Sports

Gauchos Rip Way to Surfing State Title

The UCSB surf team held off a hard-charging rival to win the National Scholastic Surfing Association 2008 State Championship held March 7-9. The Gauchos, who entered the competition as the top-ranked ...
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The Thursday Gnar: Get Off the Couch and Pick a Road, Any Road

Spring Break came and went. Did you spend it well? Did you milk it for all it was worth, suckling its sweet nectar until every drop was gone? Of course you didn't. You went home, you sat on your ass f...
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NHL

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.
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Bulldogs Maul SB in Doubleheader

The Gauchos fought valiantly, but it wasn't enough against the softball powerhouse that is #13 Fresno State.
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Gauchos Fail to Lasso Win at Tourney

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 ...
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Controversy Threatens to Torch Olympic Spirit

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...
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Underhand Throw

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.
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Gauchos Hope to Down Matadors

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 surgin...
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Bathroom Reading Material:

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.
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UCSB Hosts #10 Fresno State

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.
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Jayhawk Down!

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”
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SB Takes Another Series

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 v...
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Anteaters Eliminate Gauchos From Postseason Contention

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...
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Gauchos Dominate League Matches

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, Pacifi...
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UCSB Stands Up to Powerhouses

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, collect...
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