Poor Oregon State (UCLA wins 84-49)

UCLA absolutely destroyed Oregon State last night, beating them 84-49.

Everyone on UCLA’s bench got to play, no one played more than 29 minutes, UCLA shot 55% to OSU’s 35% and nearly doubled their rebound totals, 39 to 20. (Box score here)

Oregon State falls to 0-14 in the Pac-10, and no team has ever gone 0-18 in the conference. This Beaver team has to be the most likely team to complete the feat. The rest of the conference is so much better than they are. In only one of their Pac-10 games did they lose by less than 10 (81-76 at Cal).

During the game, I was rooting for UCLA to keep piling on the points (with the backups, I was obviously fine with the starters being out early). But afterwards, I felt sorry for Oregon State, and it would be cool to see them get a win against USC on Saturday.

I got the photo above at Bruin Basketball Report (read their recap and check out their other photos too). For video highlights of last night’s game, check out Bruins Nation and Gutty Little Bruins.

38 days ’til Opening Day: Curt Schilling

There are 38 days left until that best day of the year, MLB’s Opening Day.

38 is also the number Curt Schilling wears on his jersey.

It looks like Schilling’s going to miss some time this season due to an injury, which he blogged about at 38pitches.com. And that’s too bad — I’m far from a Red Sox fan, but the league’s more interesting when he’s around.

I disagree with a lot of what Schilling says, but I’m glad he says what he thinks in the media and on his blog. There a tons of baseball players with their own blogs now, the ones that I know of include: (and if there’s one I don’t put on this list that you know of, please point it out) John Lackey, Curtis Granderson, Dontrelle Willis, Phil Hughes, Pat Neshek, Todd Jones*, Kevin Youkilis, C.J. Wilson, Chad Billingsley, Nate Robertson, and Geoff Jenkins.

Of course, Schilling has the most famous blog of these and is the most famous player. It’s common for people to rip him, but given his great career, I’d vote for him for the hall of fame if I could. I hope more players start blogging — sometimes, they can be insightful about the sport we all love in ways we never imagined.

*Not really a blog, but Todd’s been writing at The Sporting News before athletes really had blogs.