Christian McCaffrey (lit us up for 284 rushing yards in the 2016 Big Game), Remound Wright who rushed for 4 TDs in the 2014 Big Game, Kedon Slovis as a freshman passed for 406 yards and 4 TDs against us (which was helped by having Michael Pittman, Drake London, and Amon-Ra St Brown) as your receivers, maybe Toby Gerhart as the fourth. Honorable mention: Luke Falk who lit us up but then we stonewalled him in the SmokeBowl and Jake Browning who passed for 6 TDs while dropping 66 points on us but then lost in the Lightning/Evan Weaver Bowl.
It’s very on brand of us to ask this question, instead of asking who our own best guys are. Don’t mean to criticize, just gives me a chuckle. Go Bears!
Yup. Particularly dispiriting when viewed in context of his last two teams, which were bowl-winning teams. Over his tenure, Snyder's teams were snakebit *twice* (in the '88 and '90 Big Games) and simply ran off the rails in the 1991 Big Game. The 1991 Big Game hurt because the potential was there for a blowout, but the defense was not prepared for Vardell and the team played recklessly.
Never before or since have I seen a team get flagged 15 times for personal foul penalties while committing *no other* penalties. Unbelievable.
I don’t know if I can leave Andrew Luck out of the conversation because, even though Cal got the better of him down on the Farm, I will never be able to forget that long run he had at Memorial where he assaulted would be tacklers like he was swatting flies.
The Ali museum in Louisville is pretty amazing. I highly recommend it for those going to the UofL game this fall. No 1 went to a school field trip there and Ali happened to show up and shake hands with all the students.
Buried down in the article. Hmm...a QB that relishes competition for QB1??
Back in his college days, Franklin would tell him that he was going to sign somebody better than Goff, somebody who would beat him out. Goff would look at his old coach and dare him: Do it. Bring him in. He liked the idea; he relished the idea of a fight. "But it wouldn't a mattered if I'd brought in Peyton Manning," Franklin says. "Jared would've competed and thought he could beat him out and thought it would make him better."
[WBB] Cal learns how good it is or isn't by playing against an elite program like Duke. #16 Duke humiliated #18 Cal 72-38 in Cameron Stadium. It was a beatdown in all phases of the game
Modern basketball with so many threes has a crapload of blowouts. Basically any team who is on any night can blow out any team who is off the same night. Just shrug it off and keep shooting. Go Bears!!!!
Did Cal also find out how good it is by demolishing Stanford earlier this year? Duke is a far less storied and decorated Women’s College Basketball program than Stanford.
Duke is a better team but not nearly 34 points better. It was a perfect storm of the Bears having an off night (way off) and Duke being really up for it and doing everything right.
This is a very concerning pattern, though. Smith and staff need to better prepare the team for success on the road. Thirty-one turnovers is embarrassing.
It is, with some exceptions. I suspect that he was in the portal but it is only making the news now. And speaking of exceptions, I think we are getting another two players in the portal but they are not announced yet.
The Glenn T. Seaborg Center for Teaching and Learning Science and Mathematics at Northern Michigan University is named in honor of Nobel Laureate Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, a native of the town of Ishpeming in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
i have a friend who lives and teaches in Marquette. it is a very pleasant town and i have been there a couple times.
the giant ore dock is really quite a sight to behold. it was used to load up giant hunks of iron ore (i think) onto huge vessels that carted it away on the Great Lakes.
ON3 reports that Bill Billichick's contract is still unsigned. This is refuted by - of all people - Billichick's barely-older-than-college-age girlfriend
College age indeed. Bill Belle Chick has “gone back to college” in more ways than one. Now let’s see how he handles strolling across campus on a beautiful morning of the first day of spring classes.
Yeah but he is thinking he wants a multi-year deal. Can’t really get that in college. He can set himself up for life by going pro and signing a rookie contract as a high first rounder. If he stays in CFB and does poorly he may mess that up.
Trump walks back some of his cornerstone campaign promises - solving the Ukraine War in 24 hours, getting peace in the Middle East in 24 hours, and bringing down grocery prices.
He will just move onto rambling about something else. Surely somewhere there is a hidden trans person using the wrong bathroom that must be ferreted out and exposed!
