Last Thursday, when Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson announced he will retire after this season, a soccer correspondent on SportsCenter drew the analogy that Ferguson is like “Bill Belichick in about 12 years’ time, with three or four more Super Bowls.” A flattering analogy, but it only paints half the Read More…
Keenan Allen had to wait three rounds to wait to hear his name called in the NFL Draft on Friday, but he found some solace in the fact that he is going to call California his home for the near future. The former Cal wide receiver was drafted by the Read More…
When Keenan Allen announced his intention to declare for the NFL Draft on Dec. 5, he had no reason to believe he was going to fall out of the first round. With CBS Sports ranking Allen as the 13th best prospect — the highest among wide receivers — in the Read More…
It was not a matter of if Cal women’s basketball guard Layshia Clarendon was going to get drafted in the WNBA Draft — it was a matter of when. And on Monday at Bristol, Conn., Clarendon did not have to wait long. With the ninth pick of the 2013 WNBA Read More…
It was a miserably hot, humid evening in Munich last summer, and I sat alone in a large, touristy Italian restaurant, eating dry, overpriced linguini. It’s the third week in my solo trip around Germany, and eating alone, something I detested in America, has become natural. Sitting at the edge Read More…
Sonny Dykes has two young daughters at home, but when he arrives at work every day, he transforms into a surrogate parent of nearly 100 men. Before and after practice, he mingles with his players, cracking light-hearted jokes and dispensing life advice to his players. From the upper stands of Read More…
1978: Before Jack Clark became the coach and legend that redefined the Cal rugby program, he was an athlete once focused on cracking into the professional football ranks. Transferring from Orange Coast Community College to Cal as a football player, Clark played two years on the football team. In 1978, Read More…
As the sun rose over Machu Picchu Monday morning, the new day began a new era for Scott Fujita. As the light shined upon the ancient Incan ruins, Fujita, a Cal alumnus and an NFL linebacker, perched on one of its giant stone slabs and signed a one-day contract with Read More…
NEW ORLEANS — If the Cal women’s basketball team can become the powerhouse coach Lindsay Gottlieb promised it could be 10 or 20 years from now, all will point toward this season as the breakthrough campaign that made it all possible. All traditional powerhouses, like UConn and Stanford, had that Read More…
NEW ORLEANS — My first memory of the Cal women’s basketball team was me anxiously waiting in the Haas Club Room to hear first-year coach Lindsay Gottlieb and the players speak before the 2011 season started 18 months ago. As Gottlieb walked to the podium, I remember thinking how she Read More…
