By AJ Cadman Daily Bruin Senior Staff For the UCLA women’s volleyball team, starting the season with the top ranking in the nation had less to do about winning and more about having everything to lose. Read more...

By Amanda Fletcher Daily Bruin Senior Staff The No. 14 UCLA women’s soccer team split a pair of preseason openers last weekend, falling to No. 6 Clemson 1-0 on Aug. Read more...

By Amanda Fletcher Daily Bruin Senior Staff If the two exhibition games the No. 3 UCLA men’s soccer team played last week were supposed to forecast their progress going into pre-season competition, the outlook is still cloudy. Read more...

By Pauline Vu Daily Bruin Senior Staff It was the middle of Hell Week but the defending champion and preseason No. 1 UCLA men’s water polo team looked like they were taking it easy. Read more...

By Pauline Vu Daily Bruin Senior Staff Last year when the Bruins went to the Cal State Fullerton Invitational, the competition was so that weak women’s cross country coach Eric Peterson divided the Bruins into two teams ““ the gray team and the white team ““ and had his own intersquad competition during the meet. Read more...

By Greg Lewis Daily Bruin Senior Staff The Tide comes rolling to the Rose Bowl with a No. 3 national ranking, and ambitions to match. Alabama returns 18 starters, nine each on offense and defense, from a SEC championship squad that made it all the way to the Orange Bowl. Read more...

By Jeff Kmiotek Daily Bruin Staff The Bruins will be a better football team in 2000 because, well, they have to be. Last season, football seemed almost secondary to scandals, suspensions, injuries and inexperience. Read more...