SB Looks to Double-Up on Titans

February 7, 2008 by

For the second consecutive Big West season, the UCSB men's basketball team has bucked the traditional mantra that winning on the road is harder than winning at home. While they've won three consecutiv...
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Pavlovian Sayings: Complaints about Cribbing Columnists

February 7, 2008 by

Quick: what do you think the best part about writing a weekly sports column is? No it's not the scratch, the hot and horny groupies, or the fact I regularly get to turn down people who want to write t...
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Belgian Brawler Charms the Lantern

February 5, 2008 by

In case you hadn't noticed, I've tried to aim the entertainment column toward television - mainly because the Artsweek page seems to have everything pretty well covered when it comes to music and movi...
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He Said, He Said

February 5, 2008 by

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, ot...
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SB Begins Season With Pair of Wins

February 5, 2008 by

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 foe...
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Giant Success, or Super Failure?

February 4, 2008 by

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...
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Tigers Maul UCSB at Home

January 25, 2008 by

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 ...
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Celeb Pseudonyms Disappoint the Fans

January 25, 2008 by

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 ta...
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Pavlovian Sayings: Let The Real Game Be Your Pregame

January 24, 2008 by

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...
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MLS Scoops up Santa Barbara’s Best

January 22, 2008 by

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.
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Rare Doubleheader Set for UCSB Hoops

January 18, 2008 by

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.
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Juiced up Dog and Pony Show

January 17, 2008 by

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 Re...
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UC Santa Barbara Men’s

January 16, 2008 by

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 result...
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He Said, He Said: NFL Playoff Edition

January 15, 2008 by

True or False: Tom Brady sold his soul to the Devil.
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Award Shows Fail to Seize the Globe

January 15, 2008 by

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.
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