Bruce Tran

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• Dorrell’s 22 should steal the show in Las Vegas

  Dec. 13, 2004 at midnight

  I’m not too much of a gambling man, although I do believe Texas Hold ’Em is a true sport because it’s televised on ESPN. I would have said that Karl ...

• Dignity returns to UCLA campus

  Dec. 6, 2004 at midnight

  Screw moral victories. UCLA won this one. By virtue of showing a national audience how far a little heart and hard work will go, by virtue of UCLA coach Karl ...

• [Football insert] Meaning of sports exceeds mere definition

  Dec. 3, 2004 at midnight

  What is sports? To be sure it is a broad question, easily answered by going to a dictionary, but Merriam-Webster doesn’t have the answer I’m looking for. No matter – ...

• Football needs to be mighty, fly together

  Nov. 12, 2004 at midnight

  In preparation for this week’s football game, I went out and rented “The Mighty Ducks.” I came out of that movie pumped up and ready to kick the feathers off ...

• [Football preview] Bruins need one more win to reverse their curse

  Nov. 5, 2004 at midnight

  The Red Sox had their curse reversed. The Patriots had their streak stopped. Heck, even George Dubya won, despite the fact that the Washington Redskins won the previous Sunday – ...

• [Football preview] Survival of the Pac-10’s fittest

  Oct. 29, 2004 at midnight

  Revenge is a dish best served cold, and if memory serves me correctly, it was almost exactly a year ago when last year’s downward spin started with a shocking loss ...

• Drawing hope from a loss to OPU

  Oct. 22, 2004 at midnight

  So UCLA lost to that OPU (other public university – abbreviation is pronounced as o-poop) up in the Bay Area, and by looking at the final score, 45-28, it would ...

• Dorrell must win the chess match on Saturday

  Oct. 15, 2004 at midnight

  A quick review of the Pac-10 preseason poll shows you how poor prognosticators we media folk are about football. Sure, we got the top two teams right, with USC No. ...

• [Football preview] Wildcats dwell at bottom of list

  Oct. 8, 2004 at midnight

  Coach Karl Dorrell calls this the “meat of our Pac-10 schedule.” Well, while we’ll agree that it’s important, I’m looking at it as more of an appetizer. Sort of like ...

• [Football Insert] Aztecs a legitimate threat to Bruins

  Oct. 1, 2004 at midnight

  It’d be easy to overlook San Diego State. After all, the Aztecs don’t have the athletes that UCLA has. But the last time the Bruins played a California state school, ...