Looking past the Beavers to UCLA, heavily-favored sc chokes in Corvallis (just like football), bringing Oregon State’s 23-game Pac-10 losing streak to a happy ending

Are they allergic to Beavers?

You would think that after their Football team’s upset loss in Corvallis earlier this year — a loss which cost sc the National Championship — the usc Basketball team would be fired up for their game versus OSU on Sunday.  After all, NOBODY wanted to be the team to finally get beaten by the lowly Beavers.  It had been almost 2 years since the Beavs had gotten a Conference W, so there was just NO WAY that they would be breaking through against the focused-on-payback trojans. Continue Reading »

HEAD START:  Laying 69 on Beavers is just foreplay, but Bruins can taste what would go down as their 4th straight Pac-10 Title

Don’t worry — No one is getting overly excited about stuffing the lowly Beavers in the Conference opener.  Oregon State lost ALL 18 of their Pac-10 games last season, and just because their new Coach is Barack Obama’s Brother-In-Law doesn’t mean that CHANGE is imminent in Corvallis.

The Bruins went North to start the Conference season, and Continue Reading »

Orkin should fumigate 70% of the Rose Bowl and try to remove the residue of Classlessness from the trOJans’ sideline/dancefloor

Why can’t people who have “been there before” ACT like they have been there before?  Thanks to the trojans’ annual choke during the Pac-10 season, they keep winding up in a consolation game in Pasadena, against an overrated Midwestern team that always comes out to LaLaLand and is overwhelmed by its surroundings.  Yet, the trojans still manage to act like buffoons in front of a National audience.

With nothing else going on, on New Year’s Day afternoon, and everyone watching, the trojans started out even with Penn State, until Continue Reading »

Ken Norton jr. makes unfounded accusations about UCLA lying to recruits, and then vows to stay at usc, where Fullback Stanley Havili is flattened upon being ruled academically ineligible for the Rose Bowl

What — Was “Ballroom Dancing 101″ all filled up? 

If it’s been asked once, it’s been asked a thousand times:  How is it possible to flunk out of usc?  When you can take classes like Basketweaving, and Ballroom Dancing, and Cinema Appreciation (which consists of watching trailers and giving feedback to the Studios), how can you possibly get straight “F’s?”

Usually, it’s a matter of non-attendance.  Continue Reading »

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No, not Jefferson, but Josh, whose Grace(ful), Slick Bruins have Built This City, and whose return from injury built this 78-55 victory over Weezy-anna Tech into a “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” moment

You can’t have a hot Roll with every supper.  Every now and then, when your Roll is cold (2-7), it is nice to know that you have other courses to fill in the void.

After the last couple of games, after Michael Roll filled in more-than-admirably for the injured Josh Shipp, some fans were annointing Roll the new savior, and at least, the new Starter.  Those fans better hold their horses on that one.  Josh Shipp returned on Sunday against the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs, and Shipp hit the ground running.  He led the team with 16 points, including 10 in the 1st Half (after which the game was OVER).  He also made two high-flying dunks that tested his recuperating thumb, and the digit passed the test. Continue Reading »

Pau Gasol and Lakers protect L.A.’s Record 33 Straight, by stopping Boston after 19, 92-83

The greatest Record in the History of Sports could be UCLA Basketball’s 88 straight wins.  But also right up there in the pantheon of Records that should never be broken is the 33 straight reeled off by the Fabulous Forum Lakers about 35 years ago.  This season, that mark was being threatened, by the World Champion Boston Celtics, but now you can call them the Boston Brakers.  That’s “Brakers,” as in grinding to a halt, NOT “Breakers,” as in breaking the Lakers’ much-revered Record   

The Celtics had been cruising along, winning 19 straight Continue Reading »

Bruins KISS off Wyoming 113-62, as Hotter Than Hell Michael Roll comes Alive with 25

Here lies the ghost of Fennis Dembo… in a KISS Kasket, buried under Pauley Pavilion.

The last time UCLA faced Wyoming, it was 1987 March Madness, and Wyoming’s Dembo scored 41 points to knock Reggie Miller’s Bruins OUT of the Tournament.  That painful loss made the name “Dembo” a curse word in Westwood, joining infamous non-trojan monikers such as “Carr” and “Tripucka.”

Fast-forward 21 years later, and the Bruins finally get another crack at the Cowboys.  Wyoming came in at 9-1, but that record was built against a pile of crumbs that would be honored to be called “cupcakes.”  That’s why the Bruins were favored by 19 despite the fact that the Cowboys had a better record than the (now) 9-2 Bruins. Continue Reading »

Vacationing Georgia Mid-major — who beat sc last year — can’t handle Jrue Holiday and UCLA, as Roll is darin’, and Darren’s on a roll

And it’s Mercer by Numbers, 1, 2, 3…76-59.

