Archive for Irrelevant

Ask the Readers: Call for Cal Writers

I’ve been putting it off long enough, and now with the new site design going in and Cal sports reaching a lull, it’s a good time to look for new writers.
Writing seven times a week seems great, but the rest of my life has suffered because of this site. Eventually I’ll crash and burn, and [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Monday, April 14th, 2008

Oh Yeah, I Won

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, I refer you to the Play in CA’s bold declaration. I treaded last place throughout the entire contest, but Kansas and Memphis pulled through for me, saved us from a Hansborough-Love slobberfest, and catapulted my bracket into an impregnable first. Everyone else had UCLA and North [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Monday, April 7th, 2008

BORK BORK BORK!

Attention all five commenters! Please get your gravatar so we can all have unique identities (click here). Otherwise, I will have no choice but to respond to you in Swedish Chef dialogue (which you’ll understand why when you make a comment).
Prepare for my default response in the comments if you haven’t changed your avatar: “Banananananana.”

Posted by: Avinash on Saturday, March 29th, 2008

And Now, Something No One Cares About

The new site header should be updated this week. Hold your breath until then.
Note: Please skip over this if you can’t handle self-indulgence.
I’m in these NCAA Brackets like each and every one of you (about ten this year–I think there’s an inverse relationship between the number of friends you have and the number of brackets [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

The Bear is Hunting

At the moment I’m undergoing some site design renovations–it’s the dead of offseason, and nothing will be happening that’s noteworthy for the next few months, so it’s the perfect time to get technical issues sorted out.
Just wanted to let people know I’ve joined the Yardbarker network to help finance my time-consuming hobby (you can also [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Viva La Cascara de Rosa!

(AP) HAVANA, CUBA–Now that Fidel Castro has finally relinquished power, he has also decided to reliniquish his hex on the Cal football program and their half-a-century shutout from the Rose Bowl. He officially removed the pins from a voodoo doll of Pappy Waldorf late last night.
The California Golden Bears have not been to a Rose [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Best of BN, 2007

I’m feeling terrible AGAIN. I’ve waken up the last five days and had no desire to write at all. So while I recover, I’ll be sporadic in posting habits until recovery comes, which might be tomorrow, two weeks, never. So for now, a la Golden Blogs, classic posts for you to read! (And by classic, [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

We All Need to Smile A Little

What’s the cutest opponent to lose to? Vote in the sidebar.
Beaver?

Baby bears?

Or the closest thing I could find to a sun devil, the kangaroo rat?

Posted by: Avinash on Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Strictly Bear Territory

This is pretty much a ‘duh’ announcement for almost anyone who’s been reading this blog for the past few weeks, but barring a catastrophic collapse to what is looking like a historical season, the focus of this site will shift primarily to Cal football for the rest of this fall, with perhaps a few posts [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Send the Summer Away

As the last hours of vacation twinkle down, so does our slovenly summer break. Which means it’s time to kick it up a notch as the year goes along. Big week coming up, which means plenty of interesting posts coming too, and as much of a football preview we can scrounge up.
Speaking of which, here’s [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Sunday, August 26th, 2007