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The U.C.L.A. Bruins' Extensive Travel in the New Big Ten Era
The Long Journey of the U.C.L.A. Bruins Football Team This season, playing football for the U.C.L.A. Bruins means embarking on an extensive travel schedule, one that feels more like that of a seasoned traveler than a college athlete. The journey commenced in August with a victorious outing at the University of Hawaii. Following this initial triumph, the Bruins embarked on a series of challengingâŚ
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U.C.L.A.âs Football Wins Canât Mask Its Financial Woes
U.C.L.A.âs Football Wins Canât Mask Its Financial Woes
The Bruins are having their best recent season on the field, yet attendance is falling rapidly. Free tickets havenât helped, and the athletic departmentâs balance sheet has suffered.
By Billy Witz Nov. 11, 2022
David Brownfield, who grew up a few bends in Sunset Boulevard from Westwood Village, could sing the U.C.L.A. fight song before he could shave. He graduated from U.C.L.A. in 1985 and has had football season tickets with friends ever since â even grudgingly paying what he calls the annual âextortion fee,â the $800 donation that was required for the privilege of buying his season tickets this year.
As a 60th birthday present to themselves, Brownfield and several pals traveled to Eugene, Ore., last month for the Bruinsâ showdown with Oregon for first place in the Pac-12 Conference.
Even though the Ducks stomped U.C.L.A., Brownfield was gobsmacked by what he saw â the kinetic capacity crowd, which roared at each touchdown and during the ritualistic playing of âShoutâ by the Isley Brothers at the start of the fourth quarter; the gleaming football facilities within walking distance of campus; the sense of community that enveloped the town on game day.
This, he thought, was a college football postcard come to life.
âIt was an awesome experience,â Brownfield said. âBut I walked away even more depressed because of what itâs like at our games.â
The loss to Oregon notwithstanding, U.C.L.A.âs long-awaited rebuild under Coach Chip Kelly has finally arrived this season. The Bruins (8-1) are off to their best start since 2005 and at the fringes of the chase for the four-team College Football Playoff at No. 12.
They have one of the nationâs most prolific offenses, led by a defender-hurdling quarterback, Dorian Thompson-Robinson; a tackle-busting running back, Zach Charbonnet; and a blink-and-you-miss-him dynamo at receiver, Kazmeir Allen.
This would seem to be enough to ignite a fan base.
And yet crowds have continued to be so barren at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., that U.C.L.A. has averaged only 36,241 fans in six home games, despite the university routinely giving away tens of thousands of tickets.
The embarrassment of so many empty seats has become so acute that six sections near each end zone are covered by powder-blue tarps, tightening the 91,136-person seating capacity by more than one-third.
The Bruins, who host Arizona (3-6) on Saturday night, may need a sellout against crosstown rival Southern California on Nov. 19 to avoid their lowest average attendance since moving to the venerable Rose Bowl 40 years ago.
âIt feels like a high school environment to me,â Brownfield said. âYouâre sitting there and sometimes itâs hard to feel like youâre playing big-time college football at all.â
This might be written off as another L.A. story â the umpteenth example of a sports enterprise not named âLakersâ or âDodgersâ struggling to generate buzz in an entertainment wonderland. (Exhibit A is the reigning Super Bowl champion Rams, whose home fans in Inglewood, Calif., are regularly drowned out by visitors â even during the playoffs.)
Or it might be yet another example of college footballâs attendance swoon. Last year marked the seventh consecutive season attendance declined nationally.
But U.C.L.A.âs struggle for football relevance has had consequences far beyond crowd aesthetics.
As college athletics are increasingly driven by billions in football television rights, there may be no better example of how an athletic departmentâs health is tied to the fortunes of its football team.
Thus, even as U.C.L.A.âs storied menâs basketball team has returned to national prominence, and as a well rounded athletic program with 119 team national championships has continued its broad success, footballâs shortcomings have torpedoed U.C.L.A.âs athletic finances. By the end of the 2021 fiscal year, its shortfall had exceeded $103.1 million, according to the schoolâs statement of revenues and expenses.
A $12 million buyout of the former football Coach Jim Moraâs contract, an apparel contract rift with Under Armour, and the cratering of football ticket revenue â set off by five consecutive losing seasons and exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic â sent the athletic department so deeply into the red that last summerâs offer to join the Big Ten Conference was viewed as a financial lifeline.
âU.C.L.A. and U.S.C. made decisions in their football program and the rest of their athletic programs that have led to deficits and scandals and performance on the field that probably made the decision to join the Big Ten more attractive,â Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff said in an interview in Los Angeles in July.
(U.S.C., which is also experiencing a football rebirth this season, had suffered from declining attendance before it fired Coach Clay Helton last season. In 2019, U.S.C. coaches and administrators were embroiled in the âOperation Varsity Bluesâ admissions scandal.)
The financial fall for U.C.L.A. has been as swift as it has been steep.
Just eight years ago, with a top-10 preseason ranking and a Heisman Trophy candidate at quarterback, Brett Hundley, the Bruins set an attendance record, averaging 76,650 and selling a school-record 46,617 season tickets. This year, season tickets have fallen to 23,077, less than half that high-water mark.
Ticket revenue for football has also dived â falling from just under $20 million in 2014 to $9.2 million for the 2019 season. No fans were permitted in the 2020 season because of the pandemic and revenue figures for last season have not been reported.
Donations to the athletic program have declined for two consecutive years, falling to $8.4 million for the 2021 fiscal year, which included the 2020 football season. In the 2019 fiscal year, donations were $16.4 million.
Efforts in recent years to fill empty seats by giving away huge blocks of free tickets havenât worked. According to data released through a public records request, the school gave away an average of nearly 25,000 free tickets per game in 2019 and 2021. When U.C.L.A. drew 52,578 fans against Oklahoma in 2019, it gave away 39,202 tickets for that game. And last season, when the Bruins upset Louisiana State before 68,123, it gave away 29,279 tickets.
Free Tickets, Low Attendance U.C.L.A. struggled to fill seats in 2021 despite giving away thousands of free tickets.
Those free tickets show that even though U.C.L.A.âs attendance in 2019 and 2021 are the lowest since moving to the Rose Bowl, the bottom line has been even worse: Tickets sold accounted for less than 80 percent of the announced attendance in both seasons.
The number of free tickets given away this season is not available, according to a university spokesman.
U.C.L.A. had its two smallest crowds ever at the Rose Bowl this season, and when photos began circulating on social media of a nearly abandoned stadium, one of the programâs most decorated alums, Troy Aikman, took to Twitter to call it âan embarrassment.â
Aikman continues to agitate for an on-campus stadium, though he knows itâs all but impossible. Still, he calls the Rose Bowl, where he won a Super Bowl with the Dallas Cowboys and lost to U.S.C. in front of 100,741 fans, âa magical place.â
âItâs the greatest venue for a big game for football anywhere in the country,â Aikman said in a phone interview. âI wouldnât trade my days there for anything. Itâs just a hard place to fill.â
Attendance, and its impact on U.C.L.A.âs bottom line, is apparently a touchy subject in the athletic department. Martin Jarmond, the athletic director, has declined three interview requests from The New York Times in the last 15 months. In July, Jarmond declined an interview request to discuss the move to the Big Ten because an athletic department spokesman, Scott Markley, said he had already addressed the matter.
Jarmond, who makes $1.4 million per year, declined an interview request last week about football attendance because he was ânot interested in rehashing old news,â Markley said in a email, adding, âperhaps we can make something happen later this winter.â
Markley also declined to make available athletic department marketing and ticketing officials for an interview.
Jarmond, who was hired as U.C.L.A.âs athletic director in May 2020, has been unable to reverse the slide he inherited from Dan Guerrero, who retired after 18 years running an athletic department that had balanced its books for 14 consecutive years until 2019.
Guerrero, though, had never been able to find a football coach who could make U.C.L.A. a consistent winner. For his final search, he enlisted Aikman as an adviser.
âWeâve had challenges over the years in getting candidates interested in the job,â Aikman said, ticking off reasons like high academic standards that hinder recruiting, salaries that did not account for the high cost of living, lack of an on-campus stadium and the bureaucracy of the sprawling University of California system. âChip is the only one I can think of who has had other opportunities.â
Kelly, who is in his fifth season at U.C.L.A., has been painstakingly deliberate in building a winner. He shrugged as dozens of players left the program early on. And he did not waver in his insistence on recruiting earnest students and hard workers whom his coaches could develop into productive players, even if they were not highly rated by analysts.
His first season began with five consecutive losses. His second began with five losses in six games. Kellyâs flippant responses to questions about winning led some fans to an inevitable conclusion: If he doesnât care, why should I?
Aikman, the longtime N.F.L. broadcaster who came to know Kelly when he was coaching the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers, said he never discussed a timeline for a rebuild with Kelly, whose initial five-year contract was extended after last season. âIt hasnât been smooth. But itâs been exciting to see it all get put together,â Aikman said. âItâs been a long time since weâve had something to cheer about.â
Still, those first two seasons set the stage for U.C.L.A.âs financial calamity.
Then the pandemic struck. And Under Armour, in financial straits and not pleased with the early returns on a 15-year, $280 million apparel agreement â the richest deal in college sports â breached the contract, invoking a force majeure clause.
U.C.L.A. sued. Under Armour countersued.
In June, Under Armour agreed to pay U.C.L.A. $67 million â about half of what it would have paid over the remainder of the contract â to settle the claims. That erased a sizable chunk of U.C.L.A.âs deficit.
But the subsequent six-year deal that Jarmond finalized with Nike pays the university only $500,000 a year in cash, more than $10 million less per year than the Under Armour agreement. (Nike will provide about $7 million per year in athletic gear, about the same as the Under Armour agreement.)
That wonât put much of a dent in the deficit. And higher football ticket revenues are difficult to envision.
As iconic and idyllic as the Rose Bowl is, set in a ravine at the foot of the San Gabriel mountains, its marriage with U.C.L.A. has been one of necessity.
U.C.L.A., as it struggled to escape the shadow of U.S.C. in the 1970s, grew tired of playing at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Trojansâ home field across the street from the U.S.C. campus, just south of downtown Los Angeles. But there were few options and U.C.L.A. could never muster the political will to fight Bel-Air homeowners to build an on-campus stadium. So in 1982 it called the Rose Bowl home.
Meanwhile, the Rose Bowl needed U.C.L.A. to remain viable â the Orange Bowl and Sugar Bowl stadiums eventually fell to the wrecking ball when their tenants left for new buildings. After efforts to land an N.F.L. team fizzled, the Rose Bowl underwent an approximately $200 million renovation a decade ago that is being paid for largely by revenue generated by U.C.L.A., which is under a contract to play at the stadium through 2042.
That the Rose Bowl is a grueling 27-mile drive from campus and the winding lanes leading into the Arroyo Seco are clogged with traffic has long been part of the bargain.
So, too, is seating that is comfortable only for Lilliputians, interminable concession lines and culinary options that struggle to rise above sustenance. Kickoff times are uncertain and inconvenient thanks to television dictates. Saturdayâs Arizona game, for example, was announced as a 7:30 p.m. Pacific start just six days earlier and the season opener was played at 11:30 a.m. under 100-degree temperatures.
Unappealing opponents do not help â the Bruinsâ nonconference home games this season were against Bowling Green, Alabama State and South Alabama. Next season is no more attractive: Coastal Carolina and North Carolina Central are the nonconference opponents scheduled to visit the Rose Bowl.
âWe found ourselves going to less and less games, and paying for the entire season package on top of making a donation to the Wooden fund,â said David Senensieb, an alumnus who dropped his season tickets last year after 35 seasons. âWith the team not doing well, it made it easy to say, âLetâs just buy ticketsâ to the games we wanted to go to.â Weâre always able to find tickets.â
Over the years, U.C.L.A.âs marketing department has tried to retain fans like Senensieb and cultivate interest. One year, blue roses were sent to season-ticket holders. Another year, fans were sent a faux lottery ticket, which they could scratch off for a complimentary ticket to a particular game. In 2019, fans received robocalls with a recording from Aikman urging them to support the team.
It has provided free tickets to elementary schools, veterans organizations and charities over the years, hoping they will come back.
But if U.C.L.A. beats Arizona on Saturday night, it will mark only the fifth time since 1998 that the Bruins will have won nine games or more.
âItâs easier to keep somebody than it is to find somebody new,â said Scott Mitchell, the longtime marketing director who retired before the 2020 season. âThereâs been a long time of not meeting the perception of what a U.C.L.A. fan would want â an exciting team, a fun team, a winning team.â
Now that the Bruins have that, fans may be gingerly getting back on the bandwagon, which â just like the Rose Bowl itself â has plenty of good seats available.
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Since a National Title, Some Very Difficult Days at L.S.U.
Since a National Title, Some Very Difficult Days at L.S.U.
Such a festive atmosphere has been absent at U.C.L.A. for years. The Bruins have had five consecutive losing seasons, their attendance dwindled in 2019 to its lowest since moving to the Rose Bowl in 1982 â barely cracking 40,000 per game â and interest in the program had diminished to the point where six sections of seats in the north end zone were covered by tarps. To boost the crowd onâŚ
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Since a National Title, Some Very Difficult Days at L.S.U.
Since a National Title, Some Very Difficult Days at L.S.U.
Such a festive atmosphere has been absent at U.C.L.A. for years. The Bruins have had five consecutive losing seasons, their attendance dwindled in 2019 to its lowest since moving to the Rose Bowl in 1982 â barely cracking 40,000 per game â and interest in the program had diminished to the point where six sections of seats in the north end zone were covered by tarps. To boost the crowd onâŚ
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The most scintillating game of the day â and perhaps the tournament â was U.C.L.A.âs 88-78 upset of second-seeded Alabama in overtime. The Crimson Tide rallied from an 11-point halftime deficit and sent the game into overtime on Alex Reeseâs 26-footer with four-tenths of a second remaining in regulation.
But the 11th-seeded Bruins, who rallied from a 14-point deficit to beat Michigan State in overtime in a play-in game, dominated the extra period, even without their stalwart, Johnny Juzang, who fouled out with 2 minutes and 26 seconds left in regulation. Of Alabamaâs many regrets will be making just 11 of 27 free throws
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By BY JONATHAN ABRAMS from Sports in the New York Times-https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/sports/ncaabasketball/ucla-gonzaga-sweet-16.html?partner=IFTTT Itâs been 15 years since the Bruinsâ instant-classic Sweet 16 comeback win over the Bulldogs, but their stars canât forget. âIâm still speechless to this day,â Darren Collison said. U.C.L.A. Is Trying to Send Gonzaga Back to âHeartbreak Cityâ New York Times
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Daenan Gyimah, who plays for the U.C.L.A. Bruins, is also a rising hip-hop artist.
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Gonzaga Beats UCLA With a Buzzer-Beater in Overtime
Gonzaga Beats UCLA With a Buzzer-Beater in Overtime
U.C.L.A. drew closer when Riley, after Tyger Campbell drew the defense, sank a baseline jumper, and it had a chance to tie on its next possession but Juzang missed a short transition floater with 1 minute, 38 seconds remaining in overtime. Andrew Nembhard seemed to put Gonzaga in control when he knocked in a 3-pointer less than 30 seconds later to put Gonzaga ahead by 90-85. But the Bruins, asâŚ
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Just after just two weeks, There exists one particular sport this coming Saturday which includes emerged as the most intriguing and consequential in the youthful school football time.
There are actually shockingly several groups which have beyond a question demonstrated their dominance. If you wish to generally be a stickler about it, then this kind of staff, soon after just two games, must experienced attained some combination of defeating One more remarkably regarded team and of so badly walloping an of course inferior opponent that it glows at nighttime. If not, to borrow a phrase from the previous secretary of defense, we donât determine what we donât know.
So throw out No. 11 Penn State (2-0): The Nittany Lions may have routed Pitt, fifty one-six, at Heinz Field on Saturday, but just weekly before, they barely survived Appalachian Condition at your house. No. 5 Oklahoma (2-0) could possibly have taken care of U.C.L.A., forty nine-21, on Saturday, but as the Bruins also dropped the past 7 days, to Cincinnati, it is not crystal clear how impressed we need to be. Both equally victims of No. six Wisconsin (2-0) were being from decrease-tier conferences. Even No. 1 Alabama (two-0) arguably hasnât performed any individual.
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The hype for following Saturdayâs matchup among No. 15 Texas Christian (2-0) and No. four Ohio Condition (2-0) on the Dallas Cowboysâ ATT Stadium is currently significant. However the Horned Frogsâ wins came versus decrease-tier groups, as well as Buckeyesâ wins came from two of the facility conferencesâ minimum imposing programs (Oregon Condition, Rutgers).
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Both equally Tigers have burned brighter than nearly almost every other crew. Just about every contains a persuasive victory above another very well-regarded workforce at a neutral web-site as well as a demolition of a weaker team at home.
Two Saturdays ago, Auburn defeated Washington (1-one), at enough time rated sixth and now 10th, 21-16, at Atlantaâs Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The Tigers intercepted the veteran Huskies quarterback Jake Browning the moment and forced a fumble from him a next time, though committing no turnovers. Then final weekend, Alabama Condition managed merely a touchdown and a safety in Auburnâs 63-nine victory.
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But this calendar year, L.S.U has checked out the very least nearly as good. It opened its period with a dominant 33-17 win over Miami (1-one), then ranked eighth and at the moment 21st, at ATT Stadium. L.S.U. followed up this past Saturday at your house having a 31-0 earn in excess of Southeastern Louisiana.
Even in L.S.U.âs ideal yrs over the past twenty years beneath Nick Saban and afterwards Les Miles â many years that provided two nationwide championships â the team struggled at the highest-profile posture on the sector. The 2 title-winning setting up quarterbacks were Matt Mauck and Matt Flynn, both equally of whom have hardly been listened to from once more.
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The once-a-year Auburn-L.S.U. activity â Tigers East compared to Tigers West? â has stood out recently. Two yrs in the past, it had been Milesâs closing activity on the sideline, after a go-in advance touchdown as time expired was overturned partially due to a late snap.
The year prior to that, it absolutely was L.S.U.âs then-sophomore Leonard Fournetteâs coming-out occasion, as The existing Jacksonville Jaguar ran for 228 yards and three touchdowns in a single of L.S.U.âs major wins from the fifty two-video game sequence. In 2010, Cam Newton, Auburnâs Heisman Trophy winner, ran for 217 yards and two touchdowns inside a win.
Which other groups qualify for just a pedantic definition of correct contender at this early moment?
Higher education soccerâs 3rd main Tigers franchise, No. two Clemson (two-0), appears like a sound bet to head to some fourth straight School Soccer Playoff following holding off Texas AM within the road, 28-26, and now staring down what seems a straightforward Atlantic Coastline Meeting schedule.
Very last timeâs runner-up, No. three Ga (2-0), could possess the periodâs most impressive win â Saturdayâs forty one-seventeen romp at South Carolina. The Bulldogs Possess a rare absent day at L.S.U. up coming thirty day period.
After beating No. 19 Michigan (one-one) in your house while in the opener, No. eight Notre Dame (two-0) held off Ball Condition on Saturday.
And No. 9 Stanford (two-0) has overwhelmed San Diego Point out and No. 22 Southern California. Circle Sept. 29 within the calendar; thatâs if the Cardinal make their biannual pilgrimage to South Bend.
In school soccer, September is all about attaining know-how. We're going to know a good deal much more then.
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The end of an era in Africa.
⢠In placing President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe under house arrest on Wednesday, the nationâs military may have foreshadowed the end of more than just one political career.
The apparent coup echoed across a continent where the notion of the âbig manâ leader is defined both by the lure of power in perpetuity and the risk that, one day, the edifice will crumble.
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Itâs no âMona Lisa.â
⢠One of our art critics, Jason Farago, assessed âSalvator Mundi,â the work attributed to Leonardo da Vinci that sold for a record-setting $450.3 million on Wednesday.
His verdict: âa proficient but not especially distinguished religious picture from turn-of-the-16th-century Lombardy, put through a wringer of restorations.â
⢠Other critics said the astronomical price attested to how much salesmanship drives and dominates the conversation about art and its value.
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âRoss 128 is one of the quietest stars of the neighborhood.â
â Xavier Bonfils, the lead author of a paper describing the discovery of an Earth-size planet that could hold the conditions favorable for life.
