Recently graduated Cal Poly receiver Ramses Barden ran an unofficial 4.57-second 40-yard dash Sunday at the NFL Draft Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. It would figure to be a mild success for the 6-foot-6, 229-pound Barden, who was estimated by most draft commentators to be in the 4.6 range, effectively the cutoff for a receiver to […]
Barden clocks under 4.6 seconds
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Cal Poly sweeps double-header against Owls
In what turned out to be a hitter’s duel, the Cal Poly baseball team beat No. 3 Rice University in the last of season opening three-game series. The Mustangs were able to rally back after being down 6-2 in the fifth inning to beat the Owls 7-6 Saturday night at Baggett Stadium.
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Mustangs take first of two against Rice
Cal Poly’s baseball team played aggressive, swinging and manufacturing runs early to beat 2003 national champions Rice 10-3 Saturday afternoon at Baggett Stadium.
Following a difficult 10-7 loss Friday night against the Owls, the Mustangs stampeded over freshman left-hander Taylor Wall, who gave up five earned runs in three and one-third innings work, in the first game of a double-header.
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Mustangs fall to RIce in opener
Cal Poly freshman Matt Jensen may have won the battle at the plate against Owls pitchers, but the Mustangs men’s baseball team couldn’t hold on to win the season-opening war against No. 3 Rice and dropped the contest 10-7 Friday at Baggett Stadium.
“It was exciting, it was my birthday so it was pretty fun coming out here and hitting against one of the best teams in the nation,” Jensen said.
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Dorrell’s game still improving
Despite being named to the Brooks Wallace Player of the Year watch list, Mustangs junior first baseman/catcher Wes Dorrell is among the upper echelon of the college baseball ranks.
But for Dorrell, being among the best doesn’t mean that there’s no room for improvement.
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Mustang baseball set to return to winning ways
The Cal Poly baseball team is ready for redemption after finishing last season with an overall record of 24-32, their worst since 1999. Mustangs head coach Larry Lee has high expectations for his team with 18 returning players, including juniors Luke Yoder and Wes Dorrell who were recently placed on the Brooks Wallace Player of the Year watch list.
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Campus laptop theft increases
Like most Cal Poly students peacefully studying in the bowels of Robert E. Kennedy Library, Michael Toole didn’t think he had anything to fear besides doing poorly on a test.
He’d been on the second floor overlooking the entrance for a couple hours that afternoon last February, and had already gone to the bathroom and returned to all his belongings safely resting as when he left.
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Personal choice should be an option too
Chad, I placed one of the 12 tacks in the “none of these” category at the Sustainability Conference, and I did it for a very good reason.
Somewhere along the line we have acquired the belief that progress is when the big players (schools, governments, companies) force the little people to “do the right thing,” and that the best sort of progress is when all the little rules are all perfectly calibrated.
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“How to destroy the dollar” column needed more research
Dear Colin McKim, Your last article, titled “How to Destroy the Dollar,” left me in a state of amusement and I feel like I need to clarify some points that you have made. In your article you claim that the federal government and the Federal Reserve will “create” the money to finance the stimulus bill.
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Stimulating the growth of a welfare state
With the speed that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was proposed and passed through Congress, few Americans had the time to really take a critical look at the spending provisions within the over 1,000 page act. Over half of the $787 billion planned is for programs characteristic of a welfare state.
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Avoid hypocrisy: Don’t just talk it, walk it
Over the weekend, the state legislature held the longest session in state history, and still ended up without a budget. Monday was the deadline for legislators to come to an agreement, but one Republican held up the entire budget from being passed. Because of that Republican’s unwillingness to compromise, last Tuesday Gov.