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UCLA's four-star offensive lineman commit Micha Smith pushed his Vero Beach, Florida teammate Xavier Stinson to join him in Westwood.

• USC picked up a commitment from four-star linebacker Talanoa Ili, who played high school football in Southern California before moving to Hawaii recently. The Trojans beat out crosstown rival UCLA for Ili, who is the No. 79 overall prospect in the country. Ili is the eighth top-100 prospect in USC’s class, which ranks No. 1 in the country.

As many teams have relied more on the transfer portal, UCLA baseball is reliant on star sophomores like Roch Cholowsky.

Bird (2-1) was brought from the bullpen in the bottom of the sixth of Colorado's 10-1 win over the Braves Sunday. Bird entered with a 1-0 lead and immediately gave up a single to Ronald Acuna Jr. Austin Riley singled to left, advanced to second and Acuna Jr. was thrown out at home.