With the spring 2010 schedule of classes up on the UCLA Registrar's Web site Monday (who else went on at midnight to see what classes are offered for spring?), I thought it would be a good time to reflect on the question of how big a role academics play in the life of a student-athlete. Read more...
Sports
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February 2, 2:47 am
Academics matter to student-athletes
Sports, Women's Soccer
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February 2, 2:45 am
UCLA’s Sydney Leroux scores winning goal in Under-20 Women’s Championship
About 2,000 miles from Westwood, UCLA rising junior forward Sydney Leroux scored the game-winner with three minutes remaining in regulation to lift the U.S. Under-20 National Team over Mexico 1-0 in the 2010 CONCACAF U-20 Women's Championship game in Guatemala City. Read more...
Sports
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February 2, 2:42 am
Battle of the columnists: Watson and Howard on twitter, sports and UCLA athletics
Daily Bruin senior staffers take some time out and talk Twitter. With the social networking tool, which allows users to sound off about anything in 140 characters or less, taking sports by storm, columnists Andrew Howard and Brantley Watson discuss their favorite tweeting athletes and coaches and what this means for sports. Read more...
Photo: Junior-to-be wide receiver Nelson Rosario, or iamNELLZ as he is known on Twitter, is a frequent user of the social networking tool.
Sports
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January 31, 10:54 pm
OSU a little too close for comfort
CORVALLIS, Ore. "”mdash; Fans started filing out of Gill Coliseum on Saturday with UCLA leading big. Rain was falling outside, so their choice to wander into those conditions said something about what kind of second half UCLA was having. Read more...
Sports
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January 31, 10:51 pm
The State of UCLA Basketball
CORVALLIS, Ore. "”mdash; The UCLA basketball team's 62-52 victory at Oregon State on Saturday closed the first half of the Pac-10 conference season. Read more...
Photo: Halfway through the conference season and with his team at 5-4, UCLA coach Ben Howland said he is not thinking about the postseason quite yet.
Gymnastics, Sports
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January 31, 10:47 pm
Gymnasts land confident win
Vanessa Zamarripa saluted to the judges, stepped onto the vault runway and took a deep breath. The Pauley Pavilion crowd and her teammates cheered louder as she began her sprint down the vault. Read more...
Photo: Vanessa Zamarripa’s strong beam performance helped UCLA beat Arizona State.
Club & IM Sports, Sports
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January 31, 10:45 pm
Swim and dive loses to Bay Area schools
As the swimmers turned and headed for home in the last leg of the 4x100 freestyle relay, the final event of the day, UCLA and California were locked in an extremely close battle that had the small crowd at the Spieker Aquatics Center louder than ever. Read more...
Photo: Junior diver Karina Silva won the 3-meter event against the Bears on Saturday, but the UCLA swim and dive team fell to No. 4 Stanford and No. 5 Cal this weekend.