Desperate times call for desperate measures, sports fans. The last time we beat ‘SC, my voice was deepening and I was sprouting hair in strange places. Maybe it was only five years ago, but I was a late bloomer.  I desperately needed to know if this is the year of the Bruin or the year of the skirt-wearing man condom. Read more...

And so the pendulum swings. UCLA, the top team in Los Angeles five years ago, has fallen on hard times, going from rosy dreams to possibly no bowl game at all. Read more...

Pete Carroll knows what UCLA is going through. Two years ago, in his first year coaching at USC, his team struggled to a 6-5 regular season, needing a win against his cross-town rival to guarantee a bowl bid. Read more...

I guess there are a lot of better things to do with your time than watch the UCLA-USC football game on Saturday. Maybe you can go see “Matrix: Revolutions” for a second time. Read more...

Craig Bragg prides himself on scouting talent. “I knew about Marvin Harrison before he made it big,” Bragg will tell you. Or it could just be that Bragg sees so much of himself in Harrison. Read more...

Prior to this season, Ashley Caldwell thought of herself as a track athlete, not a cross country runner. Even now, Caldwell makes the same assertion. “I am not a cross country runner,” she says. Read more...

With just a little over a week before the regular-season opener against Vermont, UCLA basketball coach Ben Howland isn’t going to make any changes to his starting lineup. Read more...