SB Nation User Blog: uclabruin34

Lowly Trojan all star on Jay Leno's "jaywalking" segment.

uclabruin34 — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:41:05 -0000

Lowly Trojan all star on Jay Leno's "jaywalking" segment.

"The Lakers paid $50,000 to win that game."

uclabruin34 — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:10:58 -0000

This has to be a joke right? No, accoring to an article in the Denver Post an anonymous Nuggets player has accused the Lakers of paying off the league 50 Grand to get the calls from the game. More after the jump.

In what can be summarized as an article lacking any true substance besides baseless accusations by an ~~"anonymous"~~ classless nuggets player. $50,000 for a game? Maybe if they took a look at the box score from the game it would make a little more sense.

Billups takes 7 shots in 39 minutes, while Kenyon Martin takes 15.

J.R. takes not 1, not 2, not 7, but 10 3's and makes exactly 1 more than I did last night.

The disparity in free throw shooting from the game was a whole 5 shots at 35-30 in favor of the Lakers.

With the offense struggling at the beginning of the 4th quarter, George Karl leaves Carmelo, by far their best offensive weapon, on the bench as the lead for the Lakers gets bigger than Karl's eyes at a Home Town Buffet.

I could go on and on but you catch my drift. $50,000 for a game huh? who exactly did we pay this to, the Nuggets or the refs, because from all accounts it looks like it was the inability of the Nuggets squad entering the 4th quarter to generate the stops necessary to win the game. Lets not even get started on the calls, or lack there of in game 4. Stay classy Denver.

Student section at Staples today

uclabruin34 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:51:58 -0000

I gotta say there has been a lot of ppl talking about the game today on campus, and though finals are around the corner, there are going to be a lot of people going out to staples for the game. I think we will have a pretty sizeable student section, its 5 o'clock and theres already a lot of people leaving from campus to head out there. Hopefully it will be a great crowd.

T.J. Houshmandzadeh goes to Seattle

uclabruin34 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:07:02 -0000

How does that warrant a fanpost here on MHR? Well it probably leaves Seattle who was originally looking to get someone like a Crabtree, out to get Raji, who we all know by now as someone who was on our radar. Especially now that Crabtree won't be participating in all events at his ProDay, it probably means that Raji won't fall to us. In which case, I think its got to be LB for us, but some of you have done much more hw in regards to the draft than I have, so I ask what does this change for Denver?

ESPN wants Russell Westbrook in the dunk contest...LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!

uclabruin34 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:03:56 -0000

Bumped. We can never get enough of RW. GO BRUINS. -N

Mr. Papp from Welcome to Loud City (SB Nation blog for the Thunder) posted this in the fanshot section but i thought it would get more views here. Lets make it happen!

Apparently we aren't the only one's who think Russell Westbrook should be in the 2009 Sprite Slam Dunk Competition. Ted Bauer (of ESPN) has asked us to help with his online petition to get Russell Westbrook into the 2009 Sprite Slam Dunk contest. Rudy Gay will be absent from the contest due to injury. You can read about it here: Ted Bauer's ESPN Article. Once you check that out, be sure to sign the petition and see if we can't get Russ in there, you can find the link here: Russell Westbrook 2009 Sprite Slam Dunk Petition. Check out the full post for some awesome RW Slams!

Here is the article on espn. THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN!!!!!

EVERYONE THAT READS BN NEEDS TO GET ON THIS.

Click here to sign the RW Petition.

pretty cool UCLA shirt

uclabruin34 — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:05:50 -0000

pretty cool UCLA shirt

was just browsing online found this shirt, its kinda cool, thought id pass it along to you guys.

you get 20% off apparently if you use this code during checkout.
DL29224

ive heard other ppl buy shirts from that site so i know its legit, thought maybe someone might want to get one

CRN On Dan Patrick Show

uclabruin34 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:40:49 -0000

CRN On Dan Patrick Show

CRN Went on the Dan Patrick show earlier in the week to talk about the recruiting class, his time at UCLA, and other topics. Take a listen if you got a couple minutes to spare, its pretty interesting.

"The crowd was the best crowd that we had this year"-CBH

uclabruin34 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:48:28 -0000

So I know there was much debate about the state of the Den in an earlier post by yarrp but according to an article in the Daily Bruin recapping yesterdays game, CBH pointed out to the fact that he appreciated the crowd yesterday. Not being able to camp out the night before, I had to sit up top, but the entire top section running the sideline across from the benches, from 311-314, was all students if im not mistaken. I dont think they usually fill up the student section that much up top but once again i have always sat on the bottom so i dont know for sure, but it seemed to me that there were A LOT more students at the game yesterday than at previous games.

Granted it was vs $C so a large turnout is to be expected, but it seems to me, you put more students in the seats, and all of a sudden the crowd becomes a factor and the players and CBH take notice. Correlation? possibly, but i hope that ~~when~~ if they redo Pauley, they add more lower level seating for students, because I think that it helped yesterday.

NFL Draft in Los Angeles?

uclabruin34 — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:45:26 -0000

I wanted to know if anyone else has heard anything about this. If im not mistaken I remember the commish say something about wanting to move the draft to a different location from year to year and from what i remember LA was a city he brought up. Anyone know about this? Being from LA myself I would be there in a second, but idk how true it is. Anyone know?

I know ESPN has their westcoast HQ out here from what i hear, and NFL Network is out here too so maybe they have some vested interest in it being moved to LA, but idk.

U$C has a new assistant coach

uclabruin34 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:13:50 -0000

According to the Denver Bronco faithful at Mile High Report and The National Football Post U$C has named former Broncos QB coach Jeremy Bates as an assistant coach

Bates helped coach Jay Cutler and the Bronco offense to become the #2 ranked offense in the league this year second to only the Saints. After the coaching change in Denver it was thought Bates would either be promoted to OC of the Broncos or let go of as new HC McDaniels brought in his own staff. Lane Kiffin reportedly tried to hire Bates for the OC position at Tennessee as well, but Bates chose to go to the dark side.

The National Football Post has just been informed that former Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates has accepted an offer to become an assistant coach at the University of Southern California.

Bates, a six year NFL veteran, has spent the last three years in Denver as the quarterbacks/wide receivers coach. Prior to joining the Broncos in 2006, Bates worked for the New York Jets and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.