To secure a provisional berth in the NCAA Championships this June, UCLA’s Nastassja Hall knew she would need to run the best race of her career on Thursday in the 800 meter, the seventh and final event of the heptathlon competition at the Mt. Read more...

It’s almost over. But the exciting part is just about to begin. With only two regular season matches remaining, the 10th-ranked UCLA women’s tennis team will soon shift its focus to the Pac-10 and NCAA tournaments. Read more...

With only two games left in the regular season, the UCLA men’s volleyball team still has one of its toughest and most important matches left to play. Read more...

In Washington, Congress is weighing in on steroids. In Hollywood, the Farrelly brothers are glorifying the Boston Red Sox. And at UCLA, the classroom is among those places where sports get dissected so deeply that it seems as though “Fever Pitch” was filmed in a library. Read more...

The players may be smiling and laughing, even when going through one of the most grueling practices in collegiate water polo. With arms interlocking and legs eggbeatering for sheer survival, the UCLA women’s water polo team simulates the “drowning” exercise, designed to mimic what occurs in the pool when players tug, lean and pull each other to submerge them under water. Read more...

It’s an issue that has barely grazed the surface at the professional level and may not even have an impact in collegiate athletics. Nevertheless, the NCAA is working on a proposal to allow transgender individuals to compete in their self-identified gender and plans to present it to the Committee on Women’s Athletics at its July meeting. Read more...

Luck seems like such a surprising thing to call it. Especially when things like cruel twist of fate, unfair and unjust seem so much more appropriate. Read more...