Former Pittsburgh assistant coach Ernie Zeigler was hired Monday as an assistant coach on Ben Howland’s new UCLA staff. Zeigler, who spent the past two seasons working under Howland at Pittsburgh, is the first assistant to be hired by Howland. Read more...

Some years ago my mother bought me a book of sayings, all of them related to fishing. It had the usual maxims of anglers worldwide, things like: “Old fishermen never die, they just smell that way,” “Work is for people who don’t know how to fish,” and “Better to be a master fisher than a master baiter.” This past weekend, a few buddies and I went to Lake Cachuma outside of Santa Barbara for a weekend of roughing it. Read more...

Usually, dreams have no boundaries. But in the case of UCLA men’s head tennis coach Billy Martin, his dream has four walls and a roof over it. Read more...

It took all of one week for Ben Howland to breathe life into UCLA’s battered basketball program. Compton Centennial High School’s Arron Afflalo became the first committment of the Howland era Saturday evening, when he told the Bruins’ new head coach that he will be attending UCLA. Read more...

The Bruins were foaming at the mouth when they saw zebra stripes Friday. “After three months of conditioning and no hitting we have a bunch of energy all balled up and ready to come out,” junior offensive lineman Steve Vieira said. Read more...

This match was supposed to be a challenge. It was supposed to be a hard-fought battle between two elite teams. Instead, it ended up being a cakewalk, a dominating statement made to the rest of the country ““ the Bruins are here and they’re ready to play. Read more...

The injury bug that has plagued the UCLA women’s tennis team throughout the season found a new victim over the weekend. Thirty minutes before their match at Washington St. Read more...