‘River City Drumbeat’ struggles to keep its rhythm

At its best, “Drumbeat” is a touching exploration of family and generational trauma, capturing passion and empathy in these community portraits.
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At its best, “Drumbeat” is a touching exploration of family and generational trauma, capturing passion and empathy in these community portraits.
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This was supposed to be the year that the Bears got over the hump and qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2011. After some highs and many lows, though, Cal ended the season in a mirror of last year: a loss in the first round of the conference tournament.
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With wins over these teams, the Bears can justify their RPI ranking and demonstrate to other programs that they are a top-tier team.
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Cal got three shots on goal in the first eight minutes alone, displaying a newfound degree of confidence gained from last weekend’s thrilling overtime loss.
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Cal got another chance to play against an elite team in North Carolina, and the experience could be helpful moving forward. In Louisville, too, Cal faced a strong squad and was able to go down to the wire with the Cardinals, matching them through 70 minutes.
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What do illegal camping, bilingual sailing lessons and Robert Kennedy have in common? They each could be your path to a future university professorship — or, at least, they each were part of a UC Berkeley faculty member’s road to success.
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Throughout the entirety of the season, and really for the past decade and counting, one team has stood above the rest — UConn.
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That was fast! Two weeks of college football have flown by, and all the things we expected from Cal football have unfolded before our eyes: The offense is putting up points, the onside kick coverage and success rate is flawless (which is a pleasant surprise), and the defense is …
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The Cal women’s basketball team started the season 9-2, with wins over then No. 8 Louisville and then No. 19 UCLA. Then, the Pac-12 season started. And the Bears have looked terrible. They’ve lost seven of their eight conference games, including a 19-point beatdown courtesy of the same Bruins whom
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Weeks of speculation and conjecture about the Cal women’s basketball team will come to an end Friday, when the Bears play their first official game of the season. Cal will have a busy weekend to set its season in motion, with just one day of rest between its first and
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