Sports

UC Davis football head coach Ron Gould released from five-year contract
Front page storyNovember 21, 2016
Causeway Classic win not enough to overcome 12-33 record over four years UC Davis athletics director Kevin Blue announced the release of football head coach Ron Gould from his five-year contract early Monday morning following a dismal 3-8 season. Gould’s release comes two days after the Aggies’ third Causeway Classic victory against Sacramento State under […]

Aggies win big against Sac State
SportsNovember 21, 2016
UC Davis football defeats Sac State 48-30 in the 63rd Causeway Classic Coming off of a tough loss to Montana State, the UC Davis football team geared up for the 63rd Causeway Classic at Aggie Stadium against the Sacramento State Hornets last Saturday. The cold, windy and rainy weather did not stop the Aggies from […]

The Gould standard
SportsNovember 21, 2016
Former UC Davis football head coach Ron Gould It’s 1:26 p.m. on a rainy Monday afternoon. Five men are sitting in a room with whiteboards for walls, which are blackened by marker ink and color-coded magnets labeled with random, short words like “base,” “tex” and “ace.” There’s an oval-shaped table in the center of the […]
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Joel Embiid captures the spotlight
SportsNovember 20, 2016
Aggie Columnist Michael Wexler talks Philadelphia 76ers’ young center Joel Embiid’s hot start to NBA career after two absent seasons When the NBA season started, I put out my predictions for the 2016 season, which included choosing Kris Dunn of the Minnesota Timberwolves to be the NBA 2016-2017 Rookie of the Year. “Kris Dunn […] […]

Men’s water polo posts loss against Pacific
SportsNovember 17, 2016
Aggies take tough 7-11 loss against Pacific Tigers, honor graduating senior Tennyson May In an exciting game at Schaal Aquatics Center last Saturday night under the lights, the UC Davis men’s water polo team played a hard-fought match against the Pacific Tigers, which ended in a 7-11 loss for the Aggies. Heading into this game, […]

Aggie women start basketball season 2-0
SportsNovember 17, 2016
Bessolo erupts as the Aggies demolish Holy Names by 40 points at the Pavilion Even after her team throttled Holy Names by a score of 91-51 on Sunday afternoon at the Pavilion, UC Davis women’s basketball head coach Jennifer Gross said that her team still has lots of areas to improve on. Despite leading the […]

Women’s basketball wins home opener
SportsNovember 16, 2016
Aggies break two-year losing streak The Pavilion was filled with both cheers and jeers from an excited crowd on the night of Nov. 11 as the UC Davis women’s basketball team opened its regular season with a hard-fought win over the Portland State Pilots, 66-52. The Aggies looked primed to begin their season with a […]

Women’s Basketball Season Preview
Front page storyNovember 15, 2016
UC Davis women’s basketball is back. The same team that shocked the conference with an upset over undefeated UC Riverside in the Big West Tournament semifinals returns to The Pavilion with the addition of a talented freshman class. The 2016-2017 squad has been on campus since Summer Session Two, taking classes and working together at […]
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The heartbreak of the 2016 Cleveland Indians
SportsNovember 15, 2016
The Indians made it all the way to the World Series but came just short of winning it all After last Wednesday’s victory against the Atlanta Hawks, Lakers head coach Luke Walton drifted during the middle of a postgame presser to catch the score of the World Series Game 7 between the Cleveland Indians […]

Fatigued UC Davis swim team splits double-dual at home
SportsNovember 15, 2016
With two opponents coming into town, Aggies split their matchups to improve to 6-3. Just two weeks out from an upcoming three-day invitational, the UC Davis swimming and diving team found itself in a double-dual meet versus the Pioneers of Cal State East Bay and the Wolf Pack from Nevada. While the team won big […]

UC Davis women’s volleyball falls 3 sets to 2 against Cal Poly
SportsNovember 14, 2016
Aggies head into extra set against Mustangs in Big West conference match on Nov. 5, but fail to deliver offensively Although UC Davis’ women’s volleyball team held its own against Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in the first and third sets, the Mustangs’ offense proved to be unbeatable, making 73 kills compared to the Aggies’ […]

Men’s water polo places first in conference, defeats UC San Diego
SportsNovember 13, 2016
UC Davis Men’s Water Polo wins out over UC San Diego 7-5 to clinch the top seed in the conference, going undefeated It was a full day of UC Davis sports last Saturday, with women’s volleyball, men’s soccer and football all played on the same day on the UC Davis campus. And at Schaal Aquatics […]

