There’s a strange epidemic striking many Cal Bears right now. They’ve been breathing heavier, sweating more and are seeming rather lethargic. Why? As temperatures rise in their places of origin, Bears who finally acclimated to their Bay Area environment must adapt yet again to warmer weather. While this phenomenon has Read More…
Cal alumnus and football star running back Chuck Muncie died recently at age 60 from a heart condition. Essentially all of the national media coverage of this story has conflated his seemingly early death with his use of cocaine many years earlier. So far, perhaps none of the media coverage Read More…
Photos from the NCAA Tournament Round of 32 Saturday at San Jose’s HP Pavilion.
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…
If you’ve been keeping up with “MythBusters” for the last decade that it has been on the air, you’ll be excited to learn that it is now hiring. The other day, the show tweeted that it’s looking for “a multi-talented, highly-motivated, behind-the-scenes junior builder with smart skills, an awesome attitude Read More…
What makes senior Layshia Clarendon special? Truly, it is not the points she scores as Cal’s starting shooting guard, even if she does lead the team with an average of 11.6 points scored per game. She may be one of Cal’s all-time top-10 women’s basketball scorers, scoring more than 1,500 Read More…
Men’s Basketball Eleven seconds away from beating the No. 21 team in the country on Dec. 9, the Cal men’s basketball team appeared poised to crack the top 25 and stake its claim as an early contender for the Pac-12 championship crown. But Quintrell Thomas grabbed an offensive rebound and 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 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.
The football career of sophomore running back Brendan Bigelow was almost over before it even started. As a junior in high school, Bigelow saw every running back’s nightmare come to life when he felt his knee twist in a way that it never should. In an overtime playoff game, Bigelow Read More…