Sports
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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UCSB basketball alumni, Gabe Vincent is making a name for himself this NBA playoffs, being a key contributor to the Miami Heat.
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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 had a successful meet to end the Big West Championship, with 3 Gauchos gaining Gold, and 12 podium finishes.
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UCSB softball continues to struggle, being swept against in conference opponent CSUN.
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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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UCSB softball dropped the series against the UCR highlanders in their series over the weekend.
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The UCSB Men's tennis team took a loss in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
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UCSB softball has hit a rough patch dropping conference games, losing 5 of their last 6 games.
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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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The UCSB tennis teams wrapped up the regular season, taking No. 1 seed for the men's team and No. 4 seed for the women's team.
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UCSB softball dropped in conference games, to move to second place in a closely contested Big West conference.
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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)
