Saturday, April 11

Big Ten expansion rumors linger

ANN ARBOR, Mich. “”mdash; Since the Atlantic Coast Conference extended invitations to three Big East schools ““ Miami (Fla.), Syracuse and Boston College ““ earlier this month, conference shuffling has been the hot topic in college sports, especially in the Big Ten Conference. Read more...


Father of the Diamond

While playing football in a physical education course as a UCLA student in the early ’60s, Gary Adams tore a ligament in his knee. As he lay in a hospital bed, the skinny second baseman worried about only one thing: that his baseball scholarship would be taken away if he couldn’t perform athletically. Read more...




Women’s golf four-over par final round puts them at fifth place in championships

If only the No. 11 UCLA women’s golf team had two more rounds at the NCAA Championship, a title could have been within reach. The Bruins finished the competition in style, shooting a collective four-over par in Friday’s final round on the Kampen Course at the Birck Boilermaker Complex in West Lafayette, Ind. tying them for the second lowest total of the 24 competing teams. However, the hole they dug for themselves over the first two rounds of play proved to be insurmountable. Read more...


Goerl pitches to Cal

OKLAHOMA CITY “”mdash; For the first time all season, UCLA’s Keira Goerl couldn’t put the rest of the Bruins on her back. After retiring Cal’s Haley Woods in the bottom of the ninth to clinch the national title, Goerl’s teammates mobbed her, hugged her, and jumped on her as she fell to the ground in a joyous dog pile. Read more...


“˜Junior Fab-Five’ head to championship in Oklahoma

The No. 9 UCLA men’s golf team will look to cap off one of its most successful seasons in university history when it tees up at the NCAA Championship on the Karsten Creek Golf Course in Stillwater, Okla.  The championship will be played over four rounds from May 27 to 30, with the top four scores from each five-man squad contributing to the team’s overall shot total. Read more...