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Surprise, surprise: Florida is No. 1 in USA Today preseason coaches' poll (198 clicks)
This just in: Florida is No.1...and the sun also rises The Florida Gators, who have won two of the last three Bowl Championship Series national titles, are No. 1 in Friday's release of the USA Today preseason coaches' poll.
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2009 UCLA opponent preview: USC (152 clicks)
The Trojans are again the team to beat in the Pac-10 but they aren't looked upon as the sure thing the way they were the past two seasons.
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Football. Verner's Views VII (198 clicks)
In this week's installment of Verner's Views, the All-America cornerback discusses the last week before the start of Fall camp.
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2009 Preview: Kansas State (139 clicks)
The Bruins round out their non-conference schedule with a visit from the Kansas State Wildcats. Both teams are in rebuilding mode and the outcome of this game will be a key indicator of the progress of each program.Bill Snyder returns to the University, and the coaching ranks, after retiring in 2005. He made some headlines for immediately trying to get the Wildcats out of their scheduled game with UCLA.
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Greetings, folks (166 clicks)
Hi. This is Jill Painter. As you all know, Brian Dohn is leaving the Daily News. He's done a wonderful job and made this blog a huge success. We'll be in transition for a while, so please be patient. I'll be leading our football coverage in the interim until we hire someone.
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Spaulding Roundup: ATV Aces It & More Notes On Our Frontlines (121 clicks)
Well it's kind of tough to pivot back to football after my previous post. But I have in pretty good authority is that is exactly what EZ would do (and I know he was reading this blog religiously every am especially during those brutal Dorrell years). We will start with someone who has reminded all of us what Bruin student athletes are all about: ATV.
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Rest In Peace Don (132 clicks)
I woke up this morning and was browsing through my UCLA reads and then found one of the toughest news I have ever read as a UCLA fan when seeing this thread about "EZ Beach" who was known as "EZ" on Bruin Report Online. EZ (Don Kramer) passed away. I have never met EZ but I have been reading his passionate posts about all things UCLA football for years now on BRO. In all my years of following UCLA football and basketball via online communities (I have been member of that community all the way back when BruinReportOnline was part of Rivals.com in 1999).
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Cool Update From A Bruin Athletic Family: Kevin Jordan & Jenny Johnson Jordan (124 clicks)
Cool Update From A Bruin Athletic Family: Kevin Jordan & Jenny Johnson Jordan A nice article on two former Bruin stand out athletes married to each other: WR Kevin Jordan (was just talking about him the other day) and volleyball standout Jenny Johnson (who is the daughter of Rafer Johnson).
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UCLA fall camp preview: 5 questions (No. 5) (190 clicks)
Are the Bruins ready to compete for a Pac-10 Championship?
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UCLA fall camp preview: 5 questions (No. 4) (161 clicks)
Will the Bruins be able to resurrect their running game?
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UCLA fall camp preview: 5 questions (No. 3) (154 clicks)
What does the Bruins' offensive line need to do to improve?
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UCLA football preview: Defensive line (265 clicks)
UCLA linebacker Reggie Carter has a challenge for the Bruins’ offensive linemen this training camp.
“I would like to see someone block Brian Price for a while,” Carter said at the Pacific 10 Conference’s media day. “I have never seen that.”
Price, a junior defensive tackle, is the centerpiece of what should be a strong starting defensive front this season. His abilities are such that UCLA coaches are already fretting that he may jump to the NFL after this season.
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USC-UCLA: Neuheisel still talks of Bruin takeover (155 clicks)
Coach says the Bruins aren't 'as far away as people think.'
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WHEN A MONTH SEEMS LIKE A YEAR (133 clicks)
With 31 days left until the 2009 UCLA Football Season kicks off, the tension is mounting (like the NCAA’s evidence against Fig. Tech)
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2009 Opponent Previews - UCLA (224 clicks)
Last week in the Big Orange Roundtable, I said the UCLA game was the most important game of the season because of its position on the schedule...so while a couple of other games will have a higher ranking, those games will be significantly less important if the Vols fail to win this one.
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2009 UCLA opponent preview: Arizona State (128 clicks)
The Sun Devils, under head coach Dennis Erickson, have made improvements on defense, overcoming a lot of last season's discrepancies with speed.
