Category: UCLA/usc/Sports Photos
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HONOR ROLL
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ROLL CALL: Michael Roll is present on the All Pac-10 1st Team, while Nelson and Honeycutt make the grade for the Freshman Team It’s been a long road for Michael Roll. From almost going to UCSB, to playing in Westwood behind a slew of NBA-bound players, from showing an early spark…
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BRUINS SLIP NOOSE ON IN TUCSON
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UCLA coughs up a 14-point, 2nd Half lead in Arizona, hanging themselves with frozen ropes and a trap-door Defense, and dying too young on Drago’s premature foul execution, as the Bruins hang their heads after losing by a neck, 78-73 It’s not a complete and total “choke” when you lose by 5 on…
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COMEBACK-SLAYER OF THE YEAR
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Second-half surge is spoiled by Sophomore’s second-straight snafu in the last 72 seconds, in 70-68 Senior Day (and ’70 Day) setback With the Bruins down by 3 with 2 minutes left, Jerime Anderson took the bull by the horns, and drove to the hoop. He got fouled, but muscled up a shot…
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HONEYCUTTS DOWN THE TREES
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Is there nuttin’ Honeycutt can’t do? Tyler’s near triple-double leads UCLA past Stanford 77-73, and into a tie for First Place in the Pac-10 A Bit o’ Honeycutt was all the Bruins needed this year to turn it around. UCLA is suddenly in 1st Place in the Conference, after many…
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REEVES PEEVES BEAVS
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Nelson’s double-double spells trouble for Oregon State, and when his anticlimactic last-second dunk goes down, it leaves the Beavs with a bad taste in their mouths It’s really not his fault — The Bruins don’t have much experience with comfortable leads at the ends of games. As time was running…
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NEW YEAR’S BLOCKIN’ EVE
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Happy New Jer, 20(1-0): Jerime Anderson refuses to let the ball drop, with a game-saving block as the Countdown hits zero, in UCLA’s 72-70 victory over ASU that skyrockets the Bruins to 1-0 in the Pac-10 and 1st Place The Bruins saved their best for last. On the final day of 2009,…
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DON’T FEAR THE REEVER
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Reever Madness: Reeves Nelson kills — hitting a career-high 21 — as UCLA executes Delaware State (or was that Della Reese State?), 66-49 Drew Gordon’s loss is Reeves Nelson’s gain. With the former Starting Center long gone, Freshman Nelson has been getting his chance, and on Sunday afternoon he really made the most of it. …
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ONE OF A KAI
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Best Leg(s) in the Nation: Kai Forbath wins Lou Groza Award and joins Brian Price and Rahim Moore on Walter Camp All-American team, giving UCLA three times more honorees than usc UCLA 3, usc 1. That’s the tally for Bruins over trojans on the just-released Walter Camp All-American team. The…
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TROJAN HEADHUNTER PRICED OUT OF THE MARKET
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Dirty rep costs usc’s Taylor Mays the Price War, as he loses the Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year Award to UCLA’s Brian Price When alleged trojan superstar Taylor Mays announced last year that he would return to usc for one more year, everyone was shocked. He had already proven himself,…
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ELECTRIC CHAIR-ITY
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Bruins execute themselves with bad execution and 4 Giveaways in 28-7 loss, but continue to close the gap: Despite the gift Turnovers and Prince getting injured, it was still a 1-possession game with 91 seconds to go, AT the Mausoleum It was 14-7, with less than 2 minutes to go, IN…
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HAPPY SPANKSGIVING
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Bruin fans should already be thankful, for a better season than last year; Spanking the stuffing out of those Gutterball Turkeys would just be gravy You know what sucked? When you would have to go see all your relatives for the big Thanksgiving Day celebration, right after your team had…
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BURNING DOWN THE HORSE
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Watch out. You might get what you’re after: Something’s in the air tonight, as the Bruins want to set Westwood on fire (“Figuratively” says Neuheisel) after a win on Saturday night Remember 13-9? Remember how you felt that day, and the day after, and the day after that? A lot…