Sports
College sports are the shit. Call me biased if you want -- writing about sports does pay my monthly booze bill, after all -- but I've passed Go on the sporting world's Monopoly board more than a few t...
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You freshmen think you know sports? The QB is here to help you wade through al the bullshit in the sports world. Here's to hoping that the painfully boring NFL preseason ends soon.
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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 televis...
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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 ...
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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 w...
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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.
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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 Champion...
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The Daily Nexus sits down with outgoing Athletic Director Gary Cunningham to reflect on the past and look to the future.
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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 insti...
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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.
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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 on...
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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...
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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.
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There are certain sports events at UCSB every year that make students feel like they go to a bigger sports school.
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“Greased Lightnin’” from “Grease”
Sunset waltz from “La La Land”
“Thriller” by Michael Jackson
Frat flick
“Macarena” by Los Del Río
“Gangnam Style” by PSY
“Swan Lake” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Renegade
“Cell Block Tango” from “Chicago”
“The Last Text” from “Dance Moms”
Flossing
All of “Hamilton”
