Sports

January 25, 2010

Gauchos Sweep Season Opener

By Ryan Eagleson

Two games, two wins: The UCSB women's water polo team (2-0 overall) opened up their season last weekend in the Gaucho Mini Tournament facing Cal State Bakersfield and Pomona-Pitzer. At the end of the tournament, only one...

January 25, 2010

Armchair QB

By Staff

Another season-ending interception for Favre is like the groundhog seeing his shadow: Three more weeks of winter. Except in this case, winter means unbearable media fixation on retirement drama. Great.

January 22, 2010

SB Shoots to Tame Titans

By Matt Connolly

Winners of four of their last five, the UC Santa Barbara men's basketball team (9-7 overall, 4-2 Big West) stays at home this weekend to clash with Cal State Fullerton (8-8, 3-2) in a Saturday night showdown at the Thund...

January 22, 2010

Water Polo Ready to Make Waves

By Ryan Eagleson

A fresh start, a clean slate, a blank canvas. In recent years, that's all the UCSB women's water polo team had on its agenda as they prepared for the start of a new season.

January 22, 2010

Men’s Volleyball Busted By Bruins

By Ryan Porush

The UCSB men's volleyball team came up just short on the road at UCLA Wednesday night in its pursuit of a second straight win. The Gauchos were within reach of the Bruins, but couldn't close out the match, eventually fal...

January 22, 2010

‘Chos Turn Up Heat in ‘Zona

By Austin Pardo

Tennis balls will be flying as the Gaucho women kick off the 2010 season today with a match at Arizona State. With a strong finish to last season, where the team knocked off #3 seeded Cal Poly in the quarterfinals of the...

January 21, 2010

San Diego Loses Its Charge

By Mark Bogard

My friends will tell you that I'm not exactly the biggest football fan of all time, but as a native San Diegan, the Chargers are about all we have to be (somewhat) proud of in terms of athletics.

January 21, 2010

Armchair QB

By The Armchair QB

‘Sheed was just fined $35,000 for saying the refs’ calls were “bogus.” This fits in the NBA’s storied history of fining players excessive amounts for calling cheerleaders “bodacious&#8...

January 20, 2010

UCSB Sinks at Riverside

By Miles Yim

"We just need to get a win," senior guard Ariana Gnekow said after UCSB was clubbed 78-63 by Long Beach State last week. "We'll do whatever we can to make that happen."

January 20, 2010

Surf’s Winter Wonderland

By Staff

Life is full of little changes. In I.V., we tend to move every year to escape the filth that we have created, likely losing the ridiculously high security deposits that we have to pay to the sadistic creatures known as p...

January 20, 2010

‘Chos Smash St. Mary’s

By Ravi Bhatia

Marty Davis, head coach of the UCSB men's tennis team, thinks his squad has the potential to make the Sweet 16.

January 20, 2010

Armchair QB

By Staff

And now things get as petty as jilted middle school lovers talking smack to their friends. UT: "Lane smashed a leased Lexus!" Lane: "Yeah, well I was just using you so USC would like me!" Their words, not mine... ish.

January 19, 2010

Gauchos Hose Riverside

By Matt Connolly

Sometimes, all it takes is a little extra motivation. After being benched to start the second half, sophomore forward James Nunnally exploded with 16 second half points -- including 14 of his team's 20 during one stretch...

January 19, 2010

Spikers Shank Tritons

By Ryan Porush

UCSB earned its first win of the season on Saturday night, beating UC San Diego 3-2 in thrilling fashion.

January 15, 2010

SB Slammed

By Ravi Bhatia

The scoreboard claims that the Gaucho men's basketball team lost to Long Beach State (8-9 overall, 2-2 conference) on Thursday night at the Pyramid, but their season-high 29 turnovers on 32.7 percent shooting suggests th...

January 15, 2010

49ers Strike Gold in T-Dome

By Miles Yim

Breaking a curse is never a cakewalk, but Long Beach State certainly came close to making their 78-63 drubbing of UCSB Thursday night look like one. In front of 1,589 onlookers at the Thunderdome, the 49ers (7-9 overall,...