ULCA hires Caldwell as head coach

Published 4/17/2008 at L.A. Times - College Basketball

She helped Tennessee win its 2nd straight national championship and will replace Kathy Olivier, who led the Bruins for 15 seasons. > Nikki Caldwell, a Tennessee assistant women's basketball coach who helped guide the Lady Vols to their second consecutive national championship last week, has been hired as head coach at UCLA, it was announced today. [link]

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Culture Change & Concern Trolling

In The Bleachers College Football Blog found this 4/17/2008 on www.bruinsnation.com

If the early returns from the current online poll are any indication, it looks the overwhelming sentiment here is not to approve of the seniors decision to organize yesterday's ditch day at practice. Norm Chow didn't mince words and went straight to ...

Ben Ball News & Notes: Annoucement Day

Thirtyfive Seconds found this 4/17/2008 on www.bruinsnation.com

It is all over the internets now. Love and Westbrook will be announcing their decision to make themselves available for the NBA draft at a 1 pm press conference this afternoon per the LA Times . Also from the Oregonian (as an example to show that ...

My advice for Russell Westbrook

Rover found this 4/17/2008 on guttylittlebruins.com

Look out for Kevin Love and Russell Westbrook to declare their intentions to put their name in the NBA Draft today. Sources say neither will hire an agent, but that Love fully expects to say in. I’m hearing that despite reports to the contrary, there is a very good chance that Westbrook will actually stay at UCLA. I’m sure Russell knows what the right thing to do in this situation ...

Spring Football News & Notes

Dawg Sports: Front Page Posts found this 4/18/2008 on www.bruinsnation.com

Unfortunately we have to start this edition of spring football news and notes some bad news. Bruins are losing Aleksey Lanis, one of the better athletes from their OL due to injury related issues. Dohn listed the following factors behind Aleksey's ...

Neuheisel, Chow reinvigorate UCLA (cont.) - Stewart Mandel - SI.com

Bruins Nation: Front Page Posts found this 4/17/2008 on sportsillustrated.cnn.com

Though Chow steadfastly denies long-held rumblings of a falling out between Carroll and himself, it was no secret that over time Carroll exerted more control over the Trojans' offense. When Chow left to become the Tennessee Titans' offensive ...

The Gutty Little Bruins • Stewart Mandel’s Piece on the Reemergence of UCLA
My favorite excerpts: he tone for predecessor Karl Dorrell ’s ill-fated five-year tenure was inadvertently captured early on by Los Angeles Times columnist T.J. Simers , who sardonically referred to the coach in print as “Karl ...

Rocky Top Talk: Front Page Posts • Mystery: Revealed
This is only tangentially related to Tennessee sports, but it concerns one of Rocky Top Talk's first, longest, and best community members, so it's getting bumped to its rightful place. Show your congratulations and support to Aerobab below. -- Joel ...

Obscure Sports Quarterly • Love, Westbrook, Mbah a Moute to announce decisions today
I’ll update this later as it becomes official, but as has been reported in multiple places, Kevin Love will announce at a press conference today that he’s leaving UCLA for the NBA. Jeff Eisenberg of the Riverside Press-Enterprise is ...

Bruins Nation: Front Page Posts • Welcome To The Bruin Family Nikki Caldwell
Bumped. Welcome to the Bruin Nation Coach Caldwell. This sounds like a pretty exciting hire for our women's hoops program. GO BRUINS. -N Nikki Caldwell has been hired as the new UCLA's women's basketball coach. "Nikki embodies everything we were ...

Play is Under Review • Quick Thoughts
There are several items in the news worthy of being covered tonight. Unfortunately (or unfortunately depending upon how you feel about this site) none of them are worthy of a full post. So here are a few quick thoughts concerning some notable stories ...

Reports: UCLA's Love & Collison headed to draft
Reports out of the West Coast indicate freshman center Kevin Love and junior point guard Darren Collison of UCLA both intend to declare for the NBA draft, where they should be first-round selections. No surprise there. If Ben Howland also loses ...

UCLA's Love declares for NBA draft
UCLA's Kevin Love is NBA-bound. The All-American freshman announced Thursday that he'll skip his final three college seasons and enter the NBA draft. Love led the Bruins in scoring (17.5 points) and rebounds (10.6) on the way to a 35-win season and ...

Following his true Love: UCLA frosh enters draft
All-American freshman Kevin Love announced Thursday that he'll skip his final three college seasons at UCLA and enter the NBA draft.

Lady Vols assistant coach hired as UCLA head
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Performance to decide Vols' new offense
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- New offensive coordinator Dave Clawson has spent all spring installing his ...