I had my column pretty much written after halftime. I left the debacle on my living room TV, sat down at my computer, and started ranting. Read more...

With his eyes fixed on the game clock, Michael Fey watched and waited, his hands wrapped around the ball as a trio of Trojans tried to wrestle it away. Read more...

The Bruin swimmers swam fast this weekend, but not fast enough. Despite dominating all of her events in both meets, Kim Vandenberg could not carry the team alone as the No. Read more...

They played without one of their top players. They played against a strong opponent for the first time. But those factors didn’t affect the outcome of the match. Read more...

Stricken with illness and injury, and having fallen a total of four times on the floor exercise and two times on the beam, the UCLA gymnastics team still managed to stumble its way to a victory on Friday as it defeated Arizona State, 194.275-193.4. 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...

If the rivalry between UCLA and USC wasn’t simmering enough, Saturday’s contest at the Sports Arena had the added spice of a personal challenge. Trojan freshmen Nick Young and Gabriel Pruitt were quite familiar with their Bruin counterparts, Jordan Farmar and Arron Afflalo; Young and Farmar were high school rivals at Cleveland and Taft High Schools respectively, while Afflalo and Pruitt played together and against each other on different AAU squads. Read more...