OMAHA, Neb. — Surprises keep coming for the Cal baseball team. Tuesday morning, coach David Esquer was named National Coach of the Year, an honor that caught even him off guard. “You don’t expect something like that, and you don’t coach for honors,” Esquer said. “You coach to teach, and I’m Read More…
OMAHA, Neb. — Above these words is a shot of the TD Ameritrade Park, which is hosting the College World Series for the first time ever. As you can tell, it’s filled to the brim for last Saturday’s Florida-Texas game, which the Gators ended up winning, 8-4. The move into Read More…
It’s important to keep in mind that this happened more than a year before the Cal baseball team was slashed, but Bob Milano may have tried to force out successor and current head coach David Esquer. And Milano — a legend who coached the Bears for 22 years and whose Read More…
OMAHA — The press box at TD Ameritrade Park is a sterile and well-insulated place. Full of reporters silently at work, the game feels like an entirely separate world. Since Cal wasn’t playing, we took a step out into the stadium itself to get a real feel for the sold-out Read More…
OMAHA — Tomorrow at 11 a.m. PT and 1 p.m. local time, the Cal baseball team will play Virginia in the College World Series. The Bears are the only team in the field of eight that has fewer than 40 wins on the season; the Cavaliers are the No. 1 Read More…
There was a hell of an elephant in the room. Every question asked in the Cal baseball postgame yesterday seemed to be skirting around the real issue. It took about five minutes but, finally, a reporter asked the Bears how it felt to be one win away from Omaha. Coach Read More…
Should the Dallas Mavericks pull off an NBA Finals upset over Miami’s Big Three, everyone’s top two reasons will likely be: Dirk playing like Dirk, or LeBron James … not playing as well. Researchers from Cal have another hypothesis:
“We’ve been fighting ourselves a little bit toward the end of the season. Somewhere around the 10th hour out here, we found our team.” Coach David Esquer said this on Sunday night, after his team had scratched out two wins to preserve their season in what was a long, long Read More…
The lone junior from the Cal track and field team’s NCAA contingent has just as much experience as his senior teammates. A transfer from Merritt College in Oakland, Ray Stewart wasted no time in his first season as a Bear — qualifying for the 110m hurdles at the NCAA Outdoor Championships Read More…
For some athletes, the NCAA Championships are a chance to surpass themselves – not just their competitors. Cal’s Tracey Stewart will be content to reach her full potential in the triple jump this week in Des Moines, Iowa.
