For four years, you were a faithful Bruin.
You went to each home game, standing for all 40 minutes and
eagerly participating in every 8-clap.
You watched every road game on television, even those early
Saturday morning East Coast games.

Steve Lavin will soon be regularly visiting your living
room.
The former UCLA head basketball coach has signed a multi-year
deal with ESPN to become a studio and game analyst, ending
speculation that he might become an assistant coach at Purdue
University.

The year: 1977. The issue: Whether to build a new,
state-of-the-art recreation and exercise facility on campus. When
put to referendum, the students overwhelmingly rejected the plan.

Tobias Clemens has been cleared by the NCAA to play in this
week’s NCAA Championships, men’s tennis coach Billy
Martin said Wednesday.
The NCAA investigated last week whether Clemens, UCLA’s
top singles player and the No.

Men’s tennis coach Billy Martin’s intense,
uninhibited concentration on the television screen in his office
Wednesday signified one thing.
No, he wasn’t watching Baywatch.
In fact, the men’s tennis NCAA Championship draw was
announced live Wednesday on ESPNews.

UCLA is slowly becoming one of the most enigmatic teams in
college tennis.
In convincing wins over quality teams, like Saturday’s 6-1
victory over Cal or last weekend’s 7-0 sweep of Washington,
UCLA has shown it is worthy of being considered a national
powerhouse.

Usually, dreams have no boundaries.
But in the case of UCLA men’s head tennis coach Billy
Martin, his dream has four walls and a roof over it.

Former Pittsburgh assistant coach Ernie Zeigler was hired Monday
as an assistant coach on Ben Howland’s new UCLA staff.
Zeigler, who spent the past two seasons working under Howland at
Pittsburgh, is the first assistant to be hired by Howland.

Andre Patterson has been dismissed from the school for academic
reasons, the Athletic Department said Thursday.
Whether the starting forward enrolls at another school to try to
get back into UCLA is still an open question, as is whether new
coach Ben Howland would give Patterson his scholarship back.

Will T.J. Cummings return for his senior season?
Speculation abounds that Cummings won’t be back in
Westwood next year. The forward, who has been known to have
academic problems, might opt for the NBA draft instead of improving
his reportedly woeful GPA.