Sports
UCSB is the best in the Big West. Santa Barbara earned its fourth consecutive Big West Conference Commissioner's Cup, recognizing its overall dominance in league competition for the 2003-04 academic y...
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To redshirt, or not to redshirt. That is the question that perplexes NCAA coaches and players. The system in which the NCAA has the power to save collegiate athletes a year of eligibility to hone thei...
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You should always look at the bright side of things. Yes, the UCSB softball team (32-31) ended its postseason play with two quick losses, but the team's accomplishments over the course of the season a...
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Overpopulation knows no boundaries. Just look around. People are everywhere, and our spot on the globe isn't even close to the worst case. It seems discouraging: humans lurking in every nook and crann...
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Another year came and another year went at the at the Caesar Uyesaka Stadium, and all-in-all, the year was punctuated more by successes than failures.
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Every inning of every baseball game this season was meaningful in the Gauchos' quest for a postseason berth, but a few bad ones strung together Sunday at Cal Poly made the top of the ninth inning the ...
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We may say "dude" too many times. We may act like typical surfers. But here in sunny Southern California we do one thing -- we win. Despite adversity from every which way, the Los Angeles Lakers have ...
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The biggest rivalry in college baseball yielded the Big West Champion again, and for the second year in a row, in dramatic fashion. Cal State Fullerton (#22) clinched the Big West title this weekend w...
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Just like that, the dream is over. In the first day of the NCAA Regionals, the Santa Barbara softball team was bounced from the Tucson Tournament after an opening round loss to Northwestern 8-1 and a ...
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The Big West race is entering its final leg, and because the battle is for third place, the Gauchos (32-19 overall, 9-9 in the Big West) have to worry about gaining on UC Riverside (10-8) while keepin...
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After 20 years of anonymity in the collegiate softball world, Santa Barbara now has the chance to be a no-namer no more. In just her third year, Head Coach Kristy Schroeder has catapulted the Gauchos ...
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Over the past three weeks, the Gaucho men's and women's crew teams finished out their spring seasons by competing against some of the best crew teams in the nation.
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In, and out. The shot that could have been heard 'round the world went in, and then it went out. It wanted to go in; hell, I'm pretty sure all of California wanted it to go in, but it rimmed, only to ...
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Senior sprinter Jasmine Washington should seriously consider becoming an author because she has been rewriting the Gaucho track and field record books since she first stepped foot on UCSB.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Amidst the dust created in our nation's capital by the political stampede surrounding the troubles in Iraq, sports can still compete with other policy issues for time on the nationa...
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“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
“Wicked” by Gregory Maguire
“The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath
"The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
“1984” by George Orwell
“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
