The top-ranked UCLA women’s water polo team seems to understand how important it is to make a good first impression. The Bruins have dominated the opening period of every game they have played this season, holding their opponents to only four goals and outscoring them by a 27-goal margin. Read more...

With only three games left in the regular season, UCLA women’s basketball coach Kathy Olivier and the rest of the Bruin team know exactly what’s at stake this weekend. Read more...

Given the opportunity, Brennan Prahler seized it, took advantage of the playing time, and made his presence known on the court in his second start of the season. Read more...

The ball is finally rolling for the UCLA gymnastics team, and the Bruins aren’t planning on stopping it anytime soon. Trying to find its niche for most of the season, UCLA appears to have found it fresh off the heels of its two most significant wins of the season. Read more...

Some will call it a wake-up call. Others will call it a fortuitous escape. Whatever it was, the match was much closer than it was expected to be. Read more...

Straight off of a confidence-building shutout against Fresno State, the No. 11 UCLA women’s tennis team looks to start its Pac-10 season on a strong note when it hosts the Arizona schools today and Saturday at the Los Angeles Tennis Center. Read more...

I did my best to come up with a clever, refreshing idea for this column. I pretty much failed. First I asked my brother, a freshman at Cal, to go to the game so I could write about it through a series of cell phone conversations with someone actually at Haas Pavilion. Read more...