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David Thorpe's Rookie Watch: Top summer-league performers (174 clicks)
Through 10 days, three gyms and 44 games in the NBA's Orlando and Las Vegas summer leagues, here are the 10 best rookie performers I've seen, and a few who could end up cracking this group before the Vegas league finishes Sunday. [Darren Collison #9]

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Swimming & Diving Announces 2009-2010 Schedule (55 clicks)
The UCLA swimming and diving team has announced the 2009-2010 competition schedule, which features five meets in the new state-of-the-art Spieker Aquatics Center.

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Jrue Holiday signs with Philadelphia (110 clicks)
The former UCLA standout could see immediate playing time with the Sixers next season. PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia 76ers have signed first-round draft pick, guard Jrue Holiday.

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A look back at 2006 recruiting classes (137 clicks)
The 2006 recruiting class members are either seniors or redshirt juniors this fall, so they should be the backbones of most Pac-10 team's starting lineups. Therefore, it seems like a reasonable moment to look back and review some recruiting hits and misses.

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Shipp still waiting (107 clicks)
Although former UCLA wing Josh Shipp has a lucrative offer (more than $250,000 per season) to play in Italy, he still has not signed with anyone.

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Duran, Watley on the Offensive as USA Wins KFC World Cup of Softball (62 clicks)
The USA Softball Women's National Team won the gold medal at the KFC World Cup of Softball (July 16-20) thanks in part to the outstanding offensive performances by UCLA alums Andrea Duran and Natasha Watley.

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Pac-10 Preview: UCLA Looks to Share the Socal Spotlight (139 clicks)
2009 will prove to be the second full season under head coach Rick Neuheisel. Although the record may not show it, his first season provided the Bruins with a great foundation to build on for the future.

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UCLA's FB opener kick time set (83 clicks)
UCLA's season opener against San Diego State at the Rose Bowl on Sept. 5 will kick offat 4:30 p.m. It will be televised FS West.

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Spaulding Roundup: Game time For San Diego St. & Notes Re. "Rebuilding Process" (82 clicks)
Let's start this Tuesday with some news from the official site. We have just 46 days left till the kickoff and we now have a start time for the opener against San Diego State.

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San Diego State Game Time Set (52 clicks)
The time for UCLA's season-opening football game versus San Diego has been set. The September 5 game at the Rose Bowl will kick off at 4:30 pm PST.

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Chen Levitan Signs with Men's Volleyball (113 clicks)
Head Coach Al Scates announced the signing Monday of Chen Levitan, a veteran of the Israeli National Team.

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Summer hoops stuff (124 clicks)
Here is how former UCLA players fared in the Las Vegas Summer League: Alfred Aboya averaged .6 points, one rebound and eight minutes in five games for the Mavericks. Luc Richard Mbah a Moute averaged 7.5 points and six rebounds in four games for the Bucks. Darren Collison averaged 18.5 points and 3.8 assists in four games for the Hornets.

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Jordan Farmar to Visit Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA (85 clicks)
UCLA Alum and current Los Angeles Laker, Jordan Farmar, will visit kids at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA on July 23, in connection with an event which includes a reunion with patients from his 'Making Dreams Come True' program as part of the Jordan Farmar Foundation.

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NCAA Football 10 UCLA Season Simulation: SDSU (124 clicks)
This will be the first in a series of posts that will follow how I play through our upcoming season schedule in NCAA Football 10's Dynasty Mode, where one can recruit and play through numerous seasons and years in an effort to build a "dynasty", or at least a recognized program, at your selected school.

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Twelve Tracksters Earn USTFCCCA All-Academic Accolades (53 clicks)
Six men and six women have been honored by the U.S. Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches Association for excellence in the classroom and on the track as the 2009 Outdoor All-Academic teams were announced.

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UCLA Represented at FINA World Water Polo Championships (63 clicks)
Former UCLA women's water polo players Tanya Gandy, Jaime (Hipp) Komer and Kelly Rulon and former men's players Adam Wright (current UCLA men's head coach) and Justin Johnson are playing for the U.S. Senior National Teams in the FINA World Championships.

