Sports

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.

November 5, 2007

Record Crowd Watches UCSB Dominate Cal Poly

By Chris Hoffman

With a chance to take control of the race for the conference championship, the #12 UCSB men's soccer team dominated Cal Poly 3-1 in front of a Big West record crowd of 8,102 Saturday night at Harder Stadium.

November 5, 2007

Gauchos Give Top Ranked Bears a Scare

By Matt Crowell

Emotions ran high on Senior Day for the UCSB men's water polo game against Cal, but in the end the Gauchos dug themselves too big of a whole to climb out of.

November 5, 2007

Gauchos Take Down Titans

By Ana Pineda Staff Writer

The UCSB women's volleyball team defeated Cal State Fullerton (11-13 overall, 5-7 in the Big West) 3-1 at Titan Gymnasium this weekend in a match that featured four closely fought games.

November 5, 2007

SB Falls Short of Postseason

By Derek Mead

The final weekend for the UCSB women's soccer team was much like the whole season: good effort, bad results.

November 5, 2007

Gauchos Wrap Up Exhibition Season

By Cassie Harris

A blistering first half was all it took for the UCSB women's basketball team to earn its second consecutive win in exhibition play as it defeated cross-town foe Westmont 79-55.

November 2, 2007

Armchair QB

By Staff

The QB was mad that the cheerleaders now do their stunts on mats, until realizing that a male has been added to the squad.

November 2, 2007

Battle for First Place Comes to Harder

By Chris Hoffman

Riding a season high three-game winning streak, the #12 UCSB men's soccer team hopes to inch closer to its second straight Big West title when they host second place #15 Cal Poly Saturday at 7 p.m. at Harder Stadium.