Author: ucladavid
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TWO CHOKE GIRLS
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Choking a gift horse in the mouth — Trojan “stars” Kessler and Smith-Schuster both totally choke in the final 30 seconds of the Holiday Bowl, allowing Wisconsin to salvage a 23-21 victory, DESPITE a Badgers’ game-winning Touchdown being disallowed on a blatantly BLOWN CALL For a while, it looked like…
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THE CORNING AFTER
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CaliCORNication — The Cornhuskers pound the Bruins for 326 yards on the ground, scoring 30 straight points to win the Foster Farms Bowl 37-29 Did UCLA think they were playing Stanford again? They were in Northern California, and the opponents — and the majority of fans — were wearing Red…
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CLUTCH KICKER KA’IMI & KICKASS KENNY CLARK COLLECT KUDOS
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Congrats, kids! — Ka’imi Fairbairn wins the Lou Groza Award as the Nation’s Best Kicker, and is named 1st Team All-American, and Kenny Clark makes 3rd Team All-American It’s hard to write about UCLA Football after what happened last month, but I would be remiss if I failed to mention…
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KENTUCKY FRIED BRICKIN’
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REALLY Wild Cats can’t hit the bucket — UCLA burns #1 Kentucky to a crisp 87-77, as Alford thoroughly out-cooks Calipari, with his not-so-secret recipe of packing in the Defense, forcing UK to force outside shots, of which they hit 6 of 29 until after the game was decided… and…
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ROSEN IMPLOSION
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UCLA’s True Freshman Quarterback finally plays like a True Freshman, committing three straight critical Turnovers, one returned for a game-changing TD, as UCLA blows a second-half 21-20 lead to lose 40-21, ending the Bruins’ three-game winning streak against the trojans Josh Rosen is a great Quarterback. Even as a True…
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FIRE’S UP, FOUR’S UP!
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Feel the burn — This year, because there are no protestors and no wind, we finally get a flaming fire… and a funny Forte… and a frightening faux pas, as the fans feverishly file for fourth straight defeat of Fig Tech Jim Mora knows how to fire up a crowd,…
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THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS
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Fool’s Gold? — UCLA’s Defense (still missing its 3 best players) holds Utah’s Offense to ZERO Touchdowns — IN Utah — and Bruin “replacement player” Jayon Brown recovers a fumble with 1:09 to go to preserve a 17-9 victory, but the Utes’ Offense was missing ITS two best players, so keep things…
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CAUGHT REDD-HANDED
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Sigh-less — Yet ANOTHER ex-trojan gets busted for cheating, as Redskin Running Back Silas Redd receives a 4-game suspension for SUBSTANCE ABUSE The beat goes on, and on, and on. Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but the word “trojan” and the word “cheater” are synonymous. For the umpteenth…
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(CHO)KING OF THE CASSEL
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Dallas Clownboy — Matt Cassel is just one of three ex-trojan QB’s to drop the ball… into their opponents’ hands on Sunday; Two of them cost their teams the game, while the other one was bailed out, against an ex-trojan Coach, who was just one of three ex-trojan Coaches to…
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My website hosting company is incompetent. They say they have fixed this problem. I have given them a bunch of money to fix it, yet the problem persists. If they don’t fix it now, I will demand my money back, dump them, and organize a boycott against them. Anyway, it’s…
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PARIS PAIN PUTS PAULEY, PASADENA PITFALLS INTO PERSPECTIVE
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SacreBlue –UCLA loses in Overtime to lowly Monmouth in Basketball, then loses in the last 3 seconds to underdog Washington State in Football, while u$c Football barely escapes Colorado with a win after trailing by 11 in the second half; Ordinarily I would call this triple-whammy a “tragedy,” but not…
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ROSEN MASTERPIECE IS A WORK OF (DU)ARTE
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Painting by numbers — Rosen-to-Duarte draws 116 yards and 2 TD’s, 3 different Bruin Running Backs etch TD’s, and the Bruin Defense creates 4 Turnovers and gives up 0 points to help sculpt UCLA’s looting of Oregon State 41-0 On Saturday afternoon in Corvallis, under a barrage of constant showers,…