Ajaybir Behniwal of the Daily Bruin sat down with freshman cornerback Alterraun Verner for an exclusive interview, exploring everything from life on the football field to strategies in the classroom as well as life lessons he has learned and looks to pass on to others. Read more...

All throughout training camp, Logan Paulsen had to think about the same question over and over again. How would he and the rest of the tight end corps replace a first-round draft pick that was the focal point of the team’s passing game? Read more...

As a football player, Chris Markey’s greatest attribute is his vision. The game slows down right before his eyes, and he is able to uncover a crease in the defense that few other college running backs are able to find. Read more...

The first weekend of the college football season always seems to be something of an unveiling. After months of roundtable discussions, we are given a couple of arbitrary polls used to project how the balance of power in each conference rests. Read more...

If you look at UCLA�s 2006 football schedule there is one name that requires a double take. It�s not Notre Dame, the perennial football powerhouse, but Rice, the small university in Houston with an undergraduate enrollment of 2,988 students, making it the smallest university in Division 1-A competition. Read more...

Sophomore linebacker John Hale went into fall camp as one of the starting outside linebackers. Because of a suspension from the first game of the season, Hale lost his starting spot to Aaron Whittington. Read more...

Redshirt sophomore quarterback Ben Olson put on a scintillating aerial show at the Rose Bowl last Saturday, guiding the Bruins to a 31-10 victory against Utah as a first-time starter. Read more...