Maria Kholodova

Joining a Cal team in desperate need of quarterback depth, Finley will find himself alongside newly-acquired dual threat Sam Jackson V and fellow redshirt freshman Fernando Mendoza.

Now an NBA columnist for the Boston Globe, more than 30 years have passed since his time at the paper, but he still maintains that it was crucial to his career as a journalist.

Crumpacker graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English in 1977. During his time on campus, Crumpacker was very involved with The Daily Californian, serving as sports editor.

When I was writing this piece, I was acutely aware of the danger I could face if I returned to Russia just for arguing in favor of independent journalism that goes against the government line.

Despite splitting another pair of Pac-12 weekend matches, the Bears looked confident in LA this weekend. Beating UCLA 5-2 and narrowly losing out to USC 4-3, the Bears seem to be righting the ship.

After a rain-enforced break, Cal women’s tennis is set to come back to the court this weekend, facing two more Pac-12 opponents in USC and UCLA. Cal’s season has been riddled with rain delays and rescheduling, making it hard to get on-court time to prepare for tough matches.

The sports department’s staff writers got to take a break from (or, rather, add more work to) their regularly-scheduled beat coverage for this very special edition of the paper.

UC Berkeley has allegedly started a formal investigation into Cal’s athletic director, or AD, Jim Knowlton and associate AD Jennifer Simon-O’Neill over the response to abuse allegations made against former women’s swim and dive coach Teri Mckeever, according to reporting by SCNG Thursday.

Given the wonderfully unique nature of college sports, there is always an abundance of chaos. Some of the main perpetrators of this chaos are the mascots. And so, without further ado, here is a ranking of the men’s NCAA tournament top seeds’ mascots.

The Bears beat San Francisco 5-1 and routed Davis 6-0, in what was an attempt by Cal’s head coach Kris Kwinta to put some additional pressure on his team ahead of tough matchups and conference play beginning as soon as later this week.