Every time UCLA’s Ryan Hollins goes up for a dunk or plucks a rebound out of the air in traffic, he notices the difference ““ he no longer winces when he comes back down. Read more...

The UCLA softball team, which was one win away from its third straight NCAA Championship this past season, may be getting even stronger with a boost to its roster for next year. Read more...

It is no secret that the job of a college coach is to teach the fundamentals of the game while also preaching cohesive teamwork and stressing the importance of sacrifice for the collective good. 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...

LA JOLLA “”mdash; Entering this weekend’s FINA World League Tournament, the U.S. women’s water polo team was unsure if it had played together long enough to build a cohesive unit that feeds off instinctual play in the pool. Read more...