If someone hits you, do you hit back? Do you start a fight? Or do you handle it diplomatically? When Norman Powell was shoved Sunday afternoon, he shoved back. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore guard Norman Powell is restrained by his teammates after an altercation with Trojan center Omar Oraby.
If coach Ben Howland is the team’s professor of basketball, Jason Ludwig is each Bruin’s individual tutor. Read more...
Photo: UCLA will be keeping a close watch on USC redshirt senior forward Eric Wise when the teams face off this weekend at the Galen Center.
Seated at the ESPN broadcasting booth Thursday night in Pauley Pavilion, Bill Walton provided his smiling face to a movement. Read more...
Photo: UCLA fans have often taken to the internet to call for the firing of coach Ben Howland, although the stands of Pauley Pavilion rarely fill up. Bill Walton, former Bruin basketball player and current TV commentator, made strong remarks on Howland’s performance last weekend.
It seems like an aberration. It charts as an outlier. To watch the Bruins play an up-tempo style of basketball this season is unusual, from an entertainment and numerical standpoint. Read more...
Photo: Larry Drew II was known for making mistakes in the Tar Heels’ up-tempo offense during his three-year stint at North Carolina. UCLA has transformed into a faster team with the help of Drew, who is making better decisions running with the Bruins.
Ben Howland doesn’t care about winning streaks. Read more...
Photo: After a 5-3 start, freshman guard Kyle Anderson and the UCLA men’s basketball team now take a 10-game win streak into Saturday’s game.
There are some adjectives that just don’t go with certain words. Like how we call this quarter “winter” even though that term can’t really be used to describe the months of December to February around sunny Los Angeles. Read more...
Photo: Freshman guard Kyle Anderson, long known as “Slow-Mo” for his tendency to methodically run an offense, is having to redefine his game in a UCLA offense that has favored running of late.
Every so often, there is just an overwhelming number of hot topics enveloping the UCLA sports scene. The end of the quarter represents a crossroads of sorts for fall and winter sports, so we're opening the floor to basketball, football, soccer and water polo in this edition of the weekly showdown between DB Sports senior staff. Read more...
