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UCLA Bruins advance to NCAA women's gymnastics finals

2013-04-20 00:00:00

When UCLA's Vanessa Zamarripa flew around the uneven bars at Pauley Pavilion, soared almost to the ceiling, it seemed, and landed with a bit of a wobble but without a fall, it became certain. The Bruins had qualified for Saturday's six-team women's...

BCS leaders hone new college football playoff format

2013-04-22 22:58:00

The last vestiges of the controversial Bowl Championship Series, conceived years ago on a cocktail napkin, will be phased out this week at a swank Pasadena hotel. College football power brokers are meeting in Southern California to tie up loose BCS ends...

Hackers strike again: FIFA's Sepp Blatter really isn't resigning

2013-04-23 12:04:00

FIFA president Sepp Blatter and soccer's World Cup have joined the quickly increasing number of high-profile figures and organizations to become victims of Twitter hackers. Soccer's governing body said Monday that the Twitter accounts of Blatter and the...

UCLA qualifies for NCAA women's gymnastics team final

2013-04-19 21:00:00

With a season-best performance on the vault and a steady finish on the uneven bars Friday, UCLA�qualified for the NCAA women's gymnastics team finals. Joining the Bruins in the six-team finals Saturday will be Florida, Georgia, LSU, Alabama and...

Should UCLA pursue Florida Gulf Coast University's Andy Enfield?

2013-03-25 12:46:00

Writers from around Tribune Co. offer their ideas about who would be the perfect choice as the next UCLA men's basketball coach. Feel free to join the conversation by leaving a comment of your own. Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times The perfect coach...

NIT presents disappointment, opportunity to teams snubbed by NCAA

2013-03-18 08:05:00

Coming off of two consecutive NCAA Final Four appearances -- including a national championship last year -- Kentucky finds itself in a different position this postseason. Actually, it finds itself in a different tournament -- the NIT. But if it's any...

National Signing Day: Ohio State and Alabama battle over a punter

2013-02-06 14:41:00

You’ve heard of Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, a.k.a. Johnny Football, who shocked college football last year by becoming the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy. Well, Wednesday’s national signing day introduced us to punter...

Fun-wise, national signing day is a signature event

2013-02-06 18:09:00

What fun, this national signing day, colleges' version of the NFL draft. Story I'm following most closely is of the Florida mom who reportedly ran off with her kid's signing papers so he wouldn't leave home. As Dave Barry used to say, I'm not making...

Mississippi, no joke, makes a big splash on football signing day

2013-02-06 19:43:00

The Southeastern Conference conducted its annual player draft Wednesday in advance of winning its eighth straight national title next season. There's nothing like national SEC signing day, with other conferences participating the way the Washington...

National signing day: No. 1 Robert Nkemdiche headed to Mississippi

2013-02-06 08:28:00

Signing Day is still young but the University of Mississippi is already exceeding the on-campus speed limit of 18 mph, which just happens to be the uniform number worn by former quarterback Archie Manning. Ole Miss scored the first big hit Wednesday...

Manti Te'o hoax never should have gotten this far

2013-01-18 00:00:00

This country's most inspirational sportsman is exposed as a cheat. Two of the greatest players in baseball history are denied entry into the Hall of Fame because they are cheats. The NFL spends the first three weeks of the season using fake referees. A...

Chris Dufresne's look at the season's college football bowl games

2012-12-12 18:41:00

ESPN's "Octomom" family of networks hopes you enjoy this year's cavalcade of commercials and center snaps as it furiously tries to secure the two games it doesn't broadcast. Conspicuously missing from the lineup is Ohio State (12-0) vs. Louisiana Tech...

Alex Len warms up before the Terps faced Iowa at Madison Square Garden in the NIT. By winning two games in the ACC tournament -- and three more in the NIT -- I thought Maryland managed to rewrite the season's storyline.

2013-05-14 16:53:00

Ha'Sean Clinton- Dix #6 of the Alabama Crimson Tide celebrates with Adrian Hubbard #42 after an interception in the third quarter against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish during the 2013 Discover BCS National Championship game at Sun Life Stadium on January 7, 2013 in Miami Gardens, Florida.

2013-04-21 13:13:00

Alabama linebacker C.J. Mosley (32) celebrates his third quarter interception and touchdown in front of Gators center Mike Pouncey (55) during the Crimson Tide's 31-6 win over the Gators at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, AL Saturday, October 2, 2010. (Gary W. Green/Orlando Sentinel)

2013-04-14 15:01:00