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Serving It Up With ... Amanda Gil (Part II) (65 clicks)
In the second of a two-part feature with sophomore middle blocker Amanda Gil, the 2008 Pacific Region and Pac-10 Freshman of the Year discusses what she does in her spare time, Nellie Spicer and 7 a.m. practices.

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(Expected) Pauley approval (60 clicks)
Here is one more thing from my inbox during my vacation. It is the UC Board of Regents approving the Pauley Pavilion project

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Closing some loose ends (101 clicks)
Back from vacation and sifting through my inbox. Freshman running back/defensive back Dalton Hilliard had surgery last week because of a "loose body'' floating in his right knee.

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The Eight Biggest Stories of Summer League (185 clicks)
Several point guards who came to Las Vegas made strong impressions. Jonny Flynn, despite all the turmoil surrounding Ricky Rubio, stood out.

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Expected winners from draft turn out to be losers (197 clicks)
Collison, previously thought to perform poorly, is playing well at 2009 NBA Summer League

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Inter Milan at UCLA, fans gather (93 clicks)
Italian league champions give SoCal soccer team, Offside Sports, new experience

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Tennis player steadily recovers (88 clicks)
Suspect wanted on charges of assaulting Jake Fleming surrendered to police

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Straus Stadium prepares for LA Tennis Open next week (83 clicks)
Tournament to kick off with past record holder, Pete Sampras, headlining on opening night

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Roundup From BN Walk: Aikman's Weekend, Stokes Interview, Umodu's Writeup & Other Notes (119 clicks)
Let's start the week with one last shout to Troy Aikman was officially enshrinement at the College Football HOF in South Bend, Indiana this past weekend.

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2009 Preview: UCLA Offense (138 clicks)
This will be the first of a three part series looking at the 2009 UCLA Bruins.

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Cheney Sets Up Game Winner in 1-0 Victory over Canada (58 clicks)
A pair of UCLA seniors were in action on Sunday, as the U.S. Women's National Team posted a 1-0 victory over Canada before 8,443 in Rochester, NY.

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Some Changes In 09-10 Ben Ball Schedule (120 clicks)
The Pacific 10 has approved several changes to UCLA's 2009-10 men's basketball season, starting with the conference's opening weekend. The Arizona/Arizona State at UCLA/USC series has been switched so that Arizona State visits Pauley Pavilion on Dec. 31, Arizona on Jan. 2.

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Football. UCLABruins.com Summer Spotlight - Reginald Stokes (95 clicks)
Defensive end Reginald Stokes of the football team is featured in this week's UCLABruins.com summer spotlight. After two years of working to get onto the field, the redshirt junior had a breakout season in 2008, seeing action in 11 games and making five starts. In his first career start against Oregon, he was credited with five tackles and also blocked a field goal attempt.

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Aikman to be Enshrined (67 clicks)
Troy Aikman, who back in December was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, will be enshrined in South Bend, Ind. on Saturday. The enshrinement will be televised by CBS College Sports Network beginning at 5:30 PST. ESPN360.com will also carry a live stream of the ceremony. [end of text]

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Former Bruins great Troy Aikman to be enshrined into CFB Hall of Fame (76 clicks)
Former UCLA and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman will be enshrined Saturday into the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind. He was inducted into the Hall in December at a ceremony in New York.

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College Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Show to be Televised on Saturday (86 clicks)
Troy Aikman will be enshrined in the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame on Saturday, July 18.

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Pauley Pavilion renovation gets approval (87 clicks)
The proposed renovation of Pauley Pavilion has taken another step forward with the University of California Board of Regents unanimously approving the project design plan, financing plan and environmental impact study.

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Spaulding Roundup: ATV's Offseason Notes & Thoughts On OL (101 clicks)
So let's end the week with a football exclusive roundup (can you get the sense the season is closing in!).

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A Quick NCAA Football 2010 Overview: UCLA (89 clicks)
For gamers and college football enthusiasts, early/mid-July means the release of EA Sports' annual NCAA Football title; it signals the start of many video game releases in the upcoming months but more importantly, it (at least for me) serves as a marker on the calendar that fall camp and the season kickoff is fast approaching.

