Transfer Argument One-Sided at UCLA

First UCLA hired a pro from Australia to win the women’s NCAA softball title. Now the Bad News Bruins refuse to release a bench-riding hoopster who wants to join the father-figure coach who recruited him. Wasn’t it only yesterday their basketball champions were led by transfer Ed O’Bannon? Obviously, sportsmanship gives way to winning at any cost at Westwood.

JAY GUSTAV

Pacific Palisades

Editor’s note: UCLA has relented and released omm’A Givens from his scholarship, which means he can rejoin Coach Lorenzo Romar, the former Bruin assistant coach, at Pepperdine.