[Translate] Hue Jackson UPDATE: Dykes picked over former Raiders Head Coach. Ok, this Cal Alum is excited that Sonny Dykes is coming to Cal and bringing the Airraid Offense , but the news from a good source that he was selected over former Oakland Raiders Head Coach Hue Jackson is, to be frank, a real shocker. Hue Jackson had openly stated he wanted the Cal...
[Translate] Mitchell Schwartz, Mychal Kendricks, Marvin Jones represent for Cal Football! (So far!) While The Stanford Cardinal had several players go in the top rounds of the 2012 NFL Draft, from Quarterback Andrew Luck, the first player taken overall, to Tight End Cory Fleener, who will join Luck at Indianapolis, rival California players and Cal fans had to...
[Translate] What this blogger hates about NCAA Selection Sunday is what this blogger likes about it: that when your team’s in, it’s a great God-sent day, and when your team’s out, you wish you’d gone to Church to pray for it to get in. On this Sunday, the expectation was that all three mighty Pac-12 teams would find their way into the...
[Translate] Cal Football After watching a Cal Stanford Big Game that Cal should have won, but lost 31-28, the California Golden Bears came into the Land of the Tourist – aka Tempe, Arizona – for its final game of the 2011 NCAA Season against Arizona State. After leading by as much as 10 points, Cal fooled around and lost the lead to the Sun Devils, then got it back, and with something Cal Blues have really never seen much of in a Cal Football team: speed. This blogger doesn’t know the official statistics for the...
[Translate] The headline above was almost “Colorado Shocks Cal 34 – 30,” as the Colorado Buffalo’s, under a well-called final drive in regulation, use a combination of reverses, passes, and runs, to almost score a touchdown, but got close enough to set up a field goal to tie. Cal ran out the clock, talking the game into overtime. That’s when an already interesting game, got more interesting. Thinking that they could gash Cal’s defense with the run, Colorado called four straight running plays,...
[Translate] Ok, let me get my bias out of the way before turning to College Football matters: I’m a Cal Alum who earned a Master of City and Regional Planning Degree and sat on The Cal Alumni Board and then the The Cal Alumni Awards Committee with Levi’s Chairman Bob Haas. I’m very pro-UC Berkeley, and could not be more totally pissed-off that the State of California has divested in Cal from 74 percent of total funding during the 80s, to something like 12 percent today, wrecking the Clark Kerr model in the process....
[Translate] LYNCH DEAL DONE A league source tells us that the Bills have reached an agreement with running back Marshawn Lynch, the No. 12 selection in the 2007 draft. (Adam Schefter of NFL Network was the first to report this.) Lynch will receive $10,285,000 in guaranteed money, and the total value of the package is $18,935,000 on a five-year deal. (Technically, it’s a six-year deal that voids to five if Lynch meets a minimum playing time threshold.) The key is the duration; Lynch is the fourth player taken in the top 16 who...
