Friday, August 28

Surfing for sport

An oddity in the realm of NBA tribute pages, basketball fans in Japan have pieced together their interpretation of American hoops in this curious site. What’s curious about it, aside from the unintelligible Japanese characters, is what our Eastern brethren interpret as the most important aspects of the NBA. Read more...


Briefs

Six Bruins named All-Americans Six UCLA women’s water polo players were named All-Americans by the American Water Polo Coaches Association Thursday. Senior Robin Beauregard and junior Natalie Golda were named to the first team, senior Jaime Hipp was named to the second team, and seniors Maureen Flanagan, Jessica Lopez and freshman Kelly Rulon were named to the third team. Read more...




Matkowski loses in singles tournament

Marcin Matkowski, fresh off Monday’s heartbreaking loss to Vanderbilt’s Chad Harris in the NCAA semifinals, lost Thursday in the second round of the NCAA singles tournament, 6-1, 6-3, to Washington’s Alex Vlaski. Read more...