Sports

November 9, 2007

UCSB Hosts Tough Pair in Opening Weekend

By Cassie Harris

The UCSB women's basketball team begins its regular season this weekend with a pair of home games, starting tonight with a game against Brigham Young University.

November 9, 2007

Santa Barbara To Make Run at Returning to Nationals

By Rob Garcia

This Saturday, the men's and women's cross country teams will travel to Eugene, Ore., to compete in the NCAA West Regionals.

November 9, 2007

Gauchos Look to Make Waves

By Matt Crowell

For the #7 UCSB men's water polo team, this weekend gives the team an opportunity to make a big move in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation standings.

November 9, 2007

SB Hosts California Duo In Dual Meet

By Ana Pineda Staff Writer

The UCSB men and women's swimming teams are ready to dive back into Campus Pool, as they play host to conference foe Cal Poly (1-0 men, 1-0 women) and nonconference opponent UC San Diego (0-1 men, 1-0 women) this weekend...

November 8, 2007

Armchair QB

By Staff

Finally it appears that Roger Clemens will actually retire.

November 8, 2007

SB Hits Road to Face Elite Rivals

By Kevin Klein

In the past week, the UCSB women's volleyball team has proven that it can hang tough against Big West teams with better records, but their biggest test of the season awaits just up the coast, as the Gauchos travel to San...

November 8, 2007

UCSB Disappoints in Ninth-Place Finish

By David Rabie

The UCSB golf team finished up their fall season with a mediocre showing, finishing 9th out of 14 teams at the Stockton Sports Commission Pacific Invitational.

November 8, 2007

Surfing Brings Fire Victims Solace

By Todd Prodanovich

This October, during the Southern California wildfires, surfers evacuated their homes to everyone's favorite evacuation zone: the beach.

November 7, 2007

Armchair QB

By Staff

The QB is tired of the whole asterisk thing. Marc Ecko and Don Shula should get together and design some new, edgy uniforms for horrible Miami.

November 7, 2007

2007-08 NBA Season Preview

By Staff

My crystal ball tells me that this NBA season will be much different from the last.

November 7, 2007

Setting the Ranking Straight, Football Style

By Alex Pavlovic

A couple of weeks ago I watched two "experts" on ESPN argue over whether or not college football should have preseason polls.

November 6, 2007

Armchair QB

By Staff

Andy Pettite has a standing offer from the Yankees to return at any time for $16 milion a year.

November 6, 2007

Senior Duo Sets Pace for Gauchos

By Rob Garcia

For two fifth-year seniors on the women's cross country team, Regionals and the possibility of Nationals compose the final chapter of their storied careers at UC Santa Barbara.

November 6, 2007

Whiskey Out a Boot

By Chris Hoffman

For those of you who recently began following UCSB athletics, it is important to know that the conference landscape is much different than it used to be.

November 6, 2007

SB Closes in on Conference Leaders

By Matt Connolly

After receiving a much needed break for Halloween festivities, the UCSB women's club field hockey team (6-2-0) picked up right where it left off this past weekend, defeating UC Irvine and Santa Clara on consecutive days.

November 5, 2007

Armchair QB

By Staff

As a preemptive move, the QB would like to point out that the only reason that there are only men's sports on the front page is because both teams played HUGE games.