Matt Connolly

September 30, 2009

MLB End-of-Season Honors

By Matt Connolly

It's tough to deny Joe Mauer in this one. He's batting .370 with power the likes of which no one ever thought possible (28 jacks to be precise), and has almost singlehandedly carried his club into the heart of a pennant ...

September 29, 2009

Playoff Chases

By Matt Connolly

As we hit the home stretch of another season in Major League Baseball, a couple playoff spots are still up for grabs, much like the regular season awards that await the game's best in show. Need some help sorting out all...

September 28, 2009

UCSB Aces Anteaters

By Matt Connolly

Watching the UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team this year, there is no questioning the team's physical toughness. The players lay out for impossible digs, have towering lift on their verticals and spike the ball wi...

September 25, 2009

Gauchos Fight for UC Supremacy

By Matt Connolly

What a difference a year can make, after an unkind 2008 campaign that tagged UCSB women's volleyball team with their second losing season in school history.

September 24, 2009

SB Surges to Scorching Start

By Matt Connolly

After two consecutive losing seasons, the UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team is back with a vengeance. With Big West play right around the bend, the Gauchos have reemerged as a conference contender, asserting their...

September 17, 2009

Women Begin Season With Mixed Results

By Matt Connolly

Coming off a wild season that culminated in an NCAA Tournament appearance for the first time in 17 years, the UC Santa Barbara women's soccer team (2-4-1) has experienced ups and downs in the early stages of its 2009 cam...

August 26, 2009

For the Love of the Game

By Matt Connolly, Admin

With a picturesque campus on the beach, wild parties raging through Isla Vista every night and hoards of smoking hot chicks gallivanting around in miniskirts, UC Santa Barbara sports have historically taken a backseat. S...

August 4, 2009

A UCSB football Team?

By Matt Connolly, John Greely

Matt Connolly: UC Santa Barbara has it all: the beach, the babes and a guaranteed double major in debauchery when four years of greatness come to an end. But let’s face it – our utopian microcosm of sunny ski...

June 23, 2009

SB Student Rages at Bethpage

By Matt Connolly

Every college athlete dreams of the opportunity to play with the pros, but very few actually get the opportunity. For Scott Lewis, a sophomore walk-on to the UCSB golf team, the dream became a reality this past weekend w...

May 28, 2009

Jazz Reggae Fest Tops Extravaganza

By Matt Connolly

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending UCLA's Jazz Reggae Festival, the featured annual music event of our southbound University of California neighbor. Much like our very own Extravaganza, the performance wa...

May 27, 2009

Valaika Makes Vicious Return

By Matt Connolly

As an underclassman, a medley of injuries would force Gaucho baseball’s Matt Valaika to watch a lot of the action from the sidelines. With a competitive spirit to match the talent that made him UCSB’s startin...

May 21, 2009

Nexus Wars Escalate

By Matt Connolly

While the impending end of Spring Quarter marks a farewell to UCSB intercollegiate athletics, an enticingly dangerous extreme sport has just begun in the not-so-friendly confines of Storke Plaza.

May 19, 2009

He Said, He Said, He Said, He Said –An NBA Conference Finals Debate–

By Matt Connolly

How the mighty have fallen. Only weeks removed from every pro basketball analyst anointing the Lakeshow as the undisputed conference champ, there's a new top dog in town.

May 12, 2009

He Said, ‘Sheed Said

By Matt Connolly, Derek Mead

Matt Connolly Looking at overall quality of work, Shaq threw it down harder than anyone in the NBA in terms of actual success. His work on the mic even crossed over to the big screen in “Kazaam” with him layi...

May 11, 2009

Manny Being Moronic

By Matt Connolly

It's about time. Sure, baseball big cheese Bud Selig might have sent shockwaves through MLB clubhouses when he announced the 50-game steroid suspension policy a couple years back, but did anyone even give it a second tho...

April 29, 2009

CSUB Feasts On Worn Out UCSB Hurlers

By Matt Connolly

With a middle relief corps severely taxed from this past weekend's series against Cal Poly, the Gaucho saves-leader got the call to start his first game of the season yesterday, and was pounded by Bakersfield for seven r...