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Ask the Readers: Biggest Remaining Challenge for Cal
USC’s loss has thrown everything out of whack. Which game will be the toughest for the Bears to win now?
Is it still USC? ASU, with their fast start to the season? UCLA (we always struggle in the Rose Bowl)? A trap game perhaps (OSU or Wazzu)? The letdown after the USC hype at Husky Stadium? [...]
What This Weekend Meant to Cal
Very little.
As much fun as the Stanford-USC game was, it hasn’t changed much about where the Golden Bears lie. The Bears were 5-0 before Saturday, they’re 5-0 afterwards. The fate of our team didn’t lie in John David Booty’s broken finger, it rests on how quickly Nate Longshore can nurse that high ankle sprain back [...]
The Action Jackson Diaries–Primetime Games
–Before the LSU-Florida feast, I am watching Virginia Tech-Clemson. It is an abortion of football. How Clemson got ranked is beyond me.
–Versus is crapping out AGAIN. So I have no idea what’s going on with Stanford-USC (pretty much back to following gamecast), except that the Cardinal is hanging around before finally running out of gas [...]
The Action Jackson Diaries–Afternoon Games
–On slate, Red River Shootout (big afternoon kahuna), Georgia-Tennessee (will tell us a lot about the SEC East), ASU-Wazzu (will tell us a lot about Dennis Erickson-coached teams).
–Well that’s great. Colt McCoy calls a timeout on the second play from scrimmage. I already am loving picking Texas to cover. Christ.
–Arian Foster looked like LaDanian Tomlinson [...]
The Action Jackson Diaries–Early Games
So I’m starting up this blog with Illinois up 17-0 on Wisconsin, KSU taking the lead on Kansas 14-7, and UNC pulverizing Miami 27-0 (I probably won’t touch this game). Almost immediately the Badgers move it down the field two times, in position in the red zone to score and make it 17-10. Bleh. This [...]
Setting the Stage for One Crazy Saturday
Long before I was a California Golden Bear, I was a football fan. Although my first love was the NFL and my beleagured Bills, because I lived in Florida, college football eventually integrated into my viewing patterns. Although its power has faded to the point that SOUTH FLORIDA is now the top honcho in the [...]
Cal Athletics Everyone!
Always nice to see that the girls get better urinals than the guys. That and other gems. [Berkeleyans for Cal Athletics]
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 [...]
Top Plays in September for the Golden Bears
With one of Cal’s greatest Septembers behind us, let’s look back at our 5-0 start and dig out the best moments of each game before we move onto the rest of the season. Vote for the top play of September in the sidebar!
Tennessee
Zach Follett sack, Worrell Williams fumble return for TD: The play that jump-kicked [...]
Most Glorious Moments Under Tedford
Recapping the highest of highs for Cal football, it seems what the Bears do against USC is what raises us all the way up and what brings us all the way down. Overwhelmingly the 2003 victory was chosen as the #1 moment for Cal fans. This provides an excellent excuse to recover the game film [...]
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