The pool of last year’s NCAA championship teams met with Dubya on the South Lawn on Pennsylvania Avenue on Tuesday. To anyone who tuned in to watch video clips of the rendezvous, it became quite clear that the collegiate players and coaches were equally excited and proud to be shaking hands with the most powerful man in the world. Read more...

The UCLA football team landed their 12th recruit of the 2006 recruiting class in defensive lineman Reggie Stokes. Stokes, a 6-foot-3, 230-pound defensive end out of Carver Senior High School (Montgomery, Ala.), joins defensive end Dylan Rush (Hawaii) as the only UCLA recruits from the 2006 class to come from outside California. Read more...

The Olympic hopes of many athletes in this country were dashed this week when the International Olympic Committee voted not to keep softball and baseball as a part of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Read more...

Sitting among the sold-out crowd in the Long Beach Pyramid at an NBA Summer Pro League game on Saturday night, I watched as several players desperately tried to impress their coaches, the crowd and most importantly the scouts. Read more...

When Ben Howland stared down his bench last year for a point guard, there weren’t any natural options that popped out. That isn’t likely to be a problem this year. Read more...

The symptoms said I was nearly dead. My lungs needed oxygen and there was no way to fill them fast enough. Whether I rested my hands on my knees or clasped them behind my head, I was out of breath either way. Read more...

Year after year, UCLA alumni look for numerous ways to give back to the UCLA community. They look to stay involved by attending UCLA sporting events and alumni functions and donating to athletic and academic scholarships. Read more...