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UCLA tight end Caleb Wilson needs surgery for foot injury, out for season

UCLA tight end Caleb Wilson suffered a forefoot injury against Colorado on Saturday night at the Rose Bowl that will require surgery and force him to miss the rest of the season, depriving quarterback Josh Rosen of one of his favorite targets. Wilson limped off the field in the fourth quarter after...

  • Bruins hoping for staying power from Josh Rosen
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    Bruins hoping for staying power from Josh Rosen

    UCLA offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch has made a similar remark almost every time quarterback Josh Rosen’s name has come up recently. Fisch on Rosen last week: “He’s been really awesome to coach, someone that I’m hoping we have the opportunity to coach for another 19 games or so.” Fisch on Rosen...

  • College football TV viewers' guide
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    College football TV viewers' guide

    Need some help deciding which college football games to watch? Look no further. Each Friday, Times contributor Chuck Schilken handicaps what’s worth watching, and skipping, on the weekend’s menu of games: FRIDAY No. 14 Miami (2-0) at Duke (4-0), 4 p.m., ESPN Miami running back Mark Walton, the No....

  • UCLA gets back to basics in an effort to improve its faltering defense
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    UCLA gets back to basics in an effort to improve its faltering defense

    Practice had ended Tuesday, and some UCLA players lingered to talk while others retreated to the cushy confines of their new $75-million football facility. Cornerback Darnay Holmes stood alone in the midday sun. He sprinted a few yards before flinging his body toward a tackling sled, wrapping his...

  • UCLA's Jordan Lasley tries a new twist when practicing catches
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    UCLA's Jordan Lasley tries a new twist when practicing catches

    Jordan Lasley didn’t hide from his failure. He intentionally revisited it, putting himself in the same position that led to dropped passes. The UCLA junior receiver oddly contorted his body on the practice field last week while catching balls launched out of a machine. “I saw him on the JUGS just...

  • Bruins tackle a costly problem
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    Bruins tackle a costly problem

    UCLA’s linebackers and defensive backs can feel like bystanders when a running play unfolds in practice. The Bruins’ first-team defensive line is usually matched up against third-stringers from the scout team, leading to a mismatch in which the tailback often doesn’t get past the line of scrimmage....

  • UCLA is getting run over and is struggling to stop it
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    UCLA is getting run over and is struggling to stop it

    There may be no running from UCLA’s biggest problem. Last season, it was running the ball. This season, it’s stopping the run. Not that the Bruins are tremendous at running the ball through their first four games of 2017. They are tied for No. 103 in the nation with 120 yards rushing per game even...

  • Mora remains dignified in defeat as his job security becomes more tenuous
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    Mora remains dignified in defeat as his job security becomes more tenuous

    The pledge Jim Mora made to UCLA’s fans was a variation of a slogan used by the Atlanta Falcons, a team he coached more than a decade ago. “We’ll rise up,” Mora said. “I promise UCLA fans we will rise up. We will absolutely rise up.” Watching his team being dismantled by Stanford on Saturday night,...

  • For UCLA, it's Love and loss at Stanford
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    For UCLA, it's Love and loss at Stanford

    It was more of the same in a series that seems stuck on repeat. UCLA had some momentum and some hope against Stanford. Then things fell apart in a big way. Crucial mistakes by Bruins receivers and a badly faltering defense were at the center of the latest implosion, helping the Cardinal run away...

  • UCLA announcer Josh Lewin still has hectic schedule, even without Chargers
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    UCLA announcer Josh Lewin still has hectic schedule, even without Chargers

    Josh Lewin has Sundays off now. Well, unless he’s calling a game involving UCLA. Or the New York Mets. The Bruins opened their season against Texas A&M on a Sunday and Lewin tries to make it to every Mets game he can during fall Sundays whenever UCLA’s schedule allows. But there will be no more...

  • Letters: One loss and Bruins are in ruins again?
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    Letters: One loss and Bruins are in ruins again?

    To the surprise of no one except maybe the UCLA coaching staff, UCLA’s novel strategy of no running game and a porous defense apparently isn’t the recipe for success after all. Mark Mead San Diego :: Jim Mora is a defensive specialist, but enough about his news conferences. Wes Wellman Santa Monica...

