Derek Mead

October 30, 2008

Big West Title Bout Tonight

By Derek Mead

As the season comes to a close, all any team can ask for is a good shot at locking up a championship. The UCSB women's soccer team has done just that, and tonight faces CSU Long Beach with the Big West title on the line.

October 30, 2008

Do Halloween Drunk

By Derek Mead

With the anticipation of Halloween in I.V. growing for months, it’s finally time to put on whatever costume(s) you’ve acquired over the past weeks and really let it rip. I’ve never quite figured it out,...

October 29, 2008

The West is the Best, Screw the Rest

By Derek Mead

The NBA season has finally started, and God dammit, I am excited as hell for it. After months of blue balls, I can finally get dummy retardo in my living room and have a proper Sheedgasm.

October 27, 2008

Gauchos Stay In Title Hunt With Win

By Derek Mead

With the Big West regular season drawing to a close, the UCSB women's soccer team is doing all the right things in its bid to win the Big West Championship.

October 24, 2008

SB Takes Hot Streak to the Central Valley

By Derek Mead

After pulling out a big win over Cal Poly last Sunday, the UCSB women's soccer team will take advantage of a one-game weekend against conference newcomer UC Davis. The Gauchos (10-5-1, 3-1-1 Big West) have not lost in th...

October 23, 2008

Drink Your Day Away

By Derek Mead

I stopped giving a fuck about weekends long ago. School and work, while not necessarily requiring sobriety, tend to put a damper on the chaos found in a good, long drunk.

October 22, 2008

He Said, He Said

By Derek Mead, John Greely

Derek Mead: The dichotomy in baseball is more apparent than in any other sport. Baseball is a game managed purely by the percentages, and yet no other athletic endeavor has been filled with more superstitions and an utmo...

October 20, 2008

UCSB Routs Cal Poly 4-2

By Derek Mead

Heading on the road to rumble with a rival can be intimidating for weak teams, but for teams with title aspirations, a big game is just a chance to do big things.

October 16, 2008

Frugality Makes the Party

By Derek Mead

There is absolutely no better way to step up your weekend than by throwing a barn-burning shitshow of a rager. Getting a couple hundred of your closest friends retarded in the comfortable confines of your own house sets ...

October 13, 2008

Nexus Sports Editors Sit Down With Santa Barbara’s New Athletic Director

By John Greely, Derek Mead

The UCSB Athletics Dept. recently selected Mark Massari as the replacement for Gary Cunningham as athletic director. Massari just left Oregon State after six highly successful years running the Beaver sports department. ...

October 13, 2008

Santa Barbara Bullrushes Matadors

By Derek Mead

After close to a month on the road, coming home starts to sound pretty good. For the UCSB women's soccer team, coming home was exactly what the doctor ordered, as the team put on a show for the home crowd with a 3-0 thro...

October 10, 2008

SB Finally Comes Home, Faces CSUN

By Derek Mead

After a tough three weeks on the road that resulted in a 3-3 record, the UCSB women's soccer team is finally home to rumble with Big West foe Cal State Northridge tonight. The Gauchos (8-5 overall, 1-1 in the Big West) w...

October 9, 2008

40 Ounces to Competition

By Derek Mead

With parties, kickbacks, shindigs, cocktail hours and box socials going on seven nights a week in I.V., it's pathetically easy to string together an epic bender of intervention-worthy proportions, and that's a major reas...

October 7, 2008

UCSB Splits Third Straight

By Derek Mead

Despite winning its seventh Big West opener in the last eight years, the UCSB women's soccer team was stuck with its third weekend split in a row. On Friday, sophomore midfielder Jacqui Simon netted two goals to lead the...

October 3, 2008

UCSB Aims to End Skid Against UCR, Fullerton

By Derek Mead

Heading into the final weekend of a three-week road trip that has proved rough and tumble so far, the UCSB women's soccer team is looking to start off the Big West conference season with a pair of wins. The #23 Gauchos (...

October 2, 2008

Roll With Your Homies

By Derek Mead

The first weekend of college has played out the same way since Gerald Ford puked on a cop after too many beer bongs his freshman year at Michigan. Between the IVFP, a high concentration of free drinks, and the close prox...