Under the incessant heat of the midday Las Vegas sun stood a mother and her two young daughters on a concrete tennis court, heat waves emanating from its green-coated surface. Read more...

Chelsea Johnson, the defending outdoor national champion in the pole vault, strained a hamstring in practice this past week and will not compete for the next several weeks. Read more...

Los Angeles: It’s a big city. So big that there’s room for redundancy in athletics. Two NBA teams. Two Major League Baseball teams (with a doubly redundant presence in the name “Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim”). Read more...

Apparently, you’re not supposed to play outdoor sports in the rain. This concept always baffled me. I mean, it’s just water. Friday, both the UCLA men’s tennis match and the UCLA baseball game were postponed due to the rain. Read more...

It seemed like just another meet, another event where she came up just a little short. But well after the meet was over, when the results of the three-meter diving competition Saturday against Cal were finally corrected, senior Janine Strack had her first win of her UCLA career. Read more...

A notoriously slow starter in the past, UCLA’s Yoo Kim is out of the blocks quickly this season. The senior pole vaulter cleared the bar at 18 feet, 1 inch in his second meet of the indoor season to take first place at the Husky Invitational in Seattle on Saturday. Read more...

The scene inside the UCLA locker room was bleak when coach Ben Howland strode through the door at halftime Saturday. The Bruins trailed crosstown rival USC by 18 points. Read more...