Incoming freshman Steve Klosterman has been sent home from a tryout in Colorado Springs for the U.S. World University Games team as an injury precaution. According to UCLA head coach Al Scates, Klosterman went up to block Long Beach State’s Scott Touzinsky in practice and was hit hard on the head with the ball. Read more...

Some say age brings wisdom and experience to the basketball court. Five weeks ago the Ballers, a team mostly comprised of former college players, gave Rise & Admire Us, a team made of mostly UCLA freshmen, a stern education, whipping the youngsters by 17 points. Read more...

There was a flavor of crosstown rivalry between the Trojans and the Bruins at the Men’s Nike Say No Classic Championship game. “I told Dijon early last week that he has to win on Friday so we can go at it in the finals,” USC guard Desmond Farmer said. Read more...

UCLA senior wide receiver Tab Perry has been ruled academically ineligible to play and will redshirt this season. Perry plans to return for the 2004 season. Read more...

The 2003 Pac-10 media day was appropriately held at a hotel adjacent to LAX ““ recently coaches in the conference have been taking off and landing as often as the nearby jets. Read more...

The ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll came out this past week, and Oklahoma is supposedly the favorite to win the national championship. Congratulations Sooner fans. It’s too bad this a preseason poll and thus doesn’t matter. Read more...

Jan Michael Gambill and Travis Parrott came to the Mercedes-Benz Cup at UCLA as wildcards and left as champions. Playing together for the first time, the two Americans defeated fourth-seeded Joshua Eagle and Sjeng Schalken in the finals 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. Read more...