Sunday, May 17


W. tennis: Freshman shines in Pac-10

The UCLA women’s tennis team may have been expecting an appearance from one of its players in the Flight I finals of the Pac-10 Indoor Championships this past weekend in Seattle, but the Bruins were surprised when that player turned out to be freshman Daniela Bercek. Read more...


M. tennis: Clemens clinches third Sherwood Cup

The third time was the charm for Tobias Clemens. But then again, so was the first and the second. Clemens, the No. 12 player in the country, won the Sherwood Collegiate Cup for the third consecutive year, this time coming from behind to defeat teammate Kris Kwinta, 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-3, in Monday’s final. Read more...




USC-UCLA feud mirrors battle between U.S., USSR

It’s the new Miracle on Ice. Strip the old one of the Olympic, political and nationalistic implications and you’re left with tonight’s USC-UCLA showdown. In fact, tonight also compares favorably with another hockey classic: junior Team USA’s epic penalty-shot-deciding triumph over Team Iceland in the timeless, “D2: The Mighty Ducks.” Against a tense backdrop, 1980s epic Olympic hockey final pitted the world’s two unquestioned superpowers, the United States and USSR, on an icy battleground determining another Cold War contest of democracy vs. Read more...