The Cal Poly women’s basketball team is back in the Big West Tournament with a No. 1 seed for the second consecutive year after defeating Pacific 88-66 in the regular season finale. Kristina Santiago, who earned her second Big West Player of the Year award on Monday, scored 33 points in the victory and became […]
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Men's basketball can't overcome slow start
The road woes continued for Cal Poly men’s basketball on Saturday night as the Mustangs ceded a 16-point lead to rival UC Santa Barbara in the first half and eventually fell 68-60. Head coach Joe Callero flatly took the blame for Cal Poly’s (15-14, 6-8) slow start. He said the Gauchos took apart their zone […]
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Friends-turned-rivals debate Cal Poly vs. UNC
J.J. Jenkins (JJ) is a Cal Poly business administration sophomore and Jordan Doucette (JD) is a University of Northern Colorado journalism sophomore. They attended high school together in Denver where they wrote a column entitled “Quadruple J: Question of the Day” for the school newspaper. The Big West and Big Sky conferences matched up in […]
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Wagman's two-hit performance overwhelms Cowboys
A new season and a new pitch has Joey Wagman looking like Cal Poly’s definitive ace. He threw eight scoreless innings, giving up two hits against Oklahoma State on Friday night. Sophomore hurler Chase Johnson struck out the side in his new closer role as the Mustangs shutout the Cowboys in a 6-0 victory to […]
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A day in the life of a backpack journalist
For some time, my nerdy passion has been obsessing over the future of journalism. I don’t tell too many people that I spend a good portion of my daily run thinking about what journalists will be expected to do in the future, and, because I major in business, how to make money from a product […]
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Johnson's layup sneaks Mustangs by Anteaters
Head coach Joe Callero gave an understated two-fisted pump to the air as he walked out of the postgame press conference on Saturday night. The Cal Poly men’s basketball team had just escaped with a 79-76 victory against UC Irvine after leading by double-digits in the second half for the second straight game. For Callero, […]
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Present, future collide as wrestling beats ASU
Boris Novachkov remembers his 3-2 loss in the national finals last year vividly; a dual meet against Arizona State in January wasn’t going to stop him from planning to avenge it. “Every time I go for a run, I see myself back in the finals,” he said. “It motivates me knowing that I’m going to […]
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Smith's upset can't save wrestling
Ryan Smith’s late match heroics weren’t enough to save the Mustang wrestling squad on Friday night as American University defeated Cal Poly 25-13. The 197-pound Smith faced No. 14 Daniel Mitchell who pinned the Mustang over Winter Break in a match Smith said he was not mentally prepared for. That changed on Friday as Smith […]
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Chaos reigns in college football
As I drove back from Los Angeles two weeks ago after watching the Cal Poly men’s basketball team defeat the USC Trojans in an ugly struggle between two teams that made the NBA lockout look like a scoring-fest, I tuned into the radio as Stephan, a Mustang Daily staff writer, and I cursed traffic to […]
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Hitting the brakes on the Penn State scandal
Breathe in. Breathe out. Unfortunately, that’s what the media failed to do last week as they screamed for the head of anyone involved in the latest alleged scandal. This time Joe Paterno was being walked to the guillotine. Unfortunately, justice takes time. Paterno deserves a chance to explain what he knew and when he knew […]
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Not-so-sweet senior day for Mustang football
A career night from Jake Romanelli couldn’t save the Mustangs as Cal Poly fell 53-51 to Eastern Washington in triple overtime on Saturday night. Quarterback Andre Broadous and the Cal Poly offense failed to convert the required two-point conversion in the third overtime, giving the victory to the Eagles. Romanelli, however, rushed for a career-high […]