Sports

Cal Poly Defeats UCSB

February 6, 2012 by

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 ...
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UCSB Hosts Cal Poly in Need of a Win

February 3, 2012 by

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 t...
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UCSB Looks for First MPSF Win at Pepperdine

February 3, 2012 by

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. F...
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Swimming Faces Cal Poly on Senior Day

February 3, 2012 by

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 th...
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UCSB Continues Road Trip, Faces Fullerton on Saturday

February 3, 2012 by

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 wil...
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Gauchos Fall to USC on the Road

February 2, 2012 by

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 matc...
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Road Trip Up North

February 2, 2012 by

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 m...
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Gauchos Fall in Straight Sets at USC

February 2, 2012 by

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 conferen...
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Super Snacks & Big Game Bites

February 1, 2012 by

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 c...
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The 30 Seconds Worth $3.5 Million

February 1, 2012 by

This Sunday, you can expect upwards of 173 million Americans to be glued to a television, watching the battle unfold between the Patriots and the Giants. But of those 173 million viewers, only 47.3 pe...
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Super Bowl: Key Matchups to Watch

February 1, 2012 by

Matchup: New York Giants’ Defensive Line vs. New England Patriots’ Offensive Line Much maligned for a good part of the season, New England’s O-line is finally healthy. It showed in the AFC champ...
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Touchdowns, Peyton and Kelly Clarkson: The Best Prop Bets of The Super Bowl

February 1, 2012 by

Proposition bets are fun opportunities to handicap some aspect of a game beyond the usual winner and over/under bets. A quick explanation: All the lines are based on within the context of a $100 bet. ...
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Expect a Giant Game from Eli and Crew

February 1, 2012 by

So the big day is finally here. Beer, chips and dip, wings, blunts and more beer will consume my Sunday afternoon on this lovely national holiday. Go America. And go NFL for giving us such a great mat...
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Bet on the Pats and the Brady Bunch

February 1, 2012 by

Over the last couple weeks I’ve been hearing people say that they aren’t excited for this year’s Super Bowl. Now if they were referring specifically to the halftime show, I would understand. Why...
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No. 17 UCSB Goes 4-2 in Home Tournament Over Weekend

January 31, 2012 by

The No. 17 UCSB women’s water polo team began a six-game home stand last Friday, four of which were part of the 2012 UCSB Winter Invite. After dropping their first game of the weekend to No. 6 Arizo...
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