A day after receiving the No. 10 seed in the NCAA Tournament, the UCLA men’s tennis team received more good news in the individual draw Thursday. Read more...

I had already written most of a column about how epic a national championship match between UCLA and top-ranked UC Irvine would be. Huge underdog Penn State wasn’t supposed to have a chance to beat UCI in the semifinals on Thursday night. Read more...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. ­””mdash; The UCLA men’s volleyball team so thoroughly dominated its competition Thursday night that NCAA officials tested the players for performance-enhancing drugs. Redshirt senior Damien Scott, redshirt junior Paul George and freshman Ian Jackson were randomly chosen in the first steroids test the NCAA has done for men’s volleyball in four years. Read more...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. “”mdash; In the second men’s volleyball NCAA semifinal match last night, Penn State knocked the lights out of top-seeded UC Irvine, literally. With the Nittany Lions up 14-13 in the 15-point fifth game, the lights in Penn State’s Rec Hall shorted out, silencing a home crowd that had been in a frenzy moments earlier. Read more...

Nothing was certain for the UCLA women’s tennis team prior to 5 p.m. Wednesday. Nobody knew where the Bruins would be playing, let alone what teams would be placed in their NCAA Regional. Read more...

Some baseball analysts believe the position of closer is overrated. Stick any reliever at the end of the game and he will perform adequately, they say. Read more...

After her senior season in 2003, former UCLA softball player Natasha Watley departed as one of the greatest players of her era. She won the Honda Award in softball as well as the Honda-Broderick Cup for being the nation’s top collegiate female athlete for the year 2002-2003, and she finished her collegiate career with the third-highest hit total in NCAA history. Read more...