After firing on all cylinders at the start of the season, the UCLA softball team has only posted three runs in its last three games. As the team gets set to play Kent State in the opening game of the Bulldog Classic today in Fresno, UCLA coach Sue Enquist has made it a point to have her team improve its performance at the plate. Read more...

Scrawled on a sheet of paper hanging in Dijon Thompson’s apartment is a lengthy list of personal goals the UCLA forward compiled before the season began. 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...