Alex Pavlovic

June 5, 2008

He Said Goodbye, He Said Goodbye

By Chris Hoffman, Alex Pavlovic

The Nexus Sports Editors Write Their Final Columns After a Historic Run That Included a National Championship, Food Poisoning, Plenty of Black Velvet and Some of the Most Compromising Pictures You'll Ever See

June 5, 2008

Coaching Changes Shake Up Athletics

By Alex Pavlovic

Former Loyola Marymount head coach Rick McLaughlin was named UCSB's men's volleyball coach on Tuesday, replacing Ken Preston, who recently retired after 30 seasons with the program. The UCSB women's water polo team took ...

June 2, 2008

Athletic Department Report: Part III

By Alex Pavlovic

During our combined years at the Nexus, we've done just about everything you can do involving Gaucho athletics. We celebrated in the St. Louis snow when the men's soccer team won the National Championship in 2006, and we...

May 29, 2008

Athletic Department Report: Part II

By Chris Hoffman, Alex Pavlovic

It's not unusual to hear fans of UCSB athletics complain about the choking nature of certain teams, or the fact that we don't have a football team. However, if you listen closely, you'll hear a lot of people talking abou...

May 29, 2008

Future of the TV Promises Snores

By Alex Pavlovic

Remember when "Seinfeld" was the top-rated show on television? Remember when the "Friends" finale captivated a nation? I hope you do because, as our society moves forward, it's hard to imagine sitcoms like those two bein...

May 28, 2008

Athletic Department Report: Part I

By Chris Hoffman, Alex Pavlovic

There are certain sports events at UCSB every year that make students feel like they go to a bigger sports school.

May 21, 2008

Let’s Beef It Up

By Alex Pavlovic

If you're the type of person who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn, then there's really only one thing you should be focused on this Memorial Day Weekend: meat.

May 21, 2008

Female Athlete of the Year: All-American May Grabs Third at Nationals

By Alex Pavlovic

After only two seasons as a Gaucho, sophomore Anne Marie May already has a very impressive trophy case, but this summer she has a chance to add another memento that anyone in the world would be proud to own.

May 20, 2008

Shows Fall Short, Come Finale Time

By Alex Pavlovic

On Thursday nights, I love to lovingly refer to my Opinion editors as "winos." Not because they complain about me, but rather because of their classy red and white choices, when it comes to getting tipsy. But the truth i...

May 19, 2008

SB Welcomes New Coach

By Alex Pavlovic

Six weeks after the stunning retirement of longtime women's basketball Head Coach Mark French, UCSB introduced Lindsay Gottlieb as the fourth head coach in program history.

May 14, 2008

Gauchos Row Away With Bronze

By Alex Pavlovic

While many of their classmates routinely stay up until three or four in the morning, the UCSB men's rowing team stuck to a much different routine, following strict diets and regularly waking up at 4 a.m. to prepare for r...

May 13, 2008

Dry Summer TV Necessitates DVDs

By Alex Pavlovic

Before I get to my topic this week, let's get one thing straight: Last week's column wasn't advocating for the cancellation of "The Office," and I certainly wasn't saying the show now sucks, as so many people seem to thi...

May 7, 2008

Pavlovian Sayings: MVP’s, Melrose the Mullet and Much, Much More

By Alex Pavlovic

People are constantly asking me what "Pavlovian Sayings" - the name that appears at the top of this column every week - really means. OK, well maybe not people. Maybe one person, and actually come to think of it, that on...

May 6, 2008

‘Office’ Refuses to Die With Dignity

By Alex Pavlovic

Whether you're talking about sports, entertainment or any other aspect of life, one of the hardest things to do is to know when to quit.

April 30, 2008

Geivett Carries Gaucho Pride to MLB

By Alex Pavlovic

Casual UCSB baseball fans may have caught a glimpse of Colorado Rockies outfielder Ryan Spilborghs in the World Series last year and realized he was a former Gaucho, but the man they call Spilly was hardly the only UCSB ...

April 29, 2008

NFL Draft Edition

By Chris Hoffman, Alex Pavlovic

Oh, the NFL Draft. The most over-hyped and commercialized piece of propaganda I've ever seen in the world of sports. Do the NFL and ESPN really think people want to tune in for an entire weekend of coverage to watch a bu...