Sports
When the final buzzer blares this Saturday night, the Thunderdome will lose just a little bit of its thunder. Senior forwards Kristen Mann, Brandy Richardson, Kate Bauman and senior guard Mia Fisher w...
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On the evening of Jan. 2, one night before UCSB students returned to classes from Winter Break, the UCSB men's basketball team entered the Matadome to rumble with conference rival Northridge in an ear...
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Setting up the perfect kill, junior setter Bart Kowalski can perform in the clutch just like a veteran mobster still clinging to his prime. After winning the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Player ...
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Cal Poly must have figured at least one of their pitchers could get it right. However, the UCSB baseball team picked apart every one of the Mustangs' nine pitchers to snap a four-game losing streak wi...
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It's becoming routine around these parts. Another year has passed, and with it another dominant display of women's basketball at UCSB has gone largely unnoticed: ho-hum.
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Undefeated seems like a nice place to be for a team, but perfection in the rankings just isn't good enough for the UCSB women's lacrosse team these days. The Gauchos downed St. John Fisher 14-7 Saturd...
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UCSB baseball renews the Central Coast rivalry with Cal Poly today at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. The Mustangs come to town for the first of two midweek games between the teams in the next two weeks as pa...
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The men's lacrosse team showed why it is considered the best club lacrosse team in the country on as it easily defeated Loyola Marymount 13-4 on Saturday.
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It wasn't a win, but with the playoffs on the line, the UCSB men's rugby team will take the tie. The Gauchos kept their playoff hopes alive by scoring a last second try to pull within two points of Sa...
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The UCSB women's rugby team lacked the strength to overcome the power of rival UCSD, losing to the Tritons 15-5. UCSB and UCSD are competing for the one Southern California bid to Nationals in late sp...
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With the game clock dwindling and UCSB leading by two, Riverside fired errantly three times from three-point land until, with less than one second remaining, sophomore Glenn Turner finally came up wit...
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The UCSB women's tennis team went north over the weekend for three matches in as many days, taking two of three and losing only to Big West Conference foe University of the Pacific.
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In its final road battle of the season, Santa Barbara (17-8 overall, 14-2 in the Big West) avoided further blood on its record after escaping unscathed from a second-half barrage by the Highlanders (1...
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The Santa Barbara men's swimming team was determined to hold on to its conference title, but Pacific was too much to hold back in the Big West Conference swimming championships, which were held in Lon...
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Oregon State did a little early spring cleaning this weekend, sweeping Santa Barbara baseball in three games at home. The Beavers (9-1) took out their brooms, dusting the Gauchos (7-6) under the rug a...
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“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky
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“Wicked” by Gregory Maguire
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