If the UCLA men’s volleyball team needed a remedy after Saturday’s loss to Hawai’i, it couldn’t have found a better opponent on Wednesday. The Bruins (16-2, 12-2 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) faced off against UC Irvine (6-13, 4-10), a team the Bruins had already swept three times this season, and defeated the Anteaters in four games 30-22, 16-30, 30-22, 31-29. Read more...

Basketball and football are too distant and loud. Tennis and golf are too civil and elegant. But volleyball is indeed a heckler’s paradise. Sitting courtside while the Bruins were getting swept by Hawai’i on Saturday night, there wasn’t much to smile about. Read more...

The NCAA released a preliminary academic report to all of its member institutions earlier this week, and two UCLA teams failed to make the grade. Data collected from the 2003-04 academic year for the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) revealed that the UCLA football and men’s soccer teams do not meet the NCAA’s new academic standards. Read more...

In a game against Hawai’i in which so many things went wrong, prompting UCLA men’s volleyball coach Al Scates to say, “I don’t know one thing we did well as a team,” one point was glaringly obvious: The Bruins cannot win without blocking. Read more...

The last time the UCLA campus was abuzz with Bruin basketball, it didn’t last very long. Less than one week after returning from an encouraging late-January weekend in Arizona, UCLA stumbled at home against Stanford and California, draining some of the enthusiasm that had been built by its quick start to conference play. Read more...

Love and sports are two sides of the same coin, if you really think about it. As a sports columnist, I write about the latter by occupation. Read more...

Tennis is an individual sport by nature, but UCLA fell apart collectively on Tuesday at crosstown rival USC. After taking four of the first six singles sets and the first two points of the match, the Bruins collapsed, falling 5-2 to the 17th -ranked Trojans. Read more...