Is there nuttin’ Honeycutt can’t do?  Tyler’s near triple-double leads UCLA past Stanford 77-73, and into a tie for First Place in the Pac-10

A Bit o’ Honeycutt was all the Bruins needed this year to turn it around.

UCLA is suddenly in 1st Place in the Conference, after many fans had left them for dead a month into the season.  And the difference is definitely Tyler Honeycutt, who was injured and missed the first part of the season.  But now he is healthy, and on Thursday night in Pauley Pavilion, he turned in the best performance of his career, again.

In a tough, see-saw battle that was close for the entire 40 minutes, Honeycutt DID IT ALL.  The Freshman scored 12, grabbed 11 Boards (6 on the Offensive glass), dished out 8 Assists, Blocked 3 shots, and got 2 Steals.  That means that he came within 2 Assists of a triple-double , a feat accomplished only twice in UCLA History (by Jelani McCoy and Toby Bailey both in the Championship year of 1995).  And Tyler is just getting started.  “Magic” Honeycutt is a shoo-in to become the Bruins’ first multiple triple-double man.  He may even be their first quadruple-double man.

In addition to being everywhere, all game long, Tyler also had the Highlight Reel Play of the Game, as well as  Continue Reading »

Par for the Curse:  O’Neill’s bench caddy Stan Holt has “trojan class” going for him (which is nice), and the sc Student Manager proves it in the rough loss to Oregon, by picking up a game-changing T(ee) for aiming coarse language at the Ref

Blame it on the Ballboy.

USC players and Coaches are apparently pinning their 67-57 loss on their 3rd Year Student Manager, Stan Holt.  It was Holt’s Technical Foul that killed the trojans’ momentum, and led to Oregon’s 10-point win.

The trojans had just come back from 7 down to tie the score at 47 with under 6 minutes to play.  But then the Ducks scored, and after a Duck Rebound of a subsequent trojan miss, Holt started hurling obscenities at the Referee, who T’d him up, giving the momentum squarely back to OU.  Even though the trojans had 4 minutes to come back, they still seem to blame Holt for the loss.  Dwight Lewis admitted that the T killed their momentum, and Head Coach Kevin O’Neill said that “it deterred them from having a chance to win the game.”  Anything to deflect blame from the actual Turnover-prone underachievers who are really responsible.

But more importantly, shouldn’t a THIRD-YEAR Manager KNOW BETTER, even in the Land that Lacks Institutional Control?  Doesn’t this die-hard trojan know the rules?  Doesn’t he know that you can’t get away with berating the Officials?   More likely, after spending three years on the bench with the likes of Tim Floyd and O. J. Mayo, and in the locker room with the Who’s Who of NBA Agents, he DOES know the Rules, and he just assumes that they don’t apply to usc.  Continue Reading »

Nelson’s double-double spells trouble for Oregon State, and when his anticlimactic last-second dunk goes down, it leaves the Beavs with a bad taste in their mouths

It’s really not his fault — The Bruins don’t have much experience with comfortable leads at the ends of games.

As time was running out in Corvallis on Saturday evening, the Bruins gained possession of the ball with an 8 point lead.  And instead of mercifully dribbling out the clock, UCLA’s 6th Man Reeves Nelson drove to a completely unguarded basket for a final-second, exclamtion point slam dunk.  It wasn’t exactly Pete Carroll-style pouring it on, but it wasn’t exactly the classy thing to do either.

Nelson’s stuff made the final score 62-52, but it could have been a lot closer… or lot further apart.  Continue Reading »

Milking SIX “Captain & Cokes” sailed soggy Maualuga to near-double the legal limit when he crunched a teen girl’s car into another teen girl’s car, a parking meter, and another parked car;  His “Not Guilty” plea could mean that sc plans on sugar-coating this whole thing

Got a little Captain in you?  Got a little TOO MUCH?  Didn’t you hear the Captain’s Orders?  They were to “Drink Responsibly.”  Looks like someone disobeyed the Captain’s Orders.

Ex-trojan Rey Maualuga of the Cincinnati Bengals is facing 30 days in Jail for crashing a car after admittedly downing a half-dozen Captain Morgan Rum & Coke cocktails.  Of course, he won’t do a single one of those 30 days behind bars, because he’s a big star in Kentucky (where many root for the nearby Bengals), and because sc probably still has his back.  They don’t want the school to be dirtied even more than it already has been this week.  And it’s a good thing for Rey that they do have his back, because if they didn’t, he might have to spend a month in the Pokey, where he just might once again have a “little captain” in him. Continue Reading »

P(oor), O(ld) N(imrod) T(hinks) I(t’s) A C(adillac):  Rey Rey crashes his ‘03 Pontiac into some parking meters and goes to jail;  No word if Pat Cowan will go see him on Visitor’s Day

It was only a matter of time.  Ex-trojan Linebacker Rey Maualuga has always been a ticking time bomb, just waiting for the right moment to explode.  He had his share of incidents at sc, but now, he has entered the big time. 

