Well … hmmm. Where exactly do you go from here? Down? No, you certainly can’t go down. Not when you’ve just lost to a team that had never before defeated you in the history of Pauley Pavilion. Read more...

They beat Kentucky, again. For the fifth straight time in a span of five years, the UCLA men’s tennis team beat Kentucky on Thursday, 4-2. The match was in the first round of the USTA/ITA National Team Indoor Championships, played this year in Seattle. Read more...

Months of speculation were finally put to rest Thursday when UCLA football coach Karl Dorrell announced that offensive coordinator Steve Axman has been fired. Axman will be replaced by offensive line coach Tom Cable, who was brought onto the UCLA coaching staff last month after serving four years as head coach at Idaho. Read more...

They won’t do it. No matter how far the UCLA Bruins fall, they refuse to equate this season to last year. And frankly, they’re right. Thursday night’s 55-48 loss to Washington State may have been more demoralizing than anything witnessed at Pauley Pavilion last year or any other year for that matter. Read more...

All that was missing were the elephants and the funny red noses because what started out as a seesaw battle nearly erupted into a circus. In one of the more memorable and bizarre games of recent memory, the UCLA women’s basketball team battled in a frenzied Bank of America Arena in Seattle to defeat conference rival Washington 64-59 Thursday night. Read more...

At this point, Dijon Thompson can only shrug, as indeed he did following UCLA’s 55-48 loss to lowly Washington State. Who knows why UCLA can’t play a good first half? Read more...

The third-ranked UCLA gymnastics team will take on Pac-10 foe No. 7 Stanford at Pauley Pavilion on Sunday. Stanford and UCLA are the only two teams to win the Pac-10 title in the last seven years, including last year’s UCLA victory at Pauley Pavilion. Read more...