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UCSB Sends Multi-Event Athletes to Big West Championships at Cal State Northridge

After sweeping Cal Poly in a dual meet last weekend, UCSB is preparing for the Big West Track and Field Championships in Northridge, California. This weekend features the multi-event championships, wh...
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Gauchos Take Fourth at Conference Championship

Led by sophomore Brett Silvernail’s first-place score, the UCSB golf team closed out the Big West Conference Championship yesterday with a fourth-place finish. The three-day competition held at the ...
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UCSB Looks to Climb the Big West Standings

  This weekend, the UCSB baseball team will welcome third-place UC Irvine onto its home field for a chance to move into the top of the Big West Conference standings. The Gauchos have captured ser...
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It’s All Business in Hawaii

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...
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UCSB’s Ultimate Threat

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

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

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, howeve...
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Hits and Misses of the 2013 NFL Draft

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 s...
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UCSB Defeats Rival Cal Poly in Dual Meet

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 t...
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Gauchos Take Two of Three Against UC Riverside

  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...
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UCSB Ends Regular Season As Big West Champions

  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 disappo...
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UCSB Places Sixth at Big West Tourney

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...
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Gauchos Capture Series Against Northridge

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 W...
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Davis Named National Blocker of the Year

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 vot...
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Germany Taking Over Soccer

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 ...
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