Sports

November 19, 2004

Gauchos Negate Cal Poly

By Danny MacLeith

The road that the #18 Gauchos traveled to their third straight conference championship has been downhill since the clincher last weekend, but their steady cruise slowed after they ran over some Mustangs on Thursday.

November 19, 2004

UCSB Takes Family Fan Base to Moraga

By Lauren Creamer

The UCSB women

November 19, 2004

SB Hits Road to Start Season

By Chris Trenchard

Literally speaking, tonight

November 19, 2004

Men’s Water Polo: Santa Barbara To End Regular Season Play at Campus Pool

By Anna Oleson-Wheeler

Last dance, last chance for the #7 UCSB men

November 18, 2004

Gauchos To Conclude Big West Play in SLO

By Matthew Boelk

It's official, the #18 UCSB women's volleyball team (21-3 overall, 15-2 in the Big West) is the three-time Big West Conference champion and has assured itself an automatic bid in the 64-team field of the NCAA Tournament.

November 18, 2004

Sports Column: First You Get the Money

By Sean Swaby

On Tuesday morning, the FCC and the NFL shit their respective bricks after watching a revealing commercial featuring Terrell Owens. The NBA is cracking the whip on Vince Carter for sporting an iPod during warm-ups.

November 18, 2004

Club Sailing: Boaters Host UCSB’s First-Ever Regatta

By Jeremy Fuller

Over 200 sailors from across the West Coast gathered at Lake Isabella, located in California's Kern River Valley, last weekend for a regatta hosted by UCSB.

November 17, 2004

Gaucho Grabs the Spotlight

By Danny MacLeith

With two outstanding middle blockers in junior Megan Blackshire and sophomore Olivia Waldowski on the same roster - in addition to senior libero and Sports Imports/AVCA National Player of the Week laureate Kristin Nelson...

November 17, 2004

Sports Column: Big West, Big Snubs

By Sean Swaby

Don't let the name deceive you - the Big West really isn't all that big. It's no secret we're not the Pac-10 or the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), and, subsequently, several good teams have been shafted by the NCAA sel...

November 17, 2004

Trippin’ on Blue: Birthing a Board

By Mathis Riley

I haven't bought a new board in three years. Of course, in that time I have picked up the occasional inheritance from missing housemates and yellowing pieces of crap from garage sales, but I haven't had a brand-new, ding...

November 16, 2004

SB Slapped With Ninth Seed

By Kelly Hayes

Talk about awakening a sleeping giant. The #1-ranked UCSB men's soccer team heard its alarm loud and clear Monday after receiving the #9 seed in the 2004 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament.

November 16, 2004

Sports Column: The Omittee

By Chris Trenchard

If UCSB played on the East Coast, yesterday would have been known as Black Monday. But here in Santa Barbara, where everyone else has every reason to be jealous of us, people take their frustration out on us whenever the...

November 16, 2004

Club Bowling: Gauchos Go Click In West Coast Championship

By Jessica Vrazilek

The UCSB bowling team started their season strong with a seventh place win at their first tournament of the year, the annual West Coast Team Championships in Davis.

November 16, 2004

Women’s Club Soccer: UCLA Hands UCSB First Loss

By Jessica Vrazilek

Although the UCSB women's club soccer team lost its first conference game in a 2-0 decision against UCLA last weekend, the Gauchos enter national championship competition today as the top-ranked team in its region.

November 15, 2004

Gauchos Cruise Past Westmont

By Sean Swaby

No bench = no problem. Santa Barbara's bench might have looked like the waiting room in a doctor's office, but that didn't stop the Gauchos from trouncing crosstown rival Westmont 78-60 in an exhibition game Friday night...

November 15, 2004

UCSB Gets No Love

By Lauren Creamer

From the perimeter, it was evident that UCSB didn't have a shot in its 56-63 exhibition loss to women's basketball club team Love and Basketball. Santa Barbara went 0-19 from behind the arc, and sank just 30.3 percent of...