Sentences with phrase «bruin coach»

With the win — in Pauley Pavilion, of all hallowed places, as former Bruin coach John Wooden looked on — the Wildcats clinched a tie for the Pac - 10 title.

Bruin Coach Tom Johnson had switched goalies, starting Ed Johnston rather than Cheevers, and so far had no cause to regret it.

He showed up at UCLA weighing more than 350 pounds, and he was so impressive that midway through his freshman season Bruins coaches moved eventual pro Craig Novitsky from left tackle to left guard to make room for Ogden.

Bruin coaches say that the L.A. riots of May 1992 adversely affected this year's recruiting class, only two members of which aren't from California.

-- Because players sport what Bruins coach Pat Burns lovingly calls «a playoff face.»

UCLA linebacker Myles Jack received more than a tongue lashing from Bruins coach Jim Mora after he was... more

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Now Doug Weight is the official head coach in New York, and the Boston Bruins removed the interim tag from Bruce Cassidy.

As head coach Jim Mora met with the media on Sunday following the Bruins» tough loss to Arizona State, he said Goines underwent surgery earlier in the day to fix a broken bone in his lower leg.

The sturdy and capable - looking young men on the opposite page have a special meaning for tough - talking Henry R. (Red) Sanders, coach of UCLA's highly ranked Bruins.

Early Tuesday morning, as most of Boston sports fans were getting ready to watch the Patriots roll through the city on their Duck Boats, the Bruins announced the firing of their long - time head coach, Claude Julien.

This game will also mark the last game for the Bruins head coach Rick Neuheisel who has already been fired, but will be allowed to call the shots this evening for one last time.

For the five seasons prior, he coached the Providence Bruins, Boston's AHL affiliate.

Early Tuesday morning, as most of Boston sports fans were getting ready to watch the Patriots roll through the city on their Duck Boats, the Bruins announced the firing of their long - time head coach, Claude...

The rest of the names on the list are college coaches with the exception of Kevin Dean, the current Providence Bruins Head Coach.

Before the start of the series, in a desperate attempt to develop some special strategy to stop Orr and his goal - scoring sidekick, Esposito, Philadelphia Coach Fred Shero had spent long hours analyzing films of his team's repeated losses to the Bruins as well as clips of the Russian national team's checking tactics against Team Canada.

• Butch Goring, after being sacked last week as coach of the Boston Bruins: «I've never had free time in November before, never in my life....

The UCLArecruiting class was already ranked No. 1 when Morgan committed on May 23, thesame day that Love announced he was hiring an agent for his move to the NBA.The 6» 10» Morgan, who originally signed with LSU and was released from hisscholarship after coach John Brady was fired in February, picked the Bruins inpart because he saw that they needed him.

The winning streak she is interested in belongs to UCLA and dates back to the early 1970s, when the Bruins» men's team, coached by Wooden, won 88 straight.

He probably won't earn a berth on this year's Olympic team, but, says Bruins throws coach Art Venegas, «this is a guy who could medal at the»97 and»99 world championships and could win a gold at the Olympics in 2000.»

But at no time did Underwood mention the team that handed them their lone loss, the UCLA Bruins, Coach John Wood - en's «press» team, and the No. 1 team in the country.

UCLA Coach Johnny Wooden's old Big Ten buddies from his days at Purdue had a grand reception cooked up for him last weekend when he brought his No. 1 - ranked Bruins to Chicago Stadium.

«He had limited potential,» says Guy Hansen, who was the Bruins» pitching coach in 1985 before joining the Kansas City Royals.

Though no one said so directly, it was whispered in the Bruin organization that Esposito did not back - check, spent too much time on the ice, disagreed with Cherry's coaching philosophy and, in any case, was getting on in years.

Playing Boston in the Garden, Coach Punch Imlach of the Maple Leafs started a lineup of five defensemen, hoping to fight off the Bruins» early assault.

UCLA's Jim Harrick, the sixth coach to try and make Westwood forget its Wizard, lost his mind over a Bruin foul in the first half and was awarded a technical; Arizona's Lute Olson, the Titan of Tucson, who had won his 200th game with the Wildcats just two days earlier, also spun out of control, over an Arizona foul in the second half, and got a T.

Well, UCLA coach Jim Harrick says people better beware of his Bruins come the ides of March and thereafter.

