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Bruin Bites: Football Notes, Kyle Anderson at Hoophall Classic, Even Calipari "Gets It" Re: UCLA Hoops, Osweiler to UCLA?
It's Wednesday, so we're halfway to the weekend, which will fortunately be free of the disaster that is UCLA football. That said, we'll be subjected to some torture with Ben Howland's dumpster fire squad in action against the Arizona schools, starting with the Wildcats on Thursday, followed by the...
Spaulding Roundup: Pac-10 Media Day, Confident Huskies & Other Football Notes
Well football is officially around the corner. It gets started with the Pac-10's annual Football Media Day this week at the Sheraton Gateway LAX Hotel. Apparently the conference is trying - desperately - to get up to speed with today's media world by making this event as friendly to new media and...
When Does This Year Become Next Year? This and other questions ...
We're all great at parsing every move by every coach and every player. It's one of the things that's fun about blogs and message boards, too. The game gets played or the recruit gets recruited and then we sit around and try to figure out what happened after the fact. Well, that's all well and...
Spaulding Roundup: A Time To Chill
Allow me to start this Sunday with a story I heard from a good buddy of mine during last football season. Apparently last year after Utah humiliated UCLA in a game in which Olson was bruised and battered (a game in which he was kept in even though as it was later revealed that he had suffered...
Roundup From BN Walk: Football News & Notes
Let’s start our walk with where we left off in our last post: our non conference opponent(s) for this upcoming season. It all begins with Tennessee of course, but Ted Miller from WWL reminds us that the Volunteers are not the only difficult non conference opponent dotting our schedule this...
Roundup From BN Walk: Football News & Notes
You can just feel the football camp being around the corner. We have an exclusively football focused BN walk lined up for today. Let’s start our walk with Norm Chow. Kevin Pearson from the Press Enterprise sat down with our offensive coordinator, who offered the following pre Fall camp...
Roundup from BN Walk: News & Notes
Let's start our Sunday walk with a heavy dose of Brian Dohn, who posted the following notes re. the football team: I was at UCLA's 7-on-7 Thursday and the thing that jumped out at me was the ability of several of the freshmen defensive backs, particularly Aaron Hester and Rahim Moore. Both are...
Questions Around Our Signal Callers
Let’s shift our attention from the least glamorous position in the offense to the most glamorous one – the quarterback. And you know where the story begins in this position. Anyone who considers himself or herself a UCLA football fan should know the story of Ben Olson. If you need to...
A Step Forward For Ben Olson
We have some encouraging news from the football front: UCLA quarterback Ben Olson was cleared by doctors on Thursday, paving the way for his return to the field after missing two months with a broken bone in his foot. Olson sustained a break in the fifth metatarsal of his right foot on April...
Work In Progress
We will start this week with a little of focus on football. We ended the last week with heavy doses of reality by discussing expectations for next season. Well, it seems like the folks at College Football News in their UCLA preview are channeling some of our thoughts by warning people not to get...
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