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Matured Mustangs open season away

The Cal Poly baseball team returns older and wiser this season. In 2007, the Mustangs fielded an almost entirely new team, including four freshman position players and one freshman pitcher.

But this year is different.

“We’re quite a bit more experienced now,” Cal Poly head coach Larry Lee said.

Cal Poly rugby club team takes on UC Santa Barbara tonight

The recreation field lights will blaze tonight, lighting the north side of campus as a long traditional rivalry ensues.

Trent Yackzan, a wing for the Cal Poly rugby club team, says the Mustangs couldn’t be more ecstatic to play UC Santa Barbara.

“We are excited to play under the lights,” Yackzan said.

Cal Poly football team to take on Wisconsin

Saving the best for last just took on a whole new meaning for the Cal Poly football program. The Mustangs will play at Big Ten Conference power Wisconsin in each team’s regular-season finale Nov. 22 at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wis., both schools announced Friday.

Cal Poly withdraws from CSSA

Cal Poly Associated Students Inc. abruptly left a statewide California State Students Association meeting in Palm Springs after

Cal Poly football opens spring practices

Basketball is in mid-season. Baseball and softball are just starting. Football? Football never stops.

The Cal Poly football team opened its spring practice drills Wednesday morning on the I field in the first of sessions that will run through March 8 leading up to its spring game.

Despite sex scenes, 'Lipstick Jungle' fails

A famous yet struggling fashion designer, a high-profile movie producer, and an esteemed editor make up the cast of characters on NBC’s new show “Lipstick Jungle,” but the only thing that makes this show sizzle is the sex.

The show, which premiered Feb. 7 at 9 p.

Goats' new album showcases style

I want to be honest here. Writing this isn’t easy for me. The Mountain Goats occupy a unique and very personal section in my convoluted, cognitive filing system. The tab reads this: “Music That I Force Down People’s Throats Against Their Will.”

I’d like to think that I perform said music-pushing for the enjoyment of the pushee, but maybe a larger part is for my own selfish peace of mind.

Chalk it up to political activism

The university is contending with students over exactly where to draw the line when it comes to chalk slogans on campus.

Mustangs caught off guard again

Just when it seemed as if the Cal Poly men’s basketball team couldn’t have any worse luck, it was struck with another blow – or more specifically, another injury.

Mustangs sophomore guard Lorenzo Keeler is out indefinitely with a possible stress fracture, Cal Poly head coach Kevin Bromley said Monday.

Don't believe the great white hype

“Too often the intelligence of black athletes is negated,” Spike Lee once told an interviewer. “(It’s presented as if) we come out of the womb dunking and running. There’s hard work involved. That stuff is never talked about.”

‘Oh, but that’s just Spike Lee – a dogmatic zealot with an axe to grind,’ right?

Wrong.

Softball team swept in Las Vegas

The Cal Poly softball team lost twice Sunday in Las Vegas at the UNLV-hosted Louisville Slugger Desert Classic, in which it fell in all five of its games. In the first, the Mustangs (2-8) lost 7-5 in eight innings to Wisconsin. Junior shortstop Melissa Pura was 2 for 2 for Cal Poly, while senior Sarah Iwata went 2 for 5 with two runs and an RBI.