Friday, May 15

Football Briefs

Manning signs Carolina contract Former UCLA standout cornerback Ricky Manning, Jr. will sign a three-year contract worth $1.392 million with the Carolina Panthers, according to ESPN.com. Read more...




Women's lacrosse gets 2nd in nation

Having flown halfway across the country into the sweltering heat of St. Louis, where lightning threatened to lance the lacrosse fields and tornado sirens forced team members from their hotel rooms, the UCLA women’s lacrosse team embraced the unfamiliar at the Women’s Division Intercollegiate Associates Championship. Read more...


Big Ten expansion rumors linger

ANN ARBOR, Mich. “”mdash; Since the Atlantic Coast Conference extended invitations to three Big East schools ““ Miami (Fla.), Syracuse and Boston College ““ earlier this month, conference shuffling has been the hot topic in college sports, especially in the Big Ten Conference. Read more...


Father of the Diamond

While playing football in a physical education course as a UCLA student in the early ’60s, Gary Adams tore a ligament in his knee. As he lay in a hospital bed, the skinny second baseman worried about only one thing: that his baseball scholarship would be taken away if he couldn’t perform athletically. Read more...