At this time last season, the UCLA men’s 4x400m relay team established itself as a force with a strong performance at the Texas Relays. The quartet’s easy victory on Saturday at the Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational was one second slower than the time they ran in Texas last year. Read more...

Glimpses of the defense that the 2003 UCLA women’s water polo team used to capture its NCAA championship title are beginning to surface in the play of this season’s undefeated Bruins. Read more...

Growing up in Los Angeles, I was surrounded by a laid-back, easygoing culture. Going to Dodger games all my life, fans would lounge about in their seats, sitting passively on their hands in 75-degree weather as Hall of Fame announcer Vin Scully would quasi-creepily obsess over all the little children in the crowd. Read more...

There was a time when the hammer throw didn’t come this easily for UCLA’s Jessica Cosby. For most of her collegiate career, Cosby never looked comfortable in the hammer, launching the majority of her throws into the netting and failing to make any sort of impact in the event on a national level. Read more...

The greatest rivalry in the history of men’s college tennis added another chapter this season. The retirement of Stanford coaching legend Dick Gould, a man who guided the Cardinal to 17 national titles in 38 years, opened the door for former Stanford assistant coach John Whitlinger to take the reins of the program. Read more...

Old school track and field is back in Southern California. Well, at least that’s what UCLA track and field is trying to do with the Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational held at Drake Stadium today and Saturday. Read more...

It’s been 11 months since the two teams last met on college softball’s grandest stage. But UCLA and Cal, who have faced each other in the last two NCAA Championship games, both won by UCLA, are downplaying this weekend’s meeting. Read more...