PALO ALTO “”mdash; So this is why coach Ben Howland was hired three years ago: To celebrate the Pac-10 championship Saturday on the opposing team’s home court, where the only cheers in the building come from the scant number of Bruin fans seated high up in the rafters. Read more...

They played like champions. In the biggest game of the year thus far, the Bruins played their best basketball and found a way to win. The team leaves Berkeley just where it wanted to be: in control of its own destiny, heading toward the No. Read more...

BERKELEY “”mdash; Forty minutes simply weren’t enough. Arron Afflalo needed more time to continue one of the best stretches of basketball of his career. Jordan Farmar needed more time to halt one of the worst stretches of basketball of his career. Read more...

The members of the baseball team haven’t been thrown to the wolves, they’ve been shipped. UCLA (6-9) will travel 2,550 miles to take on No. 17 North Carolina State (13-1) for a three-game series this weekend. Read more...

Few, if any, UCLA hockey games have caused this much of a stir. The controversy of the collision between USC defenseman Matt Lewis and UCLA goaltender Adam Kubalski at the Pac-8 Championships has made today’s rematch between the crosstown rivals more anticipated. Read more...

The more Nikki Blue’s game changes, the more it stays the same. The Bruin point guard is playing in her last Pac-10 Tournament with a different role than in previous years. Read more...

After a dominating fall preseason, the UCLA men’s volleyball team had pretty high hopes going up against UC Irvine in its January season opener. But staring across the net were six veteran Anteaters, prepared to defeat the young Bruin team. Read more...