Lauren A. Jones

NBA Partners with Brotherhood Crusade for All-Star Weekend to Highlight South L.A. 

NBA Voices, a yearlong initiative curated by the league’s commissioner Adam Silver to address social injustice, hosted a candid conversation between NBA All-Stars, Los Angeles Police Department, members of the Brotherhood Crusade and community leaders at John Muir Middle School in Los Angeles on Thursday, Feb. 15.

Cincinnati Hands UCLA Its Second Straight Loss, 77-63

Before a season-high crowd of 10,018 fans at Pauley Pavilion on Saturday afternoon, miscues on offense and a flurry of turnovers led to the UCLA Bruins 77-63 loss to No. 25 Cincinnati Bearcats. A young, inexperienced UCLA team faced potentially their toughest defensive opponent to date in Cincinnati and folded. The Bruins committed 15 turnovers in the first half.  The turnovers came in many forms. UCLA’s Aaron Holiday lobbed a pass to center Thomas Welsh in the post that was intercepted. “I turned the ball over trying to throw it in the post and then everybody else started turning it

Jackie Robinson Statue Unveiled at Rose Bowl Stadium 

With blue skies and the San Gabriel mountains as the backdrop, the Jackie Robinson statue was unveiled as the first commemorative statue outside of the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena on Wednesday, Nov. 29. The statue is in honor of the late Jackie Robinson, best known for breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers.