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Coach Barbosa, runners ready to finish season on high note Entering his first year as head coach of the UC Davis cross country team, Jose Luiz Barbosa vowed to create a winning culture of hard work and discipline. It started with strenuous training — training which, according to Barbosa, starts with a rigorous routine that […]

UC Davis men’s water polo team wins 20-2 against Concordia in conference play Fans filled the stands at Schaal Aquatics Center in Davis, Calif. on Oct. 15 as the UC Davis Aggies men’s water polo team took on the Concordia University Irvine Eagles in a Western Water Polo Association (WWPA) conference match. The Aggies were […]

UC Davis women’s soccer team loses tough 1-0 match With an overcast sky and windy weather, the UC Davis women’s soccer team was looking to extend its unbeaten conference record for the 2017 season against the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos in conference play on Oct. 19. The Aggies came into the game with an overall […]

Pint makes history, inspires Aggie pride If you’ve gone to a UC Davis home football game over the past five years, it is no doubt that you have seen Pint, the Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever who collects the tee after kickoffs. Pint is a favorite with the crowd, and hearing the gasps and shrieks […]

Recent anthem protests underscore the link between sports and politics Over a year has passed since Colin Kaepernick — a former quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers — made the decision to sit for the playing of the national anthem. His silent protest, at first, went unnoticed. Kaepernick sat for the anthem during his team’s […]

Late game flurry secures hard-fought victory over conference rivals Coming off its recent loss at UC Riverside, the UC Davis men’s soccer team found its home field to be a welcomed site when it faced off against UCSB on Oct. 11. The Aggies stood at 4-1-2 on Aggie Soccer Field, as opposed to 1-5-0 away […]

Men’s soccer falls 4-2-1 in conference play UC Davis men’s soccer suffered a heartbreaking 3-2 loss in overtime to visiting Cal Poly on Wednesday evening. Down 2-0 in the 84th minute, the Aggies (7-7-2, 4-2-1) scored two goals in the span of 48 seconds to tie the game at 2-2, but the comeback effort was […]

Blue comments on his first year in the position, goals for the upcoming school year, future In May 2016, UC Davis named Kevin Blue its new director of athletics. Previously, he worked as the senior associate athletics director for external relations at Stanford University, where he served a seven-year tenure. During his time at Stanford […]

Aggies win 2-1 over Mustangs, now 2-0 in conference play The UC Davis women’s soccer team remains undefeated in the Big West Conference after an exciting 2-1 win over the Cal Poly Mustangs, who are now 0-3 in Big West play. While sporting pink jerseys for their “Play Pink” game in honor of Breast Cancer […]

White, Bowman dominate on way to 3-1 victory With four straight conference losses heading into the match on Saturday, Oct. 7, the UC Davis women’s volleyball team knew that it would need to right the ship as it heads into the latter half of the 2017 season. In the opening game against the Patriots of […]

UC Davis football comes up just short against Eastern Washington Saturday night’s contest at Aggie Stadium featured a head-to-head collision of the Big Sky Conference’s top passing Eastern Washington Eagles’ offense and UC Davis’ top-ranked passing defense. After a hotly-contested, back-and-forth ballgame, the Eagles attack gained the upper hand, handing the Aggies a 41-38 loss. […]

As Davis’ offensive line goes, so too goes the offense The Aggies went on the road to Weber State and things did not go well. The following week they faced North Dakota at home and things suddenly went very well. What gives? Three words: offensive line play. Against Weber, sophomore quarterback Jake Maier was under […]