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Sporting a gray, long-sleeved Cal football shirt, with his dark brown hair slicked across his forehead, Zach Kline took his seat behind the microphone. He settled his gaze on the view in front of him — a collection of recorders and iPhones strewn about on the table and a group
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I’m going to be as open and honest about this as I can. I don’t want to write this column. It’s not that I don’t want my own Daily Cal farewell column — I know that a year or two or three from now, I’ll regret it if I don’t
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Fifty-three seconds remained in the game — and possibly Cal’s season. The Bears, trailing by seven to BYU, were 35 yards away from salvation. On first down, quarterback Jared Goff threw incomplete to Kenny Lawler. On the next play, Goff lofted a pass to Chris Harper in the end zone.
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During his weekly press conference Tuesday, Cal football head coach Sonny Dykes was asked about the importance of Saturday’s Big Game in terms of getting rid of the negativity that has lingered since his 1-11 inaugural season. Dykes, though, didn’t indicate what role he thought the Big Game played in
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Back in August, when the first college football rankings were released, Stanford found itself at No. 11 in the AP top 25. The Cal football team was nowhere to be seen, predicted by Vegas to finish with just three wins. Yet when the Bears (5-5, 3-5 Pac-12) host Stanford (5-5,
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The last time the Cal football team knocked off USC, Aaron Rodgers was taking snaps under center and taking his play calls from Jeff Tedford. On the other side of Memorial Stadium, Pete Carroll was at the reins of the Trojans. His offense was led by Matt Leinart. I probably
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If someone would have told me prior to the Cal football team’s game against Oregon State that Jared Goff would only complete 51 percent of his passes for just one touchdown and 5.9 yards per attempt, I would have completely written off the Bears’ chances of pulling out a win
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When the Cal football team raced out to four wins in its first five games of the season, it gave itself a chance at achieving something that seemed completely ludicrous and unattainable before the season began. Those first four wins gave the Bears a shot at a bowl game. Since
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SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — For 15 minutes, the Cal football team kept pace with No. 6 Oregon. Cal drew first blood, scoring on the game’s opening drive. After Oregon responded with a touchdown of its own, the Bears reached the end zone for a second time. Again, the Ducks retaliated.
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Not only did the Cal football team fail to score more than seven points against Washington on Saturday, it was also unable to generate explosive plays. The Bears’ longest play was 25 yards, a Jared Goff to Maurice Harris connection that took place in the first quarter. Besides that completion
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