As a senior, I’m glad I get to write this column. After three-plus long years, my class can take with us fond memories of a player whose time in Westwood mirrors ours, a player who is largely responsible for the most enjoyable year of basketball we have had. Read more...

With just over a minute left in the game, senior Dijon Thompson held the ball near the top of the circle. Pauley Pavilion erupted as soon as the ball reached his hands, and the anticipation from the crowd was practically palpable. Read more...

On their run to a championship last season, the members of the UCLA women’s golf team used their season-opening tournament, the Regional Challenge in nearby Palos Verdes, as a spring board to their overwhelming success. Read more...

Anyone can have an opinion. But writing it down in a coherent manner is hard. Harder still is exposing it to public scrutiny in Milton’s open “marketplace of ideas” (not his term, but associated with him nonetheless as a result of his influential essay “Areopagitica” on free, rational discourse). Read more...

ADEL, Iowa “”mdash; Former Iowa basketball player Pierre Pierce was charged Wednesday with burglary and domestic assault and spent several hours in jail before he was released. Read more...

Of all the motivations the UCLA women’s basketball team has used to fire itself up against its opponents this season, revenge hasn’t been one of them. Read more...

Back in October, when UCLA’s Arron Afflalo was but a wide-eyed freshman, he harbored dreams of leading the Bruins deep into the NCAA Tournament. Now a grizzled veteran of four months, Afflalo realizes that simply making it to the tournament would be an accomplishment. Read more...