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UCLA: A Team of Destiny?
Published 3/9/2008 by Neil Joshi at The Sports Lounge
There’s no doubting that the UCLA Bruins are one of the most talented teams in the nation. Armed with super freshman Kevin Love, and one of the nation’s most improved players in Russell Westbrook, the Bruins have added a slasher and a reliable post presence to their already talented nucleus of Darren Collison, Josh Shipp, and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, among others. Ben Howland’s club is aiming for the their third straight trip to the Final Four when the Tournament begins on March 20th, and with the Florida Gators finally out of the way, the Bruins no longer have their kryptonite standing in front of them. Never before has that 12th championship ...

Brent Musberger, Steve Lavin, H-O-R-S-E, Victoria's Secret
Published 3/9/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
I thought the most YouTube-worthy aspect of Saturday's Cal-UCLA tilt was going to be the discussion between Brent Musberger and Steve Lavin about UCLA's scantily clad dance team. Brent made an amusing crack about not knowing there was a Victoria's Secret major at UCLA, or something to that effect. But of course the finish trumped all that. There is some entertaining late-game yelling from Musberger and Lavin here. What I find interesting is they did not discuss the potential illegality of the winning shot from behind the backboard, which was a major topic of conversation on ...

Above The Rim: Pauley Pavilion Makes Refs Eat Whistles
Published 3/9/2008 by Signal to Noise at Signal to Noise
College hoops only-edition. UCLA’s Josh Shipp makes an amazing circus shot to stave off the upset from a bad Cal team, but it never should have gotten to that point after Kevin Love’s 3-pointer. Russell Westbrook fouled Ryan Anderson on that in-bound and the refs swallowed the whistles instead of ...

Brent Musburger And Steve Lavin Cannot Be Stopped
Published 3/10/2008 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
Forget the horrible officiating at the end of the CAL-UCLA game, let's talk Lavinburger! This clip starts with 35 seconds left in the game and I can't for the life of me figure out what they're talking about. It's not Basketball though... ...

Brent Musberger, Steve Lavin Ripped for Commentary on UCLA-Cal Ending
Published 3/11/2008 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
Filed under: UCLA Basketball, California Basketball, Pac-10 Basketball, NCAA Basketball Media Watch, ESPNHere's how ESPN announcers Brent Musberger and Steve Lavin called the end of UCLA's 81-80 win over Cal, an ending that included a controversial call: (Video via Awful Announcing) Musberger and Lavin are now facing heavy criticism for their seeming cluelessness about the controversial finish, which included a shot (maybe) going over the backboard, which would negate the fact that it then went through the rim. Writes Bob Raissman in the ...

Who Else Thinks the Fix is in For UCLA?
Published 3/25/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
Someone posted this in the comments section Saturday night; apparently, it first popped up here. No need to inspect the larger version - Aggies’ point guard Donald Sloan not only got fouled in the closing seconds of their second-round game against UCLA - he as mauled by Josh Shipp across the wrist and by Darren Collison on the elbow. By our count - and Pac-10 peeps, feel free to correct us - this is the third time the Bruins have been bailed out by a late call this season. The other two are this non-foul against Stanford, which led to a UCLA win, and this shouldn’t-have-counted Josh Shipp shot over the backboard, ...