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Bruin Bites: Howland's Toast and Chianti Dan Must Go Edition
It's Sunday evening, which sadly means a return to work tomorrow, which be exacerbated by the Niners' heart-breaking loss to Eli Manning's Giants in OT (BTW, thanks for blowing it Kyle Williams). Fortunately, the return to work also means we're as far away from Ben Howland's dumpster fire brand of...
NCAA Basketball Coaches: Figuring Out Who Is Earning Their Money
Ever wonder which coaches among the top ten highest paid are earning their money? It's hard to compare, and any comparison is largely subjective, but just for fun I took the top 10 highest paid coaches as indicated by USA Today and tried to quantify their worth. For this exercise, there are...
Getting the Bruins, and Bruins Nation, On the Same Page
I couldn't figure out this basketball team. But that was ok. I knew where to go. It was like those days and nights long ago in the BioMed library. The answers were in there, and I knew where to look (and that was before PubMed and the internet). So for my basketball questions, I went looking...
Just One Game - Balancing UCLA Basketball Hopes With Expectations
Make each day your masterpiece. - Coach Saturday's game against Arizona was a masterpiece, an epic day with a magical ending for the long and storied history that is U.C.L.A. Basketball and Pauley Pavillion, and Bruin Nation was justifiably ecstatic. (If you haven't already, please go over one...
Portrait of a Fan Base in Dissarray
As big of a shock as Carolina's sudden drop in basketball prowess was last season, at least one school had it worse – UCLA. The Bruins lost seven of their first ten games last season, and finished 14-18 (8-10 in conference), making them ineligible for even the NIT. This season has also had...
Dancing In March: It's What Elite Programs Do
Earlier this year, in another season, we discussed expectations for the program as a whole. After a humbling loss to Arizona in Pauley that brought last season's Bruins to 6-8, we came to one conclusion as we stared into the void: For a program with the stature of UCLA, a losing season is an...
It's Not Plagiarism If You Link To It Is Already Scratching Names Off The List
It begins. The first names have begun trickling in as potential replacements for Todd Lickliter here at Iowa. During the Play-In Game--the results of which we do not care one bit about--Doug Gottlieb began speculating about potential names for Iowa: Dayton's Brian Gregory, Siena's Fran McCaffery,...
Danger Signs: UCLA's Problems Under Ben Howland Run Deep
By BruinBlue A good deal deeper than Nikola Dragovic, who is a terrible player, but who will mercifully be gone soon. Deeper than James Keefe, who tries, but who inexplicably got worse in four years. Deeper than Malcolm Lee, who has flashes of talent, but who spends every day thinking of how to...
Inside the Pac-10: What's Wrong With This Conference?
There's so much wrong from this past week, basketball is the secondary sport in this topic. USC: Wait, who's their head coach again? Let's start with Lane Kiffin, shall we? Although these sources are admittedly biased, you wouldn't be surprised if they were true. Report: Kiffin commits secondary...
Inside the Pac-10, Hoops Edition: Hit the Reset Button
<!-- BEGIN WIDGET --> Pacific-10 Conference Standings (updated 1.16.2010 at 11:43 PM PST) Conf Overall W L W L Arizona St. Sun Devils 4 2 14 5 California Golden Bears 3 2 11 6 USC Trojans 3 2 11 6 Washington St. Cougars 3 3 13 5 Washington Huskies 3 3 12 5 Arizona...
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