Like a kid who has been told he can’t see the contents of a wrapped gift box, UCLA can’t afford to sneak a peek. They might want to take a little glance at the fact that with three straight wins, they’d have a shot at the Rose Bowl and a Pac-10 title. Read more...

Physics says that when a small object collides with a much larger object, the larger object wins. Try telling that to Stanford’s Jon Alston, a 6-foot-2, 195-pound linebacker, who met 5-foot-9, 177-pound running back Tyler Ebell head-on in the hole. Read more...

Charlie Sheen once quipped that he didn’t pay hookers to have sex with him. He paid them to leave. Sheen hated “gold-digging” women, who dated him simply for the money and self-glorification. Read more...

Swimming to host San Diego On Saturday, the UCLA swimming and diving team will face the University of San Diego. The meet will take place at the Sunset Recreation Center at noon. Read more...

UCLA’s hockey team will look to turn its season around this weekend as it hosts the Oregon Ducks at HealthSouth Training Center in El Segundo. Up to this point, things have been less-than-spectacular for the Bruins (1-5 overall, 1-4 Pac-8). Read more...

The UCLA men’s volleyball team will go into its preseason match against the Team Canada Masters tonight at the Wooden Center banged up. Senior middle blocker Scott Morrow had surgery on his torn knee tendon Thursday and will be out of the match. Read more...

Don’t tell Kathy Olivier that exhibition games don’t count in the standings. After struggling through a 20-loss season last year, the UCLA women’s basketball coach wants her team to build some confidence when the Bruins take on the exhibition team Love and Basketball at Pauley Pavilion on Saturday in the season’s first exhibition game. Read more...