Wednesday, July 8

UCLA football will jump into the unknown in upcoming Nebraska matchup

They do not know what they’re facing. And that is the point. With Nebraska’s starting quarterback Dylan Raiola ruled out for the rest of the season following a broken fibula sustained Saturday, UCLA football enters the weekend facing a signal-caller they have barely seen – an athlete without a collegiate start but with the tools to potentially break structure and expose a Bruin defense scrambling to steady itself. Read more...

Photo: UCLA football interim head coach Tim Skipper stands on the field at Spartan Stadium. (Aidan Sun/Assistant Photo editor)




UCLA women’s basketball secures 87-50 win against UCSB in home opener

This post was updated Nov. 7 at 12:34 a.m. When the Bruins opened the season with a 77-53 victory against 35.5-point underdogs San Diego State, coach Cori Close made it clear that she was not satisfied.  “That is not the standard in which we have set for ourselves,” Close said after the matchup Monday. Read more...

Photo: Senior guard Gabriela Jaquez shoots the ball from behind the 3-point line while a defender closes out on her. Jaquez started in 33 games and earned an All-Big Ten Honorable Mention selection from the media last season. (Aidan Sun/Assistant Photo editor)




The doppelgänger dilemma: UCLA women’s volleyball must fix defense inconsistencies

This post was updated Nov. 7 at 1:03 a.m. Hamlet explores human duality. Doppelgängers further emphasize this idea. And the Bruins have a doppelgänger. UCLA women’s volleyball (13-9, 7-5 Big Ten) boasts the numbers to warrant defensive praise and pass the eye test – the squad records the second-most digs per set and has limited opposing teams to the fourth-lowest hitting percentage in the Big Ten. Read more...

Photo: UCLA women’s volleyball walks toward the net. (Ruby Galbraith/Daily Bruin)