The Santa Clara men's basketball team dropped their third straight West Coast Conference game 82-64 to Brigham Young University on Saturday.

The unproven kid thoroughly beat the former Super Bowl champion and reigning most valuable player.

SCU falls to Gonzaga.

SCU falls to Gonzaga.

The first week of the new year saw the Santa Clara women's basketball team split their opening games in West Coast Conference play.

Since the 1979 NBA season, only nine teams have won a championship. That factors out to a new champion every three and a half years or so. 

The Broncos completed their season with a record of 11-3-6. It earned the team a first-round home playoff game against Long Beach State University this Saturday at 1 p.m. 

The Santa Clara women's volleyball team notched yet another conference victory on Saturday, defeating the University of Portland Pilots 3 games to 1. 

The impact of the Giants' success has been unavoidable on the Santa Clara campus during the past few weeks.

The Santa Clara men's soccer team played two important conference games this past weekend.

The NHL lockout trudges on, and with it, a demonstration of the worst aspects of professional sports: greed, arrogance and a disregard for loyal fans.

The Santa Clara men's and women's cross country teams both finished in the bottom half of the field at the West Coast Conference Championships.

In their final three games against the St. Louis Cardinals, the Giants outscored their opponents 20-1.

With the win over BYU and their schedule, featuring ranked and conference opponents, the Broncos have set up their path to earn an NCAA tournament bid at the end of the season in mid-November.

After the required two minutes of digging was up, an official from Guinness World Records gave the word that the record had been broken. Air cannons shot blue and white confetti into the air and thousands held their commemorative blue shovels in the air to celebrate.

The Broncos picked up wins over in-state opponents California Baptist University and Fresno Pacific University, but dropped two other games, keeping their record four games under .500.

Born in Laie, Hawaii, Te'o has quickly made a name for himself. This year especially, he has begun to gain some recognition nationally. Right now, he is possibly the only defensive player in a Heisman race that seems to be dominated by quarterbacks.