On Saturday and Sunday, Cal fans got themselves a real nice discount double-check from the NFL playoff action. In one of the most exciting playoff weekends in recent memory, eleven former Golden Bears from five different teams suited up for action. The Cal alums were involved in many important highlights Read More…
Even with four winning seasons, three NCAA Tournament appearances and a conference title in coach Mike Montgomery’s four seasons, the Cal men’s basketball team’s best might still be yet to come. On Thursday, Jabari Bird, Jordan Mathews and Sam Singer all signed their letter of intent to enroll at Cal Read More…
On Oct. 20, swimming phenom Missy Franklin shook the collegiate swimming world by committing to Cal. On Wednesday morning, Franklin set her commitment in stone as she signed the National Letter of Intent to join the Cal women’s swimming team next fall. This summer in the London Olympics, Franklin shot Read More…
SAN FRANCISCO — Is the Pac-12 back? Among the best conferences in the late 2000s, the league fell flat once Kevin Love, Russell Westbrook, James Harden and other stars left early for the NBA by 2009. Cal was the only Pac-12 team to receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Read More…
SAN FRANCISCO — After losing two starters from its second-place squad last year, the Cal men’s basketball team is picked to finish third in the Pac-12, according to the media poll. Arizona is projected to win the league title, edging out UCLA by a point, though the Bruins have one Read More…
The commitments keep coming for the Cal men’s basketball team. On the heels of five-star shooting guard Jabari Bird’s commitment last week, Jordan Mathews has verbally committed to play for the Bears. Mathews, a 6-foot-3, 180-pound shooting guard from Santa Monica Calif., is ESPN’s No. 70 player and No. 33 at his Read More…
There will be another Bird ready to take flight in Berkeley. Five-star shooting guard Jabari Bird committed to the Cal men’s basketball team on Wednesday, following his father’s footsteps. His father Carl Bird was a standout scorer in the mid-1970s at the old Harmon Gym. Ranked as the No. 20 Read More…
Coughlin, Vollmer, Leverenz, and now, Franklin? It certainly has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? After sweeping four gold medals in the 2012 London Olympics, swimming phenom and high school senior Missy Franklin is looking for a university, and Cal seems to be very high on her list. Franklin Read More…
After two weeks of victories and medals for Cal athletes at the London Olympics, the Games ended Sunday in a fitting fashion. Sophomore Aleksa Saponjic won a bronze medal with the Serbian men’s water polo team to bring Cal’s medal count at the London Games to a school record-tying 17. That total ties the record set in Beijing in 2008. Read More…
Former Cal runner Alysia Montano ended her Olympic journey with an upsetting fifth place finish in the women’s 800 final on Saturday. After winning the U.S. Track & Field Olympic Trials in the event earlier this year, Montano was the American most favored to win a medal, but she came up short. Read More…
