With impressive digging performances last weekend, the UCLA women’s volleyball team demonstrated a much-improved defense. UCLA (11-7, 4-5 Pac-10) collected 176 total digs in a win over Arizona State and a loss to Arizona, nearly matching their combined total of 189 for the four previous matches and proving that one of the team’s recent weaknesses has become a strength. Read more...

It’s seven games into the season and the sixth-ranked Bruins have yet to lose a single game. While the Bruins have improved over last season’s squad in many aspects of the game, the superior play of Drew Olson has got to be their biggest development. Read more...

Traveling to both Texas and San Diego for meets this weekend, the UCLA swim and dive team divided its athletes and had two successful competitions. Placing third in the Southern Methodist University Invitational in Dallas, Texas and defeating UC San Diego and the University of San Diego in La Jolla, the Bruin swimmers extended their dual meet undefeated streak to four. Read more...

As the saying goes, a good team beats every opponent that people expect them to. A great team defeats opponents they are predicted to lose to. Read more...

It was a successful weekend for the No. 4 UCLA women’s soccer team (14-1-1, 4-0-1 Pac-10) unless you measure success strictly by wins and losses or, in this case, ties. Read more...

PASADENA “”mdash; Beleaguered for weeks after giving up chunks of yards in the running game, UCLA’s defense had a simple goal Saturday: Prove to everyone they were better than the performances they had given in the last couple of weeks. Read more...

PASADENA “”mdash; A postgame handshake and embrace with UCLA coach Karl Dorrell. A joke and a shared smile with Drew Olson and other former Bruin teammates. Read more...