The Cal Poly football team will take a step up in competition this year when it plays two Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) teams. But don’t expect the Mustangs to move up to the FBS permanently – at least not yet.
Responding to a recent comment Fresno State head coach Pat Hill made to the Fresno Bee suggesting Cal Poly would eventually belong to the Western Athletic Conference, Cal Poly athletic director Alison Cone said such a move is unlikely to take place in the near future.
The Cal Poly men’s and women’s cross country teams have been eagerly preparing this summer in anticipation of their first race this season.
The men’s side figures to come back strong, having lost only two seniors from last season’s squad that finished 11th at the NCAA Championships (outdoing a national ranking of 22 entering the race).
Cal Poly graduate Stephanie Brown Trafton won the gold medal in the women’s discus Monday night at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
She became the first gold medalist from Cal Poly after posting a mark of 212 feet, 5 inches.
“Someone told me that I was coming to the Bird’s Nest to lay a golden egg,” she told reporters.
An 18-year-old Minnesotan on the Cal Poly men’s basketball roster is being held without bail in connection with an armed robbery of a bank in Wisconsin. Anthony Di Loreto, hailed as a “top” recruit by Cal Poly when he signed with the school last November, was arrested Saturday in his hometown of Minnetonka, Minn.
The Cal Poly football program announced Tuesday evening a quintet of true freshmen with quarterback experience vying to stay under center has — for now, at least — been thinned to a duo. During the Mustangs’ opening practice Wednesday, eight…
Not long after Cal Poly senior quarterback Jonathan Dally was named by The Sports Network the fifth-best QB in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA), the network has extended an even loftier opinion of the Mustangs’ running backs. Collectively,…
Fresno State head football coach Pat Hill recently told the Fresno Bee he expects the Bulldogs to play Cal Poly in 2010, after playing UC Davis in 2009. Although he told the Fresno Bee he was unsure if the contracts…
Concealed at the very end of an old alley in downtown San Luis Obispo is a place where guitarists are trained and music is created.
Owned by married couple Darren and Jessie Clarke, the newly renovated and expanded interior of Music Lab Guitar School is nothing like the building’s run-down exterior would suggest.
He was hailed as the founder of “Gonzo” journalism. He was revered as a counterculture icon. Now, the late Hunter S. Thompson has been immortalized on the big screen in Alex Gibney’s documentary, “Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.”
Thompson is thoroughly celebrated in this film, which focuses on his journalism career’s peak years and finishes with the late years of his life leading to his suicide in 2005.
For 34 years, the Central Coast’s most creative women have come together in celebration of their art, craft and sound.
On Saturday, August 9, the celebration begins anew as the Day with Creative Women returns to Mission Plaza in San Luis Obispo.
The fundraiser, which benefits the Women’s Community Center, is set to have over 100 local women at booths selling homemade products.
A feeling of empowerment seemed to be the overriding sentiment of students at the UC/CSU/CCC Sustainability Conference on campus last weekend.