Archive for Cal Football
Down The Field to Tennessee (Cal Football Season Preview)
The time to this season’s kickoff can be counted now in the mere hours (just over seventy-two away from starting things off at Memorial Stadium). Who has the advantage? Let’s find out from the other side–Volunteers fans. I wonder where their allegiances could lie. These are all genuine responses from Vols fans at their message [...]
Interviewing The Golden Bloggers (Cal Football Season Preview)
I’ll be the first to admit I’m not a football maniac. Okay, maybe I am, but I’m a stupid football maniac. I can’t claim to be knowledgeable about the offensive package Jeff Tedford runs. I don’t have the slightest clue about whether Washington State or Washington will be the more likely team to upset the [...]
Cal Football! 2006! Uh…2006? Anyone?
It’s a quiet time of the year around the Berkeley blogosphere. Most students are out toiling away at fruitless internships, slowly coming to the horrible realization that they hate the career they’ve sought after (which is cool–your editor figured that out at his position last year). Others are slowly crumbling under the fact that they [...]
Wonder What Bulldozed Hippie Smells Like (This Weekend in Sports)
As widely reported and speculated in the happy, friendly, bored Cal sporting blogosphere, it seems we’re moving closer to getting retrofitting going in our beloved stadium. The Hayward Fault cuts through Memorial Stadium, which means that a large-magnitude earthquake could severely damage the structure and endanger lives. Each day, nearly 500 students and staff members [...]
Here’s Our Sign: “We Hope Real Bears Eat You”
As widely reported everywhere in the Cal sports blogosphere earlier this week, the Cal-Tennessee game is going to not only get primetime attention, but you’ll also be getting plenty of talking heads along in the deal. The California football team program has an even better chance to increase its national profile on September 1st. In [...]
Marshawn Lynch, Real Life Buffalo Bill
There’s some grumbling in Buffalo about choosing Marshawn Lynch with the #12 pick, considering the Bills have had past character issues with running backs (Lynch’s so-called troubles are plenty exaggerated) this decade. But it seems the city is starting to warm up to him after his press conference: Marshawn Lynch was so eager to get [...]
Rocky Topping Into Primetime
Everyone in Commifornia just loves to make fun of the Deep South, mocking their archaic lifestyle, their firecracker fetishes, their deadbeat trailer trash. It might also be true that inbreeding does not produce the most prodigious of offspring, as evidenced at the right. Nevertheless, people can say what they want about the rednecks of the [...]
He Isn’t Exactly the Minister of Defense
It’s a late pick and probably the last Bear going to the pros in this draft (only Tim Mixon is left), but hey, we’ll take what we can get–Cal rarely gets this many people out in one year. With the 192nd pick overall in the 6th round, Ted Thompson grabbed Cal linebacker Desmond Bishop. He [...]
The Bears Are Whimpering
Well, we promised you a draft update when a Bear got drafted…and, about eight hours later, we deliver. Two more Bears are heading to the next level, one overvalued, one seemingly undervalued. With the 85th pick in the third round, the Seattle Seahawks select Cal defensive tackle Brandon Mebane (6’1â€, 305 pounds). Filling a desperate [...]
Marshawn Lynch, Circling the Wagons With His Pimped Out Cart
In our excitement over the Warriors, we completely forgot that Golden Bears are going pro today. So imagine our delight when we opened up ESPN and saw where Money Lynch was going. Man, this weekend keeps on getting better and better. With the Sabres a Stanley Cup favorite, perhaps God is turning his eye to [...]
