Sports

January 11, 2005

W. Water Polo: Gauchos Look to Crack Tourney

By Suzanne Heibel

This time, it's the women who are back in town. The UCSB women's water polo season is beginning and the team is ready to play... and win.

January 10, 2005

Idaho Assails UCSB

By Kip Hanson

UCSB (5-6 overall, 3-1 in the Big West) dropped its first league game of the year Saturday afternoon to the University of Idaho (7-5, 2-1 Big West), leaving just one question: What are they putting in the potatoes?

January 10, 2005

Vandals Demolish Santa Barbara

By Chris Trenchard

For about 35 minutes, the UCSB men's basketball team flourished with just seven available players, battling Idaho to a 47-47 tie. After 40 minutes, though, UCSB had nothing to show for it.

January 10, 2005

Sports Column: Sac-Town Soliloquist

By Sean Swaby

A few months ago, Latrell Sprewell nixed a $10 million per year contract extension offer from the Minnesota Timberwolves. Why, you wonder? "I have to feed my kids," he said of the rejection.

January 7, 2005

Seven Is Enough for SB

By Kip Hanson

Things looked grim as a diminished, seven-player UCSB roster stepped onto the court. But when the final buzzer rang, senior guard Mia Fisher had recorded a career-high 24 points, and the ailing Gauchos had crushed their ...

January 7, 2005

Injuries Plague Gauchos in Loss at Logan

By Chris Trenchard

As far as circumstances go, they don't get much more extenuating for a basketball team than this.

January 7, 2005

Swimming: Top-Ranked USC Brings Five Olympians to UCSB

By Sean Lewis

The UCSB swim team hosts top-ranked USC at Campus Pool on Saturday with only three words of advice for the tough Trojan squad. "Bring an umbrella," Head Coach Gregg Wilson said.

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...