Kai Dizon | Senior staff

Dizon is Sports senior staff. He was previously a 2024-2025 assistant Sports editor on the baseball, men’s tennis, women’s tennis and women’s volleyball beats and a reporter on the baseball and men’s water polo beats. Dizon is a third-year ecology, behavior and evolution student from Chicago.

Football

Dec. 12, 2025 11:04 p.m.

Dizon’s Disposition: Bruin fanbase must break cycle of hope and hate, give time for football turnaround

The modern sports fan hive mind lacks a backbone.
The spineless creature operates on pure emotion in place of a brain.
When things are good, things are perfect – happiness is deserved, hope is everlasting and both the people and processes that made success happen in the first place could never do anything wrong.

By Kai Dizon

Men's Water Polo

Dec. 4, 2025 11:10 p.m.

UCLA men’s water polo 2025 NCAA tournament predictions

No. 2 seed UCLA (24-2, 5-1 MPSF) will have the opportunity to protect the national title starting Friday at Avery Aquatic Center in Palo Alto, California.

By Jacob Nguyen, Kai Dizon, and Finn Karish

Men's Basketball

Dec. 3, 2025 11:16 p.m.

UCLA men’s basketball survives Washington’s comeback attempt in Big Ten opener

This post was updated Dec. 4 at 12:16 a.m.
Both sides of the court at Alaska Airlines Arena read “B1G” on Wednesday.
And it was a big game – at least, as big as an unranked game in early December could be.

By Kai Dizon

Sports

Dec. 3, 2025 10:55 p.m.

UCLA women’s volleyball 2025 NCAA tournament predictions

This post was updated Dec. 4 at 3:51 p.m.
No. 8 seed UCLA women’s volleyball (18-12, 12-8 Big Ten) returns to the NCAA tournament to face Georgia Tech (16-13, 11-9 ACC) on Thursday after a three-year drought.

By Gabriela Garcia, Grant Walters, Kai Dizon, Chloe Agas, and Sinclair Richman

Football

Nov. 30, 2025 8:37 p.m.

Five Things: UCLA football vs. USC

UCLA football (3-9, 3-6 Big Ten) concluded its 2025 season Saturday with a 29-10 loss to then-No. 19 USC (9-3, 7-2) at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

By Kai Dizon

Sports

Nov. 30, 2025 4:23 p.m.

UCLA women’s basketball beats Tennessee in near triple-digit season-high showing

This post was updated Nov. 30 at 4:53 p.m.
Sunday was a shootout on the West Coast.
On one side was senior guard Gabriela Jaquez – the four-year Bruin who came to Westwood as the younger sister of Jaime Jaquez Jr.

By Kai Dizon

Sports

Nov. 27, 2025 10:39 p.m.

UCLA women’s basketball takes down Duke 89-59 for Thanksgiving win

This post was updated Nov. 27 at 11:42 p.m.
It was like Thanksgiving without the turkey.
Lauren Betts – a First Team All-American last season and the Bruins’ second leading scorer this season – was out of Thursday’s action after sustaining an elbow injury Wednesday.

By Kai Dizon

Football

Nov. 23, 2025 11:55 p.m.

Gameday predictions: UCLA football vs. USC

This post was updated Nov. 26 at 3:05 p.m.
After four consecutive losses, UCLA football (3-8, 3-5 Big Ten) will conclude its 2025 campaign with a crosstown contest against No.

By Connor Dullinger, Dylan Winward, Shiv Patel, Kai Dizon, Aidan Sun, and Zimo Li

Football

Nov. 23, 2025 11:29 p.m.

Dizon’s Disposition: Moving to SoFi Stadium will revive UCLA football, attract new fans

This piece is a sequel to “Dizon’s Disposition: UCLA football’s home is better suited to be SoFi Stadium, not Rose Bowl,” which was published Nov. 10.