In 2000, the UCLA baseball team had twelve players selected in the Major League Baseball draft, setting a collegiate record. This year, it nearly duplicated that record, with nine players picked in the MLB draft that ended on Wednesday. Read more...

When the Daily Bruin sent me out to Oklahoma City to cover the Women’s College World Series two weeks ago, there was one major problem. Calgary was hosting the Stanley Cup Finals, not the rodeo, so I couldn’t get the game on TV. Read more...

UCLA is not going to win an NCAA championship this weekend ““ they won’t even come close ““ and they know that. But still, the Bruins are striving to accomplish a feat that hasn’t been done in the past six years ““ finish in the top five. Read more...

Seldom, if ever, does Jeanette Bolden predict the outcome of a meet. One of the few predictions that the UCLA women’s track and field coach has made, however, is looking eerily clairvoyant. Read more...

UCLA volleyball thanks The Den At an attempt for clarity and brevity, I will just come out and say it: On behalf of the men’s volleyball team, I thank the dedicated and enthusiastic fans that are known to us as the distinguished members of the “True Blue Crew” or officially, “The Den.” Somewhere between last year’s 16-15 record and this year’s rebound to make a run at a national championship, fans who don’t share our DNA actually began to attend our matches. Read more...

I survey the room. On my left, Bored Girl is shuffling her papers. Up the two stairs to my right, Polo Boy is turning his laptop off. Read more...

After five years without representation at the NCAA Track and Field Championship meet, one of UCLA’s relay teams is about to make a long-awaited appearance. Qualifying for nationals in both the 4×100-meter and 4×400-meter relays, the team elected to send only its 4x400m team to Austin, Texas. Read more...