NCAA transfer rules don’t work, and the NCAA has yet to properly fix them. The NCAA has worked to significantly alter the transfer system to give student-athletes more autonomy by introducing the transfer portal in 2018. Read more...
Photo: UCLA football coach Chip Kelly came out in support of the NCAA’s transfer portal at Pac-12 Football Media Day. Other Pac-12 coaches argue it may hurt transfers’ chances of playing.(MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin senior staff)
In the final four weeks leading up to the kickoff of UCLA football’s 2019 season, Sports editor Sam Connon and staff writer Jack Perez will be taking a look at the Bruins’ outlook at each position. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt senior running back Joshua Kelley eclipsed 1,200 yards as UCLA football’s leading rusher in 2018. Kelley was named to the preseason watch lists for the Maxwell and Doak Walker Awards. (Andy Bao/Daily Bruin)
A former track coach who allegedly trained multiple UCLA students at Drake Stadium was accused of sexually abusing 41 men since 1975, ESPN reported Thursday. ESPN’s Outside the Lines reported that Conrad Mainwaring, a former Olympian and track and field trainer, has been accused of inappropriate sexual contact with many of his trainees. Read more...
Photo: The most recent accuser of Mainwaring was training with him at Drake Stadium in June 2016 when another accuser confronted Mainwaring, Outside the Lines reported. After he confronted Mainwaring, the accuser and others wrote letters to the UCLA athletic department to get Mainwaring banned from UCLA’s campus, which he was in August 2016, according to Outside the Lines. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Football is back in Westwood. UCLA football started its fall practices Wednesday with only 28 days until kickoff against Cincinnati. The Bruins will have 48 new faces on the practice field for the upcoming season, more than a third of the entire roster. Read more...
Photo: UCLA football coach Chip Kelly enters his second season as coach of the Bruins with 48 new faces on the roster. (Andy Bao/Daily Bruin)
In the final four weeks leading up to the kickoff of UCLA football’s 2019 season, Sports editor Sam Connon and staff writer Jack Perez will be taking a look at the Bruins’ outlook at each position. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore Dorian Thompson-Robinson is the favorite to be UCLA football’s starting quarterback for the season opener against Cincinnati on Aug. 29. Thompson-Robinson started seven games and appeared in nine in 2018. (Andy Bao/Daily Bruin)
The 2019 schedule for UCLA men’s water polo was released Monday, featuring a home match against reigning champion USC on Nov. 9. The Bruins will participate in three regular season tournaments this season, including hosting the SoCal Invitational from Sept. Read more...
Photo: Nicolas Saveljic led UCLA men’s water polo by netting 51 goals a season ago — including four in the conference match against USC. (Alice Naland/Daily Bruin)
There was star power and exciting finishes everywhere at the Drew League on Sunday. UCLA men’s basketball rising redshirt freshman forward Shareef O’Neal, rising sophomore forward Kenneth Nwuba and incoming freshman guard Jake Kyman all played in week nine of the 10-week Drew League regular season. Read more...
Photo: Rising redshirt freshman Shareef O’Neal led his Tuff Crowd team against division-leading Public Enemy on Sunday at the Drew League. O’Neal recorded 13 points, while teammate and Toronto Raptors forward Stanley Johnson chipped in 21 points and five rebounds in the losing effort. (Tanmay Shankar/Assistant Photo editor)
