J.J. Jenkins is a business administration junior and Mustang Daily study abroad columnist. I don’t think you know frustration until you watch one of the best fútbol clubs in the world fail to send a shiny, round ball into a…
Encantado, España: getting to know Barcelona
J.J. Jenkins jjjenkins.md@gmail.com J.J. Jenkins is a business administration junior and Mustang Daily study abroad columnist. Lionel Messi headed home a brilliant cross in one swift flick. The bar exploded. I jumped out of my seat with the rest of…
Coachella in 1,000 words
[box] Mustang Daily reporter shares his experiences at his first ever Coachella[/box] We buzzed along a blank stretch of highway in Palm Springs, Calif., as the tires of our Subaru hummed against the asphalt. To us, it was music. Something about…
How Twitter changes the way we watch
Editor’s Column My dad and I had a Saturday ritual before I left for Cal Poly. Every Saturday afternoon in the fall, we would go for a run in the morning having recorded all the big college football games that…
Mustangs move into second place with sweep of Anteaters
Kyle Brueggemann spent just one year at the United States Military Academy at West Point, but he learned a lot playing for the Black Knights. Things such as discipline, balancing workloads and plain old hard work that he brought to the mound…
Mustang pitchers shine in new roles
Last year, starters Mason Radeke and Steven Fischback provided Cal Poly baseball with a devastating 1-2 punch on the mound entering any weekend series. The duo combined to finish with a 15-5 record and helped the Mustangs set record lows…
Lessons from the press box
I used to think that when I saw sports reporters on the sidelines with their laptops open during the games they were cranking out stories on deadline. Some editor somewhere was demanding that they turn in a complete story with…
Baseball opens Big West play with series loss
A triple by David Armendariz saved the Cal Poly baseball team from being no-hit on Sunday as Long Beach State topped the Mustangs 4-0 to win the series two games to one. Long Beach State’s starting pitcher Shawn Stuart…
Mustang men finish fourth, win 18 games
The second most successful Division I season in Cal Poly men’s basketball history came to an end at the hands of UC Santa Barbara in the Big West Tournament semifinals. The Mustangs went 18-15, placed fourth in conference and defeated UC…
Gauchos send Cal Poly men packing
Despite a back-and-forth second half, a 3-pointer by UC Santa Barbara’s Orlando Johnson sealed Cal Poly’s fate with a 1:30 to go. The senior guard put the Gauchos up by nine as UCSB pulled away from the Mustangs for a…
Mustangs move to Big West semifinals, top Highlanders
The Mustangs are driving their way to the Big West Tournament semifinals for the first time since 2007. After going down six points at halftime, Cal Poly (18-14) used a 19-4 run over the first 10 minutes of the second…