Practice had not been over for 10 minutes, and UCLA women’s basketball coach Kathy Olivier was back in her office breaking down film. Olivier was studying the play of Stanford guards Candice Wiggins and Brooke Smith, still trying to formulate a way to contain the tandem when the Bruins (10-8, 5-4 Pac-10) host the No. Read more...

How do the Bruins keep doing it? Every sense of logic points to this year’s Bruins eventually falling apart. The ridiculous string of injuries, the extreme youth, the lack of a consistent front-court scorer ““ everything says the Bruins shouldn’t win games like they did Thursday against the Oregon Ducks, 56-49. Read more...

For one game, the UCLA men’s volleyball team shined, playing better than rival Brigham Young. But then BYU showed why it’s No. 2 in the country, with three dominating games to beat UCLA 3-1 (24-30, 30-26, 30-14, 30-24) Thursday night in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation showdown at Pauley Pavilion. Read more...

EUGENE, Ore. “”mdash; As soon as Jordan Farmar’s pass floated into the stands, a look of confusion crept across his face. It was a pass to teammate Michael Roll, who wasn’t there. Read more...

The long-standing rivalry between three Pac-10 schools ““ UCLA, California and Stanford ““ has the Bruin swimming and diving teams geared up for this weekend as they prepare to compete against their two biggest rivals this Friday and Saturday, respectively. Read more...

Entering today’s match against Rice after its second shutout victory on Tuesday, the UCLA women’s tennis team (2-0) hopes to extend that dominant trend yet again. Read more...

If the No. 6 UCLA men’s volleyball team thought they could relax after winning a five-game thriller over Hawai’i last Friday, they were sincerely wrong. That’s because the Bruins’ main rival and top competitor, No. Read more...