Many say that America is the land of opportunity.
It’s also been said that the NFL is the league of opportunity.
With players’ statuses constantly uncertain because of injuries and the head coach turnover rate similar to that of your local Wendy’s, a player must constantly be prepared.
After a disappointing ninth-place finish at the West Regional on Saturday, the Cal Poly men’s cross country team will look to rebound at the NCAA Nationals on Monday as the Mustangs travel to Terre Haute, Ind.
Cal Poly expected to qualify for the meet, but didn’t expect to do so as the ninth qualifier from the West.
The Cal Poly Invitational will take place this weekend, marking the only home event for the women’s tennis team this fall.
The competition will be tough, as Cal Poly will play against UC Santa Barbara and Northridge in the tournament. All three Big West Conference teams were in the national rankings last year.
As I glanced through the CNNSI.com’s college football scoreboard Saturday, I came upon Cal Poly’s game: Mustangs 14, Bison 0.
It looked like Cal Poly had the game well in hand – it looked like they were going to the playoffs.
But looks are most certainly deceiving.
The Cal Poly women’s basketball team handed visiting Oregon State a 68-65 loss Tuesday night in Mott Gym.
Senior forward Jessica Eggleston scored 16 points and junior guard Toni Newman added 10 for the Mustangs (1-1), who outscored the Beavers (1-1) by a 47-33 margin in the second half.
The San Francisco 49ers were limping out the second-to-last leg of a 2-14 season.
It was Week 16 of the 2004 NFL campaign when the Buffalo Bills – who were 9-7 that season – hammered San Francisco 41-7 as 49ers fans booed and heavy winds from the Bay at Candlestick Point whirred trash about the field.
One day after the Cal Poly football team’s crushing 51-14 loss at North Dakota State, head coach Rich Ellerson was back in San Luis Obispo already breaking down game film of the Mustangs’ final opponent Sunday. Cal Poly, which fell from No. 9 to 16 in The Sports Network’s Division I-AA poll Monday, closes the season at 1 p.
The 2006-07 Big West Conference basketball television schedule includes eight games on Fox Sports West and at least two games on ESPN between men’s and women’s games.
On Feb. 17, the Bracket Buster Saturday games will be shown on ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN 360, while UC Irvine will take on UC Riverside on FSN Prime Ticket.
With a dominating performance Friday night in front of 1,427 fans in Mott Gym, the Cal Poly volleyball team clinched its first NCAA Tournament berth since 2000.
The Mustangs swept visiting Northridge 30-15, 30-20, 30-14 to secure at least a share of their first conference title since taking the Pacific Coast Athletic Association crown in 1984.
Phillip Reid’s legs have earned him many, many miles under his belt.
A top member of the men’s cross country team and a kinesiology junior, cross country running has been a passion since his very early childhood, when at age 5 or 6 he took up youth track.
When you see Jack Nicholson’s name, you probably think of one thing – he’s a great actor. A man who had just as much of an impact on Hollywood as any individual ever to come through that pollution-ridden, traffic-jammed place they call Los Angeles.
But when I think of Nicholson, I think of that big grin sitting frontcourt watching the Lakers.