NEBRASKA led UCLA 21 - 3, watched the Bruins run off 38 straight points to win 41 - 21 as their defense gave up more than 500 yards yet again, and then found out that their coach said they could all f — off and die a couple years back.

During the Boston Bruins 3 - 2 shootout win over the Toronto Maple Leafs, Bruins assistant coach Geoff Ward had his earpiece start...

Smith said that in» 93, while bouncing back from a debilitating bout of the viral disease glandular fever (formally known as mononucleosis), she had begun devoting herself fanatically to the training methods of Erik de Bruin — a Dutchman who became Smith's boyfriend, then her coach and, five weeks before the Olympics, her husband — and that the combination of her hard work and de Bruin's coaching had led to her dramatic improvement.

She left more than a semester short of graduation, at odds with her coach, Phill Hansel, and wanting to be with de Bruin, who was in Holland.

Given that de Bruin is Smith's coach, it would be remiss not to note what he said about performance - enhancing drugs in a 1993 interview in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant: «Who says doping is unethical?

«The Bruins used to think Phil Esposito and Bobby Orr were the soul of the team,» says Philadelphia Coach Fred Shero, «but all along it was Terry O'Reilly.»

BOSTON Coach Don Cherry took one look at top draft pick Dwight Foster and decided that he would fit right in with the Bruins» Lunchpail A.C. «Look at that scar between his eyes,» Cherry said.

There's little question that many walk - ons are walk - ons simply because the evaluation system broke down, pointing to what UCLA coach Terry Donahue, a former Bruin walk - on defensive tackle, calls «the imperfect science of recruiting.»

He spent two years coaching University of the Pacific, and two more as an assistant to Pepper Rodgers at UCLA, during which time the Bruins» record was 17 - 5.

Never mind that one of his beach partners was the Bruins» assistant coach.

«He never took it on himself to do anything extra,» says Bruin receivers coach Rick Neuheisel, who put in a call to J.J.'s father, John, who invited Neuheisel to kick his son's butt.

The second - year surge for new USC coaches is great, but Mora and the Bruins might have a say in just how much of a surge Random New USC Coach pulls off.

Montreal coach Michel Therrien made a throat - slashing gesture at the Bruins» bench (accompanied by a warning to forwards Joe Thornton and Bill Guerin that they were «going down») following the Zednik incident, and coaches Andy Murray of the Kings and Bob Hartley of the Avalanche engaged in a screaming match with seconds left in Game 6 of their series last Saturday.

As Dallas Comegys (19 points and four blocks) and Marty Embry (13 points and 11 rebounds) brutalized the fragile Bruins, it was clear which of the new men in two of the sport's most publicized and pressurized coaching jobs would have the easier time this season.

I never thought I'd see the day at Bruins Nation when a comment that favorably compares Bobby Knight to Coach would get five recommendations, but here it is in black and blue:

Complains former Bruin star Steve Patterson, now coach at underexposed Arizona State: «UCLA is a by - product of the past and certainly isn't representative of where the conference is going and how good it is.»

«This year teams aren't going to say, «The Bruins are in town, and they're easy,»» says Burns, who was the league's coach of the year.

That's the lesson the Bruins learned last season when new coach Pat Burns, who was brought in to oversee a rebuilding project, coaxed 39 wins and a playoff appearance from a group of players who looked as if they should have spent their time watching Teletubbies rather than video of their opponents.

Kentucky famously blew the Bruins out in Chicago; Gonzaga, North Carolina and Oklahoma defeated them comfortably; and even Alabama (which just fired its coach) grabbed a win.

As the featured guest on Bud Furillo's sports talk show over KIIS, Bartow reacted hotly when a caller said that the Bruins» coach failed to teach fundamentals properly last season.

The Bruins are 5 - 6 this season and will need a win over Cal to get to a bowl game under interim head coach Jedd Fisch.

Coach Jeff Bickmore's team may have been disappointed to share the PVL crown with rivals Colfax and Placer, but the Bruins can separate themselves from their league counterparts with another section title.

Rumors are corroborating speculation that Chip Kelly — new head coach of the UC Los Angeles Bruins — would reunite with his coaching buddy and confidant of nearly 20 years in Jerry Azzinaro given the lengthy history between the two.

UCLA announced Sunday that they fired head coach Jim Mora following a loss to USC (the Bruins are 5 - 6 on the year).