The latest numbers, calculated from March 31 to June 30, show a loss of 77 sold seats. The report noted, however, that 32 additional seats were sold in the two months after this quarter, bumping the total number to 1,812 out of an available 2,902 seats. 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…
UC Berkeley administrators have finally acquiesced to a difficult truth: Financing the renovation of California Memorial Stadium through a heavy reliance on luxury seat sales is not going to work. In order to keep the project on track, the campus will need to maximize all sources of revenue. It has Read More…
Since he became head coach of the Cal football team about a decade ago, Jeff Tedford’s legacy has gone steeply downhill. His team’s performance has slipped in recent years — both on the field and in the classroom — calling into question whether the team justifies the campus’s sizable investment. Read More…
Cal Dining signed a 15-year contract beginning July 1 with Cal Athletics to provide all of its concessions for home sporting events, creating an upgraded menu for the upcoming football season. Read More…
When the Bears took the field at Edwards Stadium for the annual spring football game, fans might not have known what to expect. After a loss to Texas in the Holiday Bowl last December and a lackluster recruiting season, the state of the team was up in the air. After Read More…
With Memorial Stadium currently undergoing renovations and on schedule to open for the 2012 season, the Cal football team has made a temporary home across the Bay at AT&T Park. Opened in 2000 as the new home for the San Francisco Giants, the park is widely considered to be one Read More…
On Tuesday, the fifth and final part of the strut that will support the press box at Memorial stadium was installed using a very large crane. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCLK1LeWG6g&w=560&h=315]
One of the largest cranes in the country came to Berkeley to place the press box in the California Memorial Stadium Monday, in the newest development of the stadium renovation. Claire Perlman is the assistant university news editor.
Memorial Stadium has been called many names — for example, a stadium with one of the most scenic views in college football and an icon of UC Berkeley — but it will never be regarded as quiet. Especially now with the stadium’s ongoing renovation, the noise and activity emitted from Read More…