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BY ERIC LAMBKINS II Special to the Culver City Observer Fans of UCLA football want nothing more than to see the Bruins compete for a National Championship. After the team's "Spring Showcase," last week they should expect UCLA football to look like it always does -- an average team with a few bright spots. With Bruin coach Chip Kelly opting for a cautious approach towards the spring work outs, the team has focused on remaining healthy. After last Thursday's practice, they were able to accomplish...
UCLA Softball's path to repeat as National Champions is starting to look familiar. The Bruins completed a three-game sweep while hosting the NCAA Los Angeles Regionals over the weekend... but it wasn't easy. Like in 2019, the team earned the right to host the Super Regionals this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, May 27-29, at Easton Stadium, located just south of Sunset Blvd in the northwest corner of the campus. The Bruins will face Virginia Tech, winner of the Tempe Regionals this past...
After a long and exhaustive search, the Pac-12 Conference will have a new commissioner in place, effective July 1, 2021. The Conference announced on May 13th the hiring of George Kliavkoff as the next conference commissioner, replacing the departing, Larry Scott. Kliavkoff had been serving as the president of entertainment and sports for MGM Resorts International since 2018. “I am thrilled to be the Pac-12 Commissioner. This is a challenging time for intercollegiate athletics, but I believe t...
PAC-12 Champs and circle the Conference wagons. UCLA is hosting the 2021 NCAA Softball Los Angeles Regionals starting this Friday at Easton Stadium, on the heels of winning back-to-back PAC-12 titles. The Bruins swept all three Conference games at the University of Arizona this past weekend to win its 11th overall PAC-12 championship, tying them with none other than the Wildcats for most ever. UCLA will face-off against Long Beach State this Friday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m., in the second game of...
USC women’s volleyball senior middle blocker Candice Denny (Saratoga, Calif./Archbishop Mitty HS), sophomore libero Keila Barra (Pasadena, Calif./ San Marino HS), sophomore outside hitter Kalen Owes (Phoenix, Ariz./Desert Vista HS), and sophomore opposite hitter Emilia Weske (Potsdam, Germany/ Leibniz Gymnasium) were each named to the Pac-12 Conference 2020-21 Fall and Winter Academic Honor Rolls on Wednesday, May 19. The 2020-21 Fall Academic Honor Roll included 725 student-athletes who participated in the sports of football, men’s and wom...
What's better than a weekend of UCLA Softball at the Bruins house in Easton Stadium, capping a four-game sweep over Stanford University on Sunday, highlighted by Senior Day and Mother's Day celebrations among the players, parents and families in attendance? "It's just been amazing with the support that my family has given me, and especially on Mother's Day," said Bruin pitcher Rachel Garcia, who was interviewed by PAC-12 Network announcers, Natasha Watley and Brian Webber. Garcia had just won...
The past college football season was challenging for many schools due to the pandemic and Pac-12 schools were no exception. The Pac-12 conference played an abbreviated football schedule last season due to the Covid-19 pandemic and it showed in the 2021 NFL draft. The Conference had 28 players drafted, the lowest number for the conference since the 2013 NFL draft. From 2014 through 2020, the Pac-12 has averaged 34 players per year in the NFL draft. The USC Trojans, Oregon Ducks, and Stanford...
It has been one year since Martin Jarmond was hired as the Director of Athletics at UCLA. Jarmond took the job under difficult circumstances, with the athletic program shutdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic. One year later, the athletic program has renewed energy and optimism because of the success of the athletic programs this spring. In an email message to the UCLA community, Jarmond talked about the past year, "Believe it or not, next week will mark one year since I humbly accepted the...
The USC Trojans came into Westwood last Sunday and dominated the UCLA Bruins in their annual dual meet. The Bruins men dropped the baton in the 400-meter relay in one of the first races on the track and from there it was all downhill for what use to be one of the top track and filed programs in the nation. The Trojan men won 114-42 and the Lady Trojans defeated the Bruins 93-70. On the way to the victories the Trojans set several meet records and one school. One meet record that was set has a...
Unlike last season, the Los Angeles Chargers did not enter the 2021 NFL draft with the need for a quarterback of the future, due to the selection of quarterback Justin Herbert in the first round last year. Herbert, the offensive Rookie of the Year in the NFL in 2020, had a successful rookie campaign and with his backups in place, there was no need to address this position in the 2021 NFL draft. This draft in 2021 they should have focused on the offensive line, the defensive secondary and...
The 2nd-ranked UCLA Bruins continued in their quest to win the 2021 PAC-12 Softball Championship outright, taking three of four games from the 4th-ranked Washington Huskies this past weekend at Easton Stadium in Westwood. The Bruins prevailed, 4-2, in Sunday's deciding Game 4, withstanding late-inning rallies by Washington. UCLA grabbed the initiative, winning Friday night's opener, 6-1. The Huskies struck back in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader, 7-4, setting the stage for Sunday...
Unlike last season, the Los Angeles Chargers will not be entering the 2021 NFL draft with the need for a quarterback of the future, due to the selection of quarterback Justin Herbert in the first round of the 2020 NFL draft. Herbert, the offensive Rookie of the Year in the NFL in 2020, had a successful rookie campaign and with his backups in place, there is no need to address this position in the 2021 NFL draft. This draft will be focused on the offensive line, the defensive secondary and replac...
