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The Cal varsity men’s crew raced against the best crews in the country this weekend at the IRA Championships on Mercer Lake in New Jersey, while the women raced at the NCAA Championships at Gold River, California. The women fought hard through the qualifying races in Gold River, advancing to
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In putting up 34 points on No. 4 Ohio State, Cal head coach Sonny Dykes’ offense continued to live up to its reputation. Unfortunately for the Bears, so did Cal’s defense. The Cal football team had no answer for the Buckeye offense Saturday at Memorial Stadium, surrendering 608 yards of
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On Sept. 15, 2012, Spencer Hagan came within a centimeter of losing his right leg. Playing No. 3 Ohio State in a nationally televised game, the redshirt junior was thrust into duty due to a plethora of injuries to Cal’s tight end corps. And for a former walk-on who had
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The football career of sophomore running back Brendan Bigelow was almost over before it even started. As a junior in high school, Bigelow saw every running back’s nightmare come to life when he felt his knee twist in a way that it never should. In an overtime playoff game, Bigelow
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Just this year, just this once, September should have 28 days. It would be so much more simple if Saturday was the first of October and not the 29th of September. Because September has not gone so well for the Cal football team. The Bears opened the season — and
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Tedford lets the clock wind down to 4:25. He calls a timeout and out trots D’Amato. “At that point in the game, you’re there to go ahead,” Tedford said. “When it’s 28-28 on the scoreboard and there are four minutes left to play, we are going to go for (the field goal). We wanted to put some points on the board.”
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hope is a funny thing. It’s certainly a good thing, maybe even one of the best of things. And even after the Cal football team’s 35-28 loss at Ohio State on Saturday, that hope won’t die. Despite playing the No. 12 team in the country on its
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — It took Brendan Bigelow 21 seconds to make the Cal faithful believe on Saturday. It only took Vince D’Amato a few seconds to bring Ohio Stadium back to life. On the heels of Bigelow’s 59-yard touchdown run to tie the game in the fourth quarter and an
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Follow along as Daily Cal football beat writer Jonathan Kuperberg gives play-by-play and analysis of the Cal-Ohio State game live from Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Kickoff is set for 9 a.m. Pacific time. Jonathan Kuperberg covers football. Contact him at [email protected]
Cal coach Jeff Tedford and No. 12 Ohio State coach Urban Meyer maintain a cordial relationship in the offseason. But this past February a taboo elephant came along for a golf outing. “This year there wasn’t a lot of talk about football, as you can imagine,” Tedford said. When Meyer’s
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