Archive for Archive for October, 2008
The Great Hype Machine
Tony brought up an interesting point yesterday about Cal football players drinking the Kool-Aid. More so than in any other sport, the best college football teams swing dramatically in their performance week-to-week. While we haven’t had outright stinkers in huge games we’re expected to win, the Golden Bears usually earn the maximum effort from our […]
Did That Cloud Of Humidity Have A Silver Lining?
On a Saturday one month ago, writing sunburned, beer-addled and depressed in northern VA, I requested that we never speak of the Maryland debacle again. But a month removed, facing our second bye week of the season, I find myself wondering what the world of Cal football would be like if we had somehow won that game. If, for example, we […]
Parting Shots
Before we head into the fearsome bye weekend (woohoo watch other teams win and loose!), just a few rejoinders: If you’ve been clicking on the permalinks to leave comments, you might have noticed the Project Michelle public service announcement at the bottom of each article. Although I wish it wouldn’t autoplay–I know some of you […]
What I Learned From The Bear Insider
There are so many things I learn from reading message boards. I get these deep, penetrating insights that I could never get from being in the locker room and can thus virtually coach the game based on what anonymous posters have discovered through the game. You just get the feeling that they should be watching […]
Will All of Cal’s Football Games Get Televised?
Thursday’s usually nonsense day here at BN, so it’s not surprising that we’re discussing the boob tube. But there are fun discussions going on with out friends at CGB. For those who want to know what being a Cal fan is like, click here (plus my response to this question, which is looking like my […]
“We Are 4-1 And We Couldn’t Have Sucked More.”
These mumblings were recorded and parsed together of a slightly inebriated Cal fan. His ramblings below are to be considered the drunken incoherency of a derelict and not an accurate sample of the actual Golden Bear fanbase. I hope. WHAT IN JESUS CHRIST NATE LONGSHORE? What’s he doing in there? Might as well just leave […]
Blogpoll Week 6: WITH PHOTOS!
Rank Team Delta 1 Oklahoma 1 2 Alabama 1 3 Missouri 3 4 Penn State — 5 Texas — 6 LSU 5 7 Texas Tech 1 8 Utah 1 9 Southern Cal 2 10 Brigham Young — 11 Florida 2 12 Vanderbilt 3 13 Ohio State 3 14 Georgia — 15 Oklahoma State 5 16 […]
Inside the Playbook: USC 44, Oregon 10
Thanks to tipsters that might or might not have originated from this page, we have obtained exclusive copy of Nick Allotti’s defensive plans for the USC game. Despite the seeming brilliance that lies from such a gameplan, the Ducks fell a little short. In order to avoid copyright issues, we have created our own renditions […]
Arizona State at Cal Torrent & Highlights
Torrent for downloading here. Highlights here: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV.
Cal – Arizona State Report Card
Quarterback: Feels like we haven’t discussed this topic enough, eh? Longshore did enough to win the game, but he didn’t do enough to distinguish himself from Kevin Riley. On one hand, the Cal quarterback kept things simple with swing dumps and screens early. On the other, Nate floated a few passes that took some adjustment […]
