Sports

May 2, 2013

It’s All Business in Hawaii

By Michael Jorgenson

The UCSB softball team faces one of its toughest challenges of the year this weekend when it travels to No. 22 Hawaii for its final away games of the season. The Gauchos come in at 28-21 overall and 9-9 in conference gam...

May 1, 2013

UCSB’s Ultimate Threat

By Michael Jorgenson

Playing sports growing up, you can usually play whatever position you want to. It’s not until later when people tend to specialize into a specific aspect of their game, be it a quarterback in football or a pitcher in s...

May 1, 2013

A Wide Open Western Conference: Oklahoma City is Still the Team to Beat

By Kristen Henneman

Miami takes the East, Oklahoma City takes the West. That was the consensus from basketball fans going into the NBA playoffs. Not anymore. On April 24, during Game Two of the first-round series between the Oklahoma City T...

May 1, 2013

A Wide Open Western Conference: San Antonio is Healthy and Ready to Win

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

Entering the NBA postseason it was apparent the Miami Heat was once again the clear favorite to represent the Eastern Conference in the NBA Finals. The Western Conference is the exact opposite, however, especially since ...

April 30, 2013

Hits and Misses of the 2013 NFL Draft

By Tanner Gore

After last year’s draft featured three or four franchise-changing quarterbacks, the top of the 2013 draft was quite the opposite. Instead of a selecting big time playmakers, the Chiefs and Jaguars selected offensive ta...

April 29, 2013

UCSB Defeats Rival Cal Poly in Dual Meet

By Josh Fiacco

After a long stretch of tough scheduling, UCSB track and field took both ends of their weekend dual meet against Cal Poly. The men’s side ended up winning 101-96 in Saturday’s competition, while the women won 102-96....

April 29, 2013

Gauchos Take Two of Three Against UC Riverside

By Caleb Shoffner

  The UCSB baseball team could not complete a weekend sweep for the second week in a row. The Gauchos defeated UC Riverside Friday and Saturday to take the series win but were unable to come away with all three game...

April 29, 2013

UCSB Ends Regular Season As Big West Champions

By Austin Richardson

  The UCSB men’s tennis team capped off an improbable run on Sunday by winning its first Big West Championship title since 2009 with a 4-2 win over No. 3 seed Pacific. The Gauchos had a disappointing end to the re...

April 29, 2013

UCSB Places Sixth at Big West Tourney

By Roy Kim

The No. 16 UCSB women’s water polo concluded its year with a sixth place finish at this weekend’s Big West Tournament. The Gauchos lost two games to No. 8 San Diego State and No. 14 CSU Northridge while compiling a w...

April 29, 2013

Gauchos Capture Series Against Northridge

By Michael Jorgenson

UCSB utilized a balanced offensive attack to take two out of three games this past weekend against Big West opponent Cal State Northridge. The Gauchos are now 28-21 this season and fourth in the Big West at 9-9. Northrid...

April 26, 2013

Davis Named National Blocker of the Year

By Mark Salay

After four years serving the UCSB men’s volleyball team, senior middle blocker Dylan Davis was honored this past week with the Off The Block/Springbak, Inc. National Blocker of the Year award as voted upon by coaches a...

April 26, 2013

Germany Taking Over Soccer

By Tanner Gore

The semi-final round of the UEFA Champion’s League is underway, and the two German teams are attempting a coup d’état of the Spanish soccer dominance. On Tuesday, Bayern Munich took a commanding lead of the series w...

April 26, 2013

Solving the ‘Hack-a-Howard’ Dilemma

By Kristen Henneman

Earlier this season, on March 12 to be exact, Dwight Howard tied his own NBA record for most free throws shot in a game with 39 attempts against the Orlando Magic. In most cases, earning records is a good, even great acc...

April 25, 2013

Gauchos Begin Big West Championships Against Cal State Northridge

By Austin Richardson

The UCSB women’s tennis team finished its regular season on Tuesday in a tough 6-1 loss against No. 7 Cal. The loss puts the Gauchos’ final regular season record at 14-8 overall and 5-3 in Big West Conference play. I...

April 25, 2013

UCSB Preps to Face SDSU in Big West Tourney

By Roy Kim

The No. 16 UCSB women’s water polo team will culminate its season with the Big West Championship this weekend. The Big West Tournament will be a three-day affair, with the top placing team guaranteed a spot in the NCAA...

April 25, 2013

UCSB Heads to SLO for Blue-Green Rivalry Showdown

By Josh Fiacco

Both the men’s and women’s track and field teams are traveling to San Luis Obispo this weekend for a dual meet against central coast rival Cal Poly. UCSB will compete in this last regular season meet of the year with...