ESPN’s College Game Day, which travels each week to the location of one of Saturday’s marquee matchups, is filming in Eugene, Ore. this morning before the No. 12 UCLA Bruins take on the No. 2 Oregon Ducks this afternoon. Follow along for live updates of the event from senior staffers Andrew Erickson, Emilio Ronquillo and Brandon Choe, who are on location.
n mid-August, Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini took a hammer to a phone that went off during a team meeting. The phone’s owner walked out, with Pelini following the player out the door shortly afterward.
Living up to their apex predator namesake, the Florida Gators victimized the UCLA women’s tennis team with their deadly prowess at depth and on the surface, terrorizing the Bruins 4-0 en route to their second consecutive national championship.
Having awoken in the eastern time zone four times this week, UCLA women’s tennis may have had as much ease clicking off their alarms Thursday morning as they did sounding the bell on Cinderella. A 4-0 victory over an upstart Rice University team that reached the Sweet 16 through two straight upset wins proved that the Bruins have little regard for fairy tales, with each UCLA player being up at least a set by the time midnight struck on the Owls.
Contrary to a stream of “beach” chants and a black-and-yellow “Go Beach” sign enthusiastically pumped in the air by a jumping member of a mixed crowd, UCLA’s 4-0 home win over Long Beach State proved to be anything but a day spent enjoying steady waves along the shoreline.
Raindrops that washed away most of the second day of the Pac-12 Championships ceased to fall in Ojai by Saturday, but early round defeats started pouring in this past weekend during the conclusion to UCLA’s pre-NCAA Tournament schedule.
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