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An underdog story can never be told too many times. Someone getting an opportunity that seemed improbable is the oft-told tale that never gets old. Athletes seem to be the perfect examples for these stories to be told. We’ve all heard about the “Cinderella-like” student-athletes being “saved” or given a
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During a bye-week in 2002, then-Cal football head coach Jeff Tedford took a recruiting visit to Butte Community College in Oroville, California, where he and his staff were recruiting Butte tight end Garrett Cross. At Butte, he discovered an undervalued Chico-native who became the Bears’ starting quarterback for the 2003-04
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In the 119th edition of the Big Game, the Stanford football team once again proved its superiority over Cal, winning 45-31 Saturday at Memorial Stadium, for its seventh consecutive victory over the Bears.
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Bitter rivalries tend to bring out the worst in people, pushing them to their breaking points. But in a healthy rivalry, in its rare occurrence, mutual respect for the other party can be motivational, or even inspiring, with each party pushing the other toward greater levels of achievement. In recent
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Obviously, just about everyone expected No. 5 Washington to beat the Cal football team with ease Saturday, and the Huskies did just that, winning 66-27. But how did we get here? This wasn’t Cal coming up short against a team it’s traditionally been dominated by, such as USC. Instead, this
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The Daily Californian talked to former Daily Cal sports editor Mike Silver who now works for NFL Network and previously worked for Sports Illustrated. We discussed the Super Bowl, his time at UC Berkeley and the Cal football team. Silver is hosting a Super Bowl Kick-Off party and football panel
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Despite the Cal football and men’s basketball teams showing gradual improvements in graduation rates, they still lag behind many other programs nationally, according to the NCAA’s annual Graduation Success Rate report released Wednesday.
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A former UC Berkeley football player has sued the University of California over alleged medical malpractice surrounding the prevention and treatment of concussions.
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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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In a large room up at Memorial Stadium, the travel squad defense of the Cal football team is lifting weights, grunting as they do rep after rep after rep. Suddenly, the Bears’ head strength and conditioning coach Damon Harrington yells out a question: Has anyone here touched the Axe? The
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