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...

There’s nothing like bringing out the heavy artillery. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke at the NFL owners’ meeting in Texas on Tuesday to rally support to bring the NFL back to Los Angeles. Read more...

The NCAA draw is out, and things could have been a lot worse for the UCLA men’s tennis team. As the No. 10 seed in the tournament, the defending champions were granted some of their wishes. Read more...

As one of the winningest coaches in all of college sports, nobody would doubt UCLA men’s volleyball coach Al Scates if he claimed to already have achieved his greatest successes. Read more...

When the Bruins line up to face Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne in the NCAA semifinals at Penn State today, there will certainly be a representation of the dichotomy between East Coast and West Coast volleyball. Read more...

When senior Dennis Gonzalez steps on the court at the NCAA Championships on Thursday, it will not be his first time starting for the Bruins. Gonzalez, after all, has been the men’s volleyball team’s primary starting setter for the past three seasons and is one of the top setters in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. Read more...