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Offensive Line Thoughts: No Rootcanal In 2009? (147 clicks)
I wanted to build on captain's post from yesterday which wrapped up his look through UCLA's offensive line. Again this is a topic we have discussed over and over all through this off-season.
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A Neu Theme in 2009? (141 clicks)
If relentless optimism was the dominant theme in 2008, are we up for a change in 2009? I've been noticing a trend in the articles on BN and also among other media outlets of a certain brash confidence among our players (offense and defense) and coaching staff. So far, I like it.
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UCLA football preview: offensive line (253 clicks)
Divine intervention is rarely requested before a season begins. But these are unique times for UCLA and Coach Rick Neuheisel.
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Upgrade or Downgrade? Right Tackle (157 clicks)
After this, it's just one post left with "Upgrade or Downgrade? QB", and we'll have hit every position with new starters in 2009 (except for special teams). For today, we're looking at Right Tackle. In 2008 we had a couple different starters at right tackle, but it was The Mike Harris Show (I mean that in a good way!) for the last 5 games. After spring in 2009, Jeff Baca is slated to start at the right tackle spot.
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Remember us? We're UCLA football. (262 clicks)
[H]e's got UCLA fans starting to froth. After all, they point out, in his second year at Colorado, Neuheisel went 10-2. In his second year at Washington, he went 11-1.
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Best case-worst case: UCLA (232 clicks)
Fourth in a series looking at potential dream and nightmare scenarios for all Pac-10 teams, starting at the bottom and working up from my vote in the Pac-10 media poll. Up next: UCLA
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UCLA Coach Rick Neuheisel and son Jerry will work around the coach's 'quiet period' for talking to r (217 clicks)
Among the players who attended the Football University Top Gun All-Star Training Experience's junior/senior camp this past week in Paisley was Jerry Neuheisel, the son of UCLA Coach Rick Neuheisel.
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UCLA fall camp preview: 5 questions (No. 2) (172 clicks)
Can the defense carry the Bruins this season, or until the offense gets going?
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UCLA fall camp preview: 5 questions (No. 1) (167 clicks)
Can quarterback Kevin Prince lead the Bruins' offense?
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Spin Doctors: Adrian Peterson vs. Maurice Jones-Drew (217 clicks)
You'll find All Day Peterson atop most pre-draft cheat sheets, but not all. There are a few courageous dissenters within the expert community. Brandon Funston is such a man. He's taking MJD first overall, leaving Peterson for the chump drafting second. Funston has 250 words to make his case, starting now...
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UCLA Football 2009: Preview and Predictions (263 clicks)
The UCLA Bruins will be a better team with a better record in 2009. They will NOT go 4-8 again.
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2009 UCLA opponent preview: Washington State (118 clicks)
Head coach Paul Wulff was successful at Eastern Washington but couldn't carry that same level of success in his move to Pullman.
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A Stable Of Talented But Unproven UCLA RBs: Who Will Step Up? (225 clicks)
Let's pick up from our discussions on quarterbacks. When discussing QBs, we talked about how we need Kevin Prince or Richard Brehaut - whoever among those two step up as the signal caller this season - to develop into efficient manager of our offense.
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2009 Preview: Tennessee (118 clicks)
After the season opener against San Diego State, the Bruins travel east for a showdown with the Tennessee Volunteers in the heart of SEC country. Lane Kiffin takes over the reigns of a Tennessee team that had one of the worst seasons of the past two decade.
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UCLA football preview: tight ends (215 clicks)
Finally, UCLA football fans, there is a spot on which to focus some relentless optimism: tight end. While Everest-like question marks can be attached to other positions on the offense, tight end seems to be the one spot on solid...
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Anyone can have a lean decade. The Bruins have tradition, They have a smarter, wiser Rick... (129 clicks)
Anyone can have a lean decade. The Bruins have tradition, They have a smarter, wiser Rick Neuheisel, the first UCLA coach to make Pete Carroll work harder in Los Angeles recruiting in the USC coach's nine years. The Bruins have a solid, veteran coaching staff and nowhere to go but up.
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UCLA center Kai Maiava sees a future different from the past (159 clicks)
He says to expect the UCLA offensive line to redeem itself after a dismal 2008 season, which he sat out after his transfer from Colorado. He looks at his flat feet as he tells you what will happen this fall.