  • Mora needs a signature win against Stanford to give UCLA a sigh of relief
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    Mora needs a signature win against Stanford to give UCLA a sigh of relief

    Only in classic literature can you find the torment UCLA found at the end of its ninth consecutive loss to Stanford. The Bruins’ journey into despair involved a twisting, leaping catch by Cardinal receiver J.J. Arcega-Whiteside on the edge of the end zone for the go-ahead score with 24 seconds...

  • Josh Rosen will have to be nearly perfect for Bruins against Stanford
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    Josh Rosen will have to be nearly perfect for Bruins against Stanford

    UCLA (2-1, 0-0) at Stanford (1-2, 0-1) Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Stanford Stadium, TV: ESPN. Radio: 570. Marquee matchup UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen vs. the Stanford secondary. The Bruins probably won’t be able to produce the kind of clock-burning run game that helped USC and San Diego State engineer...

  • Jim Mora thinks the key to beating Stanford might be as simple as effort
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    Jim Mora thinks the key to beating Stanford might be as simple as effort

    What struck UCLA coach Jim Mora most when he watched recent tutorials on stopping Stanford wasn’t so much intense defensive pressure or inventive schemes. It was old-fashioned effort. “I mean, maybe not perfect all the time,” Mora said of the effort by USC and San Diego State in victories over...

  • Rosen still has something to learn about quick decisions
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    Rosen still has something to learn about quick decisions

    Some of the game footage that UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen studies is about acceptable failure. A quarterback taking a sack. A scramble that goes for only a few yards. A pass completed short of the first-down marker. They’re all outcomes that are preferable to forcing passes that lead to interceptions....

  • Josh Rosen tries to will UCLA to win but falters in 48-45 loss to Memphis
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    Josh Rosen tries to will UCLA to win but falters in 48-45 loss to Memphis

    In the final moments, when he needed to rally his team once more, Josh Rosen found himself confronted by something even more threatening than a defender on the verge of a sack. His own reluctance to give up on a play. It had become a maddening trend for the UCLA quarterback throughout the second...

  • UCLA ready to let 'er Rip against Memphis on Saturday
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    UCLA ready to let 'er Rip against Memphis on Saturday

    A reminder comes every time he’s asked for his personal email address. Fans flooding the field. The goalposts coming down. His father wrapping him in a warm embrace on national television. Would Rip Scherer be willing to give you his email address? Sure he would. It’s Ripper2117. Scherer presided...

  • Letters: Dodgers know how to slide, but can they get out of it?
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    Letters: Dodgers know how to slide, but can they get out of it?

    The difference between two record streaks down the pennant stretch: While Cleveland is historically significant, the Dodgers are hysterically the same. Steve Ross Beverly Hills :: Last spring I said that the Dodgers had a very good shot at the wild-card spot. As of today I see no reason to change...

  • How UCLA matches up against the Memphis Tigers this weekend
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    How UCLA matches up against the Memphis Tigers this weekend

    No. 25 UCLA (2-0) at Memphis (1-0) Saturday, 9 a.m. PDT, Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, Memphis, Tenn., TV: Channel 7. Radio: 570. Marquee matchup Memphis tailbacks Darrell Henderson and Patrick Taylor Jr. versus the UCLA run defense. The Bruins have allowed three tailbacks to exceed 100 yards...

  • Weekend college football viewers guide: Pick your Saturday late-afternoon pleasure
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    Weekend college football viewers guide: Pick your Saturday late-afternoon pleasure

    Need some help deciding which college football games to watch? Look no further. Each Friday, Times’ contributor Chuck Schilken handicaps what’s worth watching, and skipping, on the weekend’s menu of games: FRIDAY Illinois (2-0) at No. 22 South Florida (2-0), 4 p.m., ESPN The game will take place...

  • UCLA could have two new starters at linebacker against Memphis
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    UCLA could have two new starters at linebacker against Memphis

    Krys Barnes routinely hears it in practice, that he should prepare like he’s going to be a starter. It’s become more than a saying this week. Barnes could start at weak-side linebacker for No. 25 UCLA (2-0) against Memphis (1-0) on Saturday at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium after teammate Kenny...

  • UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen lives up to the hype with a fast start
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    UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen lives up to the hype with a fast start

    High above the Rose Bowl, UCLA’s only Heisman Trophy winner watched the team’s current quarterback founder for nearly three quarters in the season opener. Gary Beban was ready to vacate his suite inside the Terry Donahue Pavilion before halftime with Josh Rosen and the Bruins getting crushed, but...

