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Clippers Statement on Blake Griffin
It has been reported that Clippers forward Blake Griffin suffered a broken hand from punching a member of the team's training staff in a restaurant in Toronto on the team's current trip. The...
Freshman Metu Helps USC Beat UCLA
The USC men’s basketball team moved into a tie for first place in the Pac-12 when they beat UCLA 89-75 last week at UCLA. One of the main reasons they were able to defeat the Bruins was the play of freshman Chimezie Metu. Against the Bruins Metu, w...
UCLA Basketball Stays Competitive In Tough League
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The UCLA men's and women's basketball teams are playing competitive basketball in leagues where on any given night the last place team can beat a top team. The league...
USC Basketball Teams Continue To Surprise Opponents
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The USC men’s and women’s basketball teams are a combined 28-5 at press time. For any school that’s a great record but for USC it’s surprising. The men are 14-3 and the women’s record is 14-2. Known as a football...
UCLA, USC Basketball Teams Struggle On The Road
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The UCLA Bruins and USC Trojan men’s basketball teams hope their home courts will provide that extra push into the victory circle this week when they take on the Arizona schools. Last weekend their trips to the U...
USC Basketball Programs Look Good So Far
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The season is still early but the USC men and women basketball teams are a combined 18-3 to start the 2015-16 season. The women are 9-0 and the men have a record of 9-3 but the biggest hurdle the Trojans face will be...
Santa Monica Basketball Star Chooses USC
Guards Jonah Mathews and De’Anthony Melton and forward Harrison Henderson have signed National Letters of Intent (NLIs) to play basketball at USC it was announced by head coach Andy Enfield. Mathews, of Santa Monica High, is ranked the No. 70 r...
Top Basketball Prospect Chooses UCLA
Point guard Lonzo Ball of Chino Hills High, regarded as the No. 1 basketball recruit in California, has chosen UCLA. Some professional scouts believe Ball is likely to enter the NBA draft after one season with the Bruins. He is the most heralded of...
2015•2016 USC
DATE DAY OPPONENT TV INFO SITE TIME (PT) Nov. 13 Friday San Diego PAC-12 Galen Center 5:00 P.M. Nov. 16 Monday ^Monmouth PAC-12 Galen Center 7:00 P.M. Nov. 21 Saturday New Mexico PAC-12 Galen Center TBD Nov. 23 Monday CSUN PAC-12 Galen Center 6:00...
West Los Angeles College Welcomes New Men's Basketball Coach
West Los Angeles College has hired Anthony Jones as as the new head coach for men's coach of mens basketball. Coach Jones brings more than 20 years of experience to West. He has coached basketball on a variety of levels including high school,...
UCLA Players Star In Summer League
Two former UCLA basketball players have been named to the all-summer league first team at the recently completed event in Las Vegas. Kyle Anderson of San Antonio, who averaged 22 points per game and Norman Powell of Toronto were honored. DeAngelo...
USC Sets Basketball Schedule
The USC men's basketball team has announced its schedule for the 2015-16 season. Included are all of the nonconference games and the Pac-12 opponent and date windows for games. The Pac-12 schedule is expected to be finalized by September 1 when...
I Like Wooden Best, But Krzyzewski Is Getting Close
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor John Wooden guided UCLA to 10 national championships and there’s a solid case that he’s the greatest coach in college basketball history. But if you’re a fan of Mike...
UCLA's Two Tournament Wins Salvage Some Credibility
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor When John Wooden was coaching 10 UCLA basketball teams to national championships there was no ESPN. Times have certainly changed. Now the schools best identified with...
UCLA Announcer Roberts Retires
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor UCLA’s loss to Gonzaga in the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 last week was the final game for Chris Roberts, who has broadcast Bruin football and basketball for the las...
Lawsuit Puts Spin On Free Agency For College Players
By George Laase Special to the Observer Back in 1994, CBS Sports bought the rights to the NCAA men's basketball tournament with an eight-year contract averaging $215 million annually. This month, a single, 30-second TV ad airing during the men’s F...
Culver Resident Named All-Conference
Luke Silverman-Lloyd, a junior guard at Washington University in St. Louis who resides in Culver City, has been named honorable mention on the All University Athletic Association basketball team....
UCLA Drops Dodger Stadium Classic Finale To USC
The UCLA Bruins were defeated, 8-4, by the USC Trojans in front of 14,688 fans in the finale of the Dodger Stadium College Baseball Classic on Saturday afternoon. USC freshman starter Mitch Hart...
UCLA Eyes Challenging Baseball Schedule
UCLA enters the 2015 season looking to bounce back from a rough campaign last season which saw the team miss the postseason for the first time since 2009. The Bruins swept three games from Hofstra to...
Former USC Coach Bob Boyd Dies
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor I was a young sportswriter, in my 20s when I joined the staff at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. There was a UCLA background in my family. My brother had graduated...
UCLA Baseball Ranks 10th In Pre-Season Poll
Armed with one of the top pitching staffs in the nation and five returning position player starters, Vanderbilt is ranked No. 1 in Collegiate Baseball's Fabulous 40 NCAA Division I pre-season poll. UCLA is ranked 10th. Defending national champion...
UCLA Has Lowest-Scoring Half In Its History
UCLA scored only seven points in the first half of its 83-44 loss to top-ranked Kentucky last Saturday. It was the lowest scoring half in the Bruins’ history. The previous low was 15. The two teams have won the most NCAA men’s basketball cha...
UCLA Basketball Wins First Three Games
UCLA has begun its 2014-15 basketball season by winning its first three games. The first two are officially exhibition games. The Bruins defeated Montana State, 113-78 and Coastal Carolina, 84-71. They began the regular season by defeating Nicholls...
USC Announces Basketball TV Schedule
The USC men’s basketball team is once again taking on a competitive schedule for the 2014-15 season and Trojan fans will be able to catch all of the action as every game will be available on television or online and on the USC flagship radio s...
UCLA Recruit Ruled Ineligible
Heralded UCLA basketball signee Jonah Bolden has been ruled ineligible for the coming season by the NCAA. The 6-foot-9 power forward, a native of Australia, was ruled a partial qualifier after he left Australia after last season had started to play...
