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UCLA basketball: Two players recovering from concussions

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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UCLA sophomore center Anthony Stover and junior forward De’End Parker are recovering from concussions sustained in practice last week.

Parker is expected to be sidelined at least a week after taking an inadvertent elbow to the head during an intrasquad scrimmage Saturday.

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Stover should return to practice early this week after suffering his concussion Oct 17.

Parker and Stover aren’t the first Bruins to sustain concussions recently. Freshman guard Norman Powell needed three staples to close a wound in his forehead after he was struck by an elbow during workouts. Powell has returned to practice.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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