  • Josh Rosen has a career-best five touchdown passes as UCLA downs Hawaii 56-23
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    Josh Rosen has a career-best five touchdown passes as UCLA downs Hawaii 56-23

    It was a continuance by design. Almost every pass completed. Plenty of touchdowns to go around. Enough yardage to nearly stretch from the Rose Bowl back to Westwood. The epic display fashioned by UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen late in a crazy season-opening comeback bled into an equally productive...

  • UCLA takes a beating, and gets hit with targeting penalties
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    UCLA takes a beating, and gets hit with targeting penalties

    UCLA was involved with two potential targeting penalties Sunday. Neither worked out in the Bruins’ favor. Linebacker Kenny Young appeared to absorb a helmet-to-helmet blow from Hawaii tight end Metuisela Unga in the first quarter, but officials ruled the contact was only shoulder to shoulder and...

  • Bruins focus on their run game in preparation for Hawaii
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    Bruins focus on their run game in preparation for Hawaii

    About two hours before the pandemonium at the Rose Bowl, there was mock applause. UCLA tailback Bolu Olorunfunmi took a handoff late in the second quarter Sunday, stutter-stepped outside the left tackle and plowed ahead for a seven-yard gain on second and six. It was the Bruins’ first first down...

  • Letters: What a comeback for Bruins! What a comedown for Dodgers!
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    Letters: What a comeback for Bruins! What a comedown for Dodgers!

    After watching the Trojans and the Bruins this past weekend, can someone please remind me why Los Angeles “needed” two mediocre NFL franchises? Brian Lipson Beverly Hills :: Well, if you are too young to have seen the legendary 1963 Rose Bowl, chin up; you just saw a game about as good there. Andrew...

  • How the UCLA Bruins match up with Hawaii
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    How the UCLA Bruins match up with Hawaii

    Hawaii (2-0) vs. UCLA (1-0) Saturday, 2 p.m., Rose Bowl, TV: Pac-12 Network. Radio: 570. Marquee matchup Hawaii running back Diocemy Saint Juste versus the UCLA run defense. Saint Juste became the first Rainbow Warrior to top 200 rushing yards in a game twice in his career after he pulverized Western...

  • UCLA's receivers were keys to success in comeback win over Texas A&M
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    UCLA's receivers were keys to success in comeback win over Texas A&M;

    Josh Rosen’s eyes momentarily shifted toward the television camera fixed on him before UCLA’s game Sunday, the quarterback winking as one corner of his mouth curled into a smile. It was as if he knew what was about to happen and who was going to help make it possible. Rosen’s career-best performance...

  • UCLA running back Bolu Olorunfunmi draws inspiration from his late father
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    UCLA running back Bolu Olorunfunmi draws inspiration from his late father

    Bolu Olorunfunmi hears the message before every game. Sometimes he’ll play it on his iPhone. If the UCLA tailback worries he might get too emotional, he’ll just think about what was said. He long ago memorized every word from his father’s final voicemail. Sorry I can’t make it to your game today....

  • UCLA hopes to stay on the winning side of close games
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    UCLA hopes to stay on the winning side of close games

    UCLA proved it could do something besides compile a crazy comeback against Texas A&M. The Bruins also showed they could finish. That was a persistent problem last season. In each of their first four losses, the Bruins could have tied the score or won the game in the final minute. They went 0 for...

  • College football: The Pac-12 won't be perfect after this weekend
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    College football: The Pac-12 won't be perfect after this weekend

    At least one thing is certain as we head into the second full weekend of college football: Pac-12 Conference teams won’t go undefeated. Someone has to lose in Saturday’s showdown between No. 6 USC and No. 14 Stanford, precluding a repeat of last week’s 11-0 performance that began with Utah defeating...

  • Charting the biggest comebacks in college football history: UCLA is No. 2
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    Charting the biggest comebacks in college football history: UCLA is No. 2

    UCLA’s comeback from a 34-point deficit late in the third quarter against Texas A&M on Sunday at the Rose Bowl represented the second-biggest comeback in the history of the Football Bowl Subdivision. Here’s a look at the seven biggest comebacks, listed in order by deficit overcome: 35 ? Michigan...

