Sports

February 1, 2007

#8 Stanford Will Test Surging SB Shooting

By Derek Mead

After winning seven of their last eight, the UCSB women's basketball team will be looking for its momentum to help it defeat #8 Stanford tonight.

February 1, 2007

Seniors Look to Lead UCSB Past Pacific

By Ana Pineda Staff Writer

The UCSB men and women's swim teams will look for both victory and retribution this Saturday at noon at Campus Pool against Pacific after a disappointing loss last weekend to University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

February 1, 2007

Giant Dilemma

By Armchair QB

First the Giants sign Zito for an absurd amount of money and now their contract with Bonds gets rejected? Too bad all that moolah won't even win the west next season.

January 31, 2007

Gauchos Look to Keep USC At Bay

By Tiffany Polfer

The #13 USC men's volleyball team, hot off an upset sweep of #5 UCLA, comes riding into UCSB tonight for a conference match with the #3 Gauchos. UCSB (7-2 overall, 5-1 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) defeated ...

January 31, 2007

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

By Lika Walker

Today, it seems, everyone surfs. But what does it really mean to surf? I learned how to surf on a 7'10" mini tanker, but even before that, my friends and I would mess around and ride waves on what we called "boogie board...

January 31, 2007

Feature: The Naked Truth About Cal Poly Athletics

By Kip Hanson

It is a difficult task to mention our friends to the north without talking about true sporting excellence. Whether on the field of competition or in the announcer's booth up above, the only brand of descriptor that can ...

January 31, 2007

UCSTD?

By Armchair QB

The QB is thinking about transferring to Minnesota. With 24 outbreaks of herpes among high school wrestlers, UC Santa Barbara could get a run for its money.

January 30, 2007

Gauchos Monopolize Mammoth

By Hannah Perry

The UCSB alpine race team headed to Mammoth this past weekend for its third competition of the year and turned in another dominant performance. The Gaucho racers have already taken off to a quick lead this season, leavin...

January 30, 2007

Rebels Force SB Into Upstream Battle

By Ana Pineda Staff Writer

With several members of UCSB's swim team recently recuperating from illnesses, traveling to a foreign pool played a huge factor in the men's and women's losses to UN Las Vegas on Saturday. Yet, the women's squad found re...

January 30, 2007

How To Draft a Championship NBA Fantasy Basketball Team, Part I

By John Ciccarelli

For nearly six months every year, college students everywhere have the privilege of being the general managers of a National Basketball Association franchise - a fantasy NBA franchise, that is. I have taken it upon mysel...

January 29, 2007

Zone Defense Cannot Slow SB

By Derek Mead

After losing to Cal State Northridge 66-64 earlier this week, the UCSB women's basketball team faced practically the exact same game plan in Saturday's 89-55 dismantling of Pacific. The Tigers (7-14 overall, 1-6 in the B...

January 29, 2007

Gauchos Ace Long Beach, UCSD in Six

By Tiffany Polfer

The #4 UCSB men's volleyball team broke out the brooms and did some cleaning this past weekend in Southern California, as the Gauchos (7-2 overall, 5-1 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) swept both #8 Long Beach ...

January 29, 2007

UCSB Snaps Tigers’ Streak

By Alex Pavlovic

If only the UCSB men's basketball team could play every game on the road. After defeating Cal State Northridge on Thursday, the Gauchos withstood a late Pacific run on Saturday night to come away with a 70-62 victory and...

January 29, 2007

Colt Down

By Armchair QB

After Barbaro lost 80 percent of his hoof and had two steel pins inserted in it, the QB wonders if Peyton Manning will be the only Colt in danger of being put down this weekend.

January 26, 2007

UCSB Fails to Keep Historic Streak

By Derek Mead

In a fast-paced game, the UCSB women's basketball team narrowly missed extending its winning streak to seven with a 66-64 loss to Cal State Northridge. Santa Barbara (10-9 overall, 4-2 in the Big West) was merely seconds...

January 26, 2007

Gauchos Climb Rankings, Head South

By Kip Hanson

As the excitement from hurdling UCLA (3-5 overall, 1-4 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) and falling one set short of toppling the Irvine Empire fades into the background, the UCSB men's volleyball team (5-2, 3-...