J.J. Jenkins is a business administration junior and Mustang Daily study abroad columnist. I don’t think you know frustration until you watch one of the best fĂştbol clubs in the world fail to send a shiny, round ball into a rectangular goal for 86 minutes. I guess you don’t know elation until that ball slips […]
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Encantado, España: getting to know Barcelona
J.J. Jenkins jjjenkins.md@gmail.com J.J. Jenkins is a business administration junior and Mustang Daily study abroad columnist. Lionel Messi headed home a brilliant cross in one swift flick. The bar exploded. I jumped out of my seat with the rest of the previously antsy FC Barcelona fans and high-fived my friend as the celebration continued. Messi […]
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Coachella in 1,000 words
We buzzed along a blank stretch of highway in Palm Springs, Calif., as the tires of our Subaru hummed against the asphalt. To us, it was music. Something about it being 2 a.m. on Monday, or the previous three days we spent at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, brought out a sixth sense […]
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How Twitter changes the way we watch
Editor’s Column My dad and I had a Saturday ritual before I left for Cal Poly. Every Saturday afternoon in the fall, we would go for a run in the morning having recorded all the big college football games that day. By the time we got back, showered, ate breakfast and took care of a […]
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Mustangs move into second place with sweep of Anteaters
Kyle Brueggemann spent just one year at the United States Military Academy at West Point, but he learned a lot playing for the Black Knights. Things such as discipline, balancing workloads and plain old hard work that he brought to the mound on Saturday as the Mustangs (20-10, 4-2) defeated UC Irvine 8-1 to sweep the series. […]
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Mustang pitchers shine in new roles
Last year, starters Mason Radeke and Steven Fischback provided Cal Poly baseball with a devastating 1-2 punch on the mound entering any weekend series. The duo combined to finish with a 15-5 record and helped the Mustangs set record lows for ERA (3.60), opponents batting average (.254), fewest hits (443), runs (220) and earned runs […]
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Lessons from the press box
I used to think that when I saw sports reporters on the sidelines with their laptops open during the games they were cranking out stories on deadline. Some editor somewhere was demanding that they turn in a complete story with quotes and a final score, even if it was the first quarter. That’s not true. […]
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Baseball opens Big West play with series loss
A triple by David Armendariz saved the Cal Poly baseball team from being no-hit on Sunday as Long Beach State topped the Mustangs 4-0 to win the series two games to one. Long Beach State’s starting pitcher Shawn Stuart allowed Armendariz’s triple off the left center field wall in the fifth inning and walked Tim […]
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Mustang men finish fourth, win 18 games
The second most successful Division I season in Cal Poly men’s basketball history came to an end at the hands of UC Santa Barbara in the Big West Tournament semifinals. The Mustangs went 18-15, placed fourth in conference and defeated UC Riverside in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament before falling to the Gauchos. In head […]
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Gauchos send Cal Poly men packing
Despite a back-and-forth second half, a 3-pointer by UC Santa Barbara’s Orlando Johnson sealed Cal Poly’s fate with a 1:30 to go. The senior guard put the Gauchos up by nine as UCSB pulled away from the Mustangs for a 64-52 victory on Friday night at the Honda Center. David Hanson, playing in his final […]
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Mustangs move to Big West semifinals, top Highlanders
The Mustangs are driving their way to the Big West Tournament semifinals for the first time since 2007. After going down six points at halftime, Cal Poly (18-14) used a 19-4 run over the first 10 minutes of the second half to take down UC Riverside (14-17) on Thursday night at the Honda Center in […]