  • How Josh Rosen, and Jedd Fisch, delivered a pocket full of miracles in UCLA's amazing comeback victory
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    How Josh Rosen, and Jedd Fisch, delivered a pocket full of miracles in UCLA's amazing comeback victory

    Jedd Fisch repeated the mantra when things were at their bleakest. Drive down and score. Drive down and score. Trust the process, the UCLA offensive coordinator also told his players. Run the plays we call. Execute them the best you can. Josh Rosen was listening at a time when it would have been...

  • Josh Rosen leads an epic comeback as Bruins avenge 2016 loss to Aggies
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    Josh Rosen leads an epic comeback as Bruins avenge 2016 loss to Aggies

    Sometimes, you need luck. A pass meant to be thrown away falls into a receiver’s hands for a touchdown. Another pass, underthrown, slips through a defensive back’s hands and into those of its intended target for a score. Sometimes, you need to be the smarter team. A faked spike freezes the defense,...

  • Bruins fans witnessed their worst nightmare. And then, the greatest comeback in UCLA history
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    Bruins fans witnessed their worst nightmare. And then, the greatest comeback in UCLA history

    The game was over. The coach was cooked. The team was in tatters. The season was finished almost before it started. With two minutes left in the third quarter of the season opener at a boo-wracked Rose Bowl on Sunday night, UCLA trailed Texas A&M by 34 points. Thirty-four points. It was a humiliation,...

  • UCLA's dismal running game looks very familiar
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    UCLA's dismal running game looks very familiar

    UCLA’s epic comeback didn’t feature much of a contribution from its running game. The Bruins gained 63 yards rushing and averaged only 2.5 yards per carry during their 45-44 victory over Texas A&M on Sunday at the Rose Bowl. Those numbers were even worse than the ones UCLA produced last season...

  • UCLA vs. Texas A&M: How the teams match up
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    UCLA vs. Texas A&M;: How the teams match up

    Texas A&M (0-0) vs. UCLA (0-0) Sunday, 4:30 p.m., Rose Bowl, TV: Channel 11. Radio: 570 Marquee matchup Christian Kirk was a recruit UCLA badly wanted, and the Bruins are going to get him … trying to run them off the Rose Bowl turf. The Texas A&M receiver and punt returner was held in check last...

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    The picks are in for first full week of college football

    Each week, the Los Angeles Times' contingent of college football experts ? it's how they refer to themselves ? will make choices on a variety of games. Warning: If they could accurately predict results, they wouldn't be reporters or editors. Their picks: Ben Bolch Navy at Florida Atlantic: Navy,...

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    UCLA fans can support Tropical Storm Harvey relief efforts at season opener Sunday

    UCLA announced Wednesday that fans will be able to support Tropical Storm Harvey relief efforts by making a financial gift to the American Red Cross via text message during the Bruins’ season opener against Texas A&M on Sunday at the Rose Bowl. UCLA will provide two complimentary tickets to its...

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    Offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch took a long journey to Westwood

    The job as equipment manager didn’t come through. Neither did a position as a student assistant. Failing to land another spot as a recruiting intern could have made Jedd Fisch feel like he had struck out in his attempts to gain an entry-level position in Florida’s football offices. He was only just...

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    Pac-12 football coaches again face strength-of-schedule issue

    It didn’t take long for the new college football season to revive a classic debate over strength of schedule and marquee programs padding their nonconference record with underdogs. Nick Saban ? whose top-ranked Alabama team has taken the opposite tack, starting against third-ranked Florida State...

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    Families of two UCLA players are reported safe in Houston

    UCLA left guard Najee Toran and defensive back Will Lockett, both natives of Houston, reported that their families were safe amid the historic devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, Bruins coach Jim Mora said Tuesday. But one of the players UCLA is expected to face in its season opener Sunday...

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    Circle these dates on your college football calendar

    College football fans won’t have to wait long for big games this season. With elite programs thinking about strength-of-schedule in the playoff era, the marquee match-ups begin in Week 2 and keep coming: Sept. 2: No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 3 Florida State ? This rare opener between Top 5 teams, played...

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    UCLA offensive lineman Kenny Lacy likely out for season because of hip injury

    The first significant injury of UCLA’s preseason socked an area where the Bruins were just beginning to establish some quality depth. Coach Jim Mora announced Thursday that offensive lineman Kenny Lacy had suffered structural damage to his hips that would require surgery and likely end his season....

