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Volleyball starts solid, shaky in conference play losing two straight In his fifth year as head coach of the UC Davis volleyball program, Dan Conners is optimistic about a season which features a solid and experienced roster. At the same time, he is cautious of going into matchup with low or high expectations. That’s not […]

UC Davis football firing on all cylinders in Big West opener The UC Davis football team cruised to its third win of the season on Saturday evening at Aggie Stadium, pounding visiting Idaho by a final score of 44-21. Even after a 20-point loss to Pac-12 power Stanford last weekend, the Aggies felt they battled […]

Aggies fail to take advantage of early opportunities, battle to the end against Pac-12 power The UC Davis football team suffered its first defeat of the 2018 season on Saturday afternoon, falling to host Stanford by a final score of 30-10. The game got off to a very promising start for UC Davis, as the […]

Aggies start new campaign off on right foot As we approach the final stretch of summer break in Davis, college football programs across the country are wrapping up their respective training camps including the UC Davis Aggies. Last season was the program’s most productive offensive output since UC Davis entered the Big Sky Conference in […]

Red Sox, Yankees, Astros dominate, NL stays competitive at season’s halfway point The doldrums of summer are upon us once again; that period of the sporting calendar where the days are long, the temperature is high and baseball reigns supreme. The Stanley Cup and the Larry O’Brien trophy have both found their homes for the […]

France are World Cup champions for second time By BOBBY JOHN — friend@theaggie.org After 169 goals were scored in the 2018 World Cup, France was crowned as world champions for the second time in 20 years on Sunday after beating Croatia 4-2 in the World Cup Final in Moscow. With low scoring matches being the […]

NCAA guaranteed student-athletes more time away from sports in 2017-18 season Last year, time demands from student-athletes had the NCAA concerned about the student-athlete experience and prompted the NCAA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee to advance legislation to restrict athletically related activities for a set amount of days, adding to the time-off requirements already in place in […]

Allegations include inflating number of female athletes, misappropriation of scholarship money Florida Atlantic University is in hot water after allegedly inflating the number of female athletes enrolled at the school. In a report first published by My Palm Beach Post, the university was found to have reported that 51 percent of their student athletes were […]

Ridgeway earns invitation to training camp UC Davis women’s soccer received a national letter of intent from New Jersey native Margot Ridgeway in February, who just completed her senior year in at Rumson Fair Haven High School and also just completed a week of training with the Under 18 and Under 19 U.S. National Women’s […]

Aggie Sports sits down with athletics director Kevin Blue, discusses state of the program As UC Davis wraps up its 2017-2018 academic year, the UC Davis athletics department likewise finds its season winding down. With 23 distinct NCAA programs competing over the course of the past 10 months, there are an abundance of performances, accomplishments […]

UC Davis men’s baseball defeats UC Irvine 4-2 in final season game Earning a 4-1 win the day before and with the weekend series tied at 1-1, the UC Davis Aggies men’s baseball team wanted to send its seven graduating seniors out with a final win at Phil Swimley Field on May 26. It was […]

2017-2018 season provided no shortage of memorable moments for all 23 teams on campus As the end of the school year approaches, let’s take a look back at five of the most memorable stories, in no particular order, from UC Davis Athletics during the 2017-2018 season. When we look back at this season in another […]