Baseball
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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Freshmen pitcher Hudson Barrett earns prestigious awards around the nation.
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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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The Gauchos opened up an important series against LBSU on the losing end, taking only the second game of the three-game slate.
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The Gauchos took home a much needed series win against the UCR highlanders to stay in the conference championship hunt.
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The UCSB baseball team took home a non-conference victory against LMU.
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The UCSB baseball team got a much needed sweep to stay in the regular season conference title contention.
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Many UCSB baseball alumni are taking the mound this year across the MLB, putting up impressive numbers.
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The UCSB baseball team struggled on their Spring Break, dropping the series against Fresno State.
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UCSB baseball team took the first game of the series with ease, but struggled in the latter two, losing the series.
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UCSB baseball continued an impressive win streak taking down Xavier and Cal Poly in back to back weekends.
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The UCSB baseball team came out hot with the bats and arms, sweeping a top 25 ranked Oregon team.
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UCSB baseball went 2-2 over the weekend, performing a sweep against the University of Minnesota.
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Noah Davis, former UCSB pitcher is set to make his Major League debut for the Colorado Rockies.
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The Major League festivities kicked off this weekend in Los Angeles. There was the Rising Stars game with all of the youth of Major League Baseball representing their teams, then the Home Run Derby th...
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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)
