Alan Bock's Blog

Of course I would have taken a blowout, but perhaps it was just as well to play a team that wouldn't go away and therefore forced UCLA t...

Here's Sports Illustrated: "UCLA should be a preseason top five team next year. The Bruins, who nearly knocked off No. 4 Kansas las...

Given the ideological predilections of the Nobel committees, the Nobel prizes in other disciplines besides the strictly scientific are often...

Well, as I rather suspected would happen, USC beat UCLA last night , but it was a more competitive game than the final score indicated and I...

The outcry from the government stooges who dominate most of the media against WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange has been relentless. So i...

You wouldn't know it from the mainstream media coverage, but it looks, as I had sort of intuited without knowing much, as if actor Wesle...

I suppose tonight's UCLA-USC game will be somewhat the equivalent of a bowl gam e for both teams -- USC because it's being discipli...

Among the intriguing and attractive things about cosmology, the study of the origins of the universe, is that it is still speculative to a g...

I know, one is not supposed to be content with moral victories in spots, but I think I'll take a tiny piece of consolation from the Brui...

Talk about an inversion of meaning! A gay man in San Francisco was arrested and charged with sexual assault after apparently becoming arous...

Cathy Taylor, the Register's Commentary & Opinion editor, knew about ex-pres. GW Bush's planned visit to celebrity preacher Rick...

Salon.com , the 15-year-old news site, has let it be known that it is open to a merger . The development highlights just how difficult it is...

Once again opponents of medical marijuana are showing contempt for the will of the people, this time recently-elected governor of New Jersey...

It has been amusing seeing various establishment figures trying to work up a sincere dudgeon over the release of State Dept. cable traffic t...

Cathy Taylor asked me if I would write a piece about my bout with cancer and the medical system, so I did and the Register printed it on Sun...