The UC Santa Barbara women’s soccer team’s 2023 conference opener came to a disappointing end as they fell to the California Polytechnic State University Mustangs 3-1. The game was the beginni...
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After successful seasons from outfielder Jared Sundstrom and pitcher Sam Whiting for the UC Santa Barbara baseball team, the players were rewarded for their efforts as they were drafted 307th by the S...
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UCSB failed to capitalize in first place in the conference, with the final loss against Poly sending them to third place.
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UCSB men's basketball ran out of steam in the second half of their game against Baylor, ultimately leading to their loss.
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By winning the 2023 Big West Championship, the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos clinched a spot in the 2023 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament. On Selection Sunday, it was announced that UCSB was a...
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The UCSB men's basketball team moves to a three way tie in the Big West after their latest victory.
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The UCSB men's basketball team began a two-game win streak in conference play, moving them to the top of the Big West.
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The women's soccer team was able to rebound from a rough opening season to take a victory against UC Riverside.
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Women's soccer has had a rough stretch during the opening months of play to start the season.
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In their first game of the 2022-2023 season, the UCSB ice hockey team beat Cal State Lutheran by a score of 13-2. This is the first win of hopefully many for the Gauchos, who are looking to have a suc...
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Men's waterpolo has gone on an impressive win streak headed into more league play.
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The Gauchos will look for production from four returners who were on the all-conference team in 2021 to improve their record from last season. These returners are senior middle blocker Deni Wilson, ...
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After the Los Angeles Rams won Super Bowl LVI by defeating the Cincinnati Bengals last February, teams across the NFL looked to find ways to improve in hopes of lifting the Lombardi Trophy themselves....
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Coming off a successful 2021 season, senior forward Amadou Sow comes in as the best overall player and best defensive player. Sow had a solid year averaging almost a double-double with a rate of 15.6 ...
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The Gauchos traveled to San Luis Obispo days after a 13-7 defeat to USC. The two conference rivals were neck to neck and a Cal Poly series win could have changed the momentum for the rest of the seaso...
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Forgetting to take off the ratty AF1’s at the potluck (most Asian households don’t take kindly to shoes in the house!)
Wearing your only red t-shirt to every final (Red is a lucky color in many cultures, especially Chinese cultures)
Putting spiders in your friend’s wedding dress for good luck (Has its origins in old english folklore, and represents abundance for the couple)
Accidentally summoned a ghost by leaving their chopsticks straight up (A superstition that has Chinese origins because the chopsticks are reminiscent of funeral incense)
Didn’t like your friends significant other so they gifted them an umbrella (The word for umbrella ‘san’ sounds like the word for divorce in Chinese)
Believing in horoscopes (The modern western zodiac actually came from Babylonian astrology)
Walked backwards in Portugal to live out the Faust fantasy (In Portugal, walking backwards allows the devil to know exactly where you are)
Stole a raven from the tower of london as reparations (According to UK superstition, if there aren’t 6 ravens in the tower, the kingdom will fall)
Breaks a knuckle knocking on wood for good scores on finals (Knocking on wood may have originated from the Celts and their love for tree spirits)
Drunkenly rearranging their apartment for the feng shui at 3 AM (A Chinese cultural practice that harmonizes a person with the energies of the environment around them)
Left out their middle name on their taxes because the Fae run the IRS (Giving the Fae your full name gives them power over you, and the IRS has too much)
Hit by a car but the license plate had an angel number (Beyond just blowing up on TikTok, angel numbers were invented by... Pythagoras)
