One could argue a tremendous size disadvantage, a team-shared bug, three consecutive UC Riverside 3-pointers and nearly an eight-minute scoring drought caused the Cal Poly women’s basketball team to drop a 67-55 decision to the Highlanders at Mott Gym Saturday, but as Cal Poly senior guard Kyla Howell put it, the Mustangs “just weren’t running.
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Budget threatens Central Coast beaches, parks
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued the 2008-09 state budget, which proposed to lessen the state deficit by taking 10 percent of funds away from several state departments, including 48 of California’s 250 state parks, beaches and historic spots.
By closing or suspending access to these 48 parks or lessening the number of lifeguards on duty at state beaches, $13.
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Gauchos outgun Mustangs, 75-60
The energy and eagerness was there at Mott Gym in Saturday night’s Central Coast rivalry match-up between the UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly men’s basketball teams – but the basket wasn’t too receptive of the ball when a Mustang released it.
Cal Poly shot a season-low 10.
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Archrival revival with UCSB
“We want our rivalry back. Cal Poly won’t do anything, so we did. Cal Poly spirit is slipping down the drain,” read an ominous sheet of paper anonymously posted at the Mustang Daily newsroom Wednesday morning, accompanied by a CD of photographs detailing UC Santa Barbara’s briefly green-and-gold, graffiti-garnished campus earlier this week.
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'Resistance' sheds light on Iraqi insurgency
“Suppose Iraq invaded America. An Iraqi soldier was on a tank passing through an American street, waving his gun at people, threatening them, raiding and trashing houses. Would you accept that?” asks an Iraqi imam in Steve Connors and Molly Bingham’s unprecedented documentary, “Meeting Resistance.
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Kinesiology professor shakes up, disproves stereotypes
According to a pie chart in the film “Playing Unfair: The media image of the female athlete,” women account for 40 percent of the participants in sports nationwide, although studies indicate that they represent just 3 to 5 percent of sports media coverage.
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Italian eatery conjures sweet concoctions
Frequenters of San Luis Obispo’s Farmers’ Market may be familiar with Dean Giordano, a man happy to hand out samples of his unique, healthy frozen-fruit delicacy, G’s Italian Freeze.
Giordano posted a booth for four weeks at the weekly bazaar on Higuera Street at the end of September and beginning of October, and received a great response from market attendees.