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UCLA keeps cool as tempers simmer over USC
This is always a moment lurking when UCLA and USC play. With the Bruins comfortably ahead and the Trojans uncomfortably frustrated Sunday, UCLA’s Norman Powell and USC’s Omar Oraby got tangled up, both clutching the basketball. The moment...
Tags: Oregon Ducks, Pacific-12 Conference, USC Trojans, UCLA Bruins, Arizona Wildcats
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With Ben Howland, UCLA could have been on pedestal, ended in abyss
The saddest part of the Ben Howland saga at UCLA is not that a decent guy and good coach got fired. He's a big boy. He'll be fine. Give it a couple of years and he'll have another team in Pauley Pavilion, rendering UCLA black-and-not-so-Bruins-blue....
Tags: Basketball, National Collegiate Athletic Association, University of California, Los Angeles, College Sports, College Basketball
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UCLA hires Steve Alford as basketball coach; he has big job ahead
Steve Alford, who spent the last six seasons at New Mexico, will take over the basketball program at UCLA less than two weeks after saying how happy he was to be signing a contract extension to remain coach of the Lobos. The hiring came at the end of a...
Tags: New Mexico Lobos, Basketball, Indiana Hoosiers, National Collegiate Athletic Association, NBA Draft
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UCLA hires Steve Alford as basketball coach
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.Steve Alford has been hired as UCLA’s basketball coach, the university announced Saturday morning. Alford, 48, spent the last six seasons at New Mexico, compiling a 155-52 record. He replaces Ben Howland, who was fired after going 25-10 and...Tags: New Mexico Lobos, Basketball, Mountain West Conference, National Collegiate Athletic Association, University of California, Los Angeles
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Letters: Raised for stardom
Re "A father's hoops dream," Column One, March 22 What Ron Holmes has done with his son Shabazz Muhammad's athletic prowess is nothing new. Sadly, many parents have viewed their progeny as a way to enrich themselves or to live vicariously through them.... -
UK Basketball: Kentucky target Andrew Wiggins named national Gatorade Player of the Year
larry@amnews.comCollege coaches and basketball fans are waiting to see where Huntington (W.Va.) Prep standout Andrew Wiggins will play next year, but today he got his own surprise — former NBA all-star Alonzo Mourning was at his school to honor him for being...Tags: Basketball, John Calipari, Alonzo Mourning, Marcus Smart, College Sports
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UCLA wants more than Ben Howland could deliver—and it's entitled to
How can they fire a coach who just won a conference championship? How can they fire a leader who spent 10 years winning more than twice as many games as he lost? How can they fire a salesman who last season brought in the No. 2-ranked recruiting class...
Tags: Basketball, National Basketball Association, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Bill Plaschke, UCLA Bruins
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Birth certificate shows UCLA's Shabazz Muhammad is 20, not 19
As UCLA prepares to play its first game in the NCAA tournament later tonight, the Bruins will rely on their standout freshman Shabazz Muhammad to lead the way. Muhammad is under pressure: He must perform well on national television to raise his NBA...
Tags: Basketball, National Collegiate Athletic Association, NBA Draft, College Sports, Pacific-12 Conference
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Funding for Shabazz Muhammad's campus visits came from all over
UCLA apparel sponsor Adidas, a Los Angeles basketball trainer, a New York financial advisor and a 34-year-old financial planner all contributed funds to basketball standout Shabazz Muhammad and his summer league team as the talented player wound his way...Tags: Basketball, University of South Florida, High Schools, National Collegiate Athletic Association, University of Memphis
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Setting Times stories to music: Elvis Costello, Nina Simone and more
I’m trying to decide what I liked more in the last week: the wonderful stories that populated Column One, or the songs that I listened to while reading them. OK, it’s the stories. (Even if Thursday’s Column One on Perez Hilton sent...
Tags: Elvis Costello, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Music, Nick Lowe, Mike Trout
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Ron Holmes had recording of benefactor's phone call to the NCAA
The father of UCLA basketball star Shabazz Muhammad took out what he called “a little protection” against NCAA investigators, guarding a recording of a phone call that a benefactor had made to the NCAA for more than two years. Ron Holmes...Tags: Basketball, National Collegiate Athletic Association, University of California, Los Angeles, Lawyers, College Basketball
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How UCLA's Shabazz Muhammad was groomed for stardom by father
Ron Holmes has spent two decades making sure that his son, UCLA basketball star Shabazz Muhammad, will one day play for the pros. When UCLA takes the court Friday night against Minnesota in its NCAA basketball tournament opener, fans may be getting...
Tags: Basketball, National Collegiate Athletic Association, NBA Draft, College Sports, Pacific-12 Conference
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