Sports

July 15, 2008

ESPN Is Redundant and Repetitive

By Derek Mead

Way back in 1979, when Scott Rasmussen and dad Bill were trying to start ESPN, the idea of a cable network dedicated to 24-hour sports coverage was an amazingly tough sell. No one in corporate television bought the pitch...

June 5, 2008

He Said Goodbye, He Said Goodbye

By Chris Hoffman, Alex Pavlovic

The Nexus Sports Editors Write Their Final Columns After a Historic Run That Included a National Championship, Food Poisoning, Plenty of Black Velvet and Some of the Most Compromising Pictures You'll Ever See

June 5, 2008

Coaching Changes Shake Up Athletics

By Alex Pavlovic

Former Loyola Marymount head coach Rick McLaughlin was named UCSB's men's volleyball coach on Tuesday, replacing Ken Preston, who recently retired after 30 seasons with the program. The UCSB women's water polo team took ...

June 5, 2008

Revelations

By Staff

Alright, alright, we’re leaving, so we might as well let our huge secret out of the bag. We, Hoff and Pavlov are the armchair QBs. Shocking, we know.

June 2, 2008

Athletic Department Report: Part III

By Alex Pavlovic

During our combined years at the Nexus, we've done just about everything you can do involving Gaucho athletics. We celebrated in the St. Louis snow when the men's soccer team won the National Championship in 2006, and we...

June 2, 2008

Visit With the Big Boss

By Staff

The Daily Nexus sits down with outgoing Athletic Director Gary Cunningham to reflect on the past and look to the future.

June 2, 2008

I’d Like Five Pepperoni, Two Cheese…

By Staff

Don't worry Media Relations.

May 30, 2008

Gaucho Athletics Remain Atop Big West

By Matt Connolly

For the second consecutive year - and seventh time since the award's inception in 1998 - UC Santa Barbara has been awarded the Big West Conference Commissioner's Cup. The Cup is presented to the institution with the best...

May 30, 2008

New Equestrian Club Gets Set to Saddle-Up

By Matt Connolly

Giddy-up! The upcoming school year will see UC Santa Barbara add yet another option to its already impressive list of club sports - horseback riding.

May 30, 2008

ARMCHAIIIIIIR

By Staff

One day after Rasheed Wallace berated NBA officials for foul calls, Commissioner Stern announced that flops will be fines in 2009. Former Sacramento Queen Vlade Divac can’t be happy with this one, I “guaran-s...

May 29, 2008

Athletic Department Report: Part II

By Chris Hoffman, Alex Pavlovic

It's not unusual to hear fans of UCSB athletics complain about the choking nature of certain teams, or the fact that we don't have a football team. However, if you listen closely, you'll hear a lot of people talking abou...

May 29, 2008

The Trailer

By Staff

The QB can't help but think that all the bureaucratic problems surrounding the construction of bathrooms at CU would be solved right away if Chancellor Yang would be forced to give the trailer a try.

May 28, 2008

Athletic Department Report: Part I

By Chris Hoffman, Alex Pavlovic

There are certain sports events at UCSB every year that make students feel like they go to a bigger sports school.

May 28, 2008

Make It Work

By Staff

You knew the QB had to weigh in on the Athletic Dept.’s marketing division as well right? Two words baby: beer garden! Make it happen, captain.

May 27, 2008

‘Eaters Dash Gaucho Playoff Aspirations

By Matt Connolly

The final out made by UC Santa Barbara baseball in 2008 truly embodied its successful yet ultimately unsatisfying season. Down 2-0 with a runner on in the top of the ninth inning, junior catcher Chris McMurray would turn...

May 27, 2008

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate UCI

By John Greely

UCLA has USC, Ohio State has Michigan, Notre Dame has pretty much everybody - but when it comes to a rival school who do we Gauchos have to irrationally hate? Cal Poly?