In the past thirty days, the Pac-12 Conference has had a time to remember. The much-maligned conference, often ridiculed by their friends in the east, have put together a memorable run of success in basketball and the other Olympic sports. As former UCLA basketball great Bill Walton often states, the Pac-12 is the "Conference of Champions" and lately that has never been truer. The highlight of the past month was the performance of the Pac-12 schools in the NCAA basketball tournament, both the...
After their last second loss to the USC Trojans in the final regular season game, head coach Mick Cronin of the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team was at a loss for words. The Bruins had fallen in three consecutive games and had slipped from first place in the Pac-12 conference standings to fourth place in the standings. They had blown second half leads in all three games and they were struggling to overcome the loss of key players. In the game against the Trojans, the Bruins were without...
When the UCLA Bruins hired Mick Cronin to be their next head coach, he understood what the expectations were. In his introductory press conference on April 9th of 2019, Cronin explained the importance of winning in Westwood. “It’s UCLA,” Cronin said. “I understand the expectations. And the sooner the better.” He did indeed understand the importance of winning at UCLA. Less than two years later, Cronin accomplished his goal, leading the undermanned Bruins to their first Final Four since 2008, def...
UCLA senior Pauline Tratz has been named the Pac-12 Gymnastics Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the third Bruin gymnast to win this award in the last four years. The award, which is presented in each of the 24 sports the Conference sponsors, was established to honor collegiate student-athletes who are standouts both academically and in their sports discipline. Tratz, a native of Karlsruhe, Germany, is a Communications Studies major with a 3.86 cumulative GPA. A three-time WCGA Scholastic...
At the end of the Pac-12 tournament, five Pac-12 schools were selected to the 2021 men's NCAA tournament. The Pac-12 was relieved to get five teams into the 68-team tournament and was hopeful that at least one of the five could make the Sweet 16. As it turned out, the Pac-12 was able to stun NCAA prognosticators and get four teams into the Sweet 16 this weekend. The UCLA Bruins, USC Trojans, Oregon Ducks and Oregon State Beavers all made the Sweet Sixteen, with only the Colorado Buffalos...
UCLA completed the 2021 softball preseason in prime form as the Bruins swept back-to-back doubleheaders this past weekend, with each game a shutout, and almost as if expected. And the two-year wait is over as the team hosts the Arizona State Sun Devils for their PAC-12 season opener, a four-game series starting this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 19-21 at Easton Stadium on the UCLA campus. Due to COVID protocol measures, PAC-12 Softball was cancelled the week before the season was scheduled...
USC senior outside hitter Brooke Botkin (Houston, Texas/Pearland HS) was named the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week for the week of March 15-21 the Conference announced on Tuesday, March 23. It is the second-career Pac-12 weekly award for Botkin and the 79th all-time for the Women of Troy. Stanford freshman libero Elena Oglivie was chosen Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week and Arizona outside hitter Sofia Maldonado Diaz was named Freshman of the Week. Botkin has been a steady and consistent...
Despite a season of cancellations due to the pandemic, which led to some very uneven play in the Pac-12 conference this season, the NCAA tournament committee selected five teams from the Pac-12 to play in the 68 team NCAA men's basketball tournament in Indianapolis. UCLA, USC, Colorado, Oregon, and Oregon State are the five teams selected to participate in this year's tournament. Due to the pandemic, all games are being held at sites within the Indianapolis metro area and central Indiana. The...
Sophomore guard Tyger Campbell has been named a first-team NABC All-District selection, as announced by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) on Tuesday morning. Campbell, a 5-foot-11 point guard from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been listed on the NABC’s District 19 first team, along with Oscar da Silva (Stanford), Evan Mobley (USC), Chris Duarte (Oregon) and McKinley Wright IV (Colorado). The first student-athletes honored as second-team selections are Timmy Allen (Utah), Remy Martin (Arizona State), Isaac Bonton (Washington S...
UCLA completed the 2021 softball preseason in prime form as the Bruins swept back-to-back doubleheaders this past weekend, with each game a shutout, and almost as if expected. And the two-year wait is over as the team hosts the Arizona State Sun Devils for their PAC-12 season opener, a four-game series starting this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 19-21 at Easton Stadium on the UCLA campus. Due to COVID protocol measures, PAC-12 Softball was cancelled the week before the season was scheduled...
There are four preseason games remaining on the 2021 UCLA Bruins softball schedule before the team begins to defend its 2019 PAC-12 title on Friday, March 19. After the Bruins beat U.C. San Diego, 7-1, last Tuesday afternoon, March 9, to improve its season record to 11-1, they are scheduled to play consecutive doubleheaders this Thursday and Friday, March 11 and 12, against U.C. Santa Barbara and UNLV, respectively. The defending National Champions have to be satisfied with their comfortable...
It is understandable if this season is looking a lot like last season for UCLA Bruin coach Mick Cronin. In his second season as the men's head basketball coach, Cronin has his team in position to win the Pac-12 regular season title with wins over on Oregon in Eugene last Wednesday night and in the regular season finale against USC on Saturday at Pauley Pavilion. The Bruins are currently 13-4 in conference play, a half a game ahead of both the Oregon Ducks at 12-4 and the USC Trojans at 13-5. Las...
UCLA freshman, Chae Campbell performs on the balance beam in a gymnastics meet at UCLA last Saturday. UCLA beat a good Oregon State team 197.025-196.500. Campbell is one of the top freshman in the country. She won the floor exercise with a score of 9.925. The No.10 Bruins travel north to take on No. 9 California on Saturday. They return home to face San Jose State on Saturday, March 13, at 2 p.m. Two other Pac-12 teams are ranked in the top 10, with Utah at No.5 and Arizona State at No.7....
