Sports

November 10, 2008

Gauchos Bleed Cardinal

By Miles Yim

Who would have thought that the decrepit Campus Pool, a facility closed down last spring due to structural issues, could still have some magic left?

November 7, 2008

SB Stays Alive

By Derek Mead

Sometimes even two overtimes aren't enough to decide a winner, but hey, no one ever said playoffs were boring.

November 7, 2008

Title Hopes Still Alive in Finale

By John Greely

Going into the final day of the season, there are four teams still in contention for the Big West regular season title. UCSB is the only one that controls its destiny.

November 7, 2008

Redemption in the T-Dome?

By Ravi Bhatia

The UCSB women's volleyball team has a chance to redeem themselves at the Thunderdome on Friday night against Big West leader Long Beach State, a team who beat the Gauchos in five sets at the Walter Pyramid on Oct. 11. T...

November 7, 2008

Home-Pool Advantage for Gauchos

By Miles Yim

Home-cooked perfection will be put to the test when the #7 UCSB men's water polo team welcomes #10 Long Beach State and #2 Stanford into the friendly confines of Campus Pool this weekend.

November 7, 2008

Armchair QB

By Staff

Armchair QB The Weatherhuman is talking shit again? Whatever man, that bastard's just jealous of my cool eye patch and mustache. Take it from the QB, nothing makes the ladies swoon like the intrigue of an eye patch.

November 6, 2008

UCSB, Poly Tie in Nail Biter

By John Greely

In the game to decide the Big West champion, nothing was decided. UCSB and Cal Poly battled to a 0-0 tie in front of a crowd of 9,749 Wednesday night, making Saturday's season finale at Davis all-important.

November 6, 2008

Gauchos Poised to Pummel Cal Poly

By Derek Mead

After 19 games, 38 goals and countless hours spent practicing, this is what a team dreams for: starting postseason play with a home match against your heated rival.

November 5, 2008

UCSB-Poly Rivalry Set to Decide Big West Champion

By John Greely

Here we go again. UCSB and Cal Poly face off tonight, likely in front of a record crowd, on senior night, with the Big West Championship riding on the line. From a fan's perspective, this rivalry keeps getting better. Th...

November 5, 2008

Harder Than Hell

By Derek Mead

It's finally playoff time at Harder Stadium, and if you're reading this, you'd better be extremely excited. In the past 16 years, UCSB has made the transition from showcasing a mediocre football team to become a futb&#24...

November 5, 2008

Armchair QB

By Staff

Politics is a sport right? You'd think so, with all the talk of Hail Marys and shit that the McCain campaign was pulling. But in politics, as is so often true in sports, the black guy won.

November 4, 2008

UCSB Skinned by Cal Bears

By Miles Yim

The #7 UCSB men's water polo team closed out the remainder of their regular-season road schedule this weekend with an 11-8 loss to #4 Cal before needing overtime once again to settle the score at #19 Pacific for a narrow...

November 4, 2008

Gauchos Lose First on Season

By Ryan Eagleson

The defending national champion UCSB men's club soccer team suffered their first loss since November 15th, 2007 at the hands of the USC Trojans this past weekend and now their playoff status remains unclear.

November 4, 2008

SB Wins Regional

By Joshua Greenberg

This past weekend the UCSB women's club soccer team took a trip down to Long Beach for the Regionals tournament, hoping to at least make the finals and thereby secure a bid to Nationals. The Gauchos accomplished this goa...

November 3, 2008

Gauchos Upended

By John Greely

UC Irvine turned out to be a much more frightening foe than anticipated this Halloween weekend, upsetting UCSB at Harder Stadium 3-1 Saturday night.

November 3, 2008

SB Drops Title In Last Minute

By Derek Mead

All Santa Barbara needed was a single wasted minute. After playing 19 games over the past few months, the UCSB women's soccer team came 62 seconds away from taking the Big West season title, but an 89th-minute stunner s...