I know, I know, technically their season is not over just yet, as they face Arizona in the Pac-10 Tournament at Staples Center today, but...
After all the futility that the UCLA Bruins have gone through in basketball this season, the most positive thing that I can say about this hoops squad can be summed up in three words:
It is over.
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This past Sunday I saw a real treat.
The baseball teams from UCLA and USC clashed in the first Dodgertown Classic at Dodger Stadium, a college baseball round robin tournament sponsored by the Dodgers.
To say that it was a huge success would be a pronounced understatement, as not only did 14,588 show up when a crowd of about three or four thousand was ... 2Mar2010 |
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Going into this off-season, I knew right away that among the UCLA Bruins' most pressing neesds were at linebacker and on the defensive line, as five players out of the defensive front seven had moved on.
The running back position needed a bit of shoring up as well.
After watching Fox Sports Prime Ticket's Signing Day Special last night, it's safe to say that ... 4Feb2010 |
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I've been wanting to write this article for a long time.
And in light of the sub-par season that the UCLA basketball program has had this year - though they have been playing better as of late - this should serve as something to cheer up members of Bruin Nation.
Considering the illustrious history that this Bruin hoops program in Westwood has had, with ... 3Feb2010 |
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Recently I visited the house that John Wooden built, UCLA's Pauley Pavilion, as I've done several times a year for the past few years.
However, it was not to watch a basketball game - shockingly enough, considering that with its 11 national championships, hoops are to Bruins the way football is to crosstown enemy USC - iconic in UCLA lore.
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I was afraid this might happen, the way the basketball teams from UCLA and the University of Southern California have been playing of late.
I was afraid that the edge that the Trojans' guards and forwards had over their Bruin counterparts would lead to a convincing USC victory in Pauley Pavilion this past Saturday.
I was proved to be right, as the ... 18Jan2010 |
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Now that the mid-way point in the basketball season has arrived for the UCLA Bruins, three words best describes coach Ben Howland's team:
Youth. Inexperience. Mediocrity.
After starting the year 2-6 with losses to Cal State Fullerton and Long Beach State (of all people!), the Bruins have gone 5-3 since that horrendous beginning, including 2-2 in the Pac-10 conference.
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Let us be honest and face facts: The first decade of the 21st century was a mediocre one for the UCLA Bruins football program.
Being a loyal alumnus and a dedicated member of Bruin Nation, that was a difficult thing to say. But it's also the truth.
This program has had three coaches over these past ten years, including the current one, ... 6Jan2010 |
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Hey folks, here's the link of my analysis of the 2009 Bruin football team that I just published on Bleacher Report.com. Feel free to check it out and tell me what you think.
Oh, and Happy New Year! 4Jan2010 |
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It was not looking good for the UCLA Bruins in our nation's capitol yesterday.
The temperature at Washington D.C's RFK Stadium was 32 degrees with a wind chill factor of 19 and 20 mile-an-hour winds; plus the field was frozen, making it difficult to get footing.
And on top of everything else, the Temple Owls, playing in their first bowl game since ... 30Dec2009 |
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This has been a Murphy's Law kind of year for the UCLA Bruins' basketball program thus far.
They had lost four of their first six games, including three straight to finish last at the 76 Classic in Anaheim during Thanksgiving weekend.
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For over 80 years, UCLA and the University of Southern California have had one of the most storied rivalries in sports.
Being that the schools are just over 10 miles apart, it's inevitable that they would be intense foes, and not just on the gridiron or the basketball court.
The real animosity in this ... 24Nov2009 |
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Two institutions, both alike in dignity, in the City of the Angels, where we set our scene...
This Saturday at the Coliseum, the UCLA Bruins will renew their crosstown war with a USC Trojan team that's seeking redemption for their recent 55-21 beat down at the hands of Stanford.
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Before last Saturday's battle with the Arizona State Sun Devils, I felt that UCLA's seniors were primed to have a big day,being that it was their last home game and all.
After the Bruins' 23-13 win at the Rose Bowl before a surprisingly small crowd of 46,151, ... 23Nov2009 |
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So it has come down to this...
This Saturday at the Rose Bowl, the UCLA Bruins will try to achieve something for the first time in the Rick Neuheisel era: Win a sixth game and go into the USC showdown with bowl eligibility in hand.
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One thing you can say about the UCLA Bruins in their Halloween battle with the Oregon State Beavers in Corvallis:
You can't fault them for not trying.
Trailing 19-3 in the fourth quarter, Kevin Prince threw two touchdown passes, one for 58 yards to Nelson Rosario, ... 2Nov2009 |
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Excellent analysis of Dodgers roster for 2010: http://yallkiltit.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/dodgerblast-spring-training-roster-analysis/ 
I was with the UCLA Alumni Band; I sat in the 4th row of the box seats, a few rows ...
Joey, your right, but what were you thinking was going to happen? whats your point here? you called every UCLA ...
I was at that game as well. Where'd you sit? 
Murshed Zaheed aka Nestor is a government employee and if you google his name you will find it is many ...