At last Thursday's Sixth Annual LA Sports Awards dinner at the Beverly Hilton, Megan Langenfeld was honored as the Los Angeles Sportswoman of the Year.

UCLA softball's 2010 NCAA Championship was selected as the #8 LA sports moment of last year, while the remembrance of John Wooden's life and legacy was the #2 moment.

The LA Sports Awards are presented annually by the Los Angeles Sports Council to celebrate the greatest moments of the year in sports in the Los Angeles/Orange County area.

The telecast of the event will be shown several times in the next few week on FS West and Prime Ticket. Here is the broadcast schedule:

March 4 - 10:45 pm (FS West)
March 5 - 3:30 pm (FS West)
March 5 - 10:30 pm (Prime Ticket)
March 7 - 2:00 pm (Prime Ticket)
March 8 - 6:30 pm (Prime Ticket)
March 10 - 3:30 pm (Prime Ticket)
March 11 - 10:00 pm (Prime Ticket)
March 12 - 8:00 pm (FS West)
March 16 - 10:00 pm (FS West)
March 19 - 9:30 pm (Prime Ticket)

Nick Scarvelis, who signed a letter-of-intent with the Bruin track and field team in early February, captured the California State Indoor shot put crown over the weekend in Fresno. Scarvelis, who is from Dos Pueblos HS, won the event with a lifetime-best toss of 63-4.50. That mark is the No. 7 throw by a prep athlete in the U.S. this season.

Another signee, Sean Grumney of Newberry Park HS, competed at the Brooks PR Invite in Seattle this past weekend. The meet highlighted some of the top prep athletes in the nation. He took fourth-place in the 800m with a time of 1:53.52.

John R. Wooden Weekend tribute is set to take place during FOX Sports Net's nationally televised productions of Saturday's Arizona at UCLA and Sunday's Washington St. at Washington men's basketball games. 
 
The following highlights will be featured in each telecast:
 
-       A series of originally produced vignettes honoring Coach Wooden
-       Replicas of Coach Wooden's "Pyramid of Success" will be distributed to all fans in attendance
-       Coaches from all four teams will be asked to wear "pyramid" lapel pins to symbolize their participation and tribute to the weekend
 
SCHEDULE:
Arizona at UCLA
Saturday, February 27th at 1PM (PT)
PRIME TICKET
 
Washington St. at Washington
Sunday, February 28th at 7PM (PT)
FOX Sports West

 

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the greatest player in the history of college basketball during his UCLA career and the leading scorer in NBA history, is a multi-talented individual.

He has authored several books, and he has now produced a documentary titled "On The Shoulders of Giants" which tells the story of the Harlem Rens basketball team.

The documentary is now available through "Video on Demand" through Comcast, Time Warner and Cox cable systems.

Here is an except from Leonard Maltin's review of the documentary: "Their actual name was the Harlem Renaissance, but they were known to their many fans and admirers as the Rens. To understand their significance, and the history they made (much of it lost or forgotten) you have to understand the broader picture of race in America during the first half of the 20th century, and the unique culture of Harlem. To do this, Abdul-Jabbar and Morales corralled the most impressive, diverse and in some cases surprising array of interview subjects imaginable, including Maya Angelou, Dr. Cornel West, Bill Russell, Charles Barkley, Wynton Marsalis, Bob Costas, the late John Wooden, Spike Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Julius Erving, Jerry West, and Herbie Hancock, to name just a few! They all make significant, even eloquent, contributions to the story of a remarkable group of men who comprised the first all-black professional basketball team in America."

To read Maltin's entire review, click here.

To view a CBS news story about the documentary, click here.

 

Three former Bruins, Corey Pavin, Brandt Jobe and Scott McCarron, will all be competing in this weekend's Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, CA. Pavin is a two-time winner of the event (1994, 1995) and has already earned one top-10 finish on the Champions Tour this year. He also captained the U.S. Ryder Cup team back in October. This will be Scott McCarron's 4th tournament on the tour this year. He has made two cuts in his previous three tournaments with his best finish being a tie 55th at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. This is also Brandt Jobe's 4th tournament of the year and his best finish was a tie for 29th at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course.

UCLA freshman quarterback Brett Hundley was featured on ESPNU's Signing Day Special on Feb. 2.

The network followed in on campus for a day and put together a segment of almost four minutes that featured the Bruins' early-morning workouts, a visit with his academic counselor, talking while going to class and throwing late in the afternoon. The piece was just under four minutes.

To watch the segment, click here.

This morning, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune ran a story on the latest information about the Rose Bowl renovations.

Monday was the last day the old scoreboards were in place at the Rose Bowl. When Bruin fans enter the stadium for the season's first home game (Sept. 10 vs. San Jose State), they will be greeted by a state-of-the-art LED video board measuring 30 feet by 78 feet.

Phase I of the renovation also includes wider tunnels and additional aisles in the seating area in the South end zone among other improvements.

To read the story, click here.