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Sugar coated Bruins with the same bitter taste
There’s bad blood brewin’—or ‘Bruin’—and as expected in a town featuring Hollywood as its backdrop, amateur screen writers will rush to prepare a script complete with villains, struggles, and an underdog shifting the balance of power to close the gap. But just as the silver screen is often filled with exaggeration, the battle for Los [...]
First blood: Vandals strike the Bruins Bear
Silence has ended, and it’s now officially “on”. Just hours after posting about a rivalry week lacking the pregame chatter, the UCLA campus is buzzing with anger and disappointment. Despite precautions and volunteers to guard the massive on campus statue of their beloved Bruin bear, Trojan vandals have struck, giving the fixture that must needed [...]
Randall Carroll drops an N-bomb on Norm Chow
Randall Carroll and Norm Chow have three things in common. They were both at one time or another committed to the USC football program. They’ve since become members of team UCLA. And most recently, this coach and player are now tied to a Twitter incident where Carroll apparently used a racial slur in reference to [...]
The Pac 10 is earning respect
Over the past seven seasons, no conference in America has been more maligned than the Pac 10. Some may disagree, feeling the Big East and ACC have also suffered a fair amount of criticism. But the difference is the representation of these conferences, and for seven consecutive years, Southern California has been the elite program [...]
Question of the week: Is there one good reason for Pac 10 expansion?
If you’re a mid major program, situated in the west, and looking for an opportunity to become part of the BCS mix, expanding the Pac 10 to a twelve member league is a brilliant thought. But if you are the Pac 10, why would you do this? What do you gain with the increased membership [...]
