Uh, folks, can I have your attention? I am sure everyone here is aware that my name is Larry Scott, and I called this gathering of the conference ADs so we can begin the discussion about how we’re going to align the conference next year when Colorado and Utah join us for what I believe will ...
Landry Fields was the most impressive. Jeremy Lin benefited the most. Omar Samhan turned some heads. Jerome Randle should look for work in Europe. Those interested in a concise report on how local players did in the NBA summer league may digest those sentences and get on with their day. Of course, anyone interested in how ...
The Chancellor’s Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics came up with some interesting numbers regarding the fiancial woes of the Cal athletics program when it released its report the other day. Normally we don’t care much for numbers. Colleges offer classes in “How to Lie With Statistics,” and you can prove and suggest virtually anything you want if you ...
The rule of thumb for predicting order of finish in the Pac-10 is simple: Rank the quarterbacks. Period. A team’s Pac-10 finish almost always parallels the success of its quarterback. Stanford’s unexpected gains last season were no so much a product of Toby Gerhart’s well-publicized running as it was the surprisingly efficient play of ...
Stanford seems to be more attractive to the television networks than Cal when it comes to the 2010 football season. The Cardinal is on national television five consecutive weeks early in the season, all on ESPN, ESPN2, NBC or ABC, while the Bears are on just three times in the first half of the season, with two ...
So Cal has decided to play its 2011 home football games at AT&T Park. It was first reported by the reliable Jonathan Okanes of the Contra Costa Times, but Cal removed the guesswork by saying it will make an annoucement Monday at AT&T Park. That’s about a 15-mile trip for the Cal team, which will make ...
Having San Francisco’s only bowl game played on January 9 this coming season is a bit jarring to our old-school senses. But we’ll adjust. It’s an evolving world, things change, you have to roll with the punches and blah, blah, blah. The real question is this: Will the game become known as the Kraft Bowl? ...
If you’re the type who’s willing to jeopardize his marriage by spending entire evenings surfing recruiting sites, believing that next basketball commitment could be the one that takes Cal or Stanford to the national championship, then the May 1 High School Academic All-American Classic all-star basketball game was for you. Eight players headed to Bay ...
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 ...
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, ...
