The Athletics came out on top of the Mariners today on the road, beating Seattle by a 8-5 final at Peoria Stadium.
The Athletics gave young righty Joey Estes the ball for today’s start. After making 24 starts for the A’s last year Estes entered camp firmly in competition for that fifth and final rotation slot. He did what he needed to do today, tossing two innings of ball. He made one bad pitch the entire afternoon, allowing a solo home run to Mariners first baseman Rowdy Tellez. One bad blemish doesn’t otherwise ruin a successful first outing of the spring for the young righty.
Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto stretched out and was taken deep, pitching 2⅓ innings and allowing a pair of home runs on Wednesday against the Brewers in Phoenix.
In his second of what will likely be four Cactus League starts before camp breaks, Yamamoto threw 54 pitches in recording his seven outs.
Sorry, overtime for regular season games is dumb. They're even dumber for exhibition season games. Save overtime for the playoffs, and the playoffs alone.
BERKELEY – Cole Tremain was the unquestionable hero at Stu Gordon Stadium on Wednesday evening as the California baseball team (5-3) earned its first walk-off win of the season with a 6-5 victory over Cal State Bakersfield in 11 innings. Tremain sent his teammates into a frenzy when he plated Cade Campbell with the game-winning run on his one-out RBI single in the bottom of the 11th. Campbell had started the rally with a one-out single before moving into scoring position at second base when Alex Birge walked.
BERKELEY (AP) – Chuck Harris scored 21 points and SMU beat California 81-77 despite blowing a 16-point second-half lead Wednesday night in Haas Pavilion.
The No. 9 California beach volleyball team is set for its home-opening tournament this weekend as one of the host sites of the Battle of the Bay. The Golden Bears face Pacific and UC Davis on Friday before taking on San Francisco and Sacramento State on Saturday. Matches begin at 10 a.m. both days.
The No. 5 California women's gymnastics team heads to The Farm on Friday for the Stanford Quad Meet at Maples Pavilion. The meet features the No. 14 Cardinal, No. 12 Oregon State, and UC Davis and is set for 7 p.m. PT on ACCNX/ESPN+.
As the ACC's last remaining undefeated team, Cal (12-2, 4-0 ACC) can clinch the outright regular season conference title with a win over Stanford (8-1, 4-1). Should the host Cardinal prevail, the Golden Bears will need to defeat North Carolina next week to become co-champions with their crosstown rival.
The unbeaten and 22nd-ranked California men's tennis team puts its 7-0 record to the test when it opens its ACC schedule against No. 10 NC State and top-ranked Wake Forest in its first conference road trip to North Carolina. The Demon Deacons are also unbeaten at 16-0, while the Wolfpack is 8-4.
The California men's gymnastics team will host its final home meet of 2025 this Friday, welcoming Oklahoma and Nebraska to Haas Pavilion at 6 p.m. for its first true tri-meet of the year. Prior to the first rotation, the Golden Bears will celebrate graduating seniors Sean Shimizu, Tyler Shimizu and Landon Wu, as well as graduate students Tomo Kawada and Aidan Li.
Jack Hart, a member of the Cal Athletics Hall of Fame who helped lead the Golden Bears to the Rose Bowl in 1959, passed away last week at the age of 87.
Hart was an All-Pacific Coast Conference running back and teammate of legendary quarterback Joe Kapp. Hart remained involved with Cal and college football for most of his adult life after leaving Berkeley, including creating the Glenn Seaborg Award – an honor given annually to a former Golden Bear for his career accomplishments and who represents the honored Cal principles and traditions of excellence in academics, athletics, leadership and attitude.
The California softball team (10-4) will travel to Fresno to conclude its early season tournament play at the Fresno State Invitational, beginning on Friday.
The Golden Bears will play five games in three days, beginning with Southern Utah and Fresno State on Friday. Cal will also take on Cal State Bakersfield and Fresno State on Saturday before closing the weekend against Southern Utah on Sunday.
Four graduating California Golden Bears were among a group of 59 student-athletes from across the Atlantic Coast Conference who were selected to receive various postgraduate scholarships to pursue professional career opportunities in their sport or field of study.
BERKELEY - California senior infielder Acacia Anders was named the ACC Player of the Week, announced by the conference Wednesday morning.
Anders celebrated her birthday weekend at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic, hitting .625 (10-for-16) with six RBIs, collecting five runs, four doubles, two walks and a .875 slugging percentage. In two of the last three games against LMU and Northwestern, she recorded three hits and has recorded a hit in seven consecutive games.
