UC Berkeley crowned champion in research bracket
UC Berkeley took the crown in Thomson Reuters’ Metrics Mania competition, an NCAA bracket style contest that ranked universities based on their research impact.
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Tag Archives: NCAA
College sports at a crossroads
The Critic Who Counts
If impulsive California legislators and the money-hungry National College Players Association have their way, UC Berkeley athletes may soon be going pro. The Sacramento Bee reported Saturday that California State Assembly Bill 475, currently being considered in committee, would require UC Berkeley and UCLA to pay student athletes an annual
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Cal in NCAA Salary Madness Championships
Taking bracketology to brackenomics, PayScale.com recently put UC Berkeley’s basketball team in the championship game if pairings were accorded to median alumni salary. Using language like “fat wallet four,” “top earning 8” and “salary 16” to denominate bracket tiers, the infographic puts a zingy twist on an American pastime. The
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Why I’m not buying football season tickets
The Discomfort Zone
After a lot of thought, I’ve decided to not buy football season tickets for this coming fall. I have had them the past two seasons, and the medical evidence surrounding the sport’s destructive nature convinced me to pocket my $100 instead. Last May, a group called Intelligence Squared sponsored a
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Thumb Wars: Should the NCAA deregulate high school football recruiting?
FOR: There has been a lot of talk lately about the ethics of recruiting in the news, in particular how coaches ought to interact with recruits. With the continued permeation of social media into the lives of high school recruits, the question needs to be addressed: How much should coaches
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The Lombardo Trophy: Deconstructing the NCAA’s “common sense”
On Nov. 12, 1999, the 106th United States Congress enacted the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act. It repealed many provisions of the 1933 Banking Act, or Glass-Steagall Act, which limited commercial banking activities and enforced a separation between commercial banks and securities trading firms. In
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Cal fires Jeff Tedford after 11 years at the helm
Jeff Tedford, the winningest coach in Cal football history, has been fired, according to Athletics Director Sandy Barbour. The move comes on the heels of the Bears’ 3-9 season, Tedford’s worst in Berkeley.
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Letters: July 29 – Aug. 5
I was deeply disturbed by the admission to undergraduate status of Khairi Fortt, a Penn State football player, only a few days before the new term opens. From all indications, he was “admitted” by the Athletic Department, without application or the critical vetting that thousands of other would-be undergraduates went through nearly a year ago.
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Cal athletic teams show ambiguous academic progress
The Cal football team ranks 11th in the Pac-12 in the NCAA’s most recent Academic Progress Report (APR), released Wednesday for a four-year period ending with the 2010-11 academic year. With a score of 936, the Cal football team’s APR score falls beneath the Division I football average of 948.
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VIDEO: Justin Cobbs – 2012 Highlights
A collection of the baskets made and attempted by Justin Cobbs over the course of the Spring 2012 season.
