Anthony Stover is no fortune teller, but every now and then he gets a hunch. "I'm not saying I predict the future, but my mom always called me lucky," said Stover. The last time UCLA played Cal, he got a hunch. Something didn't feel right. "I actually made a comment to Josh (Smith) before the game. I was like 'I'm not feeling this. Our team doesn...

Kevin Danna brings his insights and observations from Stanford's defeat against the UCLA Bruins, 72-63, on Thursday Night at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Justin Cobbs scored 18 points and California withstood UCLA's late rally to win 73-63 Saturday, moving the Golden Bears into sole possession of first in the Pac-12 with their 20th victory of the season. Allen Crabbe added 14 and Jorge Gutierrez 13 for the Bears (20-6, 10-3), who shot 52 percent from the floor in completing their first season sweep of the...

LOS ANGELES It took three months into the season, but UCLA finally experienced a first on Saturday an enjoyable return home. "It was nice," said Bruins sophomore forward David Wear of the team's return from the Pacific Northwest. It was a road win. With a 63-60 win at Washington State, the Bruins claimed their first road game against a Division I opponent outside...

Before Jim Mora, Jr. has even taken a step onto the practice field for the Bruins much less led his team onto the field for a Pac-12 game, he has already stoked the competitive fires of college football fans in Los Angeles and around the nation with his highly ranked 2012 recruiting class. The battle for LA is no longer only found in science fiction movies or between competing NBA...

When Kevin Love declared for the NBA Draft in April 2008, I shook my head. Like Tyler Hansbrough, who was dominating college basketball at the time, I thought of Love as only a college player. He didn’t have what it would take to muster a valid career in the NBA. He would average 10 and 5 for a few years, find himself caught in the middle of a packaged three team deal, then slink...

The No. 1 player in the country, Shabazz Muhammad, is coming to Southern California for the weekend. Muhammad will lead Las Vegas Bishop Gorman (18-4) against Whitney Young (Illinois) (12-7) in the main event of the Nike Extravaganza at Mater Dei on Saturday night. The game will be streamed live right here on FOXSportsWest.com at 9 p.m. Whitney Young is led by 6-11, 275-pound...

The No. 1 player in the country, Shabazz Muhammad, is coming to Southern California for the weekend. Muhammad will lead Las Vegas Bishop Gorman (18-4) against Whitney Young (Illinois) (12-7) in the main event of the Nike Extravaganza at Mater Dei on Saturday night. The game will be streamed live right here on FOXSportsWest.com at 9 p.m. Whitney Young is led by 6-11, 275-pound...

As UCLA center Joshua Smith prepared to leave Oregon's Matthew Knight Arena last Saturday, his family members told him that he "didn't look happy" on the court. As he sat in a chair and addressed the media inside UCLA's J.D. Morgan Center Press Room on Wednesday there was still a sense of him being glum. Smith admits he hates losing. The last taste of game...

Riding the momentum of signing a consensus top 20 recruiting class for 2012, Bruins Head Coach Jim Mora, Jr., continues to make waves in recruiting circles across the nation. In the recently released top 100 recruits in the 2013 class on Scout.com, 15 players list UCLA among their top schools with eight recruits showing interest from out of state. Of the seven 2013 in-state players...

Over the past decade or so, the athletic programs at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) haven’t had the lustre they once did. The legendary basketball program has been up-and-down, the baseball program average at best, and the football program has been a revolving door for head coaches, with several coming and going in a short amount of time. Maybe with the...

Cornerback Justin Combs accepted his scholarship offer to UCLA shortly after Rick Neuheisel was fired as the team’s head coach. He and his father, rapper/actor/producer P. Diddy, took an official visit to campus this weekend. Justin was tweeting about the trip all weekend, and posted the picture above. It looks like that was taken at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena where the Bruins...

