University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA has many good sports teams on the Division I level.  Their teams, which play in the Pacific-12 Conference, are called the Bruins, or small bears.  These teams have won 103 championships.  The basketball team plays in Pauley Pavilion and has won 11 championships with players such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton and Gail Goodrich.  The football team plays in the Rose Bowl stadium, site of the bowl game of the same name.  UCLA also has good volleyball and water polo teams, and has sent hundreds of athletes to the Olympic Games.   UCLA has a strong rivalry with USC, the other university in Los Angeles, in all sports.  There are lesser rivalries with Stanford, Cal and Notre Dame.