You forgot to tell us that when Thomas Derrick executed the Earl of Essex, he did so by beheading the Earl. Unaccustomed as he was to using an axe, Mr. Derrick required three swings to decapitate the Earl.
{Parenthetically, I thought that it strange that an execution at the Tower Green would be by hanging. Executions at that place were typically beheadings. So, I looked it up.)
Friend who works for the a government agency that keeps people safe from private parties not poisoning everyone with radioactive waste/accidents has informed us that enforcement essentially disappeared. Good luck with your air and water for the next... what's the half-life of [looks up half-life of various nuclear isotopes)... a long time.
WHAT IN THE ACTUAL LIVING EFF IS GOING ON? This is not the act of serious people. This will not make the Sunnis (Egypt, Indonesia, Saudis, Pakistan, Turkey, Morocco, Afghanistan) happy.
Trump formalizes that global climate change as a hoax is now national policy and essentially makes much of the EPA disposable. Two thirds of the EPA is slated for firing.
You know how the CDC analyzes the various flu strains that might emerge in the near future and then the vaccine is created. While the flu vaccine is generally only about 50% effective because picking them is an inexact predictive science, it does work. Well, that's in the shitter because RFJ Jr. just cancelled the meeting to pick the strains. This is already on the back of RFK Jr basically paralyzing the CDC and FDA's operations.
I haven't seen Bamboozled, but the other 3 are great. I also liked She's Gotta Have It where Mars Blackmon (from the Air Jordan commercials) is introduced. And Jungle Fever.
HSB - this is probably happened to you too, but I was walking down the sidewalk in Manhattan at a locally appropriate aggressive pace and almost ran over Spike Lee. I am pretty average sized. That dude is tiny.
Gene Hackman (95) dies in his sleep, but it's from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning. His wife Betsy Arakawa (63) and dog also died. Gene and Betsy had been married for 34 years.
[MBB] #16 Maryland and Michigan State are tied at 55. The Terps Ja'Kobi Gillespie rebounds a miss by the Spartans with eight seconds to go, dribbles up the court to take the last shot - win if he makes it and go to OT if he doesn't. He just needs to not boof it off the edge of the rim right into someone else's hands.
It’s time once again for Oski Disciple’s Question of the Day.
Can someone assure people who constantly litter their conversations with “you know what I mean?” That if we ever don’t know what they mean we’ll let them know?
PRO
Athletics defeat Mariners 8-5
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2025/2/26/24373438/athletics-defeat-mariners-8-5
The Athletics came out on top of the Mariners today on the road, beating Seattle by a 8-5 final at Peoria Stadium.
The Athletics gave young righty Joey Estes the ball for today’s start. After making 24 starts for the A’s last year Estes entered camp firmly in competition for that fifth and final rotation slot. He did what he needed to do today, tossing two innings of ball. He made one bad pitch the entire afternoon, allowing a solo home run to Mariners first baseman Rowdy Tellez. One bad blemish doesn’t otherwise ruin a successful first outing of the spring for the young righty.
Giants and the Cubs kiss their sister (tie 4-4)
Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitches into 3rd inning, allows 2 home runs in second spring start
https://www.truebluela.com/2025/2/26/24373739/yoshinobu-yamamoto-home-runs-dodgers-brewers
Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto stretched out and was taken deep, pitching 2⅓ innings and allowing a pair of home runs on Wednesday against the Brewers in Phoenix.
In his second of what will likely be four Cactus League starts before camp breaks, Yamamoto threw 54 pitches in recording his seven outs.
Tell me if you've heard this before. The NFL wants to tinker with overtime rules.
https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-to-examine-implementing-postseason-ot-rules-for-regular-season-games-in-2025
Sorry, overtime for regular season games is dumb. They're even dumber for exhibition season games. Save overtime for the playoffs, and the playoffs alone.
CAL
[BASE] Bears Walk Off Cal State Bakersfield, 6-5 In 11 Innings
https://calbears.com/news/2025/2/26/baseball-bears-walk-off-cal-state-bakersfield-6-5-in-11-innings.aspx
BERKELEY – Cole Tremain was the unquestionable hero at Stu Gordon Stadium on Wednesday evening as the California baseball team (5-3) earned its first walk-off win of the season with a 6-5 victory over Cal State Bakersfield in 11 innings. Tremain sent his teammates into a frenzy when he plated Cade Campbell with the game-winning run on his one-out RBI single in the bottom of the 11th. Campbell had started the rally with a one-out single before moving into scoring position at second base when Alex Birge walked.
