(No Ratings Yet)Bears need consistency to break drought at Oregon (Chronicle Podcasts: Cal Football)
Posted September 28, 2007 at 1:30 amThe 4-0 California Golden Bears travel to Eugene, Ore., this weekend for a big Pac 10 showdown with the 4-0 Oregon Ducks . But Cal players know they had better play with more consistancy…
(No Ratings Yet)Dennis Dodd can’t count (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted September 24, 2007 at 3:10 pm“We’ll have, at best, only one undefeated team in the SEC this season”.That’s how Dodd starts his September 23rd column, titled, Family feuds might cost SEC in national picture.What the hell kind of a conference would ever have more than two undefeated…
Tags: football, pac-10 (No Ratings Yet)Cal-Tennessee film study, Arizona value-added (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted September 23, 2007 at 7:55 pmThe California Golden Blogs posted film study of the offensive genius that is Jeff Tedford last week.On Saturday, we show Arizona the same formation and run yet another play. This time, the bunch is on the right, a split end (I couldn’t see who it was …
Tags: Cameron Morrah, Jeff Tedford (No Ratings Yet)Bears win, play awful. (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted September 22, 2007 at 10:35 pmNo, 38-35 was not the score of our game, that’s the score of the Syracuse-Louisville game. See, Syracuse sucks — 0-3, 5-21 over the last three+ years — and Louisville is supposed to be pretty good — 2006 Big East champions and also a winner in the …
Tags: Nate Longshore, water polo (No Ratings Yet)Weis, Demetrius Jones, and transferring (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted September 19, 2007 at 2:53 pmKevin Riley (second year freshman) beat out Kyle Reed (third year sophomore) for the #2 spot on the Cal QB depth chart a few weeks ago (behind third-year junior Nate Longshore); Reed took a few days to think about it, and then he transfered to San Jose…
Tags: BCS, football, Jeff Tedford, Kevin Riley, Nate Longshore, recruiting (No Ratings Yet)The New York Times has no clue what it is talking about (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted September 17, 2007 at 12:17 pmSo I thought it was bad when the Times was supporting the march to war in 2002-2003, unthinkingly parroting the Bush administration’s line.Now I find out they’re all on crack.Six teams have emerged that could conceivably win the national title. And beh…
Tags: football (No Ratings Yet)We must be good, because we played like shit. (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted September 15, 2007 at 10:42 pmFirst things first: at the halftime show, the band played 80s music, and one of the songs was Soft Cell’s version of Tainted Love: CAL BAND GREAT!Second things second: the refs were awful, but that might have been because one of the snare drums was car…
Tags: Nate Longshore, Norris Malele (No Ratings Yet)Nate Longshore’s blog (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted September 14, 2007 at 7:50 pmHe says, I have wanted to do this for a while now and have just finally got around to it. There are no editors, no media relations, no “supervisors”, just me and some guest bloggers leaving our story of what’s happening. Sometimes writers and newscaste…
Tags: Nate Longshore (No Ratings Yet)Governors and Coaches (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted September 11, 2007 at 12:35 amThe Kansas City Star compiled information on the salary for state governors and for coaches of the state university systems. For most states, there is no contest: the coaches win hands down. For example, in Alabama Governor Bob Riley makes $113,000 a y…
Tags: Basketball, Chris Conte, football, Kevin Riley, Leon Powe (No Ratings Yet)Not so good, not so bad. (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted September 8, 2007 at 9:10 pmIt was 34-14 with 4 minutes left to go, and then suddenly it was 34-28 with 3 minutes left to go. NOT FUN.In other news, Jackson scored on a 73 yard end-around, Best scored on the 64 yard pitch, and Montgomery (our technical second string RB, a redshir…
Tags: Mike Montgomery (No Ratings Yet)“I’d definitely be smart” (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted September 6, 2007 at 10:07 pmDeSean Jackson: “I’d definitely be smart,” he said. “I’d have the right coverages to contain me.”And yet he does not explain what the strategy would be to contain him. I wonder what it might look like?
Tags: Desean Jackson (No Ratings Yet)Michigan has a great fight song (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted September 5, 2007 at 5:38 pm
(No Ratings Yet)So the banner was stupid, but the writer is kind of funny (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted September 4, 2007 at 10:34 pmThe choicest bits:6. The roughest thing about college football season on the West Coast? The taunting text messages I start receiving at 6 a.m. from people in earlier time zones. My phone is just far enough from the bed that I don’t want to get up and …
Tags: football, Jeff Tedford, pac-10 (No Ratings Yet)We won! 45-31, and it was sweet. (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted September 4, 2007 at 5:59 pm“DeSean Jackson returned his sixth career punt for a touchdown (12:23 in the second quarter) on his 27th career punt return (it was a 77-yard return) … Jackson now has six (6) punt returns for touchdowns on 27 returns … NCAA record-holders Wes Welk…
Tags: Desean Jackson, ESPN, football, pac-10 (No Ratings Yet)Awesome video of DeSean’s punt return TD against Tennessee (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
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