Category: Sports

It’s late evening on a Friday in October. You and that special person are wrapped in scarves, walking towards the football stadium at Cal Poly. Although no alcohol is allowed, the cheering crowd is getting drunk on something else: mustang spirit, driven in large part by the Mustang Maniacs. “Our goal is to promote pride […]

Gabe Stephenson blocked a UC Irvine shot with seven seconds left and Trae Clark made two free throws with 5.5 seconds remaining to clinch Cal Poly’s 61-58 victory over UC Irvine in a regionally televised Big West Conference men’s basketball game Saturday night at Bren Events Center. Clark came off the bench to score a […]

Sophomore right-hander Evan Reed pitched five scoreless innings for his first victory of the season and junior catcher Matt Canepa had three hits and an RBI to lift Cal Poly to a 5-1 victory over Loyola Marymount in the final game of a three-game non-conference baseball series Sunday afternoon at George C. Page Stadium. The […]

brennan angel While the sunny weather provided a warm winter day for San Luis Obispo residents, the climate was much cooler inside Mott Gym as the Mustangs fell to UC Riverside 47-46 on Sunday. Although Cal Poly’s full-court pressing defense kept the Mustangs close despite a dismal shooting performance, it wasn’t enough to pull Cal […]

michael mullady Adam Melhuse, right, a back-up catcher for Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics, was in San Luis Obispo on Tuesday night to speak at an Athletes In Action meeting at Agape Church. Athletes In Action is a coalition of Cal Poly athletes who meet weekly to discuss religion in a Bible study type of […]

Exactly one month ago the Cal Poly men’s basketball blew a nine point halftime lead as Long Beach State exploded for a 52 point second half. Tonight the Mustangs will try and avenge the loss and increase their third-place cushion in the Big West with one month of regular season remaining. Long Beach State enters […]

The Cal Poly softball team will open its season in San Diego with the Campbell/Cartier Classic. The tournament will run from Thursday through Sunday and the Mustangs will face San Diego State University, UC Los Angeles, Oklahoma State University, Cal State Berkeley and Sacramento State University. The Mustangs finished second in the Big West in […]

Frank Stranzl Fists of fury rained down upon an ageless wonder as Randy “The Natural” Couture felt the wrath of Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell. Pure poetry. Okay, so Saturday night’s Ultimate Fighting Championship bout between Couture and Liddell is hardly symbolic of the intricate beauty that is poetry. However, it was a thrilling six-and-one-half minutes […]

courtesy photo There are four weeks remaining in Big West play and teams are turning the corner from the midway point to try and make that extra push towards a top seed in the Big West tournament and the ultimate goal of surviving into March Madness. While few teams, men or women, have a legitimate […]

michael mullady Freshman forward Kyle Brucculeri led a quartet of starters who scored in double figures, tallying 22 points to lead UC Davis to an 83-70 victory over Cal Poly in a non-conference men’s basketball game Saturday before, 2,838 fans in Mott Gym. Junior guard Rommel Marentez added 18 points for the Aggies while senior […]

UC Santa Barbara secured the lead for good with 3:24 to go en route to an 80-71 victory over Cal Poly in a Big West Conference women’s basketball game Saturday afternoon before 967 in Mott Gym. Cal Poly, which beat the Gauchos 82-71 in the Thunderdome on Jan. 21, jumped to a 12-4 lead in […]