UCLA Bruins men's basketball

championship is a goal for everybody, whether a conference championship or the NCAA championship. What will a coach and program do to win a championship? Basketball fans know all the hard work these players and coaches go through to fulfill this feeling. The question in today's day in age is how far will a coach and program go to win a championship? We as basketball fans have seen it all in these past couple years. Whether it’s Louisville having to vacate their 2013 National Championship for…

The speech I chose for the assignment was Coach Jim Valvano’s 1993 ESPY’s speech, which was made while accepting the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. Coach Valvano, was fighting bone cancer at the time, and one may say that he gave one of the best speeches on perseverance and strength. While looking frail compared to his “normal” state, Valvano was able to bring the room to tears and demonstrate his enduring strength through his words. The first thing that builds the power of Valvano’s words was his…

than a beat. My experience – primarily in college as a writer, then editor, of the Daily Bruin at UCLA – has been shaped by the beat system. UCLA’s strongest athletic teams are often the Olympic sports rather than football or men’s basketball, and the Daily Bruin is lucky to have a large enough staff to fully cover all of those teams. Since my first day in the Sports Department as a contributor on the men’s water polo beat, I’ve been trained to go to every single practice and every single game,…