Sports

W. Water Polo: Gauchos Look to Crack Tourney

January 11, 2005 by

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.
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Idaho Assails UCSB

January 10, 2005 by

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...
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Vandals Demolish Santa Barbara

January 10, 2005 by

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.
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Sports Column: Sac-Town Soliloquist

January 10, 2005 by

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.
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Seven Is Enough for SB

January 7, 2005 by

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 Gaucho...
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Injuries Plague Gauchos in Loss at Logan

January 7, 2005 by

As far as circumstances go, they don't get much more extenuating for a basketball team than this.
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Swimming: Top-Ranked USC Brings Five Olympians to UCSB

January 7, 2005 by

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.
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Santa Barbara Opens Season

January 7, 2005 by

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 annihilat...
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French Benches UCSB Trio

January 6, 2005 by

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...
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Santa Barbara Devours Dinos

January 6, 2005 by

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.
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Sports Column: Thanks, We’ll Need It

January 6, 2005 by

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.
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UCSB Imports Game Versus Calgary

January 5, 2005 by

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.
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SB Seniors Aim For MLS

January 5, 2005 by

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.
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Surf Column: Johnny Utah

January 5, 2005 by

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 p...
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Casey Cook Out for Six Weeks

January 4, 2005 by

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 pra...
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