Category: Blue & Gold News
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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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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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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…
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SANCHEZ’ STINK-O CINCO SINK-O’S JETS
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In a blink-o, Missing Link-o’s legions shrink-o on the brink-o of his being benched, after Kinko’s 5 Interceptions give O.T. game to Bills (all to the joy of a certain Fink-o) After a depressing Saturday where UCLA’s hopes for a decent season disintegrated while sc’s win in South Bend leaves…
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CALIFORNIA REAMIN’
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Bruins finally find their air game, AND get their longest TD run in 6 years, but the Defense doesn’t molest anyone until the second half, and Cal takes advantage, 45-26 All the leaves are Brown… And the skies are grey… Or so said the Mamas and the Papas in “California Dreamin’.” …
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99 BOTTLES OF CHEER ON THE WALL
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Happy 99th Birthday to John R. Wooden, the greatest Coach in History Today should have been a National holiday. 99 years ago, a true American legend was born. And 99 years later, he is still inspiring young people to succeed in Life. The current Bruin Basketball team posted a video tribute to…