No, there was no biting, scratching or clawing between the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation volleyball coaches at their annual meeting on Friday in Provo, Utah. Just silence, as commissioner Al Beiard made a 10-minute opening address, calling for a moratorium on the coaches commenting on NCAA eligibility rulings. Read more...

If people thought last year’s near .500 finish was the beginning of the demise of the UCLA men’s volleyball program, 2004 proved to everyone that UCLA is not quite ready to go away. Read more...

UCLA has received permission from Kansas to talk to 6-foot-11 center David Padgett, who will leave Kansas to transfer to another school at the end of the semester. Read more...

Spring midterms are here, and that means UCLA sports are heating up. For real UCLA sports fans ““ fans who will actually watch a Bruin team other than football or men’s basketball — this is the best time of the year. Read more...

Sometimes it’s difficult to play well in the face of distractions. But that’s exactly what the Washington women’s softball team has been forced to do, and that’s what the Huskies will look to continue to do today when they face the Bruins at Easton Stadium in a critical Pac-10 matchup. Read more...

Coming off Sunday’s dramatic win over USC, UCLA fell to Wichita State 6-4 in a crucial non-league game Tuesday night. A win over the 17th-ranked Shockers would have helped solidify the Bruins NCAA Tournament resume heading into the season’s final stretch. Read more...

For the first time in ages, the Bruins will be idle in the water during the NCAA tournament. Only a few days removed from an agonizing loss to Stanford and a third-place finish in the MPSF Tournament, coach Adam Krikorian is no longer dwelling on the past, even though the season has run dry for the UCLA women’s water polo team. Read more...