US Reps Malloy (R-UT) and Amodei (R-NV) introduce a bill to adjust the Antiquities Act to move the power to name/remove National Monuments designation from the President to the Congress. Reading between the lines, they want to discourage Trump from repeating what he did in his first term of trying to sell off national parks. Trump's new Interior Secretary has explicitly said he wants national parks to be as small as possible
Just the opposite. They want to take power away from a president to change the legal status of federal land (national monument status prohibits any new extractive uses such as grazing, mining, etc.). Utah just lost a petition to SCOTUS arguing that feds should turnover all BLM land to the state. This is the backup plan.
Cold enough that the local nbc affiliate just reported the orange snowflake is moving his swearing in indoors. So much for all the money spent on the viewing platform at the Capitol and so much for the people who travel here to watch.
The shortest term in US Presidential history was because of a lengthy ceremony and speech outdoors in miserable weather. And a completely outsized ego coupled with nil situational awareness.
Please note, also, that up through the 1933 Presidential Inauguration, Inauguration Day was on March 4. The 20th Amendment (ratified January 23, 1933) didn't take effect until the following October 15, so it couldn't have changed Inauguration Day 1933.
The 20th Amendment was proposed to shorten the lame duck period between the election in November and Inauguration Day.
I suggest that the framers got it wrong. Election Day should be in a warm weather month (like July or September) so that the new term can begin in the late summer or early fall.
The reported conditions for that day were inhospitable, but they were not as bone chilling as Monday's event is expected to be, nor were they the proximate cause of Harrison's eventual demise.
Noontime temps on March 4, 1841, were 48 deg. F, and the weather was overcast, with a cold wind. The new President delivered an Inaugural Address 8,445 words long, the longest ever.
Harrison was the oldest president inaugurate at 68 years and 23 days old, the oldest until Ronal Reagan in 1981. Note that the life expectancy for white males in 1840 was about 43.5 years. Harrison had lived a solid 24 years beyond that point when inaugurated.
But Harrison didn't fall ill until March 26, when he came down with a cold, which later developed into pneumonia which did kill him. For the first three weeks of his brief administration, William Henry Harrison was in good health.
Since there is a variable incubation period, he was probably well on hos way a lot earlier. And exposure can also make anyone susceptible to subsequent exposures because of stressed systems.
Work. I get the day off, but I am behind at work because I took 2 weeks off. Work doesn't go away when you go on PTO. I would probably help if I didn't goof off on the DBD. Nah, that's a dumb idea.
Daughter's visiting tomorrow. Going to see The Brutalist on Sunday -- all three and half hours of it. The gym on Monday along with a prolonged spell of reading.
Since there won’t be much to see I expect the Mall will not be vey crowded. I assume someone will be trolling Trump after with side by side pictures of an empty Mall for him and a picture of Obama’s first when the crowd went all the way back to the Lincoln Memorial which was as close as I got.
our weeklong ski trip to CO (Breckenridge and Aspen) got derailed yesterday when we found out the the younger one has mono.
older one and mom are still going since some things are paid for and other people/family will be there.
it is not debilitating so we'll probably watching playoff football and find some good sushi and sake in NYC to ease our sorrows of the missed ski trip.
i am blaming hanging out w/ SGBear and whatever unknown disease he has ..
It’s time for another edition of Oski Disciple’s Question of the Day. Is there a consensus among philosophers that if you do the hokey pokey and your turn yourself around that’s what it’s all about?
HUE
Hue Vietnam (pronounced "hway") is a beautiful/lush city that is the center of the country's art world.
The food in Hue is amazing. We did a motorbike food tour when we were there in 2018.
we almost went there. we were in Da Nang and Hoi An for 4 days and did a scenic drive over the Hai Van pass but didnt make it all the way to Hue.
Y
, BABY
LEWIS AND THE NEWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk15H6PjBis
At least he had a drink before...
NEWTON
and cry
Jackson
Beat me to it.
Who is on the Mount Rushmore of players who terrorized Cal football?
Christian McCaffrey (lit us up for 284 rushing yards in the 2016 Big Game), Remound Wright who rushed for 4 TDs in the 2014 Big Game, Kedon Slovis as a freshman passed for 406 yards and 4 TDs against us (which was helped by having Michael Pittman, Drake London, and Amon-Ra St Brown) as your receivers, maybe Toby Gerhart as the fourth. Honorable mention: Luke Falk who lit us up but then we stonewalled him in the SmokeBowl and Jake Browning who passed for 6 TDs while dropping 66 points on us but then lost in the Lightning/Evan Weaver Bowl.
