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Pauley Pavilion: Revamped

Today UCLA Athletics held an announcement to renovate the historic Pauley Pavilion (home to UCLA basketball’s 11 NCAA National Championships). Among the many important people (alumni and faculty) backing the “Campaign of Champions” were Chancellor Gene Block, Athletics Director Dan Guerrero, and Men’s Basketball Head Coach Ben Howland.

A few of the key points (directly effecting [...]

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We Had A Good Run

I’m sitting here at the hair salon wondering where to go. What to do. And all I can do is come up with blanks.
It’s unfortunate, really, that after watching Alfred, Josh, and Darren play for two years all I can really say is, “thank you for your effort.” I want to say more, but the [...]

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Entitled To A Wrong Opinion

I’ve decided to make a list of all the people who decided to agree with Seth Davis in confirming that there is clearly an east coast bias when referring to college basketball. So far my list includes:

Seth Davis (Duke graduate)
Barack Obama (President)
Andy Katz (ESPN “Analyst”)
Bill Plaschke (LA Times)

Not to mention all of the other slackers [...]

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