College Football

With the power to evoke overwhelming jubilation, a college football game is a hiatus from everyday existence for fans. But for the athletes on the gridiron, the game is a microcosm of real life.

There has been much anticipation surrounding potential picks with the NFL draft approaching. Sports reporter AJ Alany gives his take on the upcoming football festivities.

The Bears will need to have more ball control than they did against UCLA if they hope to stand a chance against a team that is more talented on paper.

Kai Millner has found ways to relieve the pressure that comes with confronting both adulthood and the possibility that he could be the next face of Cal football.

The reality is that Daniel Scott ends up where he wants to end up. After all, he sees the game play out before it even happens.

What the pandemic — and the attempts to play in it — have shown is that our society treats college football as a professional sport.

At some point, we must look in the mirror and ask ourselves what our priorities are if we’re playing football now.

If you’re out in the world at all, do yourself and everyone around you a favor, and treat yourself like an all-world athlete. Get up, touch your toes, crack your back and walk yourself down to your favorite COVID-19 testing facility.

Underdogs have pulled off upsets, the titans have stumbled and chaos is running rampant. In short, college football around the country is starting to look a lot like the Pac-12. Welcome to the party, America.

Three popular sports and their reactions to the Spanish flu show us that sports are a breeding ground for disease spread — and that every precaution available should be taken before returning to play as usual.