Category: Sports

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.

The Cal Poly men’s basketball team lost its third-straight Big West Conference game Saturday, falling 62-58 at UC Riverside.

It amounted to just the second conference win of the year for the hosting Highlanders (5-15, 2-7 Big West), who prevailed despite shooting just 38 percent from the floor and compiling 17 turnovers.

Cal Poly will play host to three Major League Soccer teams in February, school officials announced Thursday.

The San Jose Earthquakes will take the field in exhibition play at Alex G. Spanos Stadium against the Columbus Crew on Feb. 22 at 7 p.m., and also against D.

The Cal Poly men’s basketball team will attempt to add to its two-game winning streak at UC Riverside at 2 p.m. Saturday.

Coming off of a tough win Monday at Pacific, which came in large part due to clutch performances including a 3-pointer from senior forward Matt Hanson and four free throws by junior guard Chaz Thomas, the Mustangs stand at 8-11 overall and 3-4 in Big West Conference play.

Never before has the Cal Poly women’s basketball team gotten off to a 6-2 start in conference play.

The Mustangs can do just that, though, when they host UC Riverside in a Big West Conference showdown at Mott Gym at 4 p.m. Saturday.

Even though the back-to-back, reigning Big West Tournament champion Highlanders (7-11, 5-2 Big West) are without senior center Kemie Nkele, the 2006-07 Big West Player of the Year, their stingy defense could lead them to another successful postseason run.

When rebutting the assertions of John Middlekauff after he wrote the Chargers have no class, et cetera, the last thing I intended to do was engage in a war of words over something that’s largely opinion-based, such as preference of sports teams.

I simply wanted to serve as a mouthpiece for so many who aren’t fortunate enough to be able to refute such claims in the fashion that I am able to.

The Cal Poly swimming and diving team will face Nevada and UC Santa Cruz at noon Saturday in its final meet of the regular season. This weekend’s meet, hosted by UC Santa Cruz, is the Mustangs’ last before heading to the Big West Conference Championships from Feb.

The Super Bowl is right around the corner. This is easily most men’s favorite day of the year.

If you’re a real fan, you’ve had this day marked on the calendar for months. No football fan would have envisioned this match-up, but that’s what always seems to make the Super Bowl so intriguing.

Merely knowing a person who moved to a foreign country on her own to pursue passionate endeavors is awe-inspiring enough.

Add on to that the fact that she merited national championships in her home country by the age of 13, hadn’t yet graduated high school when she moved to America, aspires to become a professional athlete, works to attain a Cal Poly degree and is only 21, and Diane Filip may make you just feel lazy.

The Cal Poly women’s tennis team endured an arduous past weekend – the Mustangs were defeated 4-3 by both Utah and Oregon.

“Both were good matches against competitive teams,” Cal Poly head coach Hugh Bream said. “These are teams that will be in the NCAA Tournament.

For being the No. 1 wrestler in the country in his weight class, 141 pounds, Chad Mendes sure hasn’t let it go to his head. The Cal Poly senior from Hanford is modest about his accomplishments but proud he earned the top spot.