Category Archives: Sports
Live Blog: Cal vs. Arizona State
Follow along as sports editor Jonathan Kuperberg gives play-by-play and analysis of the Cal-Arizona State regular season finale live from Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Ariz.
Bears concentrate on energy, communication heading into Big Spike
After the Cal volleyball team’s practice on Tuesday, coach Rich Feller was beaming. The team ended the practice with a six-on-six scrimmage, never letting its communication or energy waver. Players were diving for every ball, even ones that were well out of reach. Hitters and blockers were going up with
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Cal says aloha to ranked competition
On the third day of the Waikiki Beach Mariott Rainbow Wahine Showdown, the Cal women’s basketball team will reunite with former head coach Joanne Boyle. Only this year, Boyle won’t pace the length of Cal’s bench. She now presides at the helm of No. 22 Virginia, whom the Bears (2-1)
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Cal narrows focus in anticipation of MPSF tournament
The hay is in the barn. There isn’t much the No. 3 Cal men’s water polo team can do in preparation for this weekend’s MPSF tournament. The team has practiced all it can and knows what it does best. The Bears (20-3, 7-1 MPSF) faced every conference rival at least
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Mizzou hands Bears first loss in 39-point romp
Many milestones sum up the Cal basketball team’s kowtow to Missouri Tuesday night. The Bears’ worst loss in 106 games under head coach Mike Montgomery. Fourth-worst loss since 1937. Worst non-conference loss ever. Missouri, ranked just a spot below No. 20 Cal, steamrolled the Bears in the final of the
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Pac-12 Power Rankings: Week 12
No. 1: Oregon (9-2, 7-1) Voters must not watch Pac-12 games. That’s the only explanation for the Ducks falling behind Stanford in the latest AP and BCS rankings. Oregon has two losses to the Cardinal’s one, but the first came against LSU, the best team in the country, and the
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All-Americans Maier, Reilly lead Cal to 18th place finish at NCAAs
After the last Cal runner crossed the finish line at the NCAA Championships on Monday, the No. 23 Cal women’s cross country team’s most successful season ended. The results were posted, and the Bears found their name in the 18th position. For many of the runners, this was their last
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Bears beat down Bulldogs to advance to CBE Classic title game
Facing its first true competition of the season, the No. 20 Cal men’s basketball team was deadlocked with Georgia. Back and forth the lead went — a jumper on one side, a layup on the other. Gradually, the Bears began to pull away. It started with a layup by point
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Through the rough
Steve Desimone has never taken anything lying down. Now he’s seeing his perseverance pay off as head coach of the nationally prominent Cal men’s golf team.
“Let’s be pioneers in this.” That was exactly the answer current Cal golf coach Steve Desimone was looking to hear from the headmaster of the College Preparatory School in 1972. His second day into his new position, Desimone, a basketball coach who knew little about soccer, faced his first predicament
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