Thursday hot links

UCLA basketball

• Kevin Love and Russell Westbrook are expected to declare themselves eligible for the NBA draft, but won't hire agents yet.
• Alfred Aboya will play for Cameroon this summer.

UCLA football

• Going over the wall is not going over well.
• Terry Donahue put some historical perspective on the ditch day tradition.
• Norm Chow obviously wasn't thrilled about the players walking out. He talked about that and a whole lot more on PMS ("The Petros and Money Show") on KLAC-AM (570). Click here to hear the audio (about 14 minutes).

Other UCLA news

• The womens' water polo team finished the season undefeated. Now it will take on the U.S. National Team.
  
• Wednesday was the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings. UCLA honored the victims.

Assorted gossip

• Always protect the ball. Florida learned the hard way — to the tune of $4,000. Its BCS trophy has been broken.
• Hey, at least it can be replaced. Alabama misspelled its team captain's name. In cement.
• As part of ESPN's quest to dub a city Title Town, USA, Eric Neel made an argument for LA.
• Want another reason to hate artificial turf? How about lead?

Posted by: Adam Rose