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Resurgent UCLA and NC State Square Off At College World Series While Rivals Watch

Bruins Nation — In the first 60 years of the College World Series, UCLA made it to college baseball's mecca just twice. And won zero games. Since, UCLA has been to Omaha three times in the last four years, and have registered wins in each trip. That includes a win over title favorites LSU on Sunday, which sent them to the winner's brackets where they will face a team that knows their pain of being nationally irrelevant. NC State is in the College World Series for just the second time in their school's history and first time in 45 years. Like the Bruins, who were long overshadowed in a baseball rich re...

9 hours ago

Headlines in the Bruin Twitterverse: Graduation, Moving out, and Baseball Moving On

Bruins Nation — Congratulations to all the new UCLA Graduates! The Wear Twins: Congratulations to Travis & David Wear on getting their UCLA degrees today! pic.twitter.com/EGXSd05RhM — Steve Alford (@UCLACoachAlford) June 14, 2013 Men's Volleyball: Celebrating our MVB athletes at the UCLA Student-Athlete graduation tonight. Congrats, Kene, Scott, Connor & Evan! pic.twitter.com/cFeRpz8yKb — UCLA M. Volleyball (@UCLAMensVB) June 14, 2013 Football: U...C...L...A. Congrats to these great young men, take this opportunity and be great. #BruinRevolution pic.twitter.com/XPlrGqw9rU — Jim Mora (...

16 hours ago

Bruin Bites: Marcedes Praises Mora, Deeter Gets Honored, Shabazz as Ninth Overall Pick?

Bruins Nation — It's Monday morning, and our Bruin baseball team is coming off a huge 2-1 win over #4-seeded LSU in Omaha. If Savage's small-ball, offensively feeble-but-defensively superb squad, can navigate the treacherous path through North Carolina State and either LSU or North Carolina, the Bruins will find themselves in the national title series yet again. So, maybe, just maybe, in spite of our incompetent boob of an athletic director, the Bruins might just bring Westwood its 109th national title. So with that said, here's your Bruin Bites for this Monday morning: Starting with, what else, foot...

June 17, 2013

UCLA Holds Off LSU, 2-1, in College World Series Opener

Bruins Nation — UCLA's game plan is to pitch great, play flawless defense, hit well enough to take advantage of other teams' mistakes and turn the ball over to David Berg in the ninth inning, which is exactly what they did in their College World Series opener against LSU, but with the tying run in scoring position and the winning run on base in the ninth, the Bruins plan looked like it might go up in flames. Then Berg, in a full count, worked his magic. He induced a fly ball to right field and when Eric Filia squeezed it, UCLA had themselves a 2-1 win over Omaha favorites LSU. The win doesn't just mov...

June 16, 2013

UCLA vs. LSU, College World Series Thread: Hello Omaha

Bruins Nation — UCLA got the job done against in the Regionals and they did it again in the Super Regionals, despite taking on Cal State Fullerton at their park. Next up, the College World Series in Omaha. The Bruins get their Omaha campaign underway tonight when they take on LSU in their College World Series opener. North Carolina State already defeated North Carolina today so the winner the Bruins and Tigers' contest will take on the Wolfpack, while the loser will face the Tar Heels in an elimination game. Adam Plutko gets the nod for UCLA and brings with him a 8-3 record and 2.35 ERA this year, but...

June 16, 2013

Bruin Bites: Happy Father’s Day, BruinsNation Turns 8 & Other UCLA Notes

Bruins Nation — What a special day today is here on BruinsNation. First of all, we want to wish a Happy Father's Day to all the Bruins Dads here on BN. Hope you have a fantastic day which ends with a win for our boys in Nebraska later this afternoon (first pitch is scheduled for 5 pm PS). Second, today also happens to be the 8th anniversary of Bruins Nation. That's right. Eight years ago today - Odyessus, Ajax and yours truly - officially opened this place up, moving our little corner from this little blogspot to over here as the first non-baseball team blog on SBNation. Reflect on that for a minute...

June 16, 2013

Scouting LSU: The Tigers Present A Tall Task For UCLA In The College World Series

Bruins Nation — As a reward for upsetting Cal St. Fullerton in the Super Regionals, UCLA gets a date with LSU in their first game of the College World Series. That means a match-up with the most talented team in Omaha and if you ask anyone, the favorites to capture the national title. To get a better look at the Tigers and their excellent team, we tapped PodKATT from SB Nation's LSU blog And The Valley Shook. His take was pretty much what was expected -- LSU is really good. (I answered some questions from PodKATT on the Bruins right here.) Aaron Nola has been nearly unhittable all season, and he was ...

June 15, 2013

First Hand Impressions of Three UCLA Coaches: Jim Mora, Steve Alford & Cori Close

Bruins Nation — As a recent UCLA alumni, I was invited to a UCLA On the Road event, which featured a panel with former Bruins QB, Matt Stevens, Coach Cori Close, Coach Steve Alford and Coach Jim Mora and decided to check it out with a fellow alumni friend of mine. I figured many of you who have not heard our coaches speak in person, would be interested in my impression of the coaches, their visions for their respective programs and their philosophies. Coach Cori Close Our women's basketball program is in very good hands right now. In fact, if Coach was still with us today, I am very willing to bet Dan...