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    UCLA walk-ons know their role and have the tweets to prove it

    Theirs was a story that had to be told, even at their own expense. A tweet tabulated their efforts during a recent football practice: One player logged a sprained ankle, more than 200 miles on a stationary bike and vomiting. Another player was credited with zero practice repetitions but 300 pushups...

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    UCLA will try to simulate game-day conditions Sunday at the Rose Bowl

    UCLA resumed practice Tuesday after a two-day break, the Bruins having broken training camp without deviating from their routine of demanding workouts. “It was a little bit of a tease because we’re right back at it,” tailback Soso Jamabo said with a laugh after a two-hour session. “But we’re good...

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    UCLA players get much needed R&R; after practice is canceled

    UCLA opted for rest and recovery on what was scheduled to be its final day of training camp, abruptly canceling practice Sunday evening. That completed a yearlong transition from two-a-days to one-a-days to no-a-days. Bruins coach Jim Mora decided to give his players back-to-back days off after...

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    Tight end Caleb Wilson expected to be key weapon for UCLA

    Caleb Wilson held his arms upright as he walked back toward the huddle near the end of a recent practice, pleading with quarterback Josh Rosen not to forget about him. Rosen had just forced a pass into coverage that fell incomplete while Wilson contemplated yards of open space around him in the...

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    Freshman UCLA offensive lineman fitting in with the starters

    Michael Alves feared there would be some accompanying bad news earlier this week when he received a text message from UCLA offensive line coach Hank Fraley informing him that he would be playing with the starters in practice the next day. “At first I was concerned, like, is someone injured or something?”...

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    It's a rough day for those competing to be Josh Rosen's backup at UCLA

    It was not the best of times for UCLA’s backup quarterbacks toward the end of practice Thursday. Devon Modster’s third-down pass was knocked away in the end zone and fell incomplete. Matt Lynch fired a pass over the middle that was intercepted. Austin Burton’s fourth-down pass was dropped. Back...

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    Christian Pabico's UCLA journey starts with walk and may end with a catch

    The play called for JuJu Smith-Schuster, then an All-American receiver at Long Beach Poly High, to serve as a decoy in favor of a teammate with great hands, decent speed and a tendency to make the big catch. The defense reacted as expected in the final minutes of a Southern Section playoff game...

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    UCLA's Josh Rosen says he's confident, feeling like 'my old self on the field'

    Josh Rosen provided verbal confirmation Tuesday of his visible return to form, saying he had recaptured the confidence he possessed before suffering a season-ending shoulder injury last October. “I’d say about three or four days ago, I kind of felt that I was my old self on the field,” the UCLA...

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    Josh Rosen finding his rhythm in practice

    Jordan Lasley sprinted past the defensive backs, extending his arms to catch a 65-yard pass from Josh Rosen with only open field in front of him. The final play of UCLA’s practice Saturday afternoon resulted in a touchdown. It also felt like something pulled from the archives of recent days. Rosen...

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    A faster, more agile Bolu Olorunfunmi is leading UCLA's rushing attack

    UCLA appears to have identified a primary tailback. His name is well known but his lean build and quick burst don’t seem all that familiar. That’s probably a good thing for Bolu Olorunfunmi and the Bruins. Olorunfunmi averaged 3.9 yards per carry last season, part of a plodding Bruins rushing attack...

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    UCLA's Jim Mora sticks up for his quarterback and his school's standards

    Football and school may be incompatible, as UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen recently contended, but his university ranks among the finest in the country at maximizing the dual life of a major college athlete. Forbes this week graded UCLA as No. 2 on its list of the top 25 schools that excel academically...

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    Josh Rosen is right to question the value of student-athletes' education

    The season hasn’t even started, and already UCLA’s Josh Rosen is brazenly throwing into traffic. Mere days after making it clear he was going to take a more subdued approach this fall, the polarizing quarterback made headlines again this week with the publishing of an interview conducted last spring....

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    There's newness everywhere for UCLA basketball

    The sparkling courts and locker rooms inside UCLA’s soon-to-open Mo Ostin Basketball Center should serve as a fitting backdrop for the players who occupy them starting early next month. The Bruins are essentially a new team, with a six-man freshman class joining a handful of veterans in pursuit...

