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Byline: Lee Jenkins LOS ANGELES _ For at least one night, the Dodgers played exactly the way they were built, with pitching and defense on top of Shawn Green and [...]

Byline: Lee Jenkins LOS ANGELES _ Ben Howland flew to Southern California on a private plane late Tuesday night and is expected to be hired on Wednesday as the 12th [...]

Byline: Lee Jenkins LAS VEGAS _ Steve Morgan raised his crutches to the sky, eased his knee back into its socket and smiled for the camera. From a season that [...]

Byline: Lee Jenkins LOS ANGELES - While UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero was in Denver on Saturday, interviewing Broncos receivers coach Karl Dorrell and Kansas City Chiefs defensive coordinator Greg [...]

Byline: Lee Jenkins LOS ANGELES _ Mike Riley is confident enough in a future at UCLA that he turned down a reported eight-year, $12 million contract Friday from his alma [...]

INDIANAPOLIS _ UCLA coach Steve Lavin climbed into a limousine Friday with four coaches he can't seem to shake. The carpool included: his mentor, Purdue's Gene Keady; his nemesis, Louisville's [...]

There is nothing in the living room, nothing in the dining room, nothing on the walls. There is no furniture, no art, little proof that anyone actually has ever lived [...]

Brandon has two big brothers, part blessing and part curse. In some families, older siblings mean only hand-me-downs and leftovers. In this family, they mean so much more. Two brothers. [...]

PITTSBURGH _ One of them was holding a crutch. Another was clutching an ankle. The rest were holding their breath. Or holding their heart. Or holding back their tears. They [...]

PITTSBURGH _ Before sleep Saturday night, UCLA forward T.J. Cummings was getting ready for his favorite bedtime story. He has it memorized by now. The tale was written in 1980, [...]

PITTSBURGH _ From put-downs to throw downs. From insults to in-your-face. The UCLA Bruins are the most disappointing team in school history, the worst representative of their conference, the most [...]

PITTSBURGH _ Anyone tuning into the middle of the game Friday wouldn't have known who were the starters and who were the reserves. UCLA used two different lineups to blow [...]

LOS ANGELES _ Less than a week after he ripped his team for a first-round loss in the Pac-10 Tournament, UCLA forward Matt Barnes is funneling his anger elsewhere. 'I'm [...]

LOS ANGELES _ Before he'd seen his first scouting report or watched his first piece of film, Mississippi coach Rod Barnes already was proclaiming himself the underdog. He has been [...]

LOS ANGELES _ With a big-screen television tuned to the Selection Show, the gathering in the UCLA locker room became hushed. Moments after the brackets were unveiled, national television analysts [...]

LOS ANGELES _ The UCLA Bruins started this season with a point guard problem that might be the end of them. After more than four months of auditions, the Bruins [...]

LOS ANGELES _ The players who had worked four years for this moment watched it pass them by. They sat on the bench during crucial minutes. They stood still and [...]

LOS ANGELES _ He walks slowly to his campus easy chair. This might be the first time in four years that UCLA center Dan Gadzuric appears absolutely certain of where [...]

LOS ANGELES _ The UCLA Bruins spare no suspense. Another double-digit lead turned into another fingernail finish. Another easy game turned into another dramatic escape. UCLA, which has made the [...]

LOS ANGELES _ There was Pepperdine this season, Cal State Northridge last season, Gonzaga two years ago. UCLA seniors recount every upset like they are flipping through a yearbook. They [...]

STANFORD, Calif. _ In this trilogy, UCLA forward Matt Barnes is playing the villain. The Pac-10 suspended Barnes for one game Friday, less than 24 hours before the Bruins try [...]

BERKELEY, Calif. _ The UCLA Bruins wore headbands in a display of unity and then tore them off in a show of frustration. They screamed at themselves during warm-ups and [...]

BERKELEY, Calif. _ Jason Kapono remembers the headbands, labeled 'dork.' Dan Gadzuric remembers the portraits, inscribed, 'Duh.' Coach Steve Lavin remembers the Rick Pitino masks, accompanied by the message, 'I've [...]

LOS ANGELES _ UCLA basketball coach Steve Lavin always promised this team would be ready by mid- to late February. Here it is, and the No. 25 Bruins still don't [...]

LOS ANGELES _ What was once an embarrassment has evolved into a challenge. The memories still stir inside of UCLA - Arizona's 27-2 run, the Bruins' 20-point lead gone in [...]

LOS ANGELES _ The UCLA Bruins have reached that familiar place. Their breaking point. This team that was supposed to win the Pac-10, the conference tournament and get to the [...]

PHILADELPHIA _ Same player, same shot, same situation. The result: like Knight and day. Such is the story of this UCLA season, magical one moment and mystifying the next. Three [...]

CORVALLIS, Ore. _ A few minutes before tipoff Saturday, UCLA coach Steve Lavin was relaxing in front of a television, watching Arizona play Stanford. The only thing missing was a [...]

EUGENE, Ore. _ One year to the day, UCLA returned to a familiar place. Blowout City. On this Thursday a year ago, the Bruins got run off by halftime and [...]

LOS ANGELES _ The UCLA Bruins, who always have an answer for adversity, just couldn't rebound. After blowing a 20-point lead last week at Arizona, UCLA's collapse continued, as a [...]

LOS ANGELES _ UCLA still can't find a way to keep center Dan Gadzuric on the floor. Coach Steve Lavin, who removes Gadzuric after his second foul in the first [...]

TUCSON, Ariz. _ In the middle of the desert, there arrived a sudden and relentless rain. The UCLA Bruins, wiped out beyond recognition, couldn't even tell the storm was coming. [...]

TEMPE, Ariz. _ UCLA bought victory for 25 cents. With less than a minute left, forward Matt Barnes spied a quarter on the court at Wells Fargo Arena. He called [...]

TEMPE, Ariz. _ The sandwich game turned into a nasty little hors d'oeuvre. It made the UCLA Bruins queasier than they had been against Kansas, more apprehensive than they are [...]

LOS ANGELES _ UCLA freshman Dijon Thompson acknowledged that he might appreciate this more when he's older. He wasn't talking about the victory, he was reflecting on the experience. 'I [...]

LOS ANGELES _ Some had been waiting for this all night. Others had been waiting all season. A game for the memory books, a team for the history books. While [...]

LOS ANGELES _ As Matt Barnes ran down the floor, he put his finger to his mouth and blew on it. The USC Trojans managed to beat UCLA, 81-77, but [...]

INGLEWOOD, Calif. _ They made a movie about this place. Three friends, coming of age on the same streets, their paths intersecting like lines on a basketball court. They called [...]

LOS ANGELES _ For the first time in this silent season, the UCLA Bruins just wanted to listen. As they sat in their locker room before the game Saturday, noise [...]

LOS ANGELES _ UCLA center Dan Gadzuric comes from the Netherlands, never watched a college basketball game as a youth, and probably wouldn't know Adolph Rupp from Phog Allen. But [...]

LOS ANGELES _ The UCLA Bruins went out the backdoor. While Columbia made the three-pointers and backdoor cuts on Thursday, UCLA could only find another creative escape. The Bruins slid [...]

PULLMAN, Wash. _ As he walked onto the floor for the final minutes Saturday, UCLA junior Jason Kapono looked at the scorer's table and flexed his right arm, as though [...]

LOS ANGELES _ The teen-ager was in his dorm room, the grandfather in his hospital room. The teen-ager lay on his twin bed, the grandfather on his deathbed. The teen-ager [...]