Sports
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Ga...
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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 blan...
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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.
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Memphis guard Derrick Rose missed the National Championship media sessions this weekend due to stomach problems. Sounds like someone ate dinner at Little Asia on Friday night…
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After 21 seasons at the helm of the UCSB women's basketball program, Head Coach Mark French announced his retirement yesterday, just weeks after leading the Gauchos to their 12th NCAA Tournament appea...
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury
“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
“The Giver” by Lois Lowry
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
“Wicked” by Gregory Maguire
“The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath
"The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
“1984” by George Orwell
“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
