Jeff Tedford, the winningest coach in Cal football history, has been fired, according to Athletics Director Sandy Barbour. The move comes on the heels of the Bears’ 3-9 season, Tedford’s worst in Berkeley. Read More…
Jeff Tedford’s postgame remarks after the Cal football team’s first game could have summed up the 2012 season. “I’m sorry we didn’t play better and let the fans down,” he said. The season that followed was one for the record books. The Bears failed to score a touchdown in the Read More…
With nine minutes remaining in Saturday’s game against Oregon State and Cal down 41 points, the Beavers were lining up to punt on fourth down. But as Oregon State lined up to snap the ball, flags littered the field. Unsportsmanlike conduct on Cal. Taunting on the defense. 15-yard penalty. Automatic Read More…
Jeff Tedford might be fired . Cal’s performance against Oregon State Saturday night left no mystery as to why. In a rain-drenched contest highlighted by broken coverages, needless personal foul penalties and inexcusable turnovers, the Bears fell on their collective faces in a 62-14 blowout Saturday night. “I don’t know,” Read More…
Don’t tell the Cal football team it did not make the postseason. “This is our bowl game, really,” said linebacker Chris McCain of Saturday’s 7:30 p.m. bout with No. 15 Oregon State. “Oregon was our first bowl game, this is our next bowl game. We got a bowl game, we Read More…
With a meeting with Sandy Barbour on Sunday about his future with the program, Cal head coach Jeff Tedford has one more chance to prove that he can right the proverbial ship. And since he’s already headed to Corvallis, Ore. to face off with the Beavers on Saturday night, he Read More…
For much of Saturday’s 59-17 loss to Oregon, the Bears held their own. But their performance raises more questions than answers. “We could have won that game,” linebacker Chris McCain said. How does the same team that went toe-to-toe with the best offensive team in the country for 32 minutes Read More…
The process was unexpected, but the result was inevitable. On a Saturday night at Memorial Stadium, the No. 2 Ducks cruised to an easy 59-17 victory over the Bears. But a surprisingly slow start kept Cal close through the first two and a half quarters. “That’s a great team,” coach Read More…
It’s the last hurrah for football beat writers Connor Byrne, Jonathan Kuperberg and Michael Rosen. Assistant sports editor Seung Y. Lee joins them in the press box for play-by-play, analysis and snark during Cal’s final home game of the 2012 season against No. 2 Oregon. Linebacker Chris McCain and the Cal Read More…
The Era Begins In December 2001, Jeff Tedford inherits from former coach Tom Holmoe a Cal football program that went 1-10 in 2001 and hadn’t earned a winning season since 1993. In Tedford’s first game at the helm, the Bears blow out Baylor, 70-22. Tedford later takes the team to Read More…
