Crying in my Cheer — The UCLA Dance Team loses 3 sweet girls due to time constraints and conflicts (breaking my heart), but gets 9 beautiful returnees, and 2 fine additions, while the Cheer Squad continues to be Top Tier as well UCLA Spirit Audition Week can be an emotional rollercoaster. That coaster started for me 364 days […]
Fantastic Four, the Sequel — UCLA Basketball adds Tony Parker to their other 3 top-rated incoming recruits, giving them the #1 Recruiting Class in the Nation, which Bruin fans know is no guarantee of success, but is still worthy of Hollywood-type buzz UCLA made it official yesterday, signing 6’9″ Center Tony Parker to a National Letter of Intent, […]
Some fans are GROUCHy as a TRIO of passes miss their MARX, but I say HORSEFEATHERS — That bit of MONKEY BUSINESS is not worth HARPing on, as CAPTAIN Mora’s Hurry-Up Offense Quarterbacks are frequently able to CHICO(ff) and find their Running Back BROTHERS, who have A DAY AT THE RACES at SPAULDING Field, and make DUCK SOUP out […]
One more pictorial reminder to support the Swim With Mike charity After a good, wet Pool Party, there’s often some mopping up to do. Today, 16 photos from last Saturday’s annual Swim With Mike fundraiser float to the top. As you peruse this final wave of damp shots, please don’t let it put a damper on […]
Honey, What Do You Do For Money — Dip-lomatic Immunity today for the USC Song Girls, who stripped down to bikinis and took a dip to help raise money for physically-challenged student-athletes, including the first one in the 32 years of the Swim With Mike Charity to attend UCLA You COULD say that this article is “dripping […]
The Bazz that refreshes — Ben Howland lands Top Recruit Shabazz Muhammad, which will increase ticket sales, ramp up expectations, and maybe even improve future recruiting Another acorn has fallen far from the tree — Just like UCLA’s most prolific Football player Jonathan Franklin was sired by a trojan, now UCLA’s best Basketball player also was spawned […]
Ex-trojan O.J. Mayo runs to wrong basket during game — Not his first wrong turn During a Grizzly game this week, former trOJan O.J. Mayo advanced the theory that he is and has always been a major pot-head, when he got confused after a jump ball, and took off for a fast break… to the […]
UCLA Spring Practice continues, and progress is evident as the Bruins make up for lost time in a race against the clock The Bruins are wearing pads now, hitting with full force, trying to separate ballcarriers from the ball, and trying to separate from each other as competition for starting positions rages on. It is still […]
Angels overthrow Royals 5-0 with no help from their new Royalty, as Weaver’s 8 shutout innings and a 5-run 8th overshadow Pujols going 0-for-3 with a Double Play, Pop Out, and Strike Out in his debut as an L.A. Angel The Big A was full for Opening Night, because everyone wanted to see Albert Pujols’ first […]
Pauley Pavilion looks fabulous as contruction workers continue to insert beams of steel and add panes of glass It takes a Village, People! Pauley Pavilion no longer looks like a glorified YMCA. With the new exterior additions almost fully in place, the renovation looks like it’s going to be a huge success. It’s really starting […]
Lunch and Launch — Two delightful Laker Girls make a lunch appearance in Pasadena, while Mora and his staff re-light my fire at their first practice in Westwood It was a Tuesday full of passion, as the Laker Girls continued their whirlwind tour of local Carl’s Jr’s, and the new-attitude, re-invigorated UCLA Bruins started their annual Spring Practice […]
Thanks to Kansas blowing over a dozen dunks and lay-ups, Kentucky wins their 8th NCAA Basketball Championship — until it is vacated for recruiting/academic violations — still short of UCLA by THREE, which is incidentally the same number of Bruins who were named to the Basketball Hall of Fame yesterday Kentucky was the best team […]