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UC Board of Regents Approves Pauley Pavilion Transformation (73 clicks)
The Campaign of Champions, the most important endeavor in the history of UCLA Athletics, took another step to ensure its success as the University of California Board of Regents and the Committee on Grounds and Buildings gave final approval for the renovation and expansion of legendary Pauley Pavilion at their meeting on July 14.

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Bruins lose discus thrower (67 clicks)
Mason Finley, a high school national record-holder in the discus, will attend Kansas University this fall. Finley, a native of Salida, Colo., agreed to a letter of intent with UCLA but later decided to go elsewhere after the Bruins fired track coach Art Venegas.

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Rasmussen Pegged as Starter (57 clicks)
Some baseball news to pass along...

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Kevin Love on the B.S. Report (141 clicks)
Bill Simmons talks to Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love about Ricky Rubio and Minnesota's controversial NBA draft, the best young players in the league, Twitter, and more. [audio]

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Part 8: Proven or Unproven? A Prince to Lead the Bruins (172 clicks)
Kevin Prince was destined to be a UCLA Bruin from day one. Both Prince's father and uncle played at UCLA and the young Prince was a ball boy for for the Bruins during the Karl Dorrell era in Westwood.

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Pac-10 home run hitters (130 clicks)
The most dangerous guys in space for each Pac-10 team.

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UCLA football: Early predictions lukewarm toward Bruins (121 clicks)
Some of the better-known college football prognosticators in the nation rarely tend to agree on things and their predictions on how UCLA will do this season bear that out.

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Verner's Views IV (87 clicks)
Senior Alterraun Verner checks in with the fourth edition of his summer journal.

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UCLA's Rob Rasmussen to Start in Cape Cod League All-Star Game (67 clicks)
UCLA left-hander Rob Rasmussen has been selected to start on the mound in the 2009 Cape Cod League All-Star game at Fenway Park in Boston on Thursday, July 23. Rasmussen has gone 2-0 with a 0.96 ERA in three starts for the Orleans Firebirds.

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Upgrade or Downgrade? Defensive End (87 clicks)
For today's edition of "Upgrade or Downgrade?" I thought that the next logical place to go would be defensive end. Coming out of spring practice, Datone Jones is projected to start, opposite Korey Bosworth

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UCLA pitcher selected to start in Cape Cod League all-star game (106 clicks)
Rob Rasmussen, a junior left-hander from UCLA, has been selected to start on the mound in the Cape Cod League all-star game on July 23 at Fenway Park, according to the school.

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Hope and concern: UCLA (174 clicks)
Seventh in a series on grounds for optimism and worry.

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UCLA football: Freshman RB to have surgery (98 clicks)
Incoming freshman running back Dalton Hilliard will have right knee surgery Friday, a UCLA spokesman confirmed today.

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Roundup From BN Walk: Trojans Laughed At ESPY, DC's Hot Start, Summer Ben Ball & Other Notes (168 clicks)
Let's start our walk this Thursday with a little note from ESPY awards. I never waste my time watching that show because it seems silly and to me it seems to pretty much symbolize what has gone wrong with WWL (which spends lot more time on showbiz aspect of sports than zeroing on pure athletics and pure competition ... perhaps a post for another day).

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Serving It Up With ... Amanda Gil (97 clicks)
Sophomore middle blocker Amanda Gil sits down with UCLABruins.com to talk about her transition from high school to college, when she began her love for volleyball and her summer vacation.

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Upgrade or Downgrade? Defensive Tackle (114 clicks)
We had one of the best, if not the best defensive tackle tandem in the PAC-10, with Brian Price and Brigham Harwell. Brian Price ended up winning 1st team all PAC-10 honors and Harwell 2nd team. While we will be welcoming back Brian Price this year, we lose Harwell to graduation. Jerzy Siewierski is currently on the top of the depth chart for the other defensive tackle spot:

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AA interview in Denver 7/15 (108 clicks)
AA interview in Denver 7/15 Arron Afflalo is interviewed by sports talk show hosts Scott Hastings (former NBA center and champ with Detroit Pistons) and Al Wilson (Butkus Award winner, Super Bowl Champ with Denver Broncos) on 104.3 The Fan, about his recent trade to the Denver Nuggets.

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