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Shabazz Muhammad says he will leave UCLA and enter the NBA draft
Shabazz Muhammad, the centerpiece of UCLA's 2012 basketball recruiting class, will try his hand at the next level in 2013. Muhammad said Tuesday he would enter the NBA draft in June, a decision that came as no surprise. Muhammad, one of the top...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Basketball, Kyle Anderson (basketball), NBA Draft, Pacific-12 Conference
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Which NBA player needs to step up most in the playoffs?
Writers from around the Tribune Co. discuss which NBA player has to step up the most for his team to advance in the playoffs. Feel free to join the conversation with a comment of your own. Josh Robbins, Orlando Sentinel The playoffs have already...
Tags: Tribune Company, NBA Playoffs, Miami Heat, National Basketball Association, Denver Nuggets
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UCLA's Shabazz Muhammad to enter NBA draft
UCLA freshman Shabazz Muhammad announced Tuesday that he will enter the NBA draft. Muhammad has been expected to declare for the draft. He needed to drop his classes by April 19 or he would have been given an incomplete, which would have counted against...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, NBA Draft, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), National Basketball Association, Dennis Rodman
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Angels say they are not pursuing former closer Troy Percival as coach
MINNEAPOLIS — The Angels moved Tuesday to defuse speculation they were pursuing former closer Troy Percival, possibly as a replacement for pitching coach Mike Butcher, and Percival said Tuesday that “no one has contacted me directly”...
Tags: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Spring Training, FBI, National Basketball Association, Dennis Rodman
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Travis Wear's availability remains a question for UCLA this week
Forward Travis Wear sat out the final 5 minutes 24 seconds of UCLA’s 74-69 victory over Arizona on Saturday. Wear is still struggling on an injured right foot. He played 17 minutes against the Wildcats. Whether he will be back at full strength...
Tags: Dennis Rodman, UCLA Bruins, Arizona Wildcats
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UCLA keeps cool as tempers simmer over USC
This is always a moment lurking when UCLA and USC play. With the Bruins comfortably ahead and the Trojans uncomfortably frustrated Sunday, UCLA’s Norman Powell and USC’s Omar Oraby got tangled up, both clutching the basketball. The moment...
Tags: Pacific-12 Conference, USC Trojans, Oregon Ducks, UCLA Bruins, Arizona Wildcats
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NCAA sees bumps in the road, but schools pay for the damage
Come to find out, the creators of the dreaded "lack of institutional control" have been throwing stones from inside their own glass house. The NCAA, short for the National Collegiate Athletic Assn., is now in the kind of damage-control mode that it so...
Tags: NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, National Collegiate Athletic Association, University of Miami, Values, USC Trojans
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With Ben Howland, UCLA could have been on pedestal, ended in abyss
The saddest part of the Ben Howland saga at UCLA is not that a decent guy and good coach got fired. He's a big boy. He'll be fine. Give it a couple of years and he'll have another team in Pauley Pavilion, rendering UCLA black-and-not-so-Bruins-blue....
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Basketball, Pacific-12 Conference, College Basketball
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UCLA hires Steve Alford as basketball coach; he has big job ahead
Steve Alford, who spent the last six seasons at New Mexico, will take over the basketball program at UCLA less than two weeks after saying how happy he was to be signing a contract extension to remain coach of the Lobos. The hiring came at the end of a...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Minnesota Golden Gophers, NBA Draft, New Mexico Lobos, University of California, Los Angeles
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UCLA hires Steve Alford as basketball coach
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.Steve Alford has been hired as UCLA’s basketball coach, the university announced Saturday morning. Alford, 48, spent the last six seasons at New Mexico, compiling a 155-52 record. He replaces Ben Howland, who was fired after going 25-10 and...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, NBA Draft, New Mexico Lobos, Basketball, Pacific-12 Conference
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Letters: Raised for stardom
Re "A father's hoops dream," Column One, March 22 What Ron Holmes has done with his son Shabazz Muhammad's athletic prowess is nothing new. Sadly, many parents have viewed their progeny as a way to enrich themselves or to live vicariously through them.... -
UCLA wants more than Ben Howland could deliver—and it's entitled to
How can they fire a coach who just won a conference championship? How can they fire a leader who spent 10 years winning more than twice as many games as he lost? How can they fire a salesman who last season brought in the No. 2-ranked recruiting class...
Tags: Basketball, Los Angeles Times Columnists, National Basketball Association, UCLA Bruins, Bill Plaschke
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