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UCLA football preview: wide receivers (260 clicks)
The plan for UCLA’s passing game is to gain yards in “chunks,” a word both Coach Rick Neuheisel and offensive coordinator Norm Chow have used. The name that is being dropped often in that plan is true freshman Randall Carroll.
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Neuheisel touts progress (177 clicks)
Last Thursday at Pac-10 Football Media Day, UCLA football coach Rick Neuheisel spoke like any coach coming off a demoralizing season would. The second-year head man sounded optimistic as he talked to reporters about his team's transformation. And despite last year's 4-8 record, the worst for any Bruin coach since Terry Donahue's 3-7 mark in 1989, Neuheisel made it clear that he believes the program is headed in the right direction.
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Media day an occasion for optimism (164 clicks)
It is an eager time of the year in the college football world. The season begins in one month. Thirty-three days from now, UCLA will host San Diego State at the Rose Bowl. That is close enough to begin speculation, but still too far away to know the most important things – what a team's depth chart will look like, how it will improve throughout training camp, how it will be affected by injury or how its freshmen will acclimate.
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2009 UCLA opponent preview: Oregon State (135 clicks)
The Beavers don't have much to worry about on offense as long as James and Jacquizz Rodgers (Pac-10 Player of the Year) stay healthy.
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Spaulding Roundup: Tobi's Offseason Wrap, Some Good News & Pirate Alert (156 clicks)
Let's start our UCLA football roundup this Monday with Toby Umodu's off-season notes. He has been writing a weekly "Keeping It Bruin," which is a look into UCLA athletics for a local paper in Malibu.
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A Question Everyone Is Wondering About U$C* (129 clicks)
Ahem. Yeah, it's not where they will finish in the Pac-10 this coming season with a team built by (alleged) cheating for years. We will leave that to Kirk Herbstreit, Brent Musberger, and rest of the corporate clowns from ESPN, who will be busy this coming football season to sweep the real story under rug for the purposes of cheap ratings.
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2009 Preview: San Diego State (118 clicks)
First up for the Bruins this year is a rebuilding San Deigo State program. Fresh off the hire of Ball State's Brady Hoke (who went 12-2 last season with the Cardinals), the Aztecs have a long way to go before they'll compete with the best of the Mountain West Conference.
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It's a long season, and it starts early (145 clicks)
Some key games come before Labor Day on the road to the Pasadena title game This is the first in a series of seven 2009 college football story lines. Next week, national columnist Chris Dufresne begins a daily countdown of his preseason top 25.
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UCLA - Tennessee Football Trivia: Thirty Five Years Ago ... ? (112 clicks)
According to this story on Deadspin, UCLA and Tennessee made college football history 35 years ago when the Bruins traveled to Knoxville. What happened? Jim Lampley became the first ever sideline reporter for a televised football game, college or pro.
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UCLA football preview: Running backs (253 clicks)
UCLA Coach Rick Neuheisel wanted to make one thing perfectly clear last week at the Pacific 10 Conference’s media day.
“We’re going to be able to run the ball or die trying this year,” Neuheisel said, then paused, then hammered it home again. “We’re going to be able to run the ball or die trying this year.”
A dramatic leap in ability and execution will be required to keep the Bruins off life-support.
UCLA ranked 116 out of 120 BCS Division teams in rushing last season, averaging 82.8 yards per game. The Bruins’ average of 2.6 yards per carry was fodder for three-yards-and-ground-to-dust jokes.
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Quarterback Questions: All About Kevin Prince (243 clicks)
During last three years on Bruins Nation, usually this time of the season we put up our notes on various positions going over the depth chart of the team. We decided to put together our notes because we were not seeing any comprehensive takes on various positions elsewhere around the internet.
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PLACID FLASHBACK (138 clicks)
With this week’s most recent — and fairly damning — allegations against usc’s basketball and beloved football programs, everyone who didn’t buy a trojan diploma is counting the days until troy sports crumbles under the weight of severe NCAA penalties. The tension grows, as the pile of evidence continues to overwhelm the NCAA offices.
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Spaulding Roundup: Practice Around The Corner, Left Over Notes From Pac-10 Media Day (165 clicks)
So we are officially in August, which we have just 4 more Saturdays to go before we get to write "Gameday Roundup." However, time is going to start flying beginning this week as we get ready for training camp which will start on August 10.
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UCLA football preview: the quarterbacks (324 clicks)
The short version on the UCLA quarterback situation: There is nowhere to go but up … right?
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