Colin Kaepernik
Christian McCaffrey
Khalil Tate
Ed Dixon
It’s very on brand of us to ask this question, instead of asking who our own best guys are. Don’t mean to criticize, just gives me a chuckle. Go Bears!
Seems like a futile exercise. Need a whole mountain range. Cheapskate hill outside the stadium certainly couldn't begin to hold them all.
Tommy Vardell. See the 1991 Big Game. Eff this nonsense.
Each one of these was like a moment of PTSD where I audibly exhaled "uuughnff" after each one
I hate the '91 Big Game, a blight on an otherwise wonderful season. Kept Snyder winless against the Furd.
Yup. Particularly dispiriting when viewed in context of his last two teams, which were bowl-winning teams. Over his tenure, Snyder's teams were snakebit *twice* (in the '88 and '90 Big Games) and simply ran off the rails in the 1991 Big Game. The 1991 Big Game hurt because the potential was there for a blowout, but the defense was not prepared for Vardell and the team played recklessly.
Never before or since have I seen a team get flagged 15 times for personal foul penalties while committing *no other* penalties. Unbelievable.
The Bears were all emotion that day and you can't win that way.
Good description of how they played. Emotion is essential, but you can't sub it for preparation and focus.
Like the comment a few days ago, Ed Dickson. And there he goes for another TD.
I don’t know if I can leave Andrew Luck out of the conversation because, even though Cal got the better of him down on the Farm, I will never be able to forget that long run he had at Memorial where he assaulted would be tacklers like he was swatting flies.
That ugly memory lives with me too.
Sean Cattouse ouch
Breaking news: the desert will continue to be dry
https://www.azfamily.com/2025/01/17/will-arizona-see-rain-anytime-soon-dont-hold-your-breath-forecasters-say/
PRO
Happy Muhammad Ali's birthday! The champ was born on this day in 1942.
One of the great memories of my life is shaking hands and having a few words with The Greatest.
You met Marshawn?
No I met Muhammad Ali, who truly is the greatest.
my sister in law has a photo of her and Ali at the airport in L'ville when she was about 5 or 6. he is smiling and hold her in his arms.
cant seem to find the photo right now.
i guess he wasnt smiling
https://photos.app.goo.gl/qv4E1afjvsXXGkET8
The Ali museum in Louisville is pretty amazing. I highly recommend it for those going to the UofL game this fall. No 1 went to a school field trip there and Ali happened to show up and shake hands with all the students.
Padres out of the Roki Sasaki race. Down to Dodgers and Blue Jays.
It's going to be the Dodgers.
Yeah, feels inevitable
I think it probably always was going to be. But had to respect the process
ESPN article on Jared Goff and Detroit.
Jared Goff and the Lions: The NFL's most unlikely love story
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/43440306/jared-goff-detroit-lions-reinvent-2024-nfl-playoffs
Buried down in the article. Hmm...a QB that relishes competition for QB1??
Back in his college days, Franklin would tell him that he was going to sign somebody better than Goff, somebody who would beat him out. Goff would look at his old coach and dare him: Do it. Bring him in. He liked the idea; he relished the idea of a fight. "But it wouldn't a mattered if I'd brought in Peyton Manning," Franklin says. "Jared would've competed and thought he could beat him out and thought it would make him better."
JKS could learn a thing or two from Jared
Cubbies revealed new alternate unis - pretty skitz! So much better than those horribly bland Wrigleyville ones, which are mercifully being retired.
https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2025/1/17/24345793/cubs-new-alternate-uniform-celebrating-chicago-blues
Kinda looks like the Phillies '72-88 road uniforms - the powder blues - that they still use for throwback nights.
Oh those are great. Mike Schmidt era!
Those aren't bad. Did they recently have the baby blues with the cub head? Or maybe that was my imagination.
Yeah there was a baby blue walking bear hat - maybe a spring training hat?
Oh a hat. That makes more sense. Though on the jersey would be cool.
CAL
[WBB] Cal learns how good it is or isn't by playing against an elite program like Duke. #16 Duke humiliated #18 Cal 72-38 in Cameron Stadium. It was a beatdown in all phases of the game
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/game/_/gameId/401724739/california-duke
Modern basketball with so many threes has a crapload of blowouts. Basically any team who is on any night can blow out any team who is off the same night. Just shrug it off and keep shooting. Go Bears!!!!
Did Cal also find out how good it is by demolishing Stanford earlier this year? Duke is a far less storied and decorated Women’s College Basketball program than Stanford.
