Sports

January 7, 2005

Santa Barbara Opens Season

By Jeff Gibson

Dumbo can fly, but that's because he has big, floppy ears. The UCSB men's volleyball team can fly as well, but what they lack in the floppy-ear department, they make up for in the ability to annihilate opponents.

January 6, 2005

French Benches UCSB Trio

By Kip Hanson

In a game that was promising to turn into another Gaucho blowout, the tables have turned following several injuries and the team's suspensions of senior forwards Kristen Mann and Brandy Richardson and sophomore guard Eri...

January 6, 2005

Santa Barbara Devours Dinos

By Sean Lewis

The UCSB men's volleyball team welcomed the Calgary Dinos to Santa Barbara by shutting them out in three close games last night at Rob Gym.

January 6, 2005

Sports Column: Thanks, We’ll Need It

By Chris Trenchard

Houston, we have a matchup problem. Our tank is dangerously low, our engine is shot and our back-up vessel is out for the season. The elements are just too much to handle.

January 5, 2005

UCSB Imports Game Versus Calgary

By Kip Hanson

Dinos will invade Rob Gym tonight at 7:05 p.m.; try not to panic. Hold your loved ones close and try to remember that these massive creatures are just volleyball-playing Canadians.

January 5, 2005

SB Seniors Aim For MLS

By Kelly Hayes

At the time the Major League Soccer (MLS) Combine invitees were announced in December, nothing could have been further from the minds of the members of the UCSB men's soccer team.

January 5, 2005

Surf Column: Johnny Utah

By Mathis Riley

A couple months ago Newsweek magazine rated UCSB the nation's #1 surf and ski school. You might have seen the ranking; it was accompanied by that classic picture of UCSB taken from out beyond campus point.

January 4, 2005

Casey Cook Out for Six Weeks

By Chris Trenchard

Knowing that they would probably be without leading scorer and second leading rebounder Casey Cook for a good chunk of time, juniors Josh Davis and Michael Chambers spent a little extra time after practice Monday working...

January 4, 2005

UCSB Veterans Vie High

By Lauren Creamer

Expectations are high for the UCSB men's volleyball team in its 2005 season. Head Coach Kenny Preston is aiming for the top. "We expect higher results than seventh place," Preston said. "Our goal is to win the National C...

January 3, 2005

Gauchos PKO’d in National Championship

By Kelly Hayes

Closest only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, but the UCSB men's soccer team came so close to getting a ringer in the 2004 College Cup on Dec. 2, it could almost hear the metal clanking.

January 3, 2005

Cook, Gauchos Go Down

By Michael Long

The UCSB men's basketball team was dealt a huge blow last night in Northridge, experiencing its first conference loss of the season and losing another Gaucho to the injured list.

January 3, 2005

UCSB Continues Losing Ways

By Monique Moyal

The UCSB women’s basketball team (4-5 overall) rung in 2005 with a heartbreaking one-point loss to Loyola Marymount (6-7) during a nonconference game on Sunday. With six seconds left, LMU senior guard Mary Turner m...

December 2, 2004

Gauchos Advance to Elite Eight

By Kelly Hayes

In North Carolina, the UCSB men's soccer team washed away the bitterness of losing in overtime to St. John's University in last year's Sweet 16.

December 2, 2004

Sports Column: What About Us?

By Matthew Boelk

For a normal athletic department with foresight and competence, hosting the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament would mean bringing some national attention as well as revenue to its program, two main goals of any ath...

December 2, 2004

UCSB Peppered by Waves of Malibu

By Chris Trenchard

The moral of Wednesday night's game at Pepperdine was simple for the Gauchos: don't handicap yourself by 25 points before you start playing respectable basketball.

December 2, 2004