UC Irvine Anteaters

The school with the funny nickname is 40 minutes from becoming no joke. UC Irvine had a great coach once in Bill Mulligan. The school has produced a roster of star players that includes Kevin Magee, Ben McDonald and Scott Brooks. The mighty Anteaters,...

ANAHEIM — Undoubtedly this season, Coach Russell Turner has wondered where his UC Irvine men's basketball team would be without a senior nucleus that has been so vital in so many ways. For most of the No. 4-seeded Anteaters' seesaw struggle with...

ANAHEIM — When visiting teams land at the Hawaii airport, they are typically presented with ceremonial leis. But designated host UC Irvine gave the Hawaii men's basketball team some altogether less hospitable treatment Thursday. The No. 4-seeded...

Top-seeded Long Beach State versus injury-ravaged Cal State Fullerton went just as you might expect a game with that billing would go. Fullerton's Titans were tenacious enough in Thursday night's opening round of the Big West Conference tournament. They...

His teammates call him fossil and at age 24, in his sixth year out of high school, UC Irvine senior Daman Starring might have more life experience than all but a few college basketball players. That that experience has not always been good, has only...

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IRVINE — In his fourth year in the UC Irvine baseball program, Kyle Hooper knows that there are consequences to less-than-stellar pitching. Among them is a conversion, more of a monologue really, with Anteaters' veteran coach Mike Gillespie. Such...

There are the statistics, the persona, the heroics and the tenacity that all combine to define Mike Wilder's four-year UC Irvine men's basketball career. But any discussion of the 6-foot-2 senior swing man, whose status as big man on campus is as...

Its no fluke that UC Irvine senior Adam Folker is a marketing whiz who has already organized and overseen a handful of companies and dozens of employees. He is, after all, a master at maximizing opportunity. In five years with the Anteaters men's...

STOCKTON — The UC Irvine men's basketball team cut a 20-point halftime deficit to just one point late in the game, but Pacific held on for a 70-62, Big West Conference win Thursday night. Sophomore Travis Souza's three-pointer with 2:45...

IRVINE — It was '80s night at Anteater Ballpark on Tuesday. Very few dressed the part for UC Irvine's baseball game. But in the bottom of the third inning, Cal State Bakersfield starter Taylor Aikenhead showed up throwing in the low 80s. The...

IRVINE — UC Irvine women's basketball coach Doug Oliver has seen the scoring droughts from his team throughout the season. A four-game winning streak headed into Thursday night's crucial Big West Conference game against UC Davis still provided...