UC Irvine Anteaters

LOS ANGELES — Fifty years ago Loyola won its single NCAA tournament championship. It came in men's basketball. The third-seeded Ramblers will play in their first-ever men's volleyball semifinal Thursday night against defending champion and second-...

Collin Mehring had been a growing boy and a somewhat unreliable contributor to the UC Irvine men's volleyball team for two years while being an intense student in the school's acclaimed computer science engineering program. And that's hardly surprising....

Former record-setting tailback inks free-agent deal with Baltimore after stint at Louisiana Tech. Former Orange Coast College tailback Ray Holley has signed as a free agent with the Baltimore Ravens, Pirates football coach Mike Taylor said in an...

Even as they towered over most of their teammates and competitors, and flew high over the net, the 6-foot-7 Collin Mehring and 6-9 Kyle Russell operated well below the radar last season with the UC Irvine men's volleyball team. Mehring, a junior...

It took Michael Brinkley all of 16 months to achieve the most lofty team and individual goals to which a college men's volleyball player can aspire. Luckily for the UC Irvine sophomore libero, there is still this pesky perfection to pursue. "I...

BASEBALL UCLA 8, UC Irvine 1 LOS ANGELES — Connor Spencer went two for four with one run batted in and Chris Rabago was two for four for the visiting Anteaters in the nonconference game Tuesday at Jackie Robinson Stadium. UCLA (28-13) broke...

Rafael Nadal won the Barcelona Open for the eighth time Sunday, defeating Nicolas Almagro, 6-4, 6-3, in Spain for his fourth title of the year. This latest victory, with next month's French Open approaching, is a promising sign that Nadal is getting...

UC Irvine will play in the NCAA men's volleyball Final Four this week after receiving the event's at-large bid. The other teams in the Final Four will be Brigham Young, which won the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation title this weekend; Loyola Chicago,...

IRVINE — The middle of the UC Irvine batting order drove in five runs, but it was the success of the middle of the weekend pitching rotation that was perhaps most noteworthy in UC Irvine's 8-2 Big West Conference home win over UC Davis on Saturday....

IRVINE — There was the bunt and the blast, but UC Irvine's 5-4 Big West Conference baseball victory over visiting UC Davis on Friday would not have happened without the backbone of Anteaters starting pitcher Andrew Thurman. Thurman, who threw 73...

UC Irvine senior outside hitter Kevin Tillie, sophomore libero Michael Brinkley and UC Santa Barbara senior middle blocker Dylan Davis have been named first-team All-American by the American Volleyball Coaches Assn. UCI junior middle blocker Collin...

In a sport laced with head cases, narcissists and finger-pointers, a little altruism can be more difficult to find than a scholarship. So the stories behind regular-season Big West Conference titles for the UC Irvine women's and men's teams this...