There are several things I’ll never understand about the sports world: curling (really, what is it?), why football is called football (in the United States at least), and why athletes rarely leave their respective sports in their prime. Read more...

Definite answers regarding the return of quarterback Matt Moore remain hard to find from the UCLA football team. For now, head coach Karl Dorrell maintains the same stance he’s had since Moore’s week-one injury (a severe bone bruise): A player should not lose his starting job to injury. Read more...

If this past season serves as any indication, the UCLA women’s soccer team will have no trouble when it travels to face the University of San Diego today at 7 p.m. Read more...

The intramural field will soon become more accommodating, as a golf practice facility will open Nov. 15 on the north end of the field. The facility, which will include a 3,000 square foot green, a 3,000 square foot tee box and a brick building that houses instructional materials and lockers, is primarily for the UCLA men’s and women’s golf teams. Read more...

The No. 5 UCLA women’s golf team commenced play in the tough-to-say, tough-to-spell Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational held at famed Sahalee Golf and Country Club in Redmond, Wash.  The Bruins finished the first round of the three-round tournament with a cumulative total of 9-over-par, which landed them alone in third place and two shots ahead of No. Read more...

What’s clear about Alyssa Beckerman’s UCLA gymnastics career is that it’s over. What isn’t clear ““ at least to Beckerman ““ is why. “I contributed to the team in terms of grades, performance, attitude and effort,” said Beckerman, 22, who was dismissed from the team by coach Valorie Kondos Field just prior to the start of classes. Read more...

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