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Ben Ball Gameday Roundup: Playing Smart
While lot of us have been basking from the afterglow of tremendous effort against the mediocre Stadard, Ben Ball warriors don't have a lot of time to get complacent. They get to come back in action later this afternoon against possibly their toughest challenge in the Pac-10. ASU comes into Pauley...
Building On A Good Start
Let’s build on Tele’s highlights and other great comments/observations from last night’s Pac-10 opener. It was good for our Bruins (I am still amused by Tracy Murray's reference to “Ben Ball warriors” at the very beginning of the post game Bruin show) to come out so...
Ben Ball Roundup: Heading To Oregon
Happy New Year Bruin Nation. We returned to East Coast late last night wishing luck to all the Penn State fans who were streaming out of LAX. I will put up a football open thread later today for folks who might be checking into the actions today. As the bowl season winds down, the college...
Encouraging Signs
<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> Once again during this non conference season we had been hearing a lot of murmur and complaining about Coach Howland’s scheduling. We have been reading the usual complaints about Howland needs to schedule more “exciting” and “marquee”...
Ben Ball Gamenight Roundup: Warriors In The Big Apple
The Ben Ball warriors are in the Big Apple tonight, returning to Madison Square Garden for the first time since 2005-06 with a team that featured a developing team which was working to gel upperclassmen CB and RH with underclassmen nucleus of AA, JF, LRMAM, DC and MR. That team lost to Memphis in...
Ben Ball Roundup: Early Season Lessons/Wolverines Week
With no football game to prep for this weekend, this week is shaping up to be our first major Ben Ball game week of 2008-09 season. Bruins have a huge game coming up this Thursday night against Michigan Wolverines. Even though because of our high pre season ranking, we will probably head into this...
Ben Ball Roundup: Patience
So I am not surprised at all to see the close score when I woke up this morning. I didn’t get to watch the game but going into it I was dreading about an upset. This was one of those games which might have presented a perfect storm for a capable Mid Major team to pull off an upset against a...
Ben Ball News & Notes
Last week Rye posted the tentative Ben Ball schedule for 2008-09 season which listed UCLA's participation in the Coaches v. Cancer tournament. Rye mentioned that Duke and Michigan will most likely join UCLA in that tournament. Jeff Eisenberg from the Press Enterprise posted more information on the...