Maualuga is famous for celebrating his dirty hit out of bounds on Bruin QB Pat Cowan, who of course bounced right back up, and went on to BEAT sc 13-9.  Now Maualuga can be famous for getting dirty in his jail cell… that is, if sc didn’t own every police station in the Country.  Chances are that Rey Rey will get off with a slap on the wrist, like all the other criminals from Figueroa Tech, and he’ll be back on the road threatening all of our lives in no time at all.

Hump Day:  Roll hits a 3 to force Overtime, but Oregon’s Matthew Humphrey hits back-to-back 3’s in O.T. (and 2 Free Throws) to lead the Ducks to a 71-66 victory that sends UCLA back to .500 in the Pac-10

The Bruins’ last 5 minutes EVER in “The Pit” were not too peachy.

UCLA was in Eugene, Oregon on Thursday night, playing in the unfriendly confines of infamous McArthur Court for the last time… thankfully.  UCLA has had a few shocking losses in noisy “Mac Court” (aka “The Pit”) over the years, but for this year’s Bruins to lose on the road is never a shock.  The Ducks had lost 5 in a row, but everyone expected a close game that could go either way.

The Bruins got off to a great start, building a 13 point lead, 29-16.  But the Ducks started to apply an extended pressure defense, and it suddenly sped up the pace of the game, to the Ducks’ liking.  Oregon scored 12 straight, and despite Nikola Dragovic’s 11 Points for the Bruins, the Ducks were down only 3 at the Break, 31-28. Continue Reading »

10% OFF of Wholesale is what YOU get on these UCLA keychains (and others), when you use the BeatSC code at WholesaleKeychain.com through March

“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the Keychain biz.”  That’s what they say, but WholesaleKeychain.com obviously CAN take the heat, and this is how they cope with it:  They give a nice discount to Trojan-Haters like you.

As you know, I have never had any ads on this site.  And I can’t sell Official UCLA merchandise.  So when I was asked to write about some Official UCLA merchandise — in order to get a discount for my readers — I agreed to do it.   They sent me two different UCLA Keychains, including one with a bottle opener, and they sent me one cool, embossed silver Mustang keychain, with a revolving pony.

I’m allowed to be honest in my review, without jeopardizing your discount, and I thought it would be humorous to criticize the very company that was cutting you the break.  But after receiving the goods, I am unable to do that.  They are actually really nice, with solid construction, sharp colors, and the official, trademarked, UCLA  Bruins logo.  Continue Reading »

Weekend Update:  Host Bruins finally get the last laugh on a Saturday, boxing up the Cougars 74-62, just as Howland sketched it up

“Lane, you ignorant slut!”

While Lane Kiffin of usc is (allegedly) already breaking rules at sc (by sending a Limo to a recruit?), Ben Howland of UCLA is already breaking TRADITION… and it’s working.  Howland’s Bruins once again employed a previously-unthinkable Zone Defense for 40 minutes, and they LED the Cougars for 40 minutes, en route to a 74-62 win, the Bruins’ first SATURDAY Win of the Season in 6 attempts.

For the second game in a row, the Bruins’ opposition went stone cold from OUTSIDE, while being unable to find a way to get the ball INSIDE.  The Bruin Zone Defense is getting better and better, but it did not truly cause Washington State to shoot that poorly.  Just like the Huskies, Continue Reading »

Ex-trojan didn’t REALLY come clean in his Steroid confession:  His Dealer says McGwire injected NOT to recuperate from injuries as he claims;  On the contrary, the “recipe” was specifically designed to make him bigger, stronger, and faster

“If Paris Hilton was to take that array, she could run over Dick Butkus.”

That is what ESPN has been told by lab rat Curtis Wenzlaff, the convicted Steroid Dealer who was ex-trojan Mark McGwire’s supplier while McGwire was cheating his way through his Major League career.  Wenzlaff chuckled when he heard McGwire’s recent confession.  Wenzlaff, who also juiced up Jose Canseco, says that the confession was bogus and insincere, containing a blatant lie that invalidates the whole confession. Continue Reading »

Mush!  Mush!  Mustafa Abdul-Hamid muzzles the Huskies with a buzzer-beating dagger that’s a real tail-wagger

Just call him Pauley Abdul. 