The Mercer Bears went to Hollywood for Christmas Vacation, and all they got was this lousy beatdown.  The Bruins slowly but surely pulled away from the upset-minded Bears, after being ahead at the Half by only 9.  After Freshman Jrue Holiday got the Bruins going, it was Michael Roll, and then Darren Collison who propelled the Bruins to victory. Continue Reading »

Active Jrue Holiday gives DePaul a day the Blue Demons would rather forget in the Wooden Classic, while Gabe Sachs’ revived Classic “90210″ is nominated for the People’s Choice “Best New Drama” Award, and needs your online vote to win

Classic TV and Classic UCLA Basketball.  “Freaks and Geeks’” Gabe Sachs has resurrected the “90210″ franchise, and he has the “people” behind him.  “90210,” on the CW network, is one of the three Finalists for a People’s Choice Award.  The category, “Best New Drama,” includes two other shows, who will remain nameless, because THEY don’t have anything to do with “The Peach Pit.”  And for other reasons that shall also remain nameless, I implore you to go to www.pcavote.com and vote for 90210 for Best New Drama.  If you like this site, and if you want to continue to get to see all these FREE pictorials of UCLA Cheerleaders, and you want to show your appreciation without spending any money, then please click on the People’s Choice link and cast your vote for THE zip code.

Another thing that keeps the pictorials coming is the continued success of the UCLA Basketball Team.  Heralded Freshman Jrue Holiday was all over the court on Saturday, as he led the Bruins to an easy 72-54 victory over a very young DePaul team in the Wooden Classic. Continue Reading »

The vivid Blue & Cardinal landscape — missing since 1982 – was a perfect backdrop to see the Bruins show the most heart

The colors on the field looked better than the numbers on the scoreboard.

Yeah, UCLA lost convincingly to a superior team.  That was a given.  The only element that was still in doubt was which team would really bring it, and play up to their potential.  And on paper, and in Vegas, and in most people’s minds, UCLA was the team that overachieved on Saturday.

The 33-point spread was never really threatened, Continue Reading »

Usc-backers lose big money, as flat trojans fail to cover spread in 28-7 victory over the out-manned Bruins.

At least THIS year, the one moment of Bruin Cheering was early in the game, when the Bruins still had a chance.

In fact, usc fumbled the ball on their first play ftom scrimmage, leading to a Gadget Play score, and a 7-0 Bruin lead.  But the trojans soon restored order, scoring the game’s next (and final) 28 points.  The trojans never looked good to cover the 33-point spread, at any point during the game,  but the Bruins never looked like they could close the gap.  Their Offense - after the trick play, went pretty conservative, and sc was dominating the line of scrimmage, so the Running Game was not working.  And with sc controlling the trenches, Kevin Craft didn’t have time to get comfortable, and therefore threw a lot of bad passes.  There is plenty of blame to be attributed, to Coaches and Players, but basically, UCLA just got “out-talented,” as Marc Sanchez was able to find open Receivers whenever he needed to. 

Here are a couple of more photos, just as a tease to what is coming tomorrow…

For many, many more photos like the ones above, come back on Sunday night or Monday.

If a day without O.J. is a day without sunshine, O.J. Simpson’s friends and family are about to endure 9 to 33 years of total darkness

The sentence is in, and it ends with an exclamation point!  Ex-trojan (and still a Hero to trojans everywhere) O.J. Simpson finally has been put behind bars for a long time.  A Nevada Court sentenced Orenthal James to a series of prison terms for his various 10 counts of Kidnapping and Armed Robbery, etc, that could add up to THIRTY-THREE YEARS.

Of course, few people serve their full sentences, and the Juice is eligible for parole after only NINE years.  9 years?  That’s not a very stiff penalty for a Double Murder, is it?

Experts predict that Simpson probably will NOT get parole on his first try, but will probably get out after a little over ten years.  That’s 5 years for Nicole, and 5 years for Ron, and 10 years for us, without having to see his arrogant, criminal face on TV and the Internet.  Of course, watching him pathetically plead for leniency was priceless.  He was almost crying, all while dishonestly claiming that he didn’t know he was breaking the law when he robbed his friends at gunpoint.

Interestingly, there are rumors that the Prison where O.J. will be showering for the next decade is “controlled” by some sort of Neo-Nazi gang, who should just LOVE having a new “brother” who also happens to be a celebrity killer.  Actually, since Goldman was Jewish, maybe they will make O.J. their honored Leader.  Oh wait — The White Nation –which some trojan footballers “jokingly” claimed to belong to last year — hates Black people just as much as they hate Jews.

People shouldn’t hate other Races and Religions — They should only hate schools who parade out a bunch of highly-compensated thugs and criminals, masquerading as student-athletes.  Of course, it’s always possible that they could all end up following in O.J.’s footsteps — In fact, there’s probably someone standing right behind O.J. right now.  And it’s about time.

Is it time to start a “no-parole-for-oj” dot com?  And is it time for sc to take O.J.’s giant jersey off display in their stadium?