Duke is a better team but not nearly 34 points better. It was a perfect storm of the Bears having an off night (way off) and Duke being really up for it and doing everything right.
This is a very concerning pattern, though. Smith and staff need to better prepare the team for success on the road. Thirty-one turnovers is embarrassing.
Go Bears!!!
CJ Harris in the transfer portal.
Looks like we have 1 good-quality transfer QB, JKS, the JC transfer from San Mateo, Camingong in the QB room. I don't blame CJ for hitting the portal.
I thought the portal closed
It is, with some exceptions. I suspect that he was in the portal but it is only making the news now. And speaking of exceptions, I think we are getting another two players in the portal but they are not announced yet.
I see. Thank you
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
EA announces that Fire Starkey should continue to be employed and says that College Football 2026 will be released this summer
https://x.com/On3sports/status/1879953584067923975
Do you live in Marquette and need a place to live?
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/311-S-Lakeshore-Blvd-Marquette-MI-49855/338573068_zpid/
Buried lede: the giant ore dock in your backyard and the annual giant fireworks display that will be exploding above you
Glenn Seaborg was born very close by
The Glenn T. Seaborg Center for Teaching and Learning Science and Mathematics at Northern Michigan University is named in honor of Nobel Laureate Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, a native of the town of Ishpeming in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
https://nmu.edu/seaborg/dr-seaborg
i have a friend who lives and teaches in Marquette. it is a very pleasant town and i have been there a couple times.
the giant ore dock is really quite a sight to behold. it was used to load up giant hunks of iron ore (i think) onto huge vessels that carted it away on the Great Lakes.
i'll send it to my friend
ON3 reports that Bill Billichick's contract is still unsigned. This is refuted by - of all people - Billichick's barely-older-than-college-age girlfriend
https://x.com/On3sports/status/1880012728674525387
College age indeed. Bill Belle Chick has “gone back to college” in more ways than one. Now let’s see how he handles strolling across campus on a beautiful morning of the first day of spring classes.
"We are committed to UNC Football" != "He signed the contract."
Chip Brown @ 247.com says that Quinn Ewers turned down an $8m NIL offer from a rival and decided to declare for draft instead.
https://x.com/ChipBrown247/status/1879883728786530700
This does not make financial sense, so I am inclined to believe that either there were many strings attached to that figure or it's just not true.
Case in point, Carson Beck transferred for $4m and makes more than Bo Nix
https://www.si.com/college/oregon/football/miami-hurricanes-carson-beck-nil-money-denver-broncos-quarterback-bo-nix-nfl-contract-transfer-oregon-ducks-football-rookie-
Yeah but he is thinking he wants a multi-year deal. Can’t really get that in college. He can set himself up for life by going pro and signing a rookie contract as a high first rounder. If he stays in CFB and does poorly he may mess that up.
POLITICS
Trump walks back some of his cornerstone campaign promises - solving the Ukraine War in 24 hours, getting peace in the Middle East in 24 hours, and bringing down grocery prices.
He will just move onto rambling about something else. Surely somewhere there is a hidden trans person using the wrong bathroom that must be ferreted out and exposed!
@I'm shocked@
US Reps Malloy (R-UT) and Amodei (R-NV) introduce a bill to adjust the Antiquities Act to move the power to name/remove National Monuments designation from the President to the Congress. Reading between the lines, they want to discourage Trump from repeating what he did in his first term of trying to sell off national parks. Trump's new Interior Secretary has explicitly said he wants national parks to be as small as possible
https://www.ksl.com/article/51230682/maloy-seeks-antiquities-act-changes-as-utah-monuments-land-in-the-spotlight-again
Just the opposite. They want to take power away from a president to change the legal status of federal land (national monument status prohibits any new extractive uses such as grazing, mining, etc.). Utah just lost a petition to SCOTUS arguing that feds should turnover all BLM land to the state. This is the backup plan.
A bill introduced by state lawmaker Bubba Greenberg (R) fails. It sought to make petting sharks illegal. In Iowa.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/17/why-an-iowa-lawmaker-floated-a-bill-to-prohibit-petting-sharks/77747263007/
At one point, there were some that thought Trump would only return to the White House if/when hell freezes over.
NWS forecast for Washington DC for Monday is 17 degrees the night before, only 23 for a high, and then down to 6 overnight.
Turns out they were right.
