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Separated at birth? Chris Kluwe and James Van Der Beek

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Chris Kluwe probably doesn’t hear about this resemblance nearly as much these days as he did playing football and baseball for Los Alamitos during the heyday of ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ but he used to get kidded a lot about the resemblance between him and actor James Van Der Beek. I know, because I ribbed him once myself during an interview.

Both have moved on to bigger things. Kluwe, who also played at UCLA, is a punter for the Minnesota Vikings who averaged an impressive 47.6 yards per punt last season. Van Der Beek has been in a host of movies and television shows.

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-- Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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