Thursday, July 23

Around the League: USC women’s water polo ends winning streak with Stanford loss

While Bruin athletes continue competing in Westwood, here’s a look at some of the biggest news from the rest of the Pac-12 and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. Read more...

Photo: The No. 2 Stanford women’s water polo team upset No. 1 USC on Saturday afternoon to break the Trojans’ NCAA women’s water polo record 52-game win streak. No. 3 UCLA will play the Cardinal this Saturday on the road. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Bruin legend DeShaun Foster returns to football as running backs coach

The question was whether Bolu Olorunfunmi had watched DeShaun Foster’s college film, but the junior running back responded by dropping even deeper knowledge about the Bruins’ new running backs coach. Read more...

Photo: Last season, then-sophomore running back Soso Jamabo played in 11 games, including five starts. Jamabo led the team with 321 yards on the ground. (Matt Cummings/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Young and inconsistent, baseball experiences season of highs and lows

The Bruins’ last walk-off win sparked a season turnaround. Sunday’s 6-5 walk-off victory against Washington may not generate a similar trend for UCLA baseball. But with the lone win from the weekend series, the Bruins avoided a four-game losing stretch and a possible stint of low morale. Read more...

Photo: Sophomore outfielder Daniel Amaral is one of the Bruins leading the offense. Amaral is hitting .254 on the season with 30 hits and 16 RBIs. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)



UCLA’s Thomas Welsh, Aaron Holiday test NBA draft without agents

Two more UCLA basketball players have reportedly decided to test the waters in the NBA draft this year, per CBS basketball insider Jon Rothstein. Junior center Thomas Welsh and sophomore guard Aaron Holiday have both declared for the NBA draft but like freshman teammate Ike Anigbogu have not hired an agent. Read more...

Photo: Sophomore guard Aaron Holiday will test his luck in the NBA draft alongside five of his teammates. Holiday averaged 12.3 points and 4.4 assists for the Bruins off the bench. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)


Men’s tennis ends struggles on the road with win at Stanford

Road struggles no more. After being 1-3 on the road before this weekend and losing its previous road matches against Virginia and USC 4-0 and 4-1, respectively, the No. Read more...

Photo: Freshman Evan Zhu clinched No. 10 UCLA’s win over No. 19 Stanford with a 6-4, 7-6(5) victory against David Wilczynski. The Bruins, with the win, moved into sole possession of first place in the Pac-12. (Kathy Chen/Daily Bruin)


Men’s track and field debuts top athletes at invitational

After UCLA men’s track and field soared to 12th in the national rankings last week, this weekend was meant to be a breather. The team didn’t roll out its A 4×100 relay team, sophomore sprinter Rai Benjamin, freshman jumper Isaiah Holmes in the high jump – for which he’s ranked in the top 10 nationally – or a good majority of its distance team, all of which were critical in the rankings explosion. Read more...

Photo: Sophomore Arturo Sotomayor posted the fifth-fastest collegiate 1500 in the nation Saturday with a time of 3 minutes, 42.60 seconds, as he and redshirt senior Austin O’Neil went 1-2 in the event. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)