“UCLA” on The Daily Caller

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former UCLA player Reeves Nelson is suing Sports Illustrated for $10 million, citing defamation, false light and intentional infliction of emotional distress over its recent article about problems in the school’s basketball program. (more)

Alexandra Wallace, the southern California undergraduate who apologized for her recent YouTube rant about the “hordes of Asian people that UCLA accepts into our school every single year,” said Friday that she will no longer be attending classes at UCLA. (more)

UCLA student Alexandra Wallace, who posted on Friday a video to YouTube that mocked Asian students, has been met with ridicule herself. In addition to flood of video responses posted online, the university’s administration indicated to The Daily Bruin, the student newspaper, that there was a disciplinary investigation underway. (more)

UCLA student Alexandra Wallace’s YouTube video rant about the “hordes of Asian people that UCLA accepts into [the] school every year” went viral and has received more than 1,000,000 views. (more)

Every year, top ranked colleges and universities pride themselves on, well, being top ranked. Yet, according to U.S. News and World Report, ironically one of the top providers of rankings lists, the potential students themselves do not consider a university’s ranking to be a major factor when making a final decision about what school to attend. (more)

One: Breastfeeding improves boys’ literacy  (more)

After the 2010 midterms, you could almost hear conservative pundits dismissing California as the land of fruits, nuts and irrelevancy. They couldn’t be further from the truth. Even though California doggedly stayed left while nearly every other state veered right, it still remains the supercharged engine for America’s progressive movement. If anything, the midterms just stomped down its accelerator. (more)

PASADENA, Calif. — A fight among dozens of fans in a parking lot before the Southern California-UCLA football game has left two men with stab wounds and two police officers with minor injuries, authorities said. (more)

It’s an unlucky strike for congressional smokers. (more)

EUGENE — Maybe UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel is right and somebody, someday eventually will solve Oregon’s fast-forward offense. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Magic Johnson sold his small ownership stake in the Los Angeles Lakers to Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong on Monday, possibly clearing the way for the Hall of Famer to own a bigger portion of another NBA team in the future. (more)

The first BCS standings are out and Boise State is already chasing a couple of teams from the power conferences. (more)

At least three starters on the UCLA football team are expected to be suspended for violating team rules and will be ineligible to play against Oregon on Oct. 21, a source inside the program told The Times. The source was not named because they were not authorized to speak publicly. (more)

Games are ending so late these days that public address announcers have taken on additional duties of mopping up, calling for taxis and issuing last beverage calls. (more)

LOS ANGELES – Lindsay Lohan got an early ticket out of rehab Tuesday night – three weeks into a court-ordered program expected to last three months. (more)

Journolist update: Liberals wished death on FOX News, Rush Limbaugh — Targets of Journolist respond with disproportionate maturity — Democrats will add billions to the deficit today — Maine solves the public pension problem (not really) — Umpteenth bad poll comes out showing Washington is getting a helluva makeover in November — The USDA’s disastrous image problem  (more)

If you were in the presence of a man having a heart attack, how would you respond? As he clutched his chest in desperation and pain, would you call 911? Would you try to save him from dying? Of course you would. (more)

OMAHA, Neb. — Whit Merrifield’s RBI single with one out in the bottom of the 11th inning gave South Carolina its first baseball national championship with a 2-1 victory over UCLA in the College World Series on Tuesday night. (more)

Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan has a history of showing keen interest in devising ways to shape and increase regulation of speech, particularly hate speech and pornography, a review of her public comments and writings show. (more)

These Capitol insiders are able to walk into congressional offices sans appointment, sit in on high-powered meetings with lawmakers, and see Capitol Hill like no one else. However, you might have trouble getting in with this exclusive crowd, unless of course you boast four legs, fur, and a tail. (more)