Mick Cronin is a connoisseur of velvety pinot noir, but his second trip to the Willamette Valley in three months won’t involve any tastings. Consider it more of a sour grapes tour.
UCLA’s road to the Pac-12 Conference championship keeps going through Oregon because conference officials say they want equity in crowning their regular-season champion.
The Bruins (17-6 overall, 13-4 Pac-12) playing the Ducks (17-5, 12-4) on Wednesday evening at Matthew Knight Arena in a makeup game will help each team finish the season with an equal number of home and road games, though Cronin hotly disputed the notion that his team’s game against Stanford in Santa Cruz should count as a neutral-court game.