Kapono Wooden Award Candidate Senior Jason Kapono is once again a preseason top-50 Wooden Award candidate, as he has been for the last three seasons. Other candidates in the Pac-10 include Jason Gardner and Luke Walton of Arizona, and Luke Jackson and Luke Ridnour of Oregon. Read more...

Tab Perry would abuse the remote his freshman year. “Look, Craig, I burned you!” Stop. Rewind. Play. Stop. Rewind. Play. Perry would review his favorite segment over and over again, torturing his new roommate Craig Bragg with a tape of a high school playoff, the game where the two UCLA receivers faced each other and Perry smoked Bragg, who also played defensive back. Read more...

Halfway through the Pac-10 season, the UCLA women’s volleyball team is treading water. With a 12-7 (5-4 Pac-10) record, the team hopes a major shift in focus will result in a strong second-half finish. Read more...

The No. 4 UCLA men’s soccer team travels to two Pacific Northwest venues that have not been kind to it in the past. Today the Bruins battle Oregon State (10-3-0) in Corvallis where UCLA has been upended two consecutive times, and Sunday they visit a Washington (4-5-1) team that has sent the Bruins home unsatisfied in each of their last three visits to Seattle. Read more...

A clash of the Titans will take place this weekend when No. 1 Stanford will face No. 2 UCLA at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center Saturday. Read more...

As usual, it’s about much more than bragging rights when No. 7 UCLA goes to No. 17 USC Sunday. With both teams tied at 3-1 in the Pac-10 and the NCAA selection committee looking on from afar, the winner of this weekend’s tussle will put itself in prime position for favorable seeding in the NCAA Tournament in three weeks. Read more...

I want to see the Bruins annihilate the Cardinal this weekend. I want a bloodbath. You remember that scene in “Fight Club” when Ed Norton punches Brad Pitt right in the ear? Read more...