Sports

April 10, 2008

NHL

By Staff

The NHL Playoffs are here! But the QB had no idea until someone mentioned it. He can't pronounce the names of half those dudes, anyway.

April 9, 2008

Bulldogs Maul SB in Doubleheader

By Rob Garcia

The Gauchos fought valiantly, but it wasn't enough against the softball powerhouse that is #13 Fresno State.

April 9, 2008

Gauchos Fail to Lasso Win at Tourney

By John Greely

With the Big West Tournament just around the corner, the Gaucho golf team was hoping to gain some much-needed momentum at the Wyoming Cowboy Classic in Scottsdale, Ariz. What they got was more of the same. UCSB finished ...

April 9, 2008

Controversy Threatens to Torch Olympic Spirit

By Chris Hoffman

Normally, I'm not one to care too much about the Olympics or the torch relay until the Opening Ceremonies end and the Games begin. But normally - in my lifetime at least - the host country hasn't been under as much publi...

April 9, 2008

Underhand Throw

By Staff

If he had any sort of sense of humor, Bill Buckner would’ve thrown the ball under the catchers leg during the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway yesterday.

April 8, 2008

Gauchos Hope to Down Matadors

By Matt Connolly

After taking two out of three games from Pacific over the weekend, the UCSB baseball team will wrap up its five-game road trip tomorrow at Cal State Northridge in a nonconference game against a surging Matador squad that...

April 8, 2008

Bathroom Reading Material:

By Alex Pavlovic

Youth movement... I suppose those two words could mean a number of different things depending on your perspective, but from a baseball point of view, it means your team is getting younger.

April 8, 2008

UCSB Hosts #10 Fresno State

By Rob Garcia

The UCSB softball team is amid an eight-game winning streak, but if you talked with Head Coach Brie Galicinao, you probably wouldn't know that.

April 8, 2008

Jayhawk Down!

By Staff

Did you see that shot? But the QB is kind of glad the tourney is over, because he would have killed the next person to say “Rock Chalk Jayhawk”

April 7, 2008

SB Takes Another Series

By Matt Connolly

A split in a pair of ninth-inning nail biters and a blowout win in the series finale had the UC Santa Barbara baseball team (21-9 overall, 5-1 in the Big West) take down two out of three on the road versus Pacific (6-22,...

April 7, 2008

Anteaters Eliminate Gauchos From Postseason Contention

By Tiffany Polfer

The #14 UCSB men's volleyball team (9-16 overall, 6-14 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) suffered its fourth loss in a row this past Saturday, as the #9 UC Irvine Anteaters (14-13 overall, 10-10 in the MPSF) swe...

April 7, 2008

Gauchos Dominate League Matches

By Ravi Bhatia

The UCSB men's tennis team (11-6 overall) clinched the first seed in the Big West Conference after a 6-1 victory over UC Davis on Saturday and another 6-1 win over the former conference leader, Pacific, on Sunday.

April 7, 2008

UCSB Stands Up to Powerhouses

By Kevin Klein

The UCSB track and field team faced its toughest competition yet this past weekend, when it traveled north to compete in the Stanford Invitational and made some noise among the national ranks, collecting three NCAA regio...

April 7, 2008

UCSB Drops Pair to Ranked Foes

By Matt Crowell

It would be easy to look at the #17 UCSB women's water polo record (4-16 overall, 0-10 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) and write off this season as all but over. But don't tell that to the lady Gauchos, as they conti...

April 7, 2008

Gauchos Break Five Game Losing Streak

By Miles Yim

After taking #49 Long Beach State down to the wire last Thursday, the UCSB women's tennis team once again struggled with its consistency, losing 5-2 to unranked Loyola Marymount on Saturday while blanking UC Riverside 7-...

April 7, 2008

Gauchos Get Another Sweep

By Rob Garcia

UCSB softball brought out the brooms for the second-consecutive weekend, as the Gauchos completed a three-game sweep of Cal Poly this past Saturday and Sunday at Campus Diamond.