NCAA Football — #18 Tennessee began its season on the road at UCLA, and left 0-1 after losing 27-24 in overtime . Bruins quarterback Kevin Craft threw four interceptions in the first half alone, but rallied the team in the second half by not throwing more interceptions… After a thrilling 0-0 first half, Fresno State beat Rutgers 24-7 in New Jersey. The Bulldogs were ...

Summer's over. The new sports year is on. Just in time, UCLA provided the most intriguing and surprising result of the college football weekend -- saving the best for last, I guess. UCLA, Cliff Lee and Tom Brady are the biggest storylines from today's SN column . I'm definitely shocked by the Bruins' win over Tennessee -- probably not as shocked as Vols fans (or perhaps USC fans). I'm less ...

You know, I go ahead and finally pick the favorite to win the Tennessee/UCLA game last night. Then what happens? UCLA pulls the massive upset. I even turned off the game at half time, figuring Kevin Craft wouldn't get it together in the second half. Well, Rick Neuheisel is an official genius. I'm not saying that he'll win the Pac-10 this year, or that Tennessee is a good team this year (at ...

Well, that is why they play them… A heavily favored Tennessee squad walked into the Rose Bowl, and will be limping home trying to figure out what went wrong — and make no mistake, something went terribly wrong. On the whole, it was a tale of two halves — the Vols owned the first-half, the Bruins the second. Well, at least the Vols should have owned the ...

In the first half of the game, yoiu would have been forgiven for thinking that Karl Dorrell was still in charge at UCLA — it was such an offensive abortion and an affront to football that Tennessee was playing down to the Bruins, who were put behind the eight-ball by their juco transfer QB Kevin Craft’s 4 first-half picks. ( Rex Grossman thinks that’s a bad job of ...

The Bruins are back in business after a wild, seesaw affair against the 18th ranked Vols SCOTT JACOBS It was the quintessential start to a hire questioned from sea to shining sea. Was Rick Neuheisel the right man to turn around the Bruins people asked? No one doubted his credentials, the man wins games wherever he goes. But it was his ever-growing rap sheet of NCAA violations that made ...

UCLA QB Kevin Craft had a terrible first half, throwing 4 INT's, one of which was returned for a Tennessee TD. But he stepped it up in the 2nd half, finishing with 25 completions, as the Bruins beat the Volunteers 27-24 in Rick Neuheisel's coaching debut at his alma mater. Craft's early struggles put the Bruins in a tough position early, but they were able to stay in the game, never ...

For those who didn't find a reason to tune into UCLA-Tennessee last night...shame on you. Let the Neuheisel hype fest commence in earnest. Not that it's ever stopped. Call us easy converts, but we're starting to believe this may be the start of a real turnaround for this program. It's also another indication of these Fulmer teams just never seeming to have the mental toughness (or whatever ...

Halftime Stats   Score 14 7 1st Downs 10 5 Total Yards 198 85 Passing 119 66 Rushing 79 19 Turnovers 4 1 Possession 17:01 12:59

Just because the rest of us had the day off, doesn't mean college football did the same. Rutgers did more to beat themselves than Fresno State, and Tennessee kicks off at UCLA in a few minutes. It's been a sloppy weekend so far, and the first game today did nothing to buck that trend. Can UCLA/Tennessee do anything to resemble a good game? I'm not so sure about that. I'll give UT the edge ...

Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you cordially to a liveblog this evening that we’re tentatively calling the first Identity Crisis of the year: Tennessee at UCLA. UCLA has to break in Rick Neuheisel , who’s already deep down a hole because of who he’s not (and who he’s really not ) and Tennessee, who face tough scrutiny for what they are ( Bloomin’ Onion ...

Men's games: UCLA 3 UC Riverside 0 (Palos Verdes Estates' Kyle Nakazawa had two assists for the Bruins). Loyola Marymount 2 St. Louis 2 (Manhattan Beach's Jack McCormick made his LMU debut in goal). Cal State Northridge 2 Alabama A&M; 0 Women's games: USC 2 Portland State 0. UCLA 1 Portland 0 Long Beach State 0 Denver 0 UCSB 3 Pepperdine 2 Cal State Northridge 2 Cal State ...

A special thanks to the Hawkins family. Dan, Cody, you guys just did us proud as you led the Buffalo to the smooth cover out in Denver. While the game was never in doubt the cover got a little dicey. We are now at 15-7 overall and +12.5 units for the season, what can you even [...]

We’re quickly approaching the start of the Volunteers regular season with Monday night’s game against UCLA, a team coached by former QB Rick Neuheisel. Slick Rick had some issues while serving as the head coach at Colorado and Washington and he’s promised to keep his nose clean as he guides his Alma mater. I suspect he’ll [...]

UCLA conceded an equalizing goal in the 90th minute and went on to lose 2-1 in overtime to Maryland at Home Depot Center Friday before 3,214 fans, the third biggest crowd ever to see a Bruins home game. This was the first game of the season for both teams and it showed. UCLA dominated the opening 45 minutes, scoring a 27th minute goal created by Palos Verdes Estates' Kyle Nakazawa, who ...

South Bay product and last year's team MVP Kyle Nakazawa leads the No. 14-ranked Bruins tonight in a rare 7 o'clock game against No. 8-ranked Maryland at Carson's Home Depot Center live on Fox Soccer Channel. Tickets are $10 adults, $5 students and kids. Parking is free. UCLA returns six All-Pac-10 players from last year including the team's top two scorers, Maxwell Griffin (nine ...

A quick look at UCLA for the sake of comparison to the same sort of look at Tennessee . Caveat emptor : stats are from last year. Depth chart is from the Game Notes , which of course is subject to UCLA's misfortune of losing QBs like Spinal Tap loses drummers. Schedules 2007 2008 9/1 at W 45-17   9/1 No. 18 L  ...

Briefly: *UCLA playmaker Kyle Nakazawa of Palos Verdes Estates was named a Soccer America magazine first team pre-season All-American Recently named to the Hermann Trophy watch list, last year's team MVP has started every game of his collegiate career (45 starts) while notching seven goals and 15 assists. Last year he led UCLA in assists with seven. The Bruins open their season with a ...

Leave it new UCLA head coach Rick Neuweasel Neuheisel and the Bruins “marketing machine” to start making noise in The City of Angels NOW. The ad is a bold move, and it’s trying to lay the foundation for the future of UCLA football. Bravo.    UCLA fans are tired of getting shown up by their cross-town rivals. Maybe the rest of the Pac-10 will be ...

Volunteers (#18) at Bruins (Saturday, 5:00 p.m. PST, ESPN) The opening of a new season is often seen as the start of a journey. For UCLA, it’s set to be an adventure, as they open up the 2008 campaign against seasoned SEC power Tennessee at the Rose Bowl. The Bruins are not only replacing several [...]