The Bears held a long full-pad workout tonight, putting the finishing touches on the second week of camp. Technically, there is still one week left. But practically, camp ends Tuesday with the team’s final scrimmage of the fall. Wednesday, the Bears will start preparing for Michigan State.
The highlight of Sunday’s practice was the red zone [...]
The Bears had another double-day session today, working out in full pads in the morning and just helmets in shoulder pads in the afternoon.
Kevin Riley continues to come on at quarterback. After a rough first week, Riley seems to have found his groove. During a 6-on-8 drill Saturday morning where the offense tries to score [...]
System:It remains to be seen how noticeable the difference will be between Frank Cignetti’s offensive system and play calling style and what Jeff Tedford has traditionally done. It’s clear that for the first time during his tenure at Cal that Tedfo…
Tags: Alex Mack, Basketball, Brock Mansion, Cameron Morrah, Covaughn Deboskie, Desean Jackson, ESPN, football, Jahvid Best, Jeff Tedford, Jeremy Ross, Kevin Riley, Marvin Jones, Mike Tepper, Nate Longshore, Nyan Boateng, recruiting, shane, Shane Vereen, Tad Smith, Tracy Slocum, UCLA, Verran TuckerBelieve it or not, we’re halfway through training camp. Here’s what has stood out during the first 10 days:
–Nothing has been decided at quarterback, although Nate Longshore probably has a slight edge at this moment. Longshore has completed more passes and made fewer mistakes during 11-on-11 drills so far. That being said, Kevin Riley is [...]
The primary storyline to Thursday’s practice was quarterback Kevin Riley being given the opportunity to work exclusively with the first team. Working on the hurry-up offense with full squads, Riley’s first pass was a 30-yard completion to Michael Calvin on a wheel pattern down the left sideline.
The sophomore signal-caller had his ups and downs during Thursday’s workout. His nicest pass [...]
Typically, the kickers and longsnappers are the first ones on the field at practice. That was true Monday for the first day of training camp, but they were joined shortly after by wide receiver Nyan Boateng.
That’s a great sign for the Bears. Cal is desperate to replace the departed production at wide receiver, and Boateng [...]
Players report to training camp tonight for the first practice tomorrow at 6 p.m. In today’s paper, we looked at the top five questions facing the Bears during camp. Here are some additional issues to pay attention to during the next three weeks.
–How will Jahvid Best responds to the first practice in pads?: So far, Best [...]
With the beginning of training camp now less than 48 hours away, here is a list of some newcomers to watch this fall:
1. Michael Calvin, wide receiver. He came to Cal as one of the more heralded prep wide receivers in the country, and it showed as a scout team player last season. Sometimes, it [...]
With the beginning of training camp now just a few days away, let’s lookat some of the intriguing position battles that will take place this fall:
–Quarterback. Duh. We all know this will be the most closely watched competition as fifth-year senior Nate Longshore tries to keep his job away from redshirt sophomore Kevin Riley. Coach [...]
Stumbled upon a pretty cool video of Cal QB Nate Longshore working out with this season’s prospective starting wide receivers Nyan Boateng, Michael Calvin, Jeremy Ross, and Cal’s presumed starting running back Jahvid Best.
(Credit to “fuzzyip” for th…
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2007 Record: 7-6
Pac-10: T-7th
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Sunday Morning QB, Cal Preview: “The bad news from that perspective is that both the most reliable and most explosive players have all gone on to the pros, and the immediate reserves are not as highly regarded — though Jordan wasn’t a high profile recruit, Hawkins was a four-star prospect out of junior college and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Rey Maualuga Wins the INTERNETZ (And other Pac-10 …
Tags: Basketball, ESPN, football, Jahvid Best, Jeremy Ross, Marvin Jones, Michael Calvin, Nyan Boateng, pac-10, Rose Bowl, UCLAWe had a question lately about our receivers, since we return all of 10 catches for 153 yards (thanks to LayReylle Cunningham, who provides all of those numbers. Yes, he is the only wide receiver on the roster with a catch in a game.). We figured that other people might be curious about our actual players in the midst of a month’s coverage on DumpyMuffs …
Tags: Alex Mack, Anthony Felder, Bernard Hicks, brett johnson, Brock Mansion, Cameron Morrah, Charles Amadi, charles johnson, Chris Conte, Covaughn Deboskie, D.J. Holt, Darian Hagan, Derrick Hill, Devin Bishop, Drew Glover, Eddie Young, ian albrecht, Jeremy Ross, Jesse Brooks, john tyndall, Kevin Riley, Marcus Ezeff, Michael Calvin, Mike Tepper, Nyan Boateng, sam demartinis, shane, Shane Vereen, Shea Mcintyre, spring practice, Syd'quan Thompson, Tad Smith, Tracy Slocum, Zack FollettI was pretty surprised to stumble across the following Nyan Boateng Spring Highlight video.
Why? Well for one, up until this point, I haven’t seen any footage of any Cal practices, and found it interesting that I found one that actually used offici…
Tags: football, Nyan BoatengHey All. Since I’ll be posting here on a regular basis, Avinash suggested I introduce myself. For those of you who don’t know me already, I’m a 2000 Cal alum currently living and practicing law in New York. Thanks to Avinash for the opportunity to contribute to the discussion and thanks to you for reading.
Congrats to all the Golden Bear draftees, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Spring Forward”, url: “http://bearsnecessity.com/cal-football/spring/” });