If familiarity really does breed contempt, then tonight’s volleyball match between No. 13 UCLA and No. 1 USC should be a contentious affair. Most of the players on both squads have played against one another in high school or on club teams during the summer, and the long-term relationships that they forged have added a spark to an already intense rivalry. Read more...

For Jill Oakes and Nandi Pryce of the UCLA women’s soccer team, it’s been quite a road from the youth club soccer circuit to a hearing in front of members of the California Legislature. Read more...

By Hannah Gordon DAILY BRUIN STAFF [email protected] Nicknamed by the Daily Cal “Jesus in cleats” as an incoming freshman, Cal senior quarterback Kyle Boller has spent the last three and a half years trying to live up to impossible expectations. Read more...

Over the past decade, UCLA’s Chrissie Zartman and USC’s Tracy Lindquist have established themselves as one of the most successful amateur beach volleyball teams in the nation. Read more...

The Harlem Globetrotters ended training camp in Prescott, Ariz. with 30 players selected for the 2002-2003 team. Among them is a new face: UCLA alumnus Billy Knight. Read more...

I was always told that pigs would fly before the Anaheim Angels made it to the World Series. I was also told that pigs would fly before I ever became a successful baseball player. Read more...

Sitting at a table in the second floor Ackerman food court, working on my chicken burrito especial from Rubio’s, I imagine what it is like to taste the fruit of the gods. Read more...