Kristen Meister is set to compete in her final collegiate competition today in Des Moines, Iowa. The senior high jumper entered the NCAA Championships after tying for first at the NCAA West Preliminary meet. Meister broke the school record in the women’s high jump earlier this season with a personal record 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.
Cal track and field coach Tony Sandoval motivates some of his younger athletes by using Steve Sodaro as an example of hard work’s rewards.
The Cal rugby team may have won the national championship two weeks ago, but its season isn’t over. The Bears return to action this weekend in 2011 USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship in PPL Park in Philadelphia, Penn. Coach Jack Clark’s squad will open pool play against Ohio State at Read More…
Oregon’s three-time NCAA decathlon champion Ashton Eaton graduated last year, opening up the field this spring Cal senior Mike Morrison. With the nation’s highest score in the event this season (7,921 points), the transfer from Florida heads to Des Moines, Iowa as the favorite.
Almost two weeks ago the seventh-seeded Cal softball team sat in Haas Pavilion awaiting its postseason ticket for the Regional tournament. Last week, the Bears earned another ticket — this time, to their sixth Super Regional tournament, after they clinched a 3-0 win in the Louisville Regional championship game in Read More…
This series was set to become one of the most emotional, most important series in the 100-plus year history of Cal baseball. It would have been the Bears’ last stand, at home, against their hated rival, for all of eternity (or something like that). But now that the Bears (31-18, Read More…
