Bruin James Franco co-hosts the Oscars without mishap, but loses the Best Actor award to Colin Firth for “The King’s Speech,” which also gets crowned with Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture At least UCLA’s James Franco didn’t have a Letterman “Uma/Oprah” moment. The UCLA grad/Oscar-nominated Actor co-hosted the 83rd Academy Awards with Anne […]
Wooden’s House of Leather — In their last game in Original Pauley, UCLA, in roll-back attire, marks down #10 Arizona 71-49, and earns a Tie for 1st Place, behind a career-high 27 from Reeves Nelson, with the Pavilion’s final basket ever fittingly coming from Wooden’s great-grandson Thanks a million, Pauley Pavilion! Nell & John’s Court was […]
Velvet Revolvers: In MY Velvet Underground, when the Velvet Fog clears, it’s all about getting beyond the Velvet Rope to get some beautiful Blue Suede Views If you check the most recent comment to this site, you’ll see someone informing me that Thursday night was UCLA “Spirit Squad Night” at Pauley Pavilion, and asking where the photos are. Believe me […]
Obscene start, happy ending — Lazeric Jones Reems ASU with 10 Points, 10 Assists, and no mental boners, pulling UCLA out of a 12-point hole, and thrusting them to an 18-point pounding of the Sun Devils, 71-53 Slow starts may have worked for Zenyatta almost every time, but UCLA needs to find a different approach. […]
Ex-trojan LenDale White says “F*ck You” to Pete Carroll on TMZ (showing the “Class” that makes him a trojan hero and Media Darling) Not since Michael Cooper’s infamous “F*ck UCLA!” has a classless trojan made headlines with the big “F.” A lot of people hate smarmy and arrogant Pete Carroll, but not all of them are […]
The End of UCLA’s 6-game winning streak opens The Doors to Flashbacks of last year, but don’t let those Visions Mushroom into full-blown Hallucinations — This team still has mo-better Mojo Blue Grit. That’s what the Bruins showed last night, despite losing to Cal in Overtime, 76-72. After starting out freezing cold in Burrrrkeley, missing […]
Organ Grinder Monkey Business — A White Supremacist beats The Juice to a pulp in jail, and Doctors transplant a kidney into the WRONG patient at USC Hospital, but both victims are doing fine These stories are no laughing matters, and I wouldn’t even report them if anyone had been irreparably damaged. But O.J. can say […]
Smith’s Re’s, Lee’s D, Nine Three’s, and Reeves’ Free’s tease Trees — B’s seize another V (without ease, if you please), as UCLA leaves Maples with their 6th straight win, 69-65 Shoo, Trees! UCLA had trouble putting away Stanford on Thursday night, letting the Cardinal whittle a 16-point lead down to 4 with a minute to go. And […]
Demons OUT! — After Bruin fans’ outrage exorcised trojan candidates, Neuheisel annoints Godsend Joe Tresey as Defensive Coordinator It’s an OMEN of GOOD things to come. After two months of Holy Hell, UCLA and Rick Neuheisel finally came to their senses: About an hour ago, the Bruins announced the heavenly hiring of Joe Tresey as their […]
Honey From The Block — Tyler Honeycutt rattles off eight of the Bruins’ SIXTEEN Rejections, as dam-fine UCLA Beaver-blocks Oregon State, 69-61 How does a guy have SEVEN Turnovers and only 9 points, but still dominate the highlight reel? Just ask Tyler Honeycutt. The Bruin Forward led UCLA to a sloppy but convincing 69-61 victory over Oregon State […]
Lee lays large load on lame Ducks, egging on Bruins to shoot down 8-point deficit and win going away, 64-54 All that Nike money, and Oregon still can’t get all their Ducks in a row. Actually, the Oregon Basketball team has improved dramatically this Season. They were expected to really lay an egg in Conference […]
TRoyal Clown Pola — No Gatorade for ex-trojan “Troy Goat” Polamalu, who gets burned on both of Green Bay’s final two Touchdowns, in The Pack’s 31-25 Super Bowl win over the Steelers Is it too late to take away Troy Polamalu’s Defensive Player of the Year Award? The ex-trojan who mysteriously won that NFL Award this […]