June 15, 2013

Headlines in the Bruin Twitterverse - Let's Go Undie Running!

Bruins Nation — It is our duty to bring you these tweets from the esteemed traditions of finals week at UCLA. That midnight yell tho, they're like screaming bloody murder #UCLA #crazykids — Xavier Su'a-Filo (@HughJundies_) June 11, 2013 Yes, Midnight Yell. Midnight finals yell https://t.co/CkJUgxyIAy — Nick Kazemi (@Nick_1K4z) June 11, 2013 Now that the geezers here remember their traditions, let's move into the newest one: Undie Run. While Undie Run was shut down a year or two ago, it is back and spring quarter is the best time for it. Ill be participating in my last undie run of college to...

June 14, 2013

Bruin Bites: Klemm goes Boom!, Chow coming back, JetSkis's Playbook, Bruin arms in the Bigs, and other news

Bruins Nation — Happy Thursday morning, Bruins. Let's take a look at some of the news and notes surrounding our teams and players. ** The big, as in really big, news in the last week came in the form of two highly coveted JuCO OL recruits Dominick Jackson and Eluemunor, who are coming to Westwood. The key behind these commitments continues to be our ace recruiter Adrian Klemm. Coach Klemm is bringing the Boom! to U.C.L.A. football recruiting, and the college football world is taking notice. Several outlets this week have pointed at Klemm being the key. The SBud Elliott with the SBNation mothersh...

June 13, 2013

Alford v. Harrick, Looking Back at UCLA's Past for the Alford Hire

Bruins Nation — UCLA fans were clamoring for an Indiana Coach. I was so excited when Butler (Indiana) Coach Brad Stevens visited UCLA. I realize there will never be another Coach Wooden but this guy was legitimate in the argument for best coach in America. Unfortunately, UCLA AD Dan Guerrero only heard the Indiana part. So he hired an Indiana legend in Steve Alford. Okay joking aside, we were hoping for a guy that would be "Wooden" like, but Guerrero set his targets on someone like the other UCLA Coach to win a national title, Jim Harrick. For if you look to UCLA history, the model for the Alford ...

June 12, 2013

2011-12 Pac-12 Football APR Ratings: UCLA Jumps to Number 2 Spot

Bruins Nation — Pivoting off my last post about a Trojan football player getting called a "motherf-r" for going to class, the NCAA released its academic progress ratings (APR) for all schools on Wednesday. The APR basically measures the kind of job schools are doing wrt to not just retaining student athletes and helping them to meet their goal of graduating over a four year period. As noted on the NCAA's website: Every Division I sports team calculates its APR each academic year, based on the eligibility, graduation and retention of each scholarship student-athlete. Teams scoring below certain thres...

June 11, 2013

2013 College World Series: LSU-UCLA First Pitch Set for 5 pm Sunday in Omaha

Bruins Nation — The Bruins are making their third appearance in college baseball's big show in Omaha in last four years. The party is going to get started on Sunday night (6/16) when the Bruins (44-17) take on (gulp) LSU (57-9) starting at 5 pm PST. The game will be televised on ESPN2 and also shown on ESPN 3. As of right now the starting pitchers are: UCLA - Adam Plutko, RHP, Jr. (8-3, 2.35) LSU - Aaron Nola, RHP, So. (12-0, 1.68) Nola's numbers are pretty crazy and I am sure Ryan will have lot more to say on the Tigers from his notes later this week. Islandbruin has more numbers on UCLA side ...

June 11, 2013

Headlines in the Bruin Twitterverse: UCLA Baseball to Omaha!

Bruins Nation — UCLA is headed back to the College World Series, and the congratulations came from everywhere. Big congrats to @uclabaseball for beating Fullerton last night and now heading to the World Series! #Omaha — Brandon Crawford (@bcraw35) June 9, 2013 Congrats to @uclabaseball for making it it Omaha and @papaplut09 for being drafted to the Indians! I'm sure the Midwest will treat you well! — Samantha Peszek (@samanthapeszek) June 9, 2013 Congrats to @uclabaseball for their big win and booking a trip to Omaha. Go get #109 — John Speraw (@JohnSperaw) June 9, 2013 Congrats to the br...

June 11, 2013

Bruins Land Another Huge OL Recruit

Bruins Nation — All together now..."Line Wins Games!" The Bruins got another huge, literally, recruit this morning. As was just tweeted by Edward Lewis with BruinSportsReport #UCLA has landed a commitment from four-star JUCO OT Jermaine Eluemunor. — Edward Lewis (@EdwardLewisBSR) June 10, 2013 Jermaine Eluemenor - a commit for the class of 2014 - is a highly prized 4 star OT from Scranton PA who measures up at 6-6 and 300. He was being pursued by Alabama and Ohio State among others, but gave his commitment to the Bruins after visiting campus this weekend. You can see his profile on Rivals here....

June 10, 2013

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