just […]
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Late goal takes down UCLA men’s soccer in 1-0 loss to Duke
It was a tale of two goalkeepers for 87 minutes of UCLA men’s soccer’s second-straight game against an unruly, unranked opponent. A stretch of 12 seconds in the final minutes, though, spelled doom for the No. 9 Bruins (1-1-1), as one shot decided the game 1-0 in favor of the Duke Blue Devils (2-0-1) in […]
UCLA prepares to face Texas A&M in rare SEC matchup
The UCLA football team is venturing into uncharted waters. Since Jim Mora took over as coach before the 2012 season, the Bruins haven’t faced an opponent from the vaunted Southeastern Conference – widely regarded as the most competitive conference in college football. That will change Saturday, when No. 16 UCLA opens its season against unranked […]
Josh Rosen emerges as a leader, looks to improve Bruins’ time of possession
UCLA’s struggles with penalties and run defense have been well documented over the past year. Flying under the radar has been the team’s inability to hold on to the football. At the end of last season, UCLA finished dead last in the Pac-12 in just two statistical categories. One of them was penalties. The other? […]
Olympic women’s volleyball team scores bronze under Bruin alum coach
Another Olympics, another medal, but for the second consecutive Olympics, the U.S. women’s volleyball team couldn’t capture gold. UCLA alumnus Karch Kiraly only lost one match – the semifinal – during his time as Team USA’s coach. That loss sent Kiraly and his athletes to the bronze medal match against the Netherlands, which team USA […]
UCLA football plays out individual matchups in San Bernardino
SAN BERNARDINO — It was a matchup that had the entire UCLA football team watching. Coach Jim Mora called for it. He wanted his most highly touted freshman wide receiver – Theo Howard – to face off against the team’s most experienced cornerback, redshirt senior Fabian Moreau. “I thought that would be a good matchup […]
Rio recap: Aug. 18
This year, at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 36 past, current and future UCLA athletes will compete in Rio de Janeiro. Each day, the Daily Bruin will wrap up the different events with Bruin highlights, key performances and upcoming events. Women’s golf Mariajo Uribe (Colombia), Giulia Sergas (Italy) The two women golfers that hail from UCLA […]