Last year, Cal women’s swimming entered its season opener fresh off of Missy Franklin’s verbal commitment. Now Franklin is in Berkeley as the Bears look forward to this weekend’s season opener against Oregon State. Read More…
Despite the rather disappointing lack of victories Cal football has provided us with, hordes of students and fans still show up to each game bleeding blue and gold and screaming “Bear territory!” at the top of their lungs. And why is that? Aside from the fact that all Golden Bears Read More…
Missile Missy has landed. As Cal women’s swimming enters the fall season, the Bears will welcome four-time Olympic gold medalist Missy Franklin and seven other freshmen to the team. Franklin is fresh off a record- setting performance at the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona. With six gold medals, she set Read More…
Team USA Olympic gold-medalist swimmer Missy Franklin (that’s an accomplished mouthful if we’ve ever heard one), is becoming a Golden Bear this fall! That’s old news, of course, but we thought with the school semester fast approaching (what, we have to do homework again?!) you could use an extra boost Read More…
Cal alumni Louis Peitzman — a former arts and entertainment editor and a former Sex on Tuesday columnist at The Daily Californian — and Ariane Lange of Buzzfeed fame teamed up recently to create this love letter to Cal. It went viral. In The Daily Clog’s debut use of GIFs, we have Read More…
18-year-old swimming phenom Missy Franklin is quickly taking over as the face of Team USA after superstar Michael Phelps retired last year. The future Cal women’s swimmer, who burst onto the international swimming scene after posting four gold-medal wins at the 2012 London Olympics, recently garnered the title of most Read More…
The Daily Cal sports staff looks back at the last year in Cal sports, and its most memorable moments. 1. Jeff Tedford let go following 3-9 season He is the winningest coach in Cal history. His 11-year tenure restored the football program to a level of respectability not seen Read More…
At the beginning of the season, the Cal women’s swimming team displayed an incredible amount of potential to defend its national championship title for the third year in a row. Despite losing eight seniors to start the season, such as multiple-NCAA winner Liv Jensen and Olympic silver medalist Sara Isakovic, Read More…
For the vast majority of sports teams, there’s always a definitive point in the season at which their fans allow their thoughts to stray towards the possibility of “next year.” Yes, for the disgruntled sports fan, irritated and beleaguered by supporting perennial bottom-feeders and cellar-dwellers, avoiding the agony of the Read More…
As the defending two-time national champions, the Cal women’s swimming team always has a target on its back. On Friday, after eight weeks’ break from competitive swimming, the Bears forgot, and the Wildcats took their aim. “Arizona was definitely ready to go,” associate head coach Kristen Cunnane said. “We’re the Read More…