Sports
Heart is the one aspect that sets great athletes apart from the rest. It is what truly inspires us to watch sports and keeps us coming back for more. The UCSB women's softball team has one such athlet...
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The 2001 NFL Draft has finally come and gone. It was a meticulous event; methodical, strategic and, uh, boring.
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The UCSB men's tennis team begins play in the Big West Tournament on Thursday at the Ojai Valley Athletic Club. Santa Barbara finished the regular season at 5-16, 1-3 in the Big West.
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The UCSB women's water polo team finished its season on a down note this past weekend, falling to Stanford at the Avery Aquatic Center on Saturday, 13-4, and to San Jose State on Sunday, 12-5.
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It was a fruitful weekend for the UCSB men's and women's track team.
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The UCSB women's tennis team took the court against Cal Poly on Saturday in a matchup they had been waiting for all season.
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For the second-straight weekend, the UCSB baseball team went on the road and came home with two more victories in the standings.
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Unfortunately for the Gauchos, just as they were beginning to start to run instead of walk, they ran into a brick wall that goes by the name of Cal State Fullerton. #9 Cal State Fullerton to be exact.
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People bitch and moan about how boring the game is, how the players have no heart and, most of all, that the game lacks the star power it once had.
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In Big West baseball every series counts, and that's just the point the UCSB men's baseball team will take to heart this weekend.
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More intense than the Heat-Knicks rivalry of the NBA, and more heated than the Giants-Dodgers match up in MLB, is Santa Barbara vs. Big West enemy, Cal Poly.
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Wednesday afternoon at the Campus Diamond, the Gauchos (17-26 overall) blanked UC Riverside, 1-0 and 3-0, in a pair of pitching gems from sophomore Sylvia Santos and freshman Katie Junge.
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The UCSB women's water polo team was able to fend off the Lions for one quarter, but Loyola Marymount's roar proved too much in the end.
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Sometimes a pitching staff is just one good arm away from reaching its full potential, and for the UCSB baseball team the missing link turned out to be junior starter James Garcia.
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A tough season for the UCSB men's tennis team ended with a disheartening 6-1 loss Tuesday to Cal Poly in the season finale.
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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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“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