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âLe Beaujolais nouveau est arrivĂŠ!â
Signs bearing these words appear today in restaurants and cafes across France and around the world, indicating that one of the yearâs youngest wines is available on its traditional release day, the third Thursday of November.
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Take the expertâs advice: Today is the day âwhen great gourmets stop drinking the grands crus and revel in the simplicity of a Beaujolais.â Credit Stephen Speranza for The New York Times
The practice has a long history. âItâs a time when great gourmets stop drinking the grands crus and revel in the simplicity of a Beaujolais,â the writer and wine expert Frank Schoonmaker told The Times more than half a century ago.
To this day, the young wineâs release offers an excuse to gather with friends to opine on the yearâs harvest and savor its fruitiness.
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(If you have some spare time, do read this essay by Patricia Wells on the Beaujolais savored in Parisian wine bars in 1982.)
The Times first mentioned wine from the Beaujolais region in 1873. In 1955, we recommended it as âa good picnic companion.â
âThe wines are as light on the wallet as they are in the glass,â our critic, Howard Goldberg, wrote in 1987. âThis frivolity makes them ideal quaffing wines for parties until New Yearâs Eve, when Champagne takes over.
âBesides, they are so short-lived they should be pretty much finished by then.â
Patrick Boehler contributed reporting.
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Gonzaga is moving smoothly in its chase of an undefeated season. U.C.L.A.
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âIâm taking any ideas,â Ayayi told reporters on a video conference call last week.
If the antics seem childish, his teammates tolerate Ayayi because his pranks are about the only bothers theyâve endured this season. Certainly, there have been few on the basketball court this season the way they have waltzed through their schedule. The Bruins advance to play top-seeded Michigan, which capitalized on a 50-point show in the paint to crush fourth-seeded Florida State, 76-58.
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A Volleyball Star Who Raps as Kofi
Name: Daenan Gyimah
Age: 21
Hometown: Toronto
Now Lives: In a five-bedroom home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles that he rents with nine other students.
Claim to Fame: Mr. Gyimah is a star volleyball player with the U.C.L.A. Bruins, as well as a rising hip-hop artist who performs under the name Kofi. A highlight reel of his blocks and jumps posted by Epic Volleyball, a YouTube volleyball channel, has more than 12.5 million views.
âIâm not that good in the technical skills, but I jump very high, which people like to see,â he said. In the music studio, Mr. Gyimah writes, produces and performs his own material including âCame Up,â a melodic rap song he released last January.
Big Break: Mr. Gyimah started playing volleyball in the ninth grade, mostly because his older sister, Aja, played. His gifts were quickly recognized: He was taller, longer and jumped higher than others in his class. While playing a tournament with the Canadian youth national team in Des Moines, he was recruited by U.C.L.A. coaches. âI couldnât believe it,â Mr. Gyimah said. âEveryone knows U.C.L.A.â
Latest Thing: Earlier this year, Mr. Gyimah was named an All-American by the American Volleyball Coaches Association and was voted by Off the Block, a college volleyball news site, as the best middle attacker. He also competed for the Canadian menâs volleyball team; if the team qualifies for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Mr. Gyimah will try to be on the roster. âThat would be a dream,â he said.
Next Thing: Mr. Gyimah plans to graduate in 2021 with a bachelorâs degree in political science, but he is already set on a career in music, as a performer and songwriter. He is âalways recordingâ in his basement studio, he said. In September, he signed a recording contract with Red Bull Records, pending the approval of his O-1 work visa.
Bootstraps: Mr. Gyimah grew up in a poorer section of Toronto, where his father is a truck driver and his mother is a clerk for a health company. Friends sometimes compare him to Drake, though obviously not for his volleyball prowess. âWeâre both half black, half Jewish, from Toronto,â Mr. Gyimah said. âWe werenât the brokest kids growing up, but always, for some reason, grew up in âhoods.â
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By BY BILLY WITZ from Sports in the New York Times-https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/sports/ncaabasketball/ucla-michigan-ncaa-tournament.html?partner=IFTTT After barely making the field of the N.C.A.A. menâs basketball tournament, the Bruins are enjoying a revival under Coach Mick Cronin. Now theyâre one win from the Final Four. Meet the New U.C.L.A.: Plucky Underdog New York Times
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