Standing on the 17th hole of her quarterfinal match of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship Friday afternoon, UCLA sophomore women’s golfer Amie Cochran found herself one hole away from advancing to the semifinals. Read more...

The U.S. softball team, led by four UCLA alumnae, has advanced to the championship game of the World Cup of Softball against Japan. Team USA won three of its four games in round-robin play at the first-ever World Cup of Softball this week, held in Oklahoma City. Read more...

In a meet designed for Olympic-caliber swimmers to tune-up for international competitions and a chance to race against top-notch competition, it comes as no surprise that many members of UCLA’s women’s swimming team were present. Read more...

Incoming UCLA men’s basketball freshman Alfred Aboya underwent a successful arthroscopic procedure on his right knee last Monday. The hour-long surgery, performed by Bruin team physician Gerald Finerman, removed loose bodies from Aboya’s right knee and repaired a torn meniscus. Read more...

The UCLA football team landed their 12th recruit of the 2006 recruiting class in defensive lineman Reggie Stokes. Stokes, a 6-foot-3, 230-pound defensive end out of Carver Senior High School (Montgomery, Ala.), joins defensive end Dylan Rush (Hawaii) as the only UCLA recruits from the 2006 class to come from outside California. Read more...

The Olympic hopes of many athletes in this country were dashed this week when the International Olympic Committee voted not to keep softball and baseball as a part of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Read more...

Sitting among the sold-out crowd in the Long Beach Pyramid at an NBA Summer Pro League game on Saturday night, I watched as several players desperately tried to impress their coaches, the crowd and most importantly the scouts. Read more...