Let’s call it The Shove. No, let’s call it Shovegate. Maybe Shovepocalypse. Wait, I’ve got it — Shovegatepocalypse. Yes, that seems appropriately hyperbolic. For those of you living under a rock — and even then, I doubt you cave dwellers have not heard about this; I am sure ESPN, Grantland, Read More…
Firing a football coach costs a lot of money. For Cal, getting rid of Jeff Tedford three years before his contract ran out was going to set the university back $6.9 million. But on Feb. 4, the university and Tedford settled the remaining three years of his contract. The maximum Read More…
Six hundred words are just not enough to cover Cal women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb. The interview article from last Friday had to leave out many of her insights due to space constraints. Despite the full recording of the interview posted on the Daily Cal website, I wanted to revisit Read More…
Prior to the Cal men’s basketball team’s game last week against Oregon State, our local pundits labeled it a “must-win” for Cal to make the NCAA tournament. Not only did the Bears beat the Beavers, they pulled off a thrilling upset of then-No. 10 Oregon two days later. But Crabbe Read More…
On Nov. 12, 1999, the 106th United States Congress enacted the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act. It repealed many provisions of the 1933 Banking Act, or Glass-Steagall Act, which limited commercial banking activities and enforced a separation between commercial banks and securities trading firms. In Read More…
One moment he was here, the next moment he was gone. That’s probably the best way to describe Jahvid Best. He was fast. Lightning fast. In speed, he was the best. One moment he was lined up at his own 10-yard line; the next, he would be 90 yards away, Read More…
This seems to be the Month of Frauds in the world of sports. So before we go any further, let’s expose a few more hoaxes. Deadspin, you can thank me later. Brace yourselves: -Adrian Peterson purposefully busted his left knee. In fact, that move worked out so well he’s planning Read More…
Dear Mayor Kevin Johnson, I feel your pain. It sucks to see the Sacramento Kings, an enterprise on which your entire city stakes its identity, a team with countless playoff runs as well as memories and heartbreaks, and thousands of diehards as devoted as any other franchise, this institution you’ve Read More…
The message the Baseball Writers Association of America sent on Jan. 9 was loud and clear: Players who are even under suspicion of taking performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) are not welcome in Cooperstown. Coinciding with Lance Armstrong’s confession of using PEDs was the fact that the Baseball Writers Association of Read More…
I’ve heard it takes 21 days to form a new habit. I’m inclined to agree, because about a month into the NHL lockout last October I settled down into hibernation. I stopped checking blogs for news, I stopped watching highlight reels of the KHL or the Swiss leagues, I stopped Read More…
