Losing is rough. But losing 18 games in a row is demoralizing, especially from a team used to winning. A year ago, the UCLA baseball team lost in the final game of its NCAA regional. Read more...

A UCLA women’s gymnastics team that has showcased its resiliency throughout the season once again overcame obstacles last weekend. UCLA coach Valorie Kondos Field had originally indicated that freshman Lindsey Vanden Eykel would see only limited competition, yet she finished the meet as an integral contributor. Read more...

It was a simple gesture, a normal occurrence for the average person. But it may have cost UCLA junior middle blocker Allan Vince his starting spot. Read more...

In other years, UCLA’s 4-2 midweek loss at Loyola Marymount would be unremarkable, and at most annoying. Every loss such as this one, however, now adds another dimension to the UCLA baseball team’s school-record losing streak that, at 18 games, has become quite remarkable. Read more...

The day that Alaina Sudeith began playing water polo, the way her peers perceived her changed. Before the UCLA sophomore joined the water polo team at University High School in Irvine, her classmates knew her as a tomboy. Read more...

UCLA men’s basketball coach Ben Howland accepted a one-year contract extension on Tuesday that will keep him in Westwood through the 2013 season. Howland left Pittsburgh to come to UCLA two years ago, signing a seven-year deal with a base salary of $900,000 per season. Read more...

Everything UCLA could have hoped for was there ““ high-caliber competition, spectacular performances, good-quality facilities and gorgeous Los Angeles weather. The only real variable last weekend’s Rafer Johnson/ Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational needed to be considered a complete success was more people watching it. Read more...