The Pac-10 Championships may not be for another couple months, but the UCLA swim team will get a preview this weekend of the environment. The team will travel to the Husky Invitational this weekend in Federal Way, Wash., which is where the conference championships will be held in February. Read more...

The USC-UCLA Blood Drive goes on until game day, so contact your local donation center post haste. There’s some sort of competition this week, and for every unit of blood we donate, UCLA gets points, and then those points are tallied and after they’re added up … uhhh … The point is that if it’s a quantifiable, hierarchical winner/loser structure, it has to be important, so of course I want to jump in on it. Read more...

Sophomore Noelle Quinn called it the biggest game of her collegiate career. Junior Nikki Blue played all 40 minutes on a bum ankle, knowing exactly what was at stake. Read more...

Most work-study athletes in the Sports Information Department do no more than shuffle papers and answer phones, but senior Tony Golston took his job to a whole new level last summer. Read more...

The tremendous success story of UCLA’s offensive line is already well known, as demonstrated by the team’s vastly improved running game. But this rags-to-riches story will surely be tested this Saturday when the Bruins line up against USC’s top-rated defensive line. Read more...

On the surface, it may seem counterintuitive to let your team rest the week it goes to the NCAA Championships. But when UCLA water polo coach Adam Krikorian, who is known for his stress on conditioning, said he is letting his team rest this week, he didn’t exactly give the team the week off ““ his team has still practiced all week long before it leaves for Stanford tonight. Read more...

They first officially spoke in Stanford during a recruiting trip. They talked hours on end about water polo and experiences on the U.S. National Team. Yet when UCLA senior Brett Ormsby’s decision came down to it, being convinced by Stanford superstar Tony Azevedo wasn’t enough to draw him to the Cardinal red. Read more...