Next year’s Big Game may be leaving the friendly confines of Strawberry Canyon. Late Friday night, reports began to surface about a possible relocation of the 2014 Big Game, currently scheduled to be played in Memorial Stadium, to Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. Associate athletic director Herb Benenson released a Read More…
On Thursday, Cal Athletics Director Sandy Barbour released a statement that the Cal football team will not play its 2014 game against Stanford at the San Francisco 49ers’ brand-new stadium after fans and alumni reacted negatively to the possible move. Read More…
Cal and Stanford are considering moving the site of the 2014 Big Game from California Memorial Stadium to Levi’s Stadium, the San Francisco 49ers’ new home, in Santa Clara. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the 49ers and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority proposed the move to Cal and Stanford Read More…
It’s April Fools’ Day: a day to celebrate our inner pranksters. It’s a chance for those of us who take life too seriously to let go. After all, it’s the one day of the year that pranks are universally accepted, and we should all take advantage of it, especially in a Read More…
College football is a tradition that many Cal students look forward to when they arrive at a Division-1 school. There’s something exhilarating about cramming into Memorial Stadium’s student section with hundreds of other fans and shouting “Go” — while the alumni answer back with “Bears” — at the top of your Read More…
College football is a tradition that many Cal students look forward to when they arrive at a Division-1 school. There’s something exhilarating about cramming into Memorial Stadium’s student section with hundreds of other fans and shouting “Go” — while the alumni answer back with “Bears” — at the top of your Read More…
You had better know the answer to this one … “The Play” has made an appearance on the game show Jeopardy, and it’s a perfect way to start looking forward to next year’s Big Game and our new coaching staff, headed by Sonny Dykes. Even more important, though, is the Read More…
Has the sting of another Big Game loss dulled yet, Cal fans? Probably not. But I’m about to sharpen those pangs a bit more with this week’s installment of Maynard Mondays. To put it bluntly, Cal’s offense looked pathetic on Saturday. True, its defensive pressure was consistent and stifling; if Read More…
While UC Berkeley’s football team might not rival that of Stanford, its newspaper vastly outshines the miserable broadsheet our friends to the south unjustly call a news source. In a stunning feat of cooperation, The Daily Californian and The Stanford Daily produced a single special issue for Saturday’s Big Game. Read More…
The 115th Big Game marked the 30th anniversary of The Play. The game resulted in a 21-3 Cal loss at home. Stanford retains possession of the Axe until next year.