No matter how you Judge it, former Walk-On Mustafa Abdul-Hamid is like an American Idol winner in Westwood tonight, as his last-second twenty-footer sent the Huskies packing, to Siberia South (Galen, where players go to rot and die in obscurity), with a heartbreaking, 62-61 loss.  After Michael Roll’s two Free Throws gave the Bruins a 1-point lead with 7.6 seconds left, Washington’s Venoy Overton went coast-to-coast, beating his man Abdul-Hamid, and blowing by Roll to drop in a lay-up with 3.2 seconds left.  But instead of panicking, Roll grabbed the ball, did a thorough scan of the court, and then inbounded it to Abdul-Hamid near halfcourt.  Abdul-Hamid dribbled to the top of the key - as teammate Malcolm Lee went by him — and coolly (despite the clock) faked his defender out of his jockstrap, and then swished the open jumper as the horn sounded.

Abdul-Hamid gave a little fist-pump, and was then mobbed by teammates and fans.  This isn’t the first time he’s been the hero in Pauley Pavilion — During the preseason, he beat Concordia with a similar last-second shot. Continue Reading »

Before speeding off to sc, an ASLEEP-AT-THE-WHEEL Lane Kiffin TOTALED a Lexus, then fled the scene on foot before a DUI could be administered;  Insurance paid for the damage, but no Police Report can be located now

The rumors started just DAYS after Lane Kiffin screwed over Tennessee:  While in Knoxville, Kiffin ALLEGEDLY had a special love nest set up for getting drunk and nasty… not with his wife Layla, but with Volunteer co-eds.  And Kiffin  ALLEGEDLY had a car accident – with some of those co-eds in the car — because he passed out while driving.  And then the Tennessee Athletic Department ALLEGEDLY perpetrated a cover-up to protect their Coach.  And finally, a team of TMZ parasites ALLEGEDLY descended on Knoxville to investigate the cover-up.

Of course most people thought that the rumors were just sour grape-concoctions by disgruntled Tennessee fans.  But now it has finally come to light that there ABSOLUTELY WAS a car accident, and Kiffin now admits (to ESPN) that he was driving and “fell asleep.”

So if THOSE TWO parts of the rumor are true, maybe ALL of it is??

The accident happened in the early hours of the morning, on an “unspecified date.”  Kiffin said that he had been at a late-night meeting at the Athletic Department.  Sound fishy?  Well, he DOES have a witness that places him in the Athletic Department around Midnight, but that still — ACCORDING TO ESPN — leaves him unaccounted for, for a few hours.  Plenty of time to have met up with some student-hostesses at the love shack.  And if he had girls other than his wife in the car at the time of the accident, that would have given him a good reason to flee the scene like he did, even if he wasn’t drunk and trying to avoid a Breath-a-lyzer.

But HERE’S where it gets interesting:   Continue Reading »

Good Coop, Bad Coop:  USC Women’s Basketball Head Coach (and ex-Laker) Michael Cooper celebrates his team’s win over the Bruins at his Press Conference by saying:  “My opening statement is ‘F*ck UCLA!’”

Just call me “The Coop Nazi” if you like, but Michael Cooper “needs persecutin’.”  USC should soon be self-imposing some more sanctions, once they get together to figure out how to spin this.

After the trojans’ women’s team beat UCLA in Galen on Sunday, the former Laker took the microphone at his postgame Press Conference, and showed everyone why he is a perfect fit with usc:  He said “F*ck UCLA!” like he was a drunken co-ed. 

As coaches go, John Wooden, he’s not.

Have you ever heard of a Head Coach of a so-called “major” so-called University use the F Word in reference to thier Rival University?  It might be allowable at a Booster’s Club meeting, or maybe even at a Bonfire, but not in a Press Conference.  It looks like Cooper is trying to help pick up the slack now that lowlife Pete Carroll has skipped out on Figueroa Tech.  Remember it was Pete who was caught on camera screaming “F*ck You!” at the then-Head Coach of Oregon Mike Belotti, DURING A GAME.  And when it comes to being a Bad Winner, Pete wrote the book.  His last big over-the-top celebration came right after his “take-a-knee-throw-a-bomb” strategy worked to perfection against UCLA, and almost started a riot. Continue Reading »