I’m pretty sure you had many great ideas floating around in your head when you were young. Ideas you thought were golden, brilliant and extraordinary. Yet, when explaining the ideas to your parents, you were usually greeted with the polite head nod and the quip response, “That’s great champ.” Well I had many “champs” thrown my way growing up, but to defend the beleaguered parents who patronized me, I’ll probably do the same when my annoying kids spit out idiotic ideas. Read more...

With all the championships and awards legendary coach John Wooden has won, he never quite felt it was he who deserved the accolades. Those had always been a product of team efforts, never something he did alone. Read more...

Sometimes a little motivation and incentives are needed to enhance a game that is not necessarily all that exciting. And nothing could use more enhancement right now than the WNBA. Read more...

Former UCLA tight end Mike Seidman, a third-round selection, signed a three-year contract worth about $1.42 million July 21 with the Carolina Panthers. “We felt it was very important to get it done so Mike could get in camp on time because he missed our summer school (June) workouts because of NCAA regulations,” Carolina general manager Marty Hurney told the Charlotte Observer. Read more...

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Pryce’s U-21 team wins Nordic Cup Championship Team U.S.A., featuring UCLA women’s soccer defender Nandi Pryce, won the Nordic Cup by beating Sweden 2-1. The Nordic Cup is widely considered to be the most prestigious Under-21 women’s soccer tournament. Read more...

I spent a good portion of my first year here at UCLA writing about men’s tennis. It’s certainly not the most glamorous of jobs at the Daily Bruin ““ that honor belongs to Bob Costa, our award-winning bowling writer ““ but a nice gig, nonetheless. Read more...