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LOS ANGELES — Showing they believe Chip Kelly is the right coach to lead UCLA into the Big Ten era, school officials on Friday gave Kelly a two-year contract extension and accompanying small raise that runs through the 2027 season.

Kelly will be tied to the Bruins until the 2027 season.

LOS ANGELES — He’s entering the fifth year of an expensive and so-far unproductive project, but coach Chip Kelly remains as defiantly evasive as he was when he made his celebrated arrival at UCLA.

Gavin Newsom — an ex officio member of the University of California Board of Regents — is among others asking how the move will benefit all student-athletes, as well as how to mitigate the financial effects it will cause to UC Berkeley, California’s other public university in the Pac-12.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is demanding an explanation from UCLA officials about their move to the Big Ten Conference

What with Russia’s onslaught on Ukraine, the Supreme Court’s onslaught on liberality, the GOP’s onslaught on truth and democracy and the never-ending onslaught of senseless gun violence, last month gave new meaning to the term June gloom. For many of us, sport remains a great escape from all that. A…

LOS ANGELES — It was a splashy move with a quiet beneficiary.

The school will earn more money each year from its new conference to help fund athletics at the school.

LOS ANGELES — UCLA's athletic deficit crisis could be solved by a new benefactor freely spewing cash.