The scene inside the UCLA locker room was bleak when coach Ben Howland strode through the door at halftime Saturday. The Bruins trailed crosstown rival USC by 18 points. Read more...

If the rivalry between UCLA and USC wasn’t simmering enough, Saturday’s contest at the Sports Arena had the added spice of a personal challenge. Trojan freshmen Nick Young and Gabriel Pruitt were quite familiar with their Bruin counterparts, Jordan Farmar and Arron Afflalo; Young and Farmar were high school rivals at Cleveland and Taft High Schools respectively, while Afflalo and Pruitt played together and against each other on different AAU squads. Read more...

UCLA’s swimmers and divers may not have another home meet remaining on their schedule, but when they travel to the Bay Area this weekend, it will feel just like one. Read more...

The outcome was pretty much a foregone conclusion. The margin of victory, however, was not. But when UC Irvine’s Jessica Broadfoot’s shot sailed long, in a third set supertiebreak on Court 6, it gave the UCLA women’s tennis team its first shutout of the season ““ a 7-0 win over an overmatched UC Irvine team. Read more...

Though it made the postseason last year and finished with an admirable 35-29 record, the UCLA baseball team is being shown none of the respect usually afforded a playoff team. Read more...

UCLA has historically been the premier men’s volleyball program in the country, winning a record 18 NCAA titles. For the last six years, however, a new program has emerged, winning three championships and seeking to replace the Bruins atop the sport. Read more...

It was a test UCLA women’s basketball coach Kathy Olivier wanted to see if her team could pass. Since standout sophomore Noelle Quinn had gone down with a knee injury two weeks ago, Olivier had been anxious to see how the Bruins would respond without their fallen star in a close, hard-fought game. Read more...