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  • Today’s Big Number — 3

    3 -- Conference titles Cal has won or shared in football or men's basketball since 1958 (1975 and 2006 football, 2010 basketball)

    3 -- Female Stanford players who are finalists for the Wooden national player of the year (Kayla Pedersen, Nneka Ogwumike, Jayne Appel).

    3 -- Players competing this spring to replace Toby Gerhart as Stanford's No. 1 tailback (Stepfan Taylor, Jeremy Steart, Tyler Gaffney).

    3 -- Aussies in St. Mary's starting lineup

    3 -- Players competing this spring to be Cal's starting QB (Kevin Riley, Brock Mansion, Beau Sweeney, although it will be a shocker if Riley is not the winner)

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Jake Curtis spent 27 years as a San Francisco Chronicle sports writer, most of them covering Bay Area college football and basketball.  While at the Chronicle, Jake covered 11 Rose Bowls, 9 football national championship games and 12 Final Fours.  He also covered an NBA Finals and a World Cup. 


Jake is from the East Coast, having grown up in Bethlehem, Pa., watching Lehigh football on chilling Pennsylvania Saturdays.  (Now that’s football weather.) So don’t claim Stanford or Cal bias.  He also went to Princeton so please let him know if any snotty Ivy League garbage seeps in.


Statistics are fine, but here the goal is to provide a different slant on college sports, sometimes serious, sometimes not.   We love sports history around here, so trends are viewed with a historical perspective.


Jake is from the generation when only three channels were available in very un-HD black-and-white.   Which of the four bowl games you watched on January 1 depended on which channel had the best reception.  (That’s it, dear, hold the antenna just like that and don’t move for the next two hours.)  Cable?  We don’t need no stinkin’ cable.


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