Former UCLA forward Reeves Nelson couldn’t stick in Lithuania, either. Nelson, who was... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Fourth-ranked Stanford celebrates Play4Kay, a national breast cancer awareness event honoring Hall of Fame head coach Kay Yow, at its 12 p.m. contest against the UCLA Bruins Sunday. The game is set to be televised on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area with Jim Watson on the call and Mary Murphy serving as analyst. The game will also be broadcast on 90.1 KZSU with Sam Fisher and Joe Lami on the call.

Welcome to Signing Day 2012. If you thought 2011 was crazy with everyone standing by on "Mamba Watch," in anticipation of where then-Crenshaw running back De'Anthony Thomas would end up, Oaks Christian wide receiver Jordan Payton pulled a hat out of a hat out of a hat on Wednesday morning. A day after announcing on national television that he would be attending...

UCLA sophomore forward David Wear, who hyper-extended his knee Saturday against Oregon, returned to practice Monday, schools officials said. Wear had an MRI on his knee Monday, which showed no significant damage. He is third on the team in scoring, averaging 9.8 points and leads the team with an average of 6.4 rebounds per game. Wear is expected to play in the Bruins game Thursday...

For the UCLA Bruins, it’s not what could have been, but more of what should have been. Highly touted as a pre-season Pac-12 favorite, the Bruins have disappointed, and disappointed in a big way. Thursday night, Washington will get their first shot at the underachieving Bruins. The tip is set for 6 p.m. and will be aired on ESPN live from Alaska Airlines Arena.

Thursday night, UCLA played inspired and with what Jerime Anderson described as some fire under our belly, in their 76-49 win over Utah. Im glad he feels that way and lets hope that we have that same good fire in our belly for (Saturday) because were going to need it, said Howland. We have good kids and they want to win and they were disappointed about the road trip last week and...

The 8-clap. It's a form of celebration for the UCLA Bruins. When things are going well at a Bruins sporting event, the fans will break out into the 8-clap. New UCLA football coach Jim L. Mora spoke to Bruins fans at a basketball game recently and sought their tutelage on how to 8-clap. In the world of recruiting, it's a win. Whenever UCLA offensive line coach Adrian...

Sophomore center, 6 feet 10 and 300-plus pounds, could have made a significant difference in the Bruins' season but didn't seem to care about getting in shape. He is apologetic and vows to make changes for next season.The biggest Bruin is speaking as if he is small.

The sophomore, who was lightly recruited by the Bruins, is interested only in helping the Bears and preparing himself for the NBA.It would be an intriguing story if California guard Allen Crabbe, only lightly recruited by hometown UCLA after he led Los Angeles Price High to the 2010 Division IV state title, said he was especially motivated to beat the Bruins on Saturday.

Even the homeless who were fed probably didn’t even have a good time watching the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl between the UCLA Bruins and the Illinois Illini. The game was filled with absolutely no offense, terribly ran fake field goals, and apparently these three bros were the only ones who gave a ****. Thank God the UCLA cheerleaders were on the sideline looking good otherwise...

LOS ANGELES -- UCLA center Joshua Smith was in a funk after the Bruins returned from Oregon last weekend. While many griped about his conditioning, or lack thereof, his battle was much worse. Smith battled himself. Similar to how he responded after UCLA was swept in the Bay Area to start the Pac-12 portion of their season, Smith went to work. He practiced and practiced hard. When...

If you’re a UCLA Bruin basketball fan you probably cringe when you see that your ex-powerhouse ranks 7th in the Pac-12 this season.  Although they’re 10-8, they’ve had losses to unranked Loyola Marymount, Middle Tennessee State, and Texas. Also they weren’t able to prove themselves against ranked teams in Kansas and Michigan early in the season. But hey, at least they�...

The failed proposal happened during a college basketball game between the UCLA Bruins and Richmond Spiders. It’s like watching a train wreck, you know you should look away but you just can’t. If you think the video is hard to watch, can you imagine what it must have been like sitting right next to the couple? The best part is everyone seemed to be in on it. The arena “mistletoe...