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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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Oops! Britney Spears did it again, but in the best way possible. After Cal Band preformed a full Britney Spears show at the Oct. 12 game at the Rose Bowl against UCLA, she tweeted out a video of the band performing. We’re happy to have the star behind us, but, more
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When Jared Goff takes the field Saturday against Northwestern, he’ll be the first true freshman quarterback in school history to take the team’s first snap of the year. But unlike everyone around him, Goff isn’t all too impressed by that fact. “That’s cool,” he says nonchalantly. “I’m still just a
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When I go to bed at night, I dream about one thing and one thing only: roses. When Jeff Tedford was the coach of the football team, he would joke that Cal fans wanted to see a Rose Bowl more than a national championship. It’s not a joke. I absolutely
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I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the former BCS system sucked. Let me ascribe some more sophisticated vocabulary to this statement. The system was bloated, inefficient and capitalist. The endurance of such excess was a testament to the mindlessness of modern entertainment, something that would make Aldous Huxley nod
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A Best Buy gift card, Tourneau watch, hooded sweatshirt and FlexFit cap — the Holiday Bowl’s Christmas gift to the Cal football team. Before stepping on the field, the players will already win small, expensive victories. Watches and shopping sprees are the among the most common products pushed in the
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