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UCSB Looks to Rebound After Heart-Breaking Loss

After a 13-inning loss on the road against #3 UCLA, the UCSB baseball team (3-1) will look to bounce back in a four-game series at Loyola Marymount (1-3). The Lions, who have already played and lost t...
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Not Taking Sides

The Nexus sports crew knows how to make it rain, but it’s hard to tell what side we’re taking in the Mayweather vs. Big Show bout. We’re guessing Floyd just buries him in a truckload...
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Pavlovian Sayings: Last Call at the Thunderdome

Because the marketing department for UCSB Athletics has seemingly been on vacation for the last four months - with the exception of creating a timeout game in which the odds of winning are nearly one ...
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UCLA Shuts Down Santa Barbara

The UCSB men's tennis team (3-3 overall) lost 6-1 to #6 UCLA (8-1) after a series of long two-set singles matches and an injury to freshman Alexander Konigsfeld yesterday.
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Gauchos Drop Late Night Thriller

The UCSB baseball team (3-1 overall) played it close with #3 UCLA (2-1) in a 13-inning grind, but ultimately fell to the Bruins 4-5 in a very well pitched game on both sides. After the Bruins tied it ...
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Waiting List

How cool is it that Jim Rome called ESS Professor Al Ferrer a "college baseball icon" on his national T.V. show yesterday? I'm guessing the waiting list for Sports Management just got a whole lot long...
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Bruins Await Gauchos in Westwood

After sweeping Marist College over the weekend to open the season, the UCSB baseball team heads south to face UCLA for one game at Jackie Robinson Stadium tonight at 6 p.m. The Bruins (2-1 overall), w...
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SB Impresses in Tourney

The UCSB softball team persevered through rain and cold weather to take four out of five games in this weekend's Softball by the Beach Tournament.
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UCSB Faces Third Pac-10 Foe

The UCSB men's tennis team will travel to Westwood today to play #6 UCLA at 1:30 p.m.
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Bigfoot!

Congrats, Warrior fans. Yao’s giant foot just guaranteed your team a place in the playoffs. Too bad Kobe and Co. will sweep through the 1 vs. 8 series.
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UCSB Pummels Visiting Ducks

The UCSB men's tennis team (3-2 overall) continued its winning ways, beating Oregon 6-1 on Sunday afternoon at the Rec Cen courts in the Gauchos biggest win over a Pac-10 school in a decade.
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Gauchos Stay Unbeaten on Home Court

Seniors Marta Simic and Charlotte Scatliffe set the tone for the UCSB women's tennis team's fifth match of the season in a dominating 8-1 victory over Eastern Michigan's top-ranked doubles squad en ro...
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SB Opens Season With Eleventh-Place Finish

The UCSB men's golf team started off the season in style, heading to Honolulu, Hawaii to compete in the John Burns Intercollegiate tournament. In the exceptionally tough field of 21 teams, the Gauchos...
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Armchair QB

How can a NHL player get a DUI? Those guys are so hardcore, they can pound a handle of just about anything and still skate like a fairy.
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SB Swims Away With Titles

They came. They swam. They conquered. The UCSB men's and women's swim teams showed total domination at the 2008 Big West Swimming and Diving Championships by winning dual titles.
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