Author: ucladavid
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THE DEVILS’ HANDS GIVE BRUINS PLAYTHINGS
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UCLA’s Defense snatches SIX (as in “666”) Sun Devil Turnovers and scores Touchdowns on two of them, as the Bruins become Bowl-eligible with their 3rd straight win, 23-13 From Dancing with the Devils this Saturday, right onto the Highway to Hell next Saturday night. The Bruins just reached Rick Neuheisel’s preseason goal: To not only improve on…
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BRUINS GET SCARE, OVERCOME BAD CASE OF HICK-UPS
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UCLA erases double-digit deficit and flattens Bakersfield, putting game-and-a-half hiccup in Howland’s run of success behind them It took 2 exhibitions and 65 minutes of the season for UCLA to remember that they are UCLA. On Friday night, the Bruins slowly bounced back from their depressing Opening Night, double-overtime loss, by coming…
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“What’s YOUR deal?”
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Deal or No Deal: Pom Pom’s whining about Harbaugh going for two is the ultimate “Irony Alert,” and it just cries out to be immortalized on t-shirts How cool would it be if Pete Caroll was confronted with hundreds of “What’s Your Deal” t-shirts when he emerges from the Mausoleum…
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MEN WHO SHARE AT BEING GOATS
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Anderson and Dragovic go a combined 3-for-26, and join Roll and Lee in each missing late shots that would have staved off the 68-65 double-overtime upset, Fullerton’s first-ever win over UCLA in 10 tries Well, it was a nice weekend while it lasted. The trojans are still picking up the pieces after…
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TROY CAN’T SURVIVE 55
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Burning Rubbers: While UCLA cruises up North 43-7, sc is roadkill, getting run over by the Trees 55-21, with those double-nickels (skid-)marking the worst Defensive crash and burn in trojan history Cinco-cinco, or sink-o, sink-o? The usc season was just sunk, as Pete Carroll’s formerly-vaunted Defense was dusted for 55…
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BRUINS ROLL AND SMOKE HUMBOLDT ST.
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Jointly sparked by returning buds Michael Roll and Jerime Anderson, UCLA’s 74-57 Medicinal win is Indica-tive of a team that will take its hits but come out flying high Okay, it’s safe to exhale, INHALE, and exhale again — Everything is back to NORML. Ben Howland’s Bruins bounced back from…
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UCLA’S LOCKER COMBO IS RIGHT TO #22, LEFT TO #3
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A Sheldon-to-Rahim theft of Jake Locker’s last-minute pass vandalizes Husky hopes of bullying Neuheisel’s Bruins (like they bullied Carroll’s trojans), as UCLA holds on 24-23, making their 5-game losing streak a thing of the Past Finally the nightmare is over. Even as encouraging signs of growth began to crop up over…
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27 YES’S
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A 27-shot salute to the Bronx Bombers on their 27th World Series Title (There’s a good reason why Wooden’s Bruins were called “The Yankees of College Basketball”) The Yankees used to do this all the time. But it’s sure been a while. The highest-paid team in Baseball finally earned their inflated…
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CONCORDIA FOLDS LIKE ACCORDIAN, BUT BRUIN DISCORD STRIKES CHORD WITH HARDCORE UCLA FANS
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Eagles lead throughout second half (until Abdul-Hamid lobs in long bomb with 16 seconds left), but miss two potentially game-winning shots in the paint to let UCLA avoid the Sportscenter ridicule that Syracuse got the night before, and that the Football team has been getting all year The Le Moyne Dolphins got on the map…
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JEREMIAH BRINGS JOY TO THE WORLD: SC CROAKS
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Oregon QB Jeremiah Masoli may not be a Bullfrog, but he licks sc, ending the trojans’ hallucinations of a BCS Title, 47-20 The Ducks won’t be the ONLY team leapfrogging usc in the rankings this week. With a completely convincing, 27-point THRASING of usc by the #10 Oregon Ducks, the usc trojans are once…
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SABATHIA, BLOODY SABATHIA
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Heaven and Hell-o: Bruin Chase Utley chases 2 CC Sabathia offerings through a Hole in the Sky, as the Phillies Mob Rules the NY Iron Man 6-1 in Game 1 of the World Series, and has even the Never-Say-Die Yankee fans Paranoid If only the Angels would have consulted Chase…
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DROP ZONA III
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Plenty of Snipes after free-falling Bruins’ 27-13 Desert Dive: Dropped passes, bad passes, bad penalties, missed tackles, missed blocks, and missed blitzes — If Neuheisel wants the movie of this season to have a Hollywood ending, he better get Bus(e)y It’s enough to give you brain damage. And what if…