UCLA freshman Alison Costello won the USA Junior Women’s Cross Country meet Saturday in Indianapolis. She ran the 6 km race in 20:55, 11 seconds faster than second place finisher Kathleen Trotter from Stanford. Read more...

The promise and anticipation of kicking off the 2004 season have the UCLA women’s golf team licking its chops. Then again, anything is better than the nightmarish conclusion to the 2003 season that still lingers in the minds of many players and coach Carrie Forsyth. Read more...

Anyone who has ever seen “Caddyshack” knows golf is a game of inches. On the course, the difference between glory and defeat is seemingly always a foot away. Read more...

The mass exodus continues, as two more players from the UCLA football team have left the program. Fullback J.D. Groves said Monday he would not be returning to the program, reportedly due to a change in major that UCLA does not offer and not with any coaching conflicts. Read more...

Beau Peters might be just the backup setter at UCLA, but he’d rather be here than at Long Beach State. The sophomore setter is looking forward to Wednesday’s match against the CSU-LB 49ers, after asking for release from his full scholarship there and walking on at UCLA in the fall. Read more...

Charlotte Mayorkas shot a 5-under par 66 as the UCLA women’s golf team sped out to a 13-stroke first-round lead Monday at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge, hosted by Ohio State in Palos Verdes. Read more...

All right, sports fans. It’s that time of the year again: the smell of freshly mowed grass, the “thump” of genuine leather mitts, the “ping” of double-walled aluminum alloy on a horsehide Rawlings. Read more...