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I guess I have to start from the top. When I came to Cal, I came as a spring admit, and not as one of the ones who does the Fall Program for Freshmen. I started, as relatively few people do, in January. I thought my status as a spring
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Pierre Ingram, Cal’s wide receivers coach and recruiting extraordinaire, was arrested last Thursday after allegedly soliciting a prostitute. Before this column can go on, I have to say how sorry I am for Ingram’s wife and two children, for the players he recruited and mentored and for the Cal community
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Recruiting means nothing. It also means everything. It means nothing because it is impossible to predict which players will be good and which will be bad based on nothing more than a star rating and a YouTube highlight video set to a pseudo-inspirational soundtrack. (Sorry, Jared!) Old lists of recruiting
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I remember sitting in the north end zone seats at Memorial Stadium — about halfway up — on a cold, wet November day as a 5-6 Bears team fought for bowl eligibility in its season finale. This was not Saturday night. This was four years ago, when I was a
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Every football coach on the planet emphasizes discipline. It’s one of those buzz words, like controlling the line of scrimmage, taking care of the football or “executing.” Cal football head coach Sonny Dykes has talked about discipline multiple times in press conferences this season. But the idea doesn’t seem to
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Down 31-7 in the third quarter against Stanford, Cal was desperate to spark a comeback. Chris Harper looked like he had just the thing the Bears needed. Sprinting down the left side of the field on a punt return, Harper cut to his right and found a hole. He had
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Stefan McClure made his first career start in 2011 playing against the best receiver in the nation — USC’s Robert Woods.
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There aren’t two 5-5 teams in the country that are more different than Cal and Stanford. The Bears make their living on their offense. We know this already. Cal’s offense puts up points in bunches, but its defense gives them up in bunches, too. Stanford is the opposite. The Cardinal
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LOS ANGELES — On a misty Thursday night in Los Angeles, a hollow, booming sound echoed across the walls of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The low rings, which arrived rhythmically one after the other, were greeted by a deep and sustained roar that surrounded the stadium. This sound —
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Jared Goff’s season could almost be split in two, just based on the statistics sheet. In the first five games this season, the sophomore quarterback threw for 375 yards per game, racking up 22 touchdowns in that span. Cal went 4-1. Then, Washington visited Memorial Stadium. Led by pass rushers
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