We call this the “This and That Plus The Thing Over There Too” column for JakesTakeOnSports, giving a brief thought or two (for our short attention-span audience) on some items of note. Walt Harris — Photo Post Gazette  Item — Saw this headline: Harris, former Pitt coach, to join Cal football staff.   Our immediate reaction ...

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What’s the deal with Stanford football’s “What’s the Deal” deal? The “What’s Your Deal?” deal is a good deal smarter than most promotional deals marketing departments deal to us to deal with. Occasionally – in fact, rarely – the media will comment on a marketing campaign, and usually it’s to mock some lame attempt to ...

There are a lot of online shopping websites, but one – MarketAmerica.com –  is a one-stop shopping portal that offers a wide variety of products and labels.   It is partnered with such reputable companies as Appel, Home Depot, Best Buy, K-Mart and Barnes & Noble, and the range of partners shows the range of products available.   ...

 Emerson Murray, an outstanding athlete from Vancouver, British Columbia, signed a letter of intent on Thursday to play basketball at Cal next fall.  Slam magazine calls him “the Canadian clone of John Wall,” which is is the type of overstatement we have come to expect from Slam, so don’t get too excited. Murray is a 6-3 combo guard, ...

The fact that Theo Robertson was named Cal’s team MVP the other day is what we classify as a Hmmm Story – an inconsequential story that nonetheless causes you to pause and say “Hmmm.”   It evokes the conspiracy theorist in us.  We know it probably means nothing, that there is no doubt is a simple explanation.   ...

The NFL Draft is one of those weird events in which no on-field competition takes place, but winners and losers are proclaimed.     What’s even stranger is that the W’s and L’s are determined by non-participants, often people who have never donned shoulder pads.  So we here at JakesTakeOnSports will play along, since, as lifelong non-participants ...

If you’re a running back, is it a good thing to be drafted by a team that already has the best running back in the NFL? Is it encouraging that the team who picked you traded away a third-round draft choice to move up in the draft in order to get you? Will it benefit ...

Remember Phil Mathews?  He was San Francisco’s head coach before Jessie Evans, who was replaced by Eddie Sutton, who was succeeded by Rex Walters.   But it was under Mathews that the Dons made their most recent trip to the NCAA Tournament. Well, Mathews has been named an assistant coach on Ben Howland’s staff at UCLA, ...