Thursday, August 20

In the news:

Meet Your Maikis: Potential transfers aren’t getting any help from NCAA’s confusing new guidelines

NCAA transfer rules don’t work, and the NCAA has yet to properly fix them. The NCAA has worked to significantly alter the transfer system to give student-athletes more autonomy by introducing the transfer portal in 2018. Read more...

Photo: UCLA football coach Chip Kelly came out in support of the NCAA’s transfer portal at Pac-12 Football Media Day. Other Pac-12 coaches argue it may hurt transfers’ chances of playing.(MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin senior staff)


2019 UCLA Football Season Preview: Team to improve rushing yards with greater experience, speed in backfield

In the final four weeks leading up to the kickoff of UCLA football’s 2019 season, Sports editor Sam Connon and staff writer Jack Perez will be taking a look at the Bruins’ outlook at each position. Read more...

Photo: Redshirt senior running back Joshua Kelley eclipsed 1,200 yards as UCLA football’s leading rusher in 2018. Kelley was named to the preseason watch lists for the Maxwell and Doak Walker Awards. (Andy Bao/Daily Bruin)


With new players and healed injuries, football preps for first game of season

Football is back in Westwood. UCLA football started its fall practices Wednesday with only 28 days until kickoff against Cincinnati. The Bruins will have 48 new faces on the practice field for the upcoming season, more than a third of the entire roster. Read more...

Photo: UCLA football coach Chip Kelly enters his second season as coach of the Bruins with 48 new faces on the roster. (Andy Bao/Daily Bruin)


2019 UCLA Football Season Preview: Thompson-Robinson favorite for quarterback, Kelly’s pass offense to be revitalized

In the final four weeks leading up to the kickoff of UCLA football’s 2019 season, Sports editor Sam Connon and staff writer Jack Perez will be taking a look at the Bruins’ outlook at each position. Read more...

Photo: Sophomore Dorian Thompson-Robinson is the favorite to be UCLA football’s starting quarterback for the season opener against Cincinnati on Aug. 29. Thompson-Robinson started seven games and appeared in nine in 2018. (Andy Bao/Daily Bruin)


4 UCLA football players in contention for 5 NCAA awards

Sixteen preseason watchlists for NCAA football were announced in July, and Bruins are on five of them. Four UCLA football players were slated as players in contention for 2019-2020 awards. Read more...

Photo: Junior defensive back Darnay Holmes was one of four Bruins named to five of the 16 NCAA preseason watchlists. Holmes earned a spot on the watchlist for the Paul Hornung Award, given to the most versatile player in collegiate football. (Liz Ketcham/Photo editor)


UCLA football is hopeful ahead of coach Chip Kelly’s sophomore year

There aren’t going to be any more firsts for Chip Kelly and the Bruins. “Year two is going to be so much different than year one just because of ‘been there, done that,'” Kelly said. Read more...

Photo: Redshirt senior running back Joshua Kelley will play his second season with UCLA football this fall after transferring from UC Davis in 2016. (Tanmay Shankar/Assistant Photo editor)


Former UCLA running back arrested for attempted murder, attempted armed robbery

This post was updated July 24 at 3:14 p.m. A former UCLA football player was arrested Thursday in connection to an alleged attempt to rob a Riverside County medical marijuana dispensary in 2016, several outlets report. Read more...

Photo: Craig Lee, a former running back for UCLA, was arrested July 18 for his alleged complicity in a 2016 armed robbery of a medical marijuana dispensary in Riverside County. He has been charged with one count of attempted second-degree robbery and one count of attempted murder. (Daily Bruin file photo)



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