With the NBA season —and an in-season tournament, for some reason — underway, The UCSD Guardian’s sports section has the hot takes you’ve been looking for. So, with roughly 6% of the 2023-24 NBA...

UC San Diego men’s water polo (13–12, 2–2 Big West) hosted UC Davis (15–8, 3–1 Big West) on Saturday in their second head-to-head matchup this season. Both teams came into Saturday’s game on...

Only a few points away from topping the La Liga table, Barcelona knew the significance of last weekend’s El Clásico — an intense match between rivals FC Barcelona and Real Madrid C.F.. Winning this...

On Oct. 15, San Diego Wave FC won the National Women's Soccer League Shield — an honor given to the top team in regular season play — with a 2–0 victory over Racing Louisville. The Wave head into...

Editor’s Note: At time of publication, the 2023 World Series is tied 1-1.   It has been a wild and unpredictable 2023 Major League Baseball season, and the playoffs certainly haven’t been...

The Philadelphia Eagles have made headlines several times for their extraordinary short yardage conversion rate on a play known as the “Brotherly Shove.” The shove is a re-engineered quarterback sneak...

In “The Decay of Lying,” the Irish poet Oscar Wilde wrote “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” And isn’t sports the most innate and creative of all art forms? The same impetus...

After an offseason of excitement — with Damian Lillard being traded to the Milwaukee Bucks, Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday being traded to the Boston Celtics, and Jordan Poole being traded to the...

Tactical changes, a late-game resurgence, and some NCAA-regulation trash talk from the pep band pushed the UC San Diego women’s volleyball team (11-8, 3-4 Big West) to a nail-biting 19-25, 12-25, 25-18,...

This season, the Los Angeles Chargers have made me feel every emotion known to man. I’ve felt the highest highs seeing Justin Herbert sling the ball perfectly into the arms of his receivers 40 yards...

For the first time in MLB history, the ALCS and NLCS will consist of four teams who finished the regular season with 90 wins or less. The Divisional Series was one for the ages: the Los Angeles Dodgers...

The 2022-23 athletics season was a great one for UC San Diego. To prepare for 2023-24, the UCSD Guardian has you covered with a statistical round-up of last season’s teams.    For starters,...