Just when the baseball team needed it most, true freshman Brian Mundell came through again on Sunday afternoon.
Author Archives: Benjy Egel
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Diversity is still an issue between the lines
If 13.1 percent of the United States is black, how many of Cal Poly’s 17,680-person undergraduate student body identifies the same way? 2,000? 1,000? 500?
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Benefits go beyond the lines
Forget the steroids stories and cheating scandals — sports are a good thing. From badminton to basketball, there are benefits in every game. Team sports in particular build physical, mental and emotional health.
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Mustangs have draft day dreams
Benjy Egel is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily sports columnist. Cal Poly has recently produced several NFL players, including names such as Chris Gocong, Ramses Barden and Asa Jackson. The trio could soon be joined by a new herd of Mustangs. Running back Deonte Williams, wide receiver Brandon Michalkiewicz, quarterback Andre Broadous, fullback Quentin […]
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Baseball falls to Notre Dame, drops series
Benjy Egel benjyegel.md@gmail.com Early in the season, the one run games were falling in favor of the Mustangs. Now, they’re not. With their second one-run victory over Cal Poly in just as many nights, the Fighting Irish celebrated Saturday after defeating No. 20 Cal Poly 6-5 in Baggett Stadium. Nick Torres cracked a solo home run […]
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Walk on – walk off: the Dylan Royer story
illustration Benjy Egel benjyegel.md@gmail.com In 2008, Dylan Royer walked onto the Cal Poly men’s basketball team. He will soon walk off as a scholarship player. Royer was recruited by a few Division II colleges out of nearby Morro Bay High School, including Concordia University and UC San Diego. Some even offered him scholarships, but Cal […]
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Gay athletes are out but outnumbered
Benjy Egel is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily sports columnist. Saieed Rihan is an average student. He comes from a town called Escondido, just north of San Diego. He enjoys hiking around San Luis Obispo. He is a kinesiology senior with little idea of what he wants to do after graduation. Saieed Rihan is […]
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Can Mustangs find love off the field?
Benjy Egel is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily sports columnist. Cupid is not an athlete. OK, he’d win a gold medal in archery. Other than that, he’s a short, chubby dude who looks more like a football than a football player. Yet he seems to do a good job shooting his arrows toward student-athletes […]
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Damon Coupe brings in top-flight recruits
Benjy Egel benjyegel.md@gmail.com The underclassmen on the Cal Poly women’s tennis team are some of the best in the Big West Conference, without a single sophomore on the roster. Head coach Damon Coupe bagged a globe-spanning grand slam of four tennis recruits, Sophia Bott, Louise Oxnevad, Anna Klavins and Haley Kepler, which helped the Mustangs score the […]
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The tale of two cities and one team
Benjy Egel is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily sports columnist. “I love it! I love it! Oh my God, best interview ever!” These were the words of Cal Poly men’s basketball coach and Washington-native Joe Callero when I asked him for an interview on the Sacramento Kings’ scheduled move to Seattle. The Kings would […]
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A Big (West) missed opportunity
Benjy Egel is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily sports columnist. State schools are supposed to feel a budget crunch, right? Then how can Cal Poly afford to send hundreds of students on an all-expenses-paid trip to paradise? The answer: they’re not just students, they’re student-athletes. And the University of Hawaii is a generous school. […]