OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE GAME Tyler Ebell: Ebell’s 160 yards on 39 carries took the pressure off of the true freshman QB Matt Moore. UCLA pounded the ball again and again, and it finally paid off when Ebell’s fourth quarter touchdown gave UCLA the lead for good. Read more...

The stands rumbled with the usual cacophony of voices humming, the ache of the benches and the dull thunder of footsteps rapidly ascending into the rows. Read more...

Anybody who was anybody had taken a shot on USC goalkeeper Julie Peterson. Fourteen times the highly touted stars of the Bruins’ high-octane offense tried. But again and again, they missed. Read more...

Kapono Wooden Award Candidate Senior Jason Kapono is once again a preseason top-50 Wooden Award candidate, as he has been for the last three seasons. Other candidates in the Pac-10 include Jason Gardner and Luke Walton of Arizona, and Luke Jackson and Luke Ridnour of Oregon. Read more...

Tab Perry would abuse the remote his freshman year. “Look, Craig, I burned you!” Stop. Rewind. Play. Stop. Rewind. Play. Perry would review his favorite segment over and over again, torturing his new roommate Craig Bragg with a tape of a high school playoff, the game where the two UCLA receivers faced each other and Perry smoked Bragg, who also played defensive back. Read more...

Halfway through the Pac-10 season, the UCLA women’s volleyball team is treading water. With a 12-7 (5-4 Pac-10) record, the team hopes a major shift in focus will result in a strong second-half finish. Read more...

The No. 4 UCLA men’s soccer team travels to two Pacific Northwest venues that have not been kind to it in the past. Today the Bruins battle Oregon State (10-3-0) in Corvallis where UCLA has been upended two consecutive times, and Sunday they visit a Washington (4-5-1) team that has sent the Bruins home unsatisfied in each of their last three visits to Seattle. Read more...