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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The Bruins land big men Xavier Booker of Michigan State and Steve Jamerson II of San Diego as well as sharpshooter Jamar Brown of Missouri-Kansas City.
UCLA women’s basketball radio voice Dave Marcus has been through many challenging circumstances covering the team and now cherishes a Final Four trip.
Coach DeShaun Foster is excited to get started and says transfer Joey Aguilar is certainly ahead of other quarterbacks with a chance to start.
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