Sports

Men’s Water Polo: UCSB Falls Against Top Tier

This weekend's Southern California Water Polo Tournament was supposed to be an opportunity for competing teams to size up one another. There was just one problem, nearly all the teams that showed up w...
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Idiots Don’t Represent

I'm about as loyal a Dodger fan as you can get. I loath the San Francisco Giants, especially Barry Bonds, like any bitter rival would. I swear to "Bleed Dodger Blue" as they like to say.
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Gauchos Win the Hard-er Way

After starting the season 4-0-1 with big road victories over North Carolina State University and Duke University, coming home to play city rival Westmont should have been a walk in the park for the Ga...
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Santa Barbara Dazzles Home Crowd During Two Victories

The UCSB women's soccer team took care of Oregon State University and Xavier University at Harder Stadium this weekend to improve to 5-2-1. The Gauchos allowed just one goal in 180 minutes of soccer.
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Road – Weary SB Welcomes Return

The #13 UCSB women's volleyball team's up-and-down season hit a bump in its final week of preseason play as #7 Pepperdine trounced the Gauchos.
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UCSB Intramurals 101

UCSB Recreational Sports, commonly known as Rec Sports, organizes and manages intramural sports for UCSB students and faculty. Rec Sports, run entirely by students, provides exciting opportunities to ...
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Club Sports Strive for Successful Seasons

he UCSB Sport Clubs program, a division of UCSB Recreational Sports, has high hopes for the upcoming season - and why not? With 22 teams, many of them nationally ranked, it's a safe bet to say it coul...
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SB Student Apathy

Student support of UCSB sports, especially women's basketball, has been terribly lacking, given the success of many of our 19 NCAA Division I programs at UCSB.
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Competition Loons in Backyard

For those of us who are too lazy or too sane to try and catch our dreams of playing college sports, salvation comes with intramural sports.
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Gauchos Gear Up to Go Loco

Starting this year, the Gaucho Locos is now officially run by the students, after the University ran the group for the its first five years.
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Let’s Get Physically Active

Listed in school schedules as PA 1 courses, physical activities courses cover a wide range of sports and athletic activities, from fencing and sailing to weight training and racquetball.
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Track and Field: Regional Opportunities

Thirteen Gauchos will attempt to qualify for the NCAA Division I Track and Field National Championships at the newly instated west regional competition, held today and tomorrow at Stanford's Cobb Trac...
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Santa Barbara Goes Clubbing For Success

What a year it has been in the world of sport clubs at UCSB. Twenty teams, about 25 articles, three league champions, one national championship, one coach of the year and you've completed the year at ...
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MLB Draft: MLB Scans SB For Diamond In Rough

UCSB baseball wrapped up a long season two weekends ago, going out with a bang by winning their final three series. But this week, several Gaucho players patiently await the knock of opportunity on a ...
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Ill Spittin’ Game: The Faces of the Game Make It Last

Three years in the same office and it's come down to three school days. When I first walked in to the Nexus about three years ago, it took me until this Tuesday afternoon to notice the smell.
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