After a disappointing 20th-place finish on the 2005-2006 season, the UCLA women’s swim and dive team made some impressive strides last weekend. The Bruin divers competed at the Senior Diving Zone D Championships in Pasadena, where three athletes qualified for the National Championships, which begin August 2. Read more...

With just a few strokes of the pen, the UCLA athletic department has made great strides in changing its penny-pinching reputation. On Friday, UCLA announced that men’s basketball coach Ben Howland and football coach Karl Dorrell had both accepted multi-year contract extensions. Read more...

CULVER CITY ­””mdash; Slam dunks, reverse layups and alley-oops. These were things redshirt sophomore forward Josh Shipp was unable to do last season while recovering from reconstructive right hip surgery. Read more...

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This week’s Countrywide Classic at UCLA marks the third time instant replay will be used on the pro tour. Just like they did at the Nasdaq-100 Open in March and the RCA Championships last week, players will get two challenges per set and a third if the set goes into a tiebreaker. Read more...

Bob and Mike Bryan gingerly hit tennis balls over the net at the Los Angeles Tennis Center on Sunday morning, rallying with a couple of children barely big enough to hold a racquet. Read more...

Roy Encarnacion loves UCLA. The 1995 graduate was here for the last basketball championship, and has spent the moments since thinking of ways to get back to UCLA. Read more...