Dawin Whiten, a starting guard for the Cal Poly men’s basketball team, will likely miss the rest of the season due to foot injuries, Cal Poly head coach Kevin Bromley said Monday.
The senior, who has started 18 of the Mustangs’ 20 games this season, is suffering from plantar fasciitis in his right foot and may require surgery soon, Bromley said.
Love may mean nothing to tennis players the world over, but as one Cal Poly player knows, that doesn’t mean the game is the same everywhere you play.
Robert Foy is enjoying his second year on the Cal Poly men’s tennis team, thousands of miles away from his hometown of Wellington, New Zealand, but at least this year, he knows more of what he’s up against on the court.
By the time the dust had settled, and Bill Belichick had continued to show his classlessness by abandoning his team before the final play, the New York Giants had exposed the New England Patriots for what they were: the perfect fraud. Everything was pointing toward a historic Patriots victory.
One could argue a tremendous size disadvantage, a team-shared bug, three consecutive UC Riverside 3-pointers and nearly an eight-minute scoring drought caused the Cal Poly women’s basketball team to drop a 67-55 decision to the Highlanders at Mott Gym Saturday, but as Cal Poly senior guard Kyla Howell put it, the Mustangs “just weren’t running.
The Cal Poly men’s basketball team lost its third-straight Big West Conference game Saturday, falling 62-58 at UC Riverside.
It amounted to just the second conference win of the year for the hosting Highlanders (5-15, 2-7 Big West), who prevailed despite shooting just 38 percent from the floor and compiling 17 turnovers.
Cal Poly will play host to three Major League Soccer teams in February, school officials announced Thursday.
The San Jose Earthquakes will take the field in exhibition play at Alex G. Spanos Stadium against the Columbus Crew on Feb. 22 at 7 p.m., and also against D.
The Cal Poly men’s basketball team will attempt to add to its two-game winning streak at UC Riverside at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Coming off of a tough win Monday at Pacific, which came in large part due to clutch performances including a 3-pointer from senior forward Matt Hanson and four free throws by junior guard Chaz Thomas, the Mustangs stand at 8-11 overall and 3-4 in Big West Conference play.
Never before has the Cal Poly women’s basketball team gotten off to a 6-2 start in conference play.
The Mustangs can do just that, though, when they host UC Riverside in a Big West Conference showdown at Mott Gym at 4 p.m. Saturday.
Even though the back-to-back, reigning Big West Tournament champion Highlanders (7-11, 5-2 Big West) are without senior center Kemie Nkele, the 2006-07 Big West Player of the Year, their stingy defense could lead them to another successful postseason run.
When rebutting the assertions of John Middlekauff after he wrote the Chargers have no class, et cetera, the last thing I intended to do was engage in a war of words over something that’s largely opinion-based, such as preference of sports teams.
I simply wanted to serve as a mouthpiece for so many who aren’t fortunate enough to be able to refute such claims in the fashion that I am able to.
The Cal Poly swimming and diving team will face Nevada and UC Santa Cruz at noon Saturday in its final meet of the regular season. This weekend’s meet, hosted by UC Santa Cruz, is the Mustangs’ last before heading to the Big West Conference Championships from Feb.
Merely knowing a person who moved to a foreign country on her own to pursue passionate endeavors is awe-inspiring enough.
Add on to that the fact that she merited national championships in her home country by the age of 13, hadn’t yet graduated high school when she moved to America, aspires to become a professional athlete, works to attain a Cal Poly degree and is only 21, and Diane Filip may make you just feel lazy.