Sarah Siegel

The vastness of California melted away as we closed in on the border. When we reached the border fence, I was struck by an eerie feeling.

Mason Mangum made his collegiate debut in long jump at Cal track and field's season opener, where he recorded the 10th-best jump in school history.

Fortunately for Cal’s track and field athletes, the forecast is perfect for Saturday’s All Comers Meet 1 at Edwards Stadium.

Even in Albuquerque’s thin air, Cal’s track and field athletes were still able to produce a strong start to their season at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invitational last Saturday.

Saturday’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invite in Albuquerque, New Mexico, will serve as Cal track and field's indoor season opener.

Prevailing lines of thought in the United States often dissuade critical thinking — after all, isn’t “charity” a good thing? But the dark underbelly of American consumerism operates in the dark, hiding beneath notions of charity or international aid. It’s a virtually invisible market, far out of sight and out of mind for the vast majority of American sports fans.

Avoidance of food drives more fear, leading to caloric deficits, deprivation and in turn, more fear. It doesn’t take a drastic deficit to produce cascading mental health effects.

Sports stories aren’t usually given too much weight in discussions around journalistic equity or newsroom diversity. Here’s why they should be.

“My generation of the South Sudanese diaspora, there’s so much hope in us,” Deng said. “We all feel connected, wherever we are, globally.”

For more than a century, coffee breaks have allowed companies to extract more value from their employees. But maybe our dependence on the beverage has allowed us to extract more value from ourselves, too.