Alex Pavlovic

February 5, 2008

He Said, He Said

By Alex Pavlovic

First of all, let the record show that the historic concept of a “He Said, He Said” column was invented by the sports desk, and thus, if said concept appears anywhere else in the Nexus, other writers are clea...

February 5, 2008

SB Begins Season With Pair of Wins

By Alex Pavlovic

With National Championship aspirations in the back of their minds, the UCSB men's lacrosse team got its season off to a great start over the weekend with back-to-back wins over Northern California foes Cal and Stanford. ...

February 4, 2008

Giant Success, or Super Failure?

By Alex Pavlovic

While the Super Bowl is always the biggest sporting event of the year, it's also the one game where you can be sure that people will look back and wonder if it was really worth watching. Some years it sadly isn't (rememb...

January 25, 2008

Tigers Maul UCSB at Home

By Alex Pavlovic

UCSB's Big West regular season title hopes took a devastating hit last night at the hands of the University of the Pacific. The Gauchos (14-5 overall, 3-3 in the Big West) couldn't get anything going offensively until th...

January 25, 2008

Celeb Pseudonyms Disappoint the Fans

By Alex Pavlovic

Nothing I've written has been as well received as the sports column I wrote that analyzed the best names in college football. Names like Sen'Derrick Marks and Lucious Pusey. I originally planned on taking the same approa...

January 24, 2008

Pavlovian Sayings: Let The Real Game Be Your Pregame

By Alex Pavlovic

As much as I hate to admit it, UCSB is not, and probably never will be, a school that consistently holds big time sporting events. Let's face it, the soccer team will never consistently get 5,000 fans, and the Thunderdom...

January 22, 2008

MLS Scoops up Santa Barbara’s Best

By Alex Pavlovic

UCSB's status as a collegiate soccer superpower got another boost on Friday, when two Gauchos were chosen in the first round of the Major League Soccer SuperDraft.

January 18, 2008

Rare Doubleheader Set for UCSB Hoops

By Alex Pavlovic

Whether it was mandated by the Big West Conference or just thought up by a member of Cal Poly's marketing staff, a rare event will take place tomorrow at Mott Gym in San Luis Obispo.

January 17, 2008

Juiced up Dog and Pony Show

By Alex Pavlovic

Whoever writes the headlines for ESPN's news stories decided to have a little fun yesterday and gave the story about the congressional steroid hearing the somewhat creative title of "Selig, Fehr on Receiving End of Congr...

January 16, 2008

UC Santa Barbara Men’s

By Alex Pavlovic

After rolling through the majority of the opening two months of the season, the Gauchos got a rude awakening to conference play during the past two weeks, with four closely contested games that resulted in two losses for...

January 15, 2008

He Said, He Said: NFL Playoff Edition

By Alex Pavlovic

True or False: Tom Brady sold his soul to the Devil.

January 15, 2008

Award Shows Fail to Seize the Globe

By Alex Pavlovic

Whether it's the Emmys, the GRAMMYs, the ESPYs or some other show that ends with the sound "ys," I've never really liked award shows.

January 15, 2008

Big West Preview: #5 Cal State Fullerton

By Alex Pavlovic

Despite a terrible nonconference record and a 1-2 start to their Big West schedule, Cal State Fullerton has shown that they just might be a team to be reckoned with come Big West Tournament time.

January 15, 2008

Big West Preview: #7 Pacific

By Alex Pavlovic

Three years ago, the Pacific women's basketball team won five games.

January 14, 2008

SB Prevails in Clash With Titans

By Alex Pavlovic

It's hard to call the fourth leg of a 16-game conference schedule a must-win game, but the UCSB men's basketball team faced just that on Saturday, when it took a two-game losing streak into Fullerton to play a tough team...

January 8, 2008

‘Gladiators’ Unleash Unintended Hilarity

By Alex Pavlovic

With this ridiculous writers' strike dragging on and keeping most of TV's best shows on the sidelines, a bunch of really, really stupid shows have taken over my DVR.