In the UCLA baseball team’s litany of woes this season, pitching and defense have been the two main culprits. But in the Bruins’ 6-1 defeat at the hands of Loyola Marymount on Tuesday night at Jackie Robinson Stadium, it was the Bruins’ ineffectual hitting that proved to be their undoing. Read more...

Kamaiya Warren couldn’t believe it at first. Her throw felt the same as any other this season, but the result was much different. The redshirt sophomore smashed her previous personal record in the discus competition on Sunday afternoon at the Pac-10 Championships, taking first place with a mark of 183 feet, 3 inches. Read more...

Just in time for the postseason, when most teams rely on just one pitcher, UCLA freshman Anjelica Selden seems to have regained the dominance she showed for the first half of the season. Read more...

Of the four points UCLA captured in the men’s regional tennis match against California on Sunday, none came harder than the first. After UCLA’s Luben Pampoulov and Chris Lam handily defeated Lennart Maack and Dean Wallace 8-3 on Court 3, the Bruins saw themselves heading into two simultaneous tiebreakers on the top two courts ““ a rarity. Read more...

The third season in the Ben Howland era at UCLA will have a distinctly different start from the previous two. After kicking off the past few years against smaller, non-conference schools, UCLA will open the 2005-2006 season by playing in the famed Preseason National Invitation Tournament. Read more...

When the season began, UCLA women’s tennis coach Stella Sampras Webster knew her team’s success would hinge upon whether the Bruins could field a reliable doubles lineup. Read more...

Ask UCLA women’s golf coach Carrie Forsyth why her team has a chance to repeat as national champions, and the answer may be surprising. It’s not because the Bruins are the best team in the field. Read more...