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    UCLA sophomore Lokeni Toailoa earns respect ?? and perhaps a starting role

    UCLA linebackers coach Scott White has a mantra that his players might tire of hearing had it not helped a handful rise to prominence: Make it so we can’t leave you off the field. It led to Jayon Brown becoming a starter and eventual team captain. Now it appears to be having a similar impact on...

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    UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen says college football and studying are incompatible

    Just when it seemed as if the world might be spared another Josh Rosen think piece with the UCLA quarterback having gone into scramble-from-the-media mode, Bleacher Report released an interview Tuesday in which Rosen provided his opinion on what he considers the lunacy of playing college football...

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    UCLA wants to drop all the talk about missed passes

    Alex Van Dyke couldn’t quite pull in the deep pass from Devon Modster during a recent practice, falling to the artificial turf as the ball slipped through his hands. Van Dyke lingered on the ground for a moment, studying his outstretched fingers as if to ask, How could you do that to me? It would...

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    UCLA's deep defensive line mix could create matchup nightmares for opponents

    Every time he enters the practice field, Angus McClure might feel like a ravenous man stepping into an all-you-can-eat gelato shop. He’ll take a little bit of this, some of that, and ooh, yeah, don’t leave out a big scoop of that chocolate banana biscotti. McClure, UCLA’s defensive line coach,...

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    Freshman defensive end Jaelan Phillips could become UCLA's disruptor-in-chief

    There are times Jaelan Phillips slips into the backfield so easily and causes so much disruption that it feels like he’s the only player UCLA needs on defense. Once, when Phillips was in high school, he actually was the only player standing between the offense and a touchdown. Even then, no one...

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    Bruins hope changes do them some good after going 4-8 last season

    UCLA’s $75-million Wasserman Football Center comes with a lounge ? for high school recruits. Current players can get their hair cut in a barbershop or drip their way from a hot pool to a cold pool to a custom pool designed to assist with therapy and fitness. They may feel like a lengthy soak after...

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    UCLA's Josh Rosen is a shadow of former brash self

    On the new practice fields outside the sparkling new UCLA football facility, there is only one sliver of shade. Josh Rosen is sitting in it. While coach Jim Mora addresses the media Sunday morning in front of a UCLA banner, Rosen sits downfield in a darkened corner, sipping on water, silently waiting...

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    Pac-12 football coaches see problems with early signing period

    One of the intended benefits of college football’s new early signing period is that it will allow high school players to lock in on a school in December, preventing two additional months of recruiting drama. That is, if it doesn’t lead to a different kind of fuss. “Honestly, what’s going to happen,...

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    UCLA coach Jim Mora is pleased with quarterback Josh Rosen's metamorphosis

    Josh Rosen may have set an unofficial record for being the talk of Pac-12 Conference media days without having said a word. Two years ago, there was buzz about UCLA’s hotshot freshman quarterback. Last year, it was his posts on social media lampooning Donald Trump and the money-grubbing nature...

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    Pac-12 Networks' revenue dwarfed by SEC, Big Ten counterparts

    Earlier this year, Bill Moos, Washington State’s athletic director, did what a lot of spurned Pac-12 Conference fans have done at one time or another during the last five years: He complained about the Pac-12 Networks. “We were hoping for $5 million to $6 million when we were launching,” Moos said...

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    Josh Rosen was humbled by setbacks of last season, UCLA Coach Jim Mora says

    Josh Rosen may have set an unofficial record for being a central topic at Pac-12 media days without having appeared before the media. Two years ago, there was buzz about UCLA’s hotshot freshman quarterback. Last year, it was his posts on social media lampooning Donald Trump and the money-grubbing...

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    Can USC raise the South to top of Pac-12 football?

    Someone will win the Pac-12 Conference’s South Division. The question is whether that football team can prevail in the game that really matters in early December at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. Since the first Pac-12 championship game was staged in 2011, the North has gone 6-0. If the South intends...

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    Tough love, national championships made Jim Bush a UCLA legend

    Academics were never a strong suit for Leroy Neal, whose grade-point average was just high enough to remain eligible for cross-country and track at Fullerton High, Fullerton College and Occidental College from 1955-63. Even with an extra year at Occidental after his athletic eligibility expired,...

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    Legendary UCLA track coach Jim Bush dies at 90

    Jim Bush, a legendary track and field coach at UCLA and master at developing world-class 400-meter runners, died Monday, the school announced. He was 90. From 1965 to 1984, Bush guided UCLA to five NCAA championships. In the late 1960s, quartermilers Wayne Collett and John Smith became world-class...

