BATON ROUGE, La. — As they ran into a tunnel leading into the locker room for halftime, UCLA players were loudly serenaded by a pack of fans in a nearby corner of Tiger Stadium shouting the school’s four letters. The Bruins had finally provided something to cheer about after largely listless showings in their first two
UCLA coach DeShaun Foster stands on the sideline during a loss to Indiana on Sept. 14. (Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press) Foster said his team’s execution issues have been tied to players being overly excited and trying to do too much, especially early in the game. UCLA has been outscored by a combined 34-7
Embrace the hurt. Sit with the discomfort. Marinate in the misery. That was the essence of UCLA coach DeShaun Foster’s message to his team after the Bruins on Saturday absorbed their worst loss in a home opener since a 35-0 beatdown by Stanford in 2010. “I just told them to keep that feeling that you
Hawaii’s Pofele Ashlock hurdles UCLA’s Carson Schwesinger during the second half of the Bruins’ win at the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex on Aug. 31 in Honolulu. (Darryl Oumi / Getty Images) UCLA’s defense held the Rainbow Warriors to three points and 100 yards in the second half to spark a comeback, but what does
Once hailed as the fastest player in college basketball, he now moves with the push of a button. His motorized wheelchair whirring to life, “Rocket Rod” Foster uses the joystick attached to the end of an armrest to roll forward inside his West Los Angeles apartment. He can raise his right arm to roughly shoulder
According to U.S. Dept. of Education figures, UCLA topped all Big Ten schools by receiving $692 million in donations from 2022-23. But that zeal for lavishing cash did not carry over to the school’s athletic department, which ranked fourth from the bottom of the conference with just $16 million in donations over the same period.
“October 7,” a play drawn from interviews with survivors of Hamas’ 2023 terror attack on Israel, will make its West Coast debut via a staged reading at UCLA on the one-year anniversary of the surprise assault. The one-night-only event, programmed by The Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at Hillel at UCLA, will take
UCLA quarterback Ethan Garbers passes against Hawaii in the first half Saturday. (Darryl Oumi / Getty Images) Expected to be a steadying force, Garbers was one of the reasons things went haywire in the first half. The veteran quarterback repeatedly locked onto receivers during slow-developing plays, resulting in telegraphed passes that usually fell incomplete. He
HONOLULU — DeShaun Foster has long contended that nothing said about him or his team mattered once it played ball. UCLA’s new coach is too inexperienced? Play ball. The Bruins won’t be able to master a complex NFL offense? Play ball. They’re headed for a rough debut in the Big Ten? Play ball. The Bruins finally
First year UCLA head coach DeShaun Foster, who previously coached the team’s running backs, will have a new role on the sideline on Saturday when Bruins play Hawaii. (Icon Sportswire / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Just like before his first high school game and his first college game as a running back, Foster acknowledged