Josh Akognon has played against the world’s best basketball players. He helped his relatively unknown Nigerian national team beat defending world champion Serbia-Montenegro in 2006.
The 5-foot-11 guard, who is eighth in the nation in scoring, leads Cal State Fullerton (6-8, 0-2 Big West Conference) into Mott Gym at 8 p.
Cal Poly senior guard Trae Clark was ruled academically ineligible for the winter quarter and will miss the remainder of the men’s basketball season.
“This is disappointing for all of us, including Trae,” Cal Poly head coach Kevin Bromley said in a statement.
Cal Poly women’s basketball coach Faith Mimnaugh knew it wouldn’t take long for Kristina Santiago to reach her potential.
With a Cal Poly career-high 26 points in the Mustangs 74-66 victory over Long Beach State last Sunday, the sophomore forward may be ahead of schedule.
Wide receiver Ramses Barden added one more award to his overstocked mantle after he was among four Cal Poly players named to the 2008 Sports Network All-American First Team on Tuesday.
Barden joined punt returner Jeremy Gilchrist of Hampton and safety Lardarius Webb of Nicholls State as the only returning first-team selections.
Ten finalists for the Cal Poly football head coaching vacancy were interviewed over the weekend as the athletic department hopes to make a final decision by the end of this week a team official said.
Rich Ellerson left the program after eight years when he accepted the head-coaching job at Army on Dec.
With the dawn of a new year comes the beginning of new sports seasons. Gone are the fall games of volleyball, soccer and football. The spotlight shone brightly on the fall athletic season at Cal Poly, as the school gained unprecedented national recognition.
After playing on Saturdays for the past four years, Cal Poly wide receiver Ramses Barden will likely be making the jump to Sundays this fall, according to one high-profile NFL Draft analyst.
In an e-mail sent Thursday to the Mustang Daily, ESPN NFL and college football analyst Todd McShay praised and critiqued Barden, who completed his Cal Poly career Nov.
The Cal Poly Wheelmen cycling club is spinning its wheels no longer, coasting triumphantly to the state championship in college mountain biking at the West Coast Collegiate Cycling Conference Championships on Nov. 16.
Although Cal Poly at one point had won nine years in a row, this year was especially sweet because the Mustangs finished second to Cal the past two times.
All-American receiver Ramses Barden, who finished his Cal Poly football career Nov. 29, poses Thursday night with his jersey at Firestone Grill, which hung it to commemorate his accomplishments (including school career records for catches and touchdowns).
Monday, Barden finished fourth in the voting for the Walter Payton Award, which is given to the FCS’ best offensive player.
New sneakers may not be the first thing to come to mind in wrestling, but for Filip Novachkov, it’s the story of how he eventually became involved with the sport.
“It wasn’t necessarily something I chose,” he says. “It’s actually a funny story. My (younger) brother Boris started wrestling before me.
For four years, the No. 11 Cal Poly football jersey has been a frightful sight for those facing it.
It was worn by 6-foot-6, All-American receiver Ramses Barden, who set Cal Poly career records for catches (206), yards (4,203) and touchdowns (50).
But he didn’t stop rewriting records at just the school level.