Monday, April 27



W. soccer: Rivalry game big for team’s confidence

This isn’t the way the UCLA women’s soccer team envisioned closing out the regular season. The Bruins, the overwhelming preseason favorites to capture the Pac-10 championship, have lost two of their last three matches and likely will be eliminated from contention for the conference title regardless of how they fare against USC Sunday afternoon. Read more...



M. basketball: Coaches expect a tougher Pac-10

It hasn’t happened in ten years, and the coaches at Pac-10 Men’s Basketball Media Day certainly don’t anticipate it happening again this year. Last season, only three Pac-10 teams reached the NCAA tournament, and not one of them made it to the Sweet-16. Read more...



UCLA identity crisis no more

In a bygone era, the ’90s, UCLA had an identity. We were a sports school. Cal looked down on us for being slow and USC looked down on us for being smart, but all we had to do was point to the latest athletic contest because, as logicians know, scoreboards are definitive arguments (unless of course your opponent holds a “yo’ momma” trump card). Read more...