Columns/Features

Hoop Dreams: Ravi’s Response, Black Mamba Style

There’s no denying the athletic talent of LeBron James. But a comparison of “who’s better?” between James and Kobe Bryant requires a higher level of scrutiny than an examination of their athle...
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Women’s Club Lacrosse Out of Championship Contention

No. 6 Colorado State beat No. 7 UCSB 10-7 in the WCLA National Championship Tournament semifinals at the Scottsdale Sports Complex this Friday, making it the second time that CSU has eliminated the Ga...
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Tweeting Up A Storm: The Kobe vs. LBJ Debate

LeBron is more talented, athletic and efficient than Kobe. It is no fluke that LBJ has led the NBA in Player Efficiency Rating in each of the last four seasons. He has better shot selection, vision an...
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Green Advice for Green People: The NFL Draft

Hey there sporty people. I decided to take a little break from baseball this week and talk to you a little bit about the NFL. Not the labor dispute in the lockout. But that’s not what I want to t...
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Hoop Dreams: Tweet Inspirations — LeBron and Blake

This week’s Tweet of the Week: Dmoses3 [April 19]: “The dude just said Blake griffin will win a championship before lebron, case in point why Ravi Bhatia needs to write about women’s basketb...
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Green Advice for Green People: Good to Be Bad

If you are in a fantasy baseball league that isn’t rotisserie style, you’re doing it wrong. That’s just a fact.
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Hoop Dreams: Hollinger’s PER Far From a ‘Total Stat’

John Hollinger’s Player Efficiency Rating pissed me off more when it was used to prove LeBron was better than Kobe a few years back.
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The 18th Weekly Photo of the Week: “To the Land of Golden Bears”

Lindsay Gottlieb, head coach of the women’s basketball team this season, announced Monday that she was leaving the program to coach at UC Berkeley. In three seasons at the helm of the Gauchos, Gottl...
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UEFA Champions League Breakdown

FC Schalke 04 will host Manchester United this afternoon before FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF face off in the semifinal round of the UEFA Champions League Tournament.
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Green Advice for Green People: Don’t Overlook Your League’s Overlooked Talent

Most fantasy owners don’t trust rookies and other smaller names to be consistent. They are reluctant to use players who have not established themselves as household names, which can be a big mistake...
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’Chos to Kick Off Series v. 49ers

Hoping to maintain the momentum from Tuesday night’s 15-inning victory over Pepperdine, UCSB will host Big West foe Long Beach State in a three-game series starting today. Long Beach currently stand...
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Speace’s Pieces: Why Do We Play? To Win the Games

The NBA playoffs come down to two things: wins and losses. When we criticize, analyze and scrutinize every single move of each team, coach and individual player, it is all for naught. The level and st...
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The 17th Weekly Photo of the Week: Time to Dance

The Gaucho women’s club lacrosse team earned an at-large bid to the WCLA National Championship Tournament in Scottsdale, Arizona. On Wednesday, May 4, the team will face off against No. 10 Universit...
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Hoop Dreams: The Motherlist of All NBA Lists

I just want to confirm a few things in the NBA that nobody can agree on. This is meant to be the be-all end-all of NBA basketball lists, as the league stands in 2011. Any opinions that sway from the f...
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Surfers Leave the Ocean, Charge Upstream in Indo

  I have constantly complained to my peers and family that my life is plagued with indecision — I can’t make up my goddamn mind about anything. One of the biggest downsides to that has been m...
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