Sports often lends itself to hyperbole, but it is hard to overstate the importance of Saturday’s game against Oregon for the UCLA women’s basketball team. In order to earn a berth in the NCAA Tournament, the Bruins (17-10, 12-6 Pac-10) probably need to beat the Ducks when the two squads face off in the quarterfinals of the Pac-10 Tournament in San Jose. Read more...

Last night’s 86-71 win over Washington State cleared up the notion that UCLA might not really be as bad as the 31-point thrashing they took at Oregon last week. Read more...

No. 3 water polo heads to UC Santa Barbara When the women’s water polo poll was released this week, UCLA (6-3, 3-2 MPSF) was bumped down the ranking ladder to an all-too unfamiliar territory: No. Read more...

With a revamped doubles lineup, the beginning looked so promising for the UCLA women’s tennis team in their Pac-10 opener Wednesday at USC. Yet even though the No. Read more...

When someone told me that in UCLA intramural basketball, a technical foul costs $20 and is charged to the aggressor’s BAR account, I completely flipped out. Read more...

Four years ago, Jason Kapono wasn’t too different from you or me. Oh sure, while some of us tried not to trip as we checked out that cute girl at Rieber Dining Hall, or sat in Moore 100 wondering how we’d deal with not being the smartest kid in class anymore, Kapono was making three-pointers in front of thousands of people. Read more...

The gap between No. 5 and No. 13 was bigger than expected on Wednesday. Thirty-six strokes wide to be exact. Despite having its best performance of the year, the No. Read more...