Month: November 2011
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WAVES OF NAUSEA
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The Pepperdine Waves are nauseatingly bad, making UCLA look good for one night; MAYBE the ramped-up intensity of the Bruin Defense had something to do with it It was hard to tell — Did the Bruins finally flip the switch, or did they just find another Chaminade-level opponent whom they could…
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RICK HITS THE BRICKS
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Rick Neuheisel has been given his walking papers — The Pac-12 Championship Game will be his last as the Head Coach of UCLA The Neu Era is now the Old Era. Rick Neuheisel has been fired, and his 4-year suckfest is about to come to a merciful end. Or at…
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YOU’VE NEVER SEEN A LINE LIKE THIS
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31 Favors — The Bruins are now a THIRTY-ONE point Underdog to the Ducks in the Pac-12 Championship Game (because when the line opened at 30, a majority still bet on Oregon and gave the points), and it’s the most any team has been favored over UCLA in ANY sport, since Vegas was a sparkle in Bugsy…
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50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR COVER
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Make a new plan, Dan — Neuheisel is Slip Sliding Away, as his Offense can’t score a single point, and his Defense is much worse, giving up 50, by failing to cover anyone all night The Offense gets shut out, yet the Defense was worse than the Offense. What more do you…
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WAY OFF THE MARCUS
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Ex-trOJan Marcus Allen cluelessly wonders if UCLA — who has already clinched the Division — will rest their starters against $C Marcus is in the darkus. What part of the term “Rivalry” doesn’t he understand? With Utah’s loss to Colorado on Friday, the UCLA Bruins have CLINCHED the Pac-12 South…
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MAYA CON DIOS
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Go with the Gods, Bruins — It’s gonna take a miracle, but God gave us Riana and Maya, so maybe he can give us a victory on Saturday night It’s now just one day away from the big showdown, and there’s very little left to say. Everyone knows who SHOULD…
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HAWAII DIVE-O
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Book ’em, Murder One — Bruin Offense takes it on the Chin in Maui, with Jones, Lamb and DWear combining to shoot 1-for-15 from the floor, and Smith committing 6 Turnovers, in bad loss to #15 Michigan, 79-63 The optimism from Tuesday night’s comeback against Kansas was all but gone by Wednesday night,…
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MAUI ONIONS
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Bruins show they have onions, by cutting 20-point lead down to 5 with sweet comeback that made Bruin fans tear up, but get fried 72-56 when Jayhawks run rings around them in final four minutes For 10 minutes in the Second Half, UCLA showed why they were top-20 ranked and the preseason…
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WHERE THE RED BURN GROWS
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A Classic Tale — After the Rivalry Game, it could be “That’s all she wrote” for UCLA’s Coach, so he needs to beat the team whom the NCAA “threw the book at” The UCLA Football team’s motto is “Burn The Boats,” and their die-hard fans burned Tommy Trojan last night,…
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EMOTIONAL RESCUE
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want — The only hope this week for Satisfaction (and to avoid a 19th Nervous Breakdown) would be to amp up the raw emotion, hope for a letdown, Let It Bleed, and have absolutely No Sympathy for the Devil. And Sticky Fingers would help too Don’t…
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BUFFALOES GIVE YOU WINGS
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No Bull — Bruins soar to tasty 45-6 victory over battered Colorado — If only it were an appetizer for an upcoming meal Finally — A game that goes the way it was expected to go. Double-digit Favorite UCLA faced Colorado on Saturday, and jumped all over them, flying out…
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TWO TROJAN TURNOVERS TREAT TIM TEBOW TO TOTALLY TASTY TRIUMPH
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Back-to-back blunders by ex-trojans Sanchez and McKnight give all the momentum to the Broncos, as a Tebow-led 95-yard drive in the final minutes is capped by a Tebow game-winning TD run to upset the Jets, 17-13 With the Jets leading the Broncos 10-3 in the 3rd quarter, all New York…