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Abdul-Jabbar is home continuing his recovery after being examined today for discomfort following April 16 heart bypass surgery.

UCLA Director of Athletics Dan Guerrero announced today that Bill Roth has been hired as the Bruins’ new play-by-play announcer for both football and men’s basketball radio broadcasts. 

The strength and conditioning facility inside the football team’s new training complex will be named in honor of the former Bruin quarterback and Pro Football Hall of Famer.

The Bruins offered hitting and fielding instruction to veterans and hosted a barbecue at the team’s longtime home field, Jackie Robinson Stadium.

The Los Angeles Times Book Club comes to UCLA on Sunday, April 26, for a discussion about “The Boys of Summer,” a book by Roger Kahn about the reign of Jackie Robinson and other members of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s.

UCLA's new on-campus basketball training and performance facility that will house the Bruins' storied men's and women's basketball programs will be named the Mo Ostin Basketball Center, it was announced today by Director of Athletics Dan Guerrero.

Jim and Carol Collins, who met while they were UCLA students in the 1940s, will have part of the training facility named in their honor.

The facility's recruiting lounge and terrace will be named in honor of Marilyn Silva-Lund and David Lund.

Advance tickets are just $2 for UCLA Women’s Basketball's 9th Annual Play 4 Kay Breast Cancer Awareness game versus Arizona State on Friday, Feb 20, 7 p.m., at Pauley Pavilion.

With players wearing number 42 on their helmets and Robinson’s iconic number 42 painted onto the Rose Bowl field, UCLA made the announcement between the first and second quarters of the annual crosstown rivalry football game.

UCLA announced today it is naming 22 recreation and athletics facilities in honor of Jackie Robinson, the legendary four-sport Bruin star who went on to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball.

An energetic crowd of more than 3,000 UCLA students, alumni and fans roared their support for the Bruins football team in Wilson Plaza at Thursday evening’s annual “Beat ‘SC” rally.

Peter Thomas Dalis, who served as director of athletics at UCLA for 19 years, died Saturday, Nov.15, at his home in Pacific Palisades due to complications from multiple myeloma.

Researchers from UCLA and Architected Materials will use the grant to continue developing breakthrough technology to reduce the frequency and severity of head injuries to football players.

Two facilities heavily used by UCLA students and intercollegiate athletic teams have reopened following completion of flood-damage repairs.

As part of its ongoing effort to better serve readers in the digital age, UCLA Magazine has launched its first iPad app.

This year Jackie Robinson’s autobiography, “I Never Had It Made,” is being read by thousands of incoming freshman and transfer students, faculty, staff and alumni as part of the six-year-old UCLA Common Book program.

Less than a year ago, Emily Gordon was a junior biochemistry major at UCLA aiming to become a lab researcher. Now, she’s being scouted to compete in the 2016 Olympics as a marathon runner although she had never run one before until last October.

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A year before Robinson first put on a Brooklyn Dodger uniform and walked onto a ball field and into history, two other Bruins, who happened to once be his teammates on the UCLA football team, became the first African Americans to play in the NFL in 13 years.

Sherell Vance has joined the UCLA softball staff as director of operations, and Hayden Maurice has joined as volunteer assistant coach, announced coach Kelly Inouye-Perez.

A documentary about the 2011 UCLA quidditch team's bid for the sport's world cup started as a five-minute film class project. "Mudbloods” will open in select theaters this fall.

The floor suffered water damage in the flooding that followed a major water main break under Sunset Boulevard just off campus on July 29.

The annual week of practices once again attracts hundreds and hundreds of fans hoping for a chance to get an autograph from — or a picture with — an international soccer superstar.

For the fifth consecutive year, one of the world’s most storied soccer teams plans to train in private practices on UCLA's North Athletic Field.