For the UCLA women’s basketball team, a two-week exhibition tour in Australia was simply meant to be a tune-up for the upcoming season. The players were to work on basketball fundamentals, team cohesion and defense to prepare for what many are predicting a preseason top-20 team. Read more...

Bunkered in his agent Tom Ramasar’s office in Beverly Hills, surrounded by some friends and family on Tuesday night, Dijon Thompson prepared to watch and wait as the NBA Draft unfolded. Read more...

Citing his difficulty balancing academics and athletics as well as his father’s health issues, UCLA men’s volleyball setter Gaby Acevedo recently rescinded his scholarship from the volleyball team. Read more...

Upon taking a casual glance at the final leaderboard of the U.S. Women’s Open, it seemed like amateurs overran professional women’s golf’s most prestigious event. One of the young uprising stars that contributed to the ambush on the leaderboard was 19-year-old UCLA sophomore women’s golfer Amie Cochran. Read more...

At first glance, it might seem like the Major League Baseball draft really took the luster off of UCLA head baseball coach John Savage’s first recruiting class in Westwood. Read more...

UCLA dual-sport athlete Matt McKinney has declared medical retirement from UCLA, citing numerous injuries and illnesses over the last three years. McKinney, an outside hitter on the volleyball team and a power forward on the basketball team, will stay in school and is set to finish his degree in Spring 2006, but his scholarship will not count against the allotted 13 that men’s basketball receives. Read more...

Despite running what Jon Rankin felt was one of his best races ever, it wasn’t enough for him to earn a trip to Helsinki, Finland for the World Championships. Read more...