Cold enough that the local nbc affiliate just reported the orange snowflake is moving his swearing in indoors. So much for all the money spent on the viewing platform at the Capitol and so much for the people who travel here to watch.
Ah bummer, was hoping he’d pull a William Henry Harrison. Guess we will have to wait for his third term for that
The shortest term in US Presidential history was because of a lengthy ceremony and speech outdoors in miserable weather. And a completely outsized ego coupled with nil situational awareness.
Of all the lessons from history he could have learned, he learned a self-serving one.
Please note, also, that up through the 1933 Presidential Inauguration, Inauguration Day was on March 4. The 20th Amendment (ratified January 23, 1933) didn't take effect until the following October 15, so it couldn't have changed Inauguration Day 1933.
The 20th Amendment was proposed to shorten the lame duck period between the election in November and Inauguration Day.
I suggest that the framers got it wrong. Election Day should be in a warm weather month (like July or September) so that the new term can begin in the late summer or early fall.
The reported conditions for that day were inhospitable, but they were not as bone chilling as Monday's event is expected to be, nor were they the proximate cause of Harrison's eventual demise.
Noontime temps on March 4, 1841, were 48 deg. F, and the weather was overcast, with a cold wind. The new President delivered an Inaugural Address 8,445 words long, the longest ever.
Harrison was the oldest president inaugurate at 68 years and 23 days old, the oldest until Ronal Reagan in 1981. Note that the life expectancy for white males in 1840 was about 43.5 years. Harrison had lived a solid 24 years beyond that point when inaugurated.
But Harrison didn't fall ill until March 26, when he came down with a cold, which later developed into pneumonia which did kill him. For the first three weeks of his brief administration, William Henry Harrison was in good health.
A few years ago I published the real story of William Henry Harrison on my blog. https://rikuwrites.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-secret-history-of-william-henry.html
Good stuff! Worth a read!
Since there is a variable incubation period, he was probably well on hos way a lot earlier. And exposure can also make anyone susceptible to subsequent exposures because of stressed systems.
I'm not buying a three-week incubation period for the common cold. Nor should you.
DBD AV CLUB
Looking forward to Love Hurts with Short Round and Marshawn Lynch.
Started Ferris Buehler with my kids last night. Forgot how funny this is - absolute classic!
it has aged pretty well as movies from that era go
MLK Jr weekend plans
Work. I get the day off, but I am behind at work because I took 2 weeks off. Work doesn't go away when you go on PTO. I would probably help if I didn't goof off on the DBD. Nah, that's a dumb idea.
Daughter's visiting tomorrow. Going to see The Brutalist on Sunday -- all three and half hours of it. The gym on Monday along with a prolonged spell of reading.
Well, I was planning on going to the inauguration (j/k) but I guess I won’t go down just to watch a Jumbotron.
i wonder how much effort is going into having a big turnout at the inauguration since it was such a big sticking point last time.
All he has to do is say “hang Mike Pence” and loads of dudes will turn out, no worries
Since there won’t be much to see I expect the Mall will not be vey crowded. I assume someone will be trolling Trump after with side by side pictures of an empty Mall for him and a picture of Obama’s first when the crowd went all the way back to the Lincoln Memorial which was as close as I got.
There are five consequential football games this weekend - 4 NFL Divisional Playoff games on Saturday and Sunday; the CFP Championship Game on Monday.
I plan to do chores around the house and kick the last of this cold I've had since last Sunday.
None. I don't get it off anyways.
our weeklong ski trip to CO (Breckenridge and Aspen) got derailed yesterday when we found out the the younger one has mono.
older one and mom are still going since some things are paid for and other people/family will be there.
it is not debilitating so we'll probably watching playoff football and find some good sushi and sake in NYC to ease our sorrows of the missed ski trip.
i am blaming hanging out w/ SGBear and whatever unknown disease he has ..
I am happy to take the blame, bud.
It’s time for another edition of Oski Disciple’s Question of the Day. Is there a consensus among philosophers that if you do the hokey pokey and your turn yourself around that’s what it’s all about?
The emptiness of those words has been cited by some as evidence of the ultimate futility of human existence.
And when did it become a wedding staple. I guess any dance like that is, like the YMCA and the chicken dance.
Wait, what? I have never been to a wedding where anybody did the Hokey Pokey or the Chicken Dance.
i agree. never seen it at a wedding. just a grade school thing.
yes. " that’s what it’s all about"
At least a good share of what it's all about.