Before the season even began, women’s water polo coach Adam Krikorian thought he knew exactly what he’d get out of his players. Krikorian recognized that with the return of sophomore Kelly Rulon, he’d be welcoming back a celebrated youngster who possessed a world of skill. Read more...

After firing on all cylinders at the start of the season, the UCLA softball team has only posted three runs in its last three games. As the team gets set to play Kent State in the opening game of the Bulldog Classic today in Fresno, UCLA coach Sue Enquist has made it a point to have her team improve its performance at the plate. Read more...

Scrawled on a sheet of paper hanging in Dijon Thompson’s apartment is a lengthy list of personal goals the UCLA forward compiled before the season began. Read more...

If the UCLA men’s volleyball team needed a remedy after Saturday’s loss to Hawai’i, it couldn’t have found a better opponent on Wednesday. The Bruins (16-2, 12-2 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) faced off against UC Irvine (6-13, 4-10), a team the Bruins had already swept three times this season, and defeated the Anteaters in four games 30-22, 16-30, 30-22, 31-29. Read more...

Basketball and football are too distant and loud. Tennis and golf are too civil and elegant. But volleyball is indeed a heckler’s paradise. Sitting courtside while the Bruins were getting swept by Hawai’i on Saturday night, there wasn’t much to smile about. Read more...

They aren’t hard to spot. Dressed in their Sunday’s finest, which for them seems to be old Halloween costumes and their little sisters’ work clothes, approximately two dozen members of the UCLA football team sit in the northwest corner of the Pauley Pavilion grandstands at every Bruin gymnastics meet. Read more...

The NCAA released a preliminary academic report to all of its member institutions earlier this week, and two UCLA teams failed to make the grade. Data collected from the 2003-04 academic year for the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) revealed that the UCLA football and men’s soccer teams do not meet the NCAA’s new academic standards. Read more...