Mixed signals for UCLA
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PASADENA -- The UCLA football team got the fresh start it was seeking in opener Saturday&#39;s season opener. The results, however, were good and bad.
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Overall, Andrew Walter has had better games. His performance in the fourth quarter against UCLA, however, was as good as it gets. The senior threw for 415 yards and six touchdowns, two in a late rally, to lead No.
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Ayinde Ubaka scored 8 of his career-high 29 points in overtime and California stunned fourth-ranked UCLA, 76-69, in the Pac-10 tournament quarterfinals last night in Los Angeles. Ryan Anderson added 18 points for the eighth-seeded Bears (16-16), who gave up a 16-point first-half lead.
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Picked-up pieces while remembering that Len Bias died 21 years ago yesterday: Peter Chiarelli underwhelms us. His first coaching hire was a dud, and now he's apparently going to sell us on Claude Julien when most Bruins fans would prefer Mike Milbury. Charlie Jacobs underwhelms us, also. There appears to be a conscious effort to purge all things Harry Sinden ...
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On first blush, today's Division 1-AA playoff game between Massachusetts and Lafayette seems to be a mismatch of colossal proportions.
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In a season in which the University of Massachusetts has flirted with the possibility of an NCAA Tournament appearance, the Minutemen continue to look ahead to their seeding in the Atlantic 10 tournament as the opportunity for an at-large bid dwindles.
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LOS ANGELES -- They were playing the role of spoilers, heavy underdogs to a Southern California team that wants to prove it is the best college football team in the country this season.
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UCLA put together two strong halves and avoided the kind of collapse that cost the fifth-ranked Bruins in their previous game.
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The No. 1 Trojans look to change the subject away from eligibility rulings and rape allegations. The preseason buzz out of USC has had little to do with football.
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LOS ANGELES  - Some things just elude   prognostication. Middle East politics, Midwest weather patterns   and college basketball's March Madness tournament, for example,   are so unpredictable that to impose any set of expectations on   what the future might bring is futile.
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Jon Brockman and Spencer Hawes combined for 33 points and 28 rebounds and led Washington to its biggest win of the season, a 61-51 upset of No. 2 UCLA on Saturday. The Huskies (18-12, 8-10 Pac-10), physically matched the Bruins' grind-it-out style. UCLA (26-4, 15-3), already the Pac-10 champions, saw its five-game winning streak end.
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The last time the rest of the country looked in on UCLA, the Bruins played their way into the national championship game with defense. They needed a big dose of it yesterday.
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The game came about because both sides had wants and needs. Boston College wanted a fifth home game; the University of Massachusetts needed to pump revenue into its cash-strapped football program.
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Critics of college rankings say universities aren't like their sports teams: you cannot settle who is best with head-to-head competition on the playing field. But in a new paper, a group of economists and statisticians begs to differ.
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Shaun Cody decided the time was right to speak up. Top-ranked Southern California was trailing Stanford at halftime, and the Trojans' hopes for a national championship were in jeopardy. Cody, a senior and captain, called the Sept. 25 game a turning point.
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This is getting less and less suspenseful. It's not that Westwood's opponents aren't worthy adversaries -- it's just that high school football squads aren't supposed to have a passing game this sophisticated.
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Down by 10 points at home for the first time this season, No. 1 UCLA eventually got its act together.