Akeem & Rahim Desecrate Temple: Rahim Moore’s 10th Interception keeps UCLA in the game, and Akeem Ayers’ Interception-TD gives them the game, as the Bruins come back from 14 down to become EagleBank Bowl Champs (31-20), finish the season with a winning record (7-6), and lay claim to the future Pac-10 throne, recently vacated by […]
Reever Madness: Reeves Nelson kills — hitting a career-high 21 — as UCLA executes Delaware State (or was that Della Reese State?), 66-49 Drew Gordon’s loss is Reeves Nelson’s gain. With the former Starting Center long gone, Freshman Nelson has been getting his chance, and on Sunday afternoon he really made the most of it. Against a vertically-challenged Hornets team, Nelson […]
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the shop, not a trojan was stirring to purchase this slop Silent Night indeed. On what should have been one of their busiest nights of the year, in the middle of a mobbed shopping mall right before Christmas, the usc merchandise store sat there completely deserted. This […]
Flat UCLA, down 8 with 12 minutes left, bottles up Colo. St.’s Offense, and bubbles up a 29-9 spurt — led by a re-carbonated Nikola Dragovic — to can the Rams 75-63 and sweeten the Holiday break One day after pleading Not Guilty to apparently bogus Assault charges, Nikola Dragovic broke out of his season-long […]
Bruins find a new Lee-der: The Blue & Gold fall to the Golden Domers, but strike gold in Malcolm Lee, who scOREs 29, and is starting to pan out after being panned all year It’s never fun to lose to the school that has given the World Digger Phelps, Bill Laimbeer, and Kelly Tripucka, but if […]
Will “Rover-gate” finally throw usc to the (NCAA) dogs? After an L.A. Times Reporter allegedly caught Joe McKnight Red-and-Gold-handed repeatedly driving a Marketing guy’s Land Rover, the trojan Tailback denies it, but usc actually contradicts him Who’s lying? A Reporter for the Los Angeles Times? Usc’s Starting Tailback? Usc’s Sports Information Director? They can NOT all be telling the truth. […]
Howland’s ragging wags the lagging, but Aggie-tagging shouldn’t green-flag bragging The swagger is just partially back, as Jerime Anderson puts it. UCLA finally broke through, snapping a 5-game losing streak with a dominating 100-68 victory over the New Mexico State Aggies. With Ben Howland barking orders on almost every possession and Nikola Dragovic breaking out […]
Bruins get a Government Bailout: Thanks to Navy QB Ricky Dobbs, UCLA will immigrate to the District of Columbia for the Eagle Bank Bowl It wasn’t just a game, it was an adventure. UCLA needed heavily-favored Navy to beat Army on Saturday, in order to reach a Bowl Game, but Army did not surrender easily. […]
Best Leg(s) in the Nation: Kai Forbath wins Lou Groza Award and joins Brian Price and Rahim Moore on Walter Camp All-American team, giving UCLA three times more honorees than usc UCLA 3, usc 1. That’s the tally for Bruins over trojans on the just-released Walter Camp All-American team. The Bruins on the prestigious list […]
Dirty rep costs usc’s Taylor Mays the Price War, as he loses the Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year Award to UCLA’s Brian Price When alleged trojan superstar Taylor Mays announced last year that he would return to usc for one more year, everyone was shocked. He had already proven himself, and would have been a […]
From hating Con-dumbs to loving Seamen: Win over Army on Saturday by Navy seals Bruins’ Bowl berth Temple, or The Temple of Doom? It was announced yesterday that the UCLA Bruins were invited to the Eagle Bank Bowl in Washington D.C. to face the Temple Owls. However, there is one catch: If Army upsets Navy on Saturday, […]
Carroll could’ve used Bomb he detonated last week, as Mike Stoops beats troy stupes 21-17, thanks to late Arizona Bomb and subsequent sc Duds Looks like Pete Carroll’s explosive eruption was a little premature. On Saturday, Pom Pom, Matt Barkley, and the trojans all found out that it’s a little tougher to connect on a deep pass when […]