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...

UNIVERSITY PARK , Pa. ““- It’s been 24 years, but UCLA men’s volleyball coach Al Scates can vividly remember the only other time the Bruins traveled to Penn State to face the Nittany Lions in the NCAA Tournament. Read more...

After an emotionally charged meet last Saturday against crosstown foe USC, the UCLA track and field program hopes to carry that momentum into the Pac-10 Championships during the upcoming weeks. Read more...

In recent years, there’s been something about traveling to Oregon that has brought out the worst in the UCLA softball team. Last year when the Bruins made the trip up north they dropped a game to Oregon State and were swept by a mediocre Oregon team while playing some of their worst softball of the season. 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...