Paul-Michael Ochoa

October 23, 2012

Adrian Peterson is Ready to Reclaim the NFL

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

A number of teams surprise every season as the NFL has the best parity and playoff turnover rate of any American professional sports league. One of the most surprising teams of this season is the Minnesota Vikings, who a...

October 16, 2012

Aaron Rodgers Showed on Sunday Why He Is the NFL’s Best

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

Aaron Rodgers is back. Picked in the top three of virtually all fantasy drafts, Rodgers underperformed for the first three weeks of the season, and after two good weeks of play, Mr. Discount Double Check himself exploded...

October 11, 2012

Powered by Starting Five, Lakers the Team to Beat

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

While the Miami Heat may be the defending NBA champion, most of the media attention at the start of this year’s NBA preseason is focused on the Los Angeles Lakers. In what has been prematurely deemed one of the best an...

October 9, 2012

Andrew Luck: The Next Quarterback Star

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

While most fantasy quarterbacks underperformed on Sunday, a few standouts came through for their owners, teams and fans. Most specifically, Andrew Luck put forth a signature performance as the Indianapolis Colts pulled a...

October 3, 2012

BMX Flatland Pro Rider Terry Adams, Red Bull Visit UCSB

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

If you were walking around campus on Friday afternoon, you might have seen a man performing bicycle tricks unparalleled by nearly anyone in the world. That man was Terry Adams, a flatland BMX rider, who is on a 14-day Re...

October 2, 2012

Peyton Manning Leads a Quarterback Resurgence

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

The NFL is becoming a passing league, and anyone who says otherwise did not watch a number of quarterbacks produce both career and NFL record-breaking numbers. This year’s fantasy drafts were unlike any other in histor...

September 27, 2012

Nexus Sports Editors’ Welcome Letters

By Paul-Michael Ochoa, Kristen Henneman

Welcome back for another year at UCSB, and for new Gauchos, prepare for some of the most fun and exciting years of your lives. My name is Paul-Michael Ochoa (my friends call me P MO), and I am one of two new sports edito...

May 25, 2012

Gauchos Add Depth With Four Recruits

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

After only one senior graduated from a team that finished tied for 10th in the MPSF, the UCSB men’s volleyball team brings in four standout recruits in hopes of getting back to postseason play. One season removed from ...

May 18, 2012

13 Freshmen To Aid Gauchos Next Season

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

With 10 seniors set to graduate this spring, the UCSB women’s soccer team is in a state of flux after their 2-6 last place finish in conference this season (7-11-2 overall). Luckily, for UCSB, Head Coach Paul Stumpf an...

May 18, 2012

Big West Crowned, Olympic Bound?

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

Before becoming a track star at UCSB, senior 800-meter runner Ryan Martin always envisioned athletics propelling him into the spotlight. The only difference is he expected his path to go through the PGA tour instead of r...

May 14, 2012

Gauchos Drop Series to No. 8 Fullerton

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

Hosting No. 8 Fullerton in its last home series of the season, the UCSB baseball team lost two of three games to one of the best teams in the nation in a wild weekend affair. UCSB split the first two games of the series ...

April 18, 2012

A Home Within a Home

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

Growing up in Goleta since birth, Miles Evans always envisioned himself one day attending UCSB and starring as a major athlete on campus. The junior outside hitter just never imagined that his sport would be volleyball. ...

April 17, 2012

The Magic Show in La La Land

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

April 16, 2012

UCSB Finishes Season With Weekend Losses

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

On the road for the final two regular season games of the year, the UCSB men’s volleyball team dropped a pair of tough matches, eliminating the Gauchos from the playoffs. Needing two victories to qualify for the playof...

April 13, 2012

Gauchos Play for Post-Season Appearance

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

With a berth to the postseason on the line, the UCSB men’s volleyball team will play its final two regular season games of the year when traveling to Stanford and Pacific this weekend. After winning two straight over H...

April 9, 2012

UCSB Keeps Playoff Hopes Alive With Wins

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

Two words best describe the UCSB men’s volleyball team’s pair of victories over No. 14 Hawaii this weekend: utter dominance. After dropping their previous eight matches, the Gauchos rebounded in a big way on Friday a...