Former UCLA head equipment manager Richard Nichols died Monday at the age of 63 after a long illness. Nichols was a member of a very exclusive club, being only the third person to hold the position in the school’s history before he retired after the 2000 Sun Bowl. Read more...

It was not the best of starts. Last weekend, the UCLA softball team opened Pac-10 play, hoping to continue dominating the conference. Instead, the No. 11 Bruins (25-9, 1-2 Pac-10) continued to struggle, committing nine errors while only scoring four runs. Read more...

Check out these stories about UCLA 2007 run through March Madness, where they returned to the Final Four for the second year straight under head coach Ben Howland. Read more...

Thousands of miles from the Georgia Dome, groups of UCLA fans and students crowded together around TVs in Westwood. Popular Village spots Westwood Brewing Company and O’Hara’s were havens for multitudes of Bruins hoping to exorcise the year-old demons that were born after last year’s championship game. Read more...

With one final rotation remaining and Pac-10 rival Stanford putting on the pressure, the UCLA women’s gymnastics team decided that it had come too far to let this one slip away. Read more...

Following a six-game losing streak that spanned four different opponents, the Bruins (13-14, 3-0 Pac-10) extended their win streak to five games, after winning 10-4 and sweeping a three-game series against Stanford (13-12, 0-3 Pac-10) at the Sunken Diamond on Sunday afternoon. Read more...

The men’s volleyball team didn’t have much of a spring break. While Bruins everywhere were spending their week off in whatever way they pleased, Bruin volleyball was busy preparing for two of its biggest games of the season against top-ranked Pepperdine and crosstown rival USC. Read more...