Coming off the most successful season in program history, the Cal Poly softball team has set the bar high. Higher still are the expectations the team has for itself.
The season begins at 3:30 p.m. against No. 2 Texas A&M, as the Mustangs travel to Palm Springs to take part in the Cathedral City Kickoff tournament.
The Stanford wrestling team has won more this year than it has in three decades, but it’s still got something to prove against Cal Poly in a Pac-10 dual at 7 p.m. in Mott Gym.
Cal Poly, on the other hand, is looking to add momentum as it nears the Pac-10 Conference Championships, now less than a month away.
What a game!
While most sports columns and talk shows this week have predictably concerned themselves with the dynamics of this past Sunday’s “super upset,” I’m looking to analyze this incredible defeat in a context which is rarely touched on by the mainstream sports networks: how it impacts the fans.
The Cal Poly women’s tennis team will play its first Big West Conference dual matches of the season this weekend, visiting UC Irvine at 11 a.m. Saturday and Cal State Fullerton at 10 a.m. Sunday. “It’s going to be really competitive against those two teams,” Mustangs head coach Hugh Bream said.
Heading into Thursday night’s game against UC Irvine, the Cal Poly men’s basketball team knew it would have to make up for the absence of formerly starting senior guard Dawin Whiten. It just didn’t know quite how it would until game time.
Cal Poly momentarily found some answers while snatching a 57-56 victory from the Anteaters at Mott Gym in a Big West Conference win that saw eight Mustangs play at least 18 minutes, and reserve freshman guard Shawn Lewis score a season-high 12 points.
The Cal Poly men’s basketball team is not only trying to rebound from what head coach Kevin Bromley calls a “frustrating” Saturday loss at UC Riverside, but also from the announcement earlier this week that starting senior guard Dawin Whiten will likely be out for the rest of the season due to plantar fasciitis in his right foot.
Nearly a month ago, the Cal Poly women’s basketball team enjoyed its most lopsided win of the season at the expense of UC Irvine. This time around, though, it doesn’t figure to be so easy.
In her only missed game of the season, UC Irvine sophomore forward Kelly Cochran didn’t play at Cal Poly on Jan.
There were a few combining factors this past week that were the inspiration for this particular column.
As I near graduation this spring, I have been contemplating “bucket lists” in honor of the worst movie starring two of the greatest living actors. But rather than do something constructive and compile a list of things to do before I get out of school or map out career goals, I instead chose something near and dear to my heart: the top 10 sports events I would like to be a part of.
Ten starters will return on offense next season for the Cal Poly football team, an extremely rare positive directly around the corner, but also a glaring shortcoming soon afterward.
The Mustangs took steps to remedy the looming dwindling of their depth chart by securing national letters of intent from 16 players, most of them at skill positions, Cal Poly head coach Rich Ellerson announced Wednesday.
Lorenzo Keeler would be a San Jose State Spartan if not for an unfortunate circumstance that landed him here at Cal Poly, but that doesn’t mean he’s not proud to wear green and gold on the basketball court.
The sophomore guard, and second-leading scorer on the team, with 8.
Only eight months ago, Kobe Bryant expressed his desire to be traded due to his growing frustration with the Los Angeles Lakers’ general manager’s intent to enter the team into a rebuilding stage. When Bryant was asked if there were any teams that he would rather play for, he simply replied, “At this point, I’ll go play on Pluto.