Sports

February 9, 2012

UCSB Opens 2012 Season With Road Tournament

By Mark Salay

The UCSB softball team will take a trip down to Tempe, Arizona this week to begin the 2012 season at the Kajikawa Classic hosted by Arizona State. The Gauchos will be tested starting Thursday, playing six teams in four d...

February 8, 2012

UCSB’s Blue-Collar Baller

By Kristen Henneman

Kirsten Tilleman is a lot of things to the UCSB women’s basketball team, but in a word, she is selfless. The junior center is known for doing a lot of the dirty work on the court, sacrificing her body in any way possib...

February 8, 2012

A Super Sunday: Reactions To Super Bowl XLVI

By Joshua Greenberg

Well, I was wrong. It would seem that Eli Manning and the New York Giants are, in fact, the answer to Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. And you know what the worst part is? I have nothing to complain about. For the...

February 8, 2012

A Super Sunday: Reactions To Super Bowl XLVI

By Ryan Porush

What a Super Bowl Sunday. Kegs, snappa and flip-cup, with some football sprinkled in there as well. I successfully predicted the Giants win, won a little money and ate some greasy and wonderful food. I admit some of thes...

February 7, 2012

2012 Super Bowl Commercials: Ending the World With Social Media

By Amanda Hill

With a ridiculously star-studded halftime show, Victoria’s Secret Angels and grandma-propelled babies, Super Bowl XLVI was a social media frenzy. Not only did the broadcast break viewership records with 111.3 million p...

February 7, 2012

Gauchos Take Dual Meet at Cal Poly

By Mark Salay

The UCSB men’s and women’s swim and dive teams celebrated their final dual meet of the season in winning fashion this past weekend with victories over visiting Cal Poly at Campus Pool on Saturday. The dual marked the...

February 6, 2012

Gauchos Nab First MPSF Win

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

Weeks of hard work in practice finally paid off for the No. 15 UCSB men’s volleyball team, as they captured their first MPSF victory on Friday with a 3-1 victory over Pepperdine. Previously losing their first four conf...

February 6, 2012

Cal Poly Defeats UCSB

By Kristen Henneman

There’s a saying that goes “if something’s not working, change it.” But even that didn’t work for the UCSB women’s basketball team, which lost 67-52 Saturday afternoon to Cal Poly. It was the first time the M...

February 3, 2012

UCSB Hosts Cal Poly in Need of a Win

By Kristen Henneman

The UCSB women’s basketball team is in desperate need of a victory after three straight losses, and a win against rival Cal Poly Saturday afternoon might be the perfect remedy. The Gauchos begin a three-game homestand ...

February 3, 2012

UCSB Looks for First MPSF Win at Pepperdine

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

The start of MPSF conference play has not been kind to the No. 15 UCSB men’s volleyball team, as the Gauchos will attempt to win at Pepperdine today after losing their first four conference games. Falling to No. 4 USC ...

February 3, 2012

Swimming Faces Cal Poly on Senior Day

By Mark Salay

The UCSB swim and dive team will play host to familiar opponent Cal Poly this Saturday at Campus Pool in their final dual meet of the season. The Gauchos will have a lot of emotion on their side as they plan to send thei...

February 3, 2012

UCSB Continues Road Trip, Faces Fullerton on Saturday

By Ryan Porush

The UCSB men’s basketball team will travel to Cal State Fullerton tomorrow night to face the Titans in its final game of a four game road trip. Three games into the trip, the Gauchos are 3-0 and will look to capture it...

February 2, 2012

Gauchos Fall to USC on the Road

By Kristen Henneman

If the UCSB women’s basketball team could find a way to score, it would be a very dangerous team. Offensive inconsistency once again killed the Gauchos, who lost to USC 50-39 in a nonconference matchup. The loss was th...

February 2, 2012

Road Trip Up North

By Christian Peterson

The following is the first Online Nexus Sports Blog, from Christian Peterson, senior forward on the UCSB men’s basketball team. This past weekend was our longest road trip of the year and, for me and many other tea...

February 2, 2012

Gauchos Fall in Straight Sets at USC

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

On the road for the second match of a three game road trip, the No. 15 UCSB men’s volleyball team lost to MPSF foe USC in straight sets last night, failing once again to capture their first conference victory of the se...

February 1, 2012

Super Snacks & Big Game Bites

By Kiyan Rajabi

Ask any American what their favorite day of the year is and you will almost always find that it’s their birthday or Christmas — or 4/20 if they live in I.V. However, Super Bowl Sunday comes in a close second for many...