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    A look behind the scenes as the Lakers prepared to draft Lonzo Ball

    The famous pancakes always came with strawberries, and LaVar Ball didn’t change that just because there were VIPs in his house. So after Lakers president of basketball operations Magic Johnson and general manager Rob Pelinka watched Lonzo Ball go through a full day of his normal routine, they all...

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    Lakers take ex-UCLA point guard Lonzo Ball with No. 2 pick in draft

    After Lonzo Ball’s dream came true, he finally admitted that he’d felt this coming. “Ever since my season at UCLA I kind of felt confident,” the former Bruins point guard said in a quiet moment between the constant stream of interviews and photo ops that come with being the No. 2 pick in the NBA...

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    TJ Leaf, UCLA's other freshman, is eager to live out his dream in the NBA draft

    On Thursday night at Barclay’s Center, a UCLA freshman will hear his name called, surrounded by his family and the people closest to him, ready to embark on a lifelong dream. No, not that one. This one is forward TJ Leaf, who is expected to be a mid-to-late first-round selection. Another one-and-done...

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    De'Aaron Fox's father can't help but respond to LaVar Ball's trash talk

    De’Aaron Fox’s father said of trash talk from Lonzo Ball’s dad: "I don’t even got to respond to that.” But he went ahead and did it anyway. “My son already ate his ass up twice,” Aaron Fox said of LaVar Ball's son. “[LaVar] can say what he wants to say. I just tell him to go back and watch the...

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    Lakers wrapping up research on top picks while keeping trade options open

    In New York, just after the Lakers secured the second overall pick in this year’s NBA draft through the lottery, general manager Rob Pelinka made it clear he’ll listen if teams want to talk about trades. He also noted it’s unlikely the second pick in the draft gets moved. In the month since then,...

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    Lakers need to trust their instincts and draft Lonzo Ball

    Whenever chaos engulfed the UCLA basketball team during games this past season, Lonzo Ball usually had the perfect response. Dribbling downcourt, instead of making his usual pass, he would suddenly stop from beyond the three-point line, trust his instincts, and fire. Moon shot, big splash, order...

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    UCLA faces a travel-heavy nonconference basketball schedule

    UCLA’s basketball team will travel the country ? and to China ? as part of a nonconference schedule announced Friday. The Bruins are set to open the season against Georgia Tech in Shanghai on Nov. 10 before playing their first home game Nov. 15 at Pauley Pavilion against Central Arkansas. UCLA...

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    USC's De'Anthony Melton, incoming UCLA freshman Kris Wilkes invited to Team USA tryout

    USC guard De’Anthony Melton and UCLA incoming freshman Kris Wilkes were among 28 high school and collegiate players invited to USA Basketball’s Under-19 training camp that will take place June 18-25. The invitees will travel to the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., where...

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    Lonzo Ball promises to bring 'winning atmosphere' to Lakers

    Lonzo Ball peered over his right shoulder when about 50 media members rushed onto the Lakers’ practice court Wednesday in a quest to dissect his first pre-draft workout and to hear why he should be selected by Los Angeles with the second pick in the NBA draft. Ball rose from the chair he had been...

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    It's Ball time with Lakers. Forget the dad and focus on the son.

    He didn’t bring his outlandish father. He didn’t wear his $495 shoes. He was not surrounded by an entourage. He wasn’t trailed by his two little brothers. He was not showered by nasty boos or derisive chants or anything other than squeaking sneakers and the rattle of a rim. When Lonzo Ball finally...

  • Sports

    Statue of Jackie Robinson will be installed at the Rose Bowl this fall

    Jackie Robinson will have a permanent home at the Rose Bowl. A commemorative statue honoring the trailblazing sports icon will be installed this fall outside the main gate of the historic venue, according to Legacy Connections, the private nonprofit fundraising arm of the Rose Bowl Stadium. The...

  • UCLA

    Bruins walk off with victory over Rebels in super regionals opener

    It was one of the roughest outings of Rachel Garcia’s career and perhaps her most gratifying. The UCLA redshirt freshman set a career worst for hits given up and tied another for runs given up Thursday night at Easton Stadium and none of it mattered after she gutted out 232 pitches and sparked...

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