Category: Blue & Gold News
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LUCK BE A GREAT-Y TONIGHT
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Stanford QB Andrew Luck overwhelms UCLA, whose two lost fumbles, two missed PAT’s and too many missed tackles allow the Cardinal to win going away, 45-19 It wasn’t nearly as bad as expected. Yeah, the final margin was bigger than the spread, but the Bruins were actually still in striking distance…
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BEATING BEAVERS = DAM-AGE CONTROL
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Bruins still give a dam — UCLA turns the tide, by stuffing Oregon State on two key 4th quarter 4th down attempts, to pelt the Beavs 27-19, go to 1-0 in Conference play, and temporarily close the floodgates on fan disgust UCLA and Rick Neuheisel have been drowning in fan discontent this year,…
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2 COUP 4 SCHOOL
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Cool, a coup — UCLA Basketball goes to school on the Spirit Squad’s success, adding another phenom to the next class The UCLA Spirit Squad has perennially been the Nation’s Best for a long time now, because they never have to rebuild — they just reLOAD every year, with top-caliber ammunition. Meanwhile,…
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GET THE HOOK!
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The “Hook ’em Horns” team makes Neuheisel bring the hook early (to pull Prince after 3 1st Quarter Interceptions), and stampedes to a 49-20 blowout (as Tommy Lasorda’s pep talk falls flat), prompting UCLA fans to call for another hook Welcome to the Neuheisel Farewell Tour. UCLA got pummelled by…
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SPARTAN (GAME) IS SUCH SWEET SORROW
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To Be or Not To Be — Neuheisel barely avoids the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, as Bruins’ Shaky 27-17 victory over lowly San Jose St. brings more fears than cheers Friends, Bruins, Countrymen, lend me your ears… It didn’t take a legendary Bard to realize that when San Jose…
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COMFORTABLY ‘NUM
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Money — Houston’s Case Keenum puts Cougars in the Pink, cutting up the UCLA Defense into little pieces; Bruins come back from 17 down, but don’t have Time to get over The Wall, in 38-34 season-opening loss All in all, it’s just another brick in the wall, that faces Rick Neuheisel…
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PRINCE PLUS
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Houston, we’ve got a tandem: UCLA will use a Twosome for Houston, if not a Threesome, as Neuheisel names Prince the Starting QB, but insists that Brehaut, and maybe Hundley, will play too Can a QB Committee beat the Kitties? UCLA will find out on Saturday, as they take on the Houston Cougars…
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TO THE FEW-CHEER, AND BEYOND!
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Have you heard the latest Buzz? A few Cheerleaders will train Future Leaders in a space-age new program that will allow kids to lead cheers at real Bruin games with the UCLA Spirit Squad Do you have any little Bruins aged 6-to-14 that would like to be Lightyears ahead of…
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THE SCRIM REAPER
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[Note: 37 more photos at end of article] Datone and the Defense are deadly at first, but valiant Prince and The Adjustment Brehaut adapt and survive, allowing the Bruin Offense to reap the rewards, as UCLA’s Fall Scrimmage makes fans less grim It started out grim: The Carl’s Jr. truck…
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HALL-BENT FOR LEATHER
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UCLA Basketball Heroes take 2 of the 5 Inaugural spots in ESPN’s (trojan-free) L.A. Hall of Fame Maybe SIZE doesn’t matter, but CLASS apparently does, at least as far as the brand new ESPN Los Angeles Hall of Fame is concerned. You know how you can tell? Because no class-challenged, class-skipping trojans are…
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RANK CALLS
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UCLA rings up two more Top Ten Rankings, for producing Professional athletes, and for being Extreme Sports-friendly Before the advent of *69, kids used to make prank phone calls, like calling a bowling alley clerk, confirming he has 10-pound balls, and then asking him how the Hell he can walk. …
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FALL O’ THE LEADER
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Fall Practice finally begins, and it follows that it would be the final Fall at UCLA for a crestfallen Neuheisel if he can’t lead the Bruins past the pitfalls that have befallen them for the past three Falls (Did you follow that?) The following is not hard to follow, but it may be hard…