Chris Trenchard

October 13, 2005

Live: Franz Ferdinand @ The Greek Theatre

By Chris Trenchard

If I were a girl, I would definitely want to have sex with Franz Ferdinand. Not all at once of course - if I were a girl I'd had have some class - but boy do these chaps have a hold on the art of appeal.

September 27, 2005

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s the End of the World

By Chris Trenchard

When I think of the apocalypse, I first think of the sky. Whether it be frogs or stars or the sky itself, something will fall from it, I'm assured. In the past month, to me, the sky has shown itself to be an unstable bea...

March 1, 2005

Talk More, Type Less

By Chris Trenchard

"Hey you!" I say to the man in front of me in line. "Hey buddy!" I offer, as politely as humanly possible, to the robot I trail patiently on the bike path. "Hey slut!" I finally proclaim to the guy sitting across from me...

February 16, 2005

In The Trenches: Help SB Help You

By Chris Trenchard

"I guess all you can really learn from a loss like that is to copy everything they do and do it yourself," UCSB men's basketball Head Coach Bob Williams said Feb. 5 after watching his Gauchos fall by 30 to Utah State.

February 10, 2005

In the Trenches: Same As It Never Was

By Chris Trenchard

Seven years later, UCSB Head Coach Bob Williams will step onto the UC Davis campus for the first time since he took the Aggies to a Division II National Championship.

January 27, 2005

Sports Column: Road Block

By Chris Trenchard

In hopes of erecting a Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) that is a more accurate reflection of NCAA Division I men's basketball teams this year, the folks in charge of the RPI fastened a few loose screws during the offseaso...

January 11, 2005

Sports Column: Between the Teeth

By Chris Trenchard

It seems incongruent that a CEO of any company would warn his subsidiaries against profiteering. Margins are why we exist, right?

January 6, 2005

He Said, She Said: Let’s Cut to the Chase, Baby – No Mind Games Necessary

By Chris Trenchard

Back in junior high, I used to rock these green and brown plaid No Fear shorts pretty much every day. By the end of my tenure at Orinda Intermediate School, they had assumed two holes, several menacing grass stains and o...

January 6, 2005

Sports Column: Thanks, We’ll Need It

By Chris Trenchard

Houston, we have a matchup problem. Our tank is dangerously low, our engine is shot and our back-up vessel is out for the season. The elements are just too much to handle.

November 24, 2004

Cheese Statement

By Chris Trenchard

As the clock ticked down on the UCSB men

November 19, 2004

The Right Way to Do Mexico

By Chris Trenchard

The world is an incredibly diverse place. I encourage everyone to dive headfirst into the ocean of possibilities that exist all around you. In particular, for the locals of Southern California, I want to open up a door t...

November 16, 2004

Sports Column: The Omittee

By Chris Trenchard

If UCSB played on the East Coast, yesterday would have been known as Black Monday. But here in Santa Barbara, where everyone else has every reason to be jealous of us, people take their frustration out on us whenever the...

April 7, 2004

W. Tennis: UCSB Snaps Three-Match Losing Streak

By Chris Trenchard

The UCSB women's tennis team ended their three-game losing streak yesterday by beating St. Mary's College of California at UCSB's RecCen courts. Santa Barbara won three singles points and the doubles point to propel them...

April 1, 2004

Baseball: UCSB Tries to Extend Streak to Seven

By Chris Trenchard

In their last six games, everything from pitching to hitting to fielding has been clicking for the UCSB baseball team and the result has been one boisterous six-game winning streak.

October 1, 2003

San Francisco Turmoil : T.O. Needs a Time Out

By Chris Trenchard

49ers wide receiver Terrell Owens might be as close to a fictional character as they come, but there was nothing funny about Owens' nonfictional blame game on Sunday.