I happened to be glancing at the Bruinzone message board this morning and I came across a couple of interesting threads.

On the football side of things, I poster named BruinADub did some nice work hunting down articles about some Bruins in the NFL, including Brandon Chillar, Spencer Havner, Ricky Manning, Justin Medlock, Matthew Slater and Ryan Boschetti.

Very quickly: Chillar and Havner are competing for the same spot in Green Bay, Medlock has NFL talent but might get cut, Slater is loved in Boston, Boschetti has a great attitude in Washington and Manning will likely be cut by the Bears.

Here is a link to the thread. You can check the links ADub has poster there (a few are older and you might have seen them).

In the hoops forum. a poster named B..B has created a list of the best UCLA basketball players from every state. In California, he broke it down by region. His post is here.

Here is a sample, his California rankings:

California
     Northern - Walt Torrence (Don Barksdale, George Stanich)
     Central - J.R. Henderson (Gerald Madkins, Rafer Johnson)
     Southern
         Westside - Sidney Wicks (Kiki Vandeweghe, Baron Davis) 
         South Bay - Keith Erickson (Dijon Thompson, Ralph Jackson)
         South Central - Marques Johnson (David Greenwood, Curtis Rowe)
         Northeast - Dick Linthicum (Don Johnson, Frank Lubin)
         San Fernando Valley - Gail Goodrich (Trevor Wilson, Jordan Farmar)
         Inland Empire - Reggie Miller (Darren Collison) 
         San Gabriel Valley - Tracy Murray (Brad Holland, Mike Lynn)
         South Coast - Ed O'Bannon (Willie Naulls, Jason Kapono)
         Orange County - Dave Meyers (John Vallely, Cedric Bozeman) 
         North Coast - Keith Wilkes (Don MacLean, Shon Tarver)
         San Diego - Bill Walton (Jelani McCoy, Ralph Drollinger)