Ryan Eshoff

In front of a standing-room-only crowd at Spieker Aquatics Center, a pair of elite water polo teams put on a show worthy of their audience.

As the regular season winds down and playoffs loom, the UCLA men’s water polo team has one more enormous test on their schedule: a rubber match with USC.

Even Batman needed young Robin to come along before he became a truly dominant force.

Faced with the final regular season road trip of the season, the UCLA men’s water polo team came away with a pair of critical conference victories over Pepperdine and Long Beach State.

The football team is suffering through some severe growing pains, and the men’s basketball roster is so depleted that Lil’ Romeo would have a shot at making the team.

On Halloween in Malibu, the best treat in town may very well be found at Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool on the campus of Pepperdine.

Struggling to stay afloat after a three-game losing streak, the UCLA men’s water polo team needed a win or two over the four-game weekend to regain some momentum.

The number 13 seems to be an unlucky one for the UCLA men’s water polo team, which has been stuck on 12 wins for almost two weeks.

Spencer Hochberg wrote the book on unicycling.

The best rivalries in collegiate sports are those that are sustained by proximity: The campuses of Duke and North Carolina lie eight miles apart on Tobacco Road; the Holy War between Utah and BYU encapsulates Salt Lake City and its surroundings; and, of course, the UCLA-USC rivalry divides Los Angeles multiple times a year.