The Cal volleyball team defeated Washington State, 3-0 (26-24, 25,20, 25-22), on Friday night in Pullman, Wash. The crowd of 1,111 fans on Nov. 11 saw the Cougars play the No. 5 Bears very closely. Washington State came out strong, opening the match with a 4-0 run. Cal (24-4, 14-4 Read More…
It was only two minutes and six seconds into the Cal men’s basketball team’s 2011-12 season, but one thing was already abundantly clear: Zone the Bears at your own risk. Sophomore guard Allen Crabbe hit two opener 3-pointers in the opening minutes en route to a game-high 24 points, as Read More…
Interstate 5 is one of the arteries of West Coast traffic, a mighty vein chugging through Los Angeles, Sacramento, Seattle. It is where trucks run from the Mexican to Canadian border, where commuting minivans shoot through twisting highway junctions. But when it hugs the edge of California’s Central Valley, the Read More…
With the ball in the air, Will Kapp came charging down the field at full-speed. The special teams demon found his man clad in powder blue. The two collided full force, head-to-head. Kapp doesn’t say anything as he runs back to the sideline. He didn’t have to. “He had blood Read More…
Life is tragedy, confront it. Walk into the Jesse Bethel High School weight room and there is a 16-line poem about life that begins “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.” This poem is dedicated to Michael Tracy Pennerman Jr., a former Bethel student who was killed after sustaining injuries Read More…
One year ago, the Cal men’s soccer team faced Stanford in the regular-season finale to win the rivalry match and subsequently take first place in the Pac-10. On Friday at 2 p.m., the Bears are up against the Cardinal again in the final game of the season. But the stakes Read More…
The last time the Cal football team beat Oregon State, Barack Obama was simply a promising junior senator from Illinois and Jeff Tedford had yet to begin aging like a president. Back in 2006, Pluto was still a planet, Green Day was winning Grammy awards and the St. Louis Cardinals Read More…
On Friday night, the chase begins. The Haas Pavilion doors will open for a 7:30 p.m. tipoff against UC Irvine, students will crowd each other for free soup and bread (for the first 1,000) and the Cal men’s basketball team will start a four-month run at another conference title. The Read More…
Oregon State may be five games below .500 on the season, but even Cal safety Sean Cattouse admitted that this game still carries a bit more significance. Cattouse was roaming the home sideline as a redshirt when Kevin Riley was tackled nine yards short of a number one ranking in Read More…
Guard Layshia Clarendon usually doesn’t like to travel, but she will make an exception this year. It’s not that Clarendon misses the airline food or the long airport lines. She is just fired about traveling with the Cal women’s basketball team and building camraderie that was lacking in the previous Read More…