Sports

Mustangs Tie Up Gauchos

Following a heartbreaker in last week's loss to USF, the UCSB men's soccer club hoped for a much-needed win Saturday night when archrival Cal Poly came to town, but could only manage a 2-2 tie when al...
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‘Chos Dismantle Foes

The UCSB women's soccer club opened their season in a big way this past weekend, playing and winning two games in two days. Coming off an undefeated season in which they won their second straight Nati...
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UCSB Scrapes By in Wins

The #6 UCSB men's water polo team (7-3 overall) continued its roll this weekend, wrapping up a two-game home stand with victories against Whittier College and #14 Concordia.
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Gauchos Stumble on Trip

The UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team (11-4 overall, 2-2 Big West) was blazing through both nonconference and conference play heading into this past weekend, torching its adversaries through si...
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‘Chos Put Hurt on Hoosiers

With 10,114 fans and a national television audience to bear witness, the UCSB men's soccer team slammed #9 Indiana 3-0 at home, and in doing so established themselves as a force to be reckoned with on...
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UCSB Splits Pair

The first weekend of Big West play ended with mixed results for the UCSB women's soccer team, as UC Irvine dismantled the Gauchos 3-0 on Friday before Santa Barbara was able to sneak a 3-2 win by Nort...
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‘Chos Eye Weekend Wins

After a brutal 10-game nonconference schedule that pitted them against five ranked opponents, the UCSB women's soccer team is granted a clean slate as Big West play begins this weekend. The Gauchos (3...
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SB Streaks to the Beach

Coming off a comeback thriller against #21 UC Irvine, the red hot Gauchos take their six-game win streak on the road this weekend to take on #22 Long Beach State (8-3, 1-0) and Cal State Fullerton (9-...
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It’s the Game of the Season…

The Gauchos are hoping to set the mark for biggest crowd ever to attend a regular season game in a college soccer venue. And what better opponent could they ask for than the illustrious Indiana Hoosie...
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SB Readies for Return Home

The #6 UCSB water polo team will host their first games of the season this weekend, commencing with their annual alumni game on Saturday and culminating with a two-game series Sunday against fellow Di...
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Armchair QB

Nike has re-sponsored the dog-torturing douchetool known as Mike Vick. I guess when confronted with the prospect of selling their souls to make a couple bucks, Nike's motto really is "Just do it." Jac...
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Gauchos Lose Heartbreaker

After taking second place in the Aztec Cup in San Diego two weeks ago, the UCSB men's soccer club welcomed the University of San Francisco for their first home game of the season. Though the team was ...
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Surfer’s Paradise

Welcome back to the pool, kids. I hope you brought your water wings. Here comes another new school year, and another surf column in your crisply folded edition of the Daily Nexus. Oddly enough, as you...
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MLB End-of-Season Honors

It's tough to deny Joe Mauer in this one. He's batting .370 with power the likes of which no one ever thought possible (28 jacks to be precise), and has almost singlehandedly carried his club into the...
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SB Slows at Stanford

At the end of a hot September day, both the men's and the women's cross country squads came away with sixth-place finishes in the Stanford Cross Country Invitational, though it looked for much of the ...
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