Now that Cedric Bozeman, UCLA’s top perimeter defender last year, is out for the season, freshman Arron Afflalo has taken it upon himself to develop into the Bruins’ defensive stopper. Read more...

There is only one current member of the UCLA women’s volleyball team that has ever contributed to a victory over USC. As a freshman, setter Krystal McFarland saw her Bruins defeat the Trojans in 2000. Read more...

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In preparation for this week’s football game, I went out and rented “The Mighty Ducks.” I came out of that movie pumped up and ready to kick the feathers off the Hawks (the very good team that loses to a bunch of underdogs in the movie). Read more...

When Drew Olson’s desperate two-point conversion toss fell harmlessly to the turf on Saturday, it ended the Bruins’ chances for a victory. But perhaps more significantly, the loss put their entire season in serious jeopardy. Read more...

When women’s basketball coach Kathy Olivier wants to contact a prospective recruit, she has a variety of options at her fingertips. She can hop on a plane and travel anywhere in the country, pick up a telephone and dial, or simply type 439 into her cell phone, which, when translated into letters, reads “Hey.” It’s the latter form, referred to as text messaging, along with e-mail and instant messaging that are transforming recruiting from a semi-formal process into an all-out dogfight for an athlete’s attention. Read more...

The other day while waiting on a fellow Daily Bruin writer to wrap up a story for the following day’s newspaper, I busied myself watching TV. Read more...