Much has been made of the 2003-2004 UCLA men’s basketball team. Los Angeles-area writers, talk show hosts and television personalities have made a head coaching position in Westwood look about as appealing as extracting teeth from a lion or being Jabba the Hutt’s dinner. Read more...

The biggest injustice ever committed by the Bowl Championship Series (and that’s saying something) occurred on Sunday. Wonderful. Excellent. Pure joy. With USC, the No. 1 team in both polls, being left out of the national championship game, the blueprint has been made for complete destruction of the BCS bowl system. Read more...

Ben Howland didn’t make the schedule. But he wishes he did. The first-year UCLA men’s basketball coach has questioned several components of the Bruin schedule, including starting the season as late as Nov. Read more...

CARY, N.C. “”mdash; It’s one thing when an opponent is just better. It’s something entirely different when they’re just lucky. And it’s downright scary when they’re both. Read more...

Call them fair-weather, call them finicky, call them loud. Either way, Bruin fans are getting closer to the floor this season in Pauley Pavilion. Whereas the previous student section on the arena, or floor, level was three sections wide and bordered by non-student seats, recent changes have moved the student section to stretch across the entire width of the north side of the floor, across from the Bruin bench. Read more...

ANAHEIM “”mdash; At least for one half, reality set in for UCLA as it reverted to last-season form for a national television audience and former coach John Wooden to see. Read more...

It almost seems like an afterthought. Stuffed between last year’s 19-loss debacle and what looks to be a promising future, the 2002-2003 UCLA basketball season very well could be one of the most forgettable in the program’s storied history. Read more...