[MBB] Cal Drops Home Contest To SMU
https://calbears.com/news/2025/2/26/mens-basketball-cal-drops-home-contest-to-smu.aspx
BERKELEY (AP) – Chuck Harris scored 21 points and SMU beat California 81-77 despite blowing a 16-point second-half lead Wednesday night in Haas Pavilion.
[BVB] No. 9 Cal To Host Battle Of The Bay
https://calbears.com/news/2025/2/26/beach-volleyball-no-9-cal-to-host-battle-of-the-bay.aspx
The No. 9 California beach volleyball team is set for its home-opening tournament this weekend as one of the host sites of the Battle of the Bay. The Golden Bears face Pacific and UC Davis on Friday before taking on San Francisco and Sacramento State on Saturday. Matches begin at 10 a.m. both days.
[WGYM] No. 5 Bears Set For Stanford Quad
https://calbears.com/news/2025/2/26/womens-gymnastics-no-5-bears-set-for-stanford-quad.aspx
The No. 5 California women's gymnastics team heads to The Farm on Friday for the Stanford Quad Meet at Maples Pavilion. The meet features the No. 14 Cardinal, No. 12 Oregon State, and UC Davis and is set for 7 p.m. PT on ACCNX/ESPN+.
As the ACC's last remaining undefeated team, Cal (12-2, 4-0 ACC) can clinch the outright regular season conference title with a win over Stanford (8-1, 4-1). Should the host Cardinal prevail, the Golden Bears will need to defeat North Carolina next week to become co-champions with their crosstown rival.
[MTEN] No. 22 Cal Opens ACC Slate At No. 10 Wolfpack, No. 1 Wake
https://calbears.com/news/2025/2/26/mens-tennis-no-22-cal-opens-acc-slate-at-no-10-wolfpack-no-1-wake.aspx
The unbeaten and 22nd-ranked California men's tennis team puts its 7-0 record to the test when it opens its ACC schedule against No. 10 NC State and top-ranked Wake Forest in its first conference road trip to North Carolina. The Demon Deacons are also unbeaten at 16-0, while the Wolfpack is 8-4.
[MGYM] Bears Host Oklahoma, Nebraska On Senior Day
https://calbears.com/news/2025/2/26/mens-gymnastics-bears-host-oklahoma-nebraska-on-senior-day.aspx
The California men's gymnastics team will host its final home meet of 2025 this Friday, welcoming Oklahoma and Nebraska to Haas Pavilion at 6 p.m. for its first true tri-meet of the year. Prior to the first rotation, the Golden Bears will celebrate graduating seniors Sean Shimizu, Tyler Shimizu and Landon Wu, as well as graduate students Tomo Kawada and Aidan Li.
[NEWS] Rose Bowl Legend Jack Hart Passes Away
https://calbears.com/news/2025/2/26/athletics-news-rose-bowl-legend-jack-hart-passes-away.aspx
Jack Hart, a member of the Cal Athletics Hall of Fame who helped lead the Golden Bears to the Rose Bowl in 1959, passed away last week at the age of 87.
Hart was an All-Pacific Coast Conference running back and teammate of legendary quarterback Joe Kapp. Hart remained involved with Cal and college football for most of his adult life after leaving Berkeley, including creating the Glenn Seaborg Award – an honor given annually to a former Golden Bear for his career accomplishments and who represents the honored Cal principles and traditions of excellence in academics, athletics, leadership and attitude.
[SB] Bears Head To Fresno State Invitational
https://calbears.com/news/2025/2/26/softball-bears-head-to-fresno-state-invitational.aspx
The California softball team (10-4) will travel to Fresno to conclude its early season tournament play at the Fresno State Invitational, beginning on Friday.
The Golden Bears will play five games in three days, beginning with Southern Utah and Fresno State on Friday. Cal will also take on Cal State Bakersfield and Fresno State on Saturday before closing the weekend against Southern Utah on Sunday.
[GEN] Four Bears Earn ACC Postgraduate Scholarships
https://calbears.com/news/2025/2/26/four-bears-earn-acc-postgraduate-scholarships.aspx
Four graduating California Golden Bears were among a group of 59 student-athletes from across the Atlantic Coast Conference who were selected to receive various postgraduate scholarships to pursue professional career opportunities in their sport or field of study.
[SB] Anders Named ACC Player Of The Week
https://calbears.com/news/2025/2/26/softball-anders-named-acc-player-of-the-week.aspx
BERKELEY - California senior infielder Acacia Anders was named the ACC Player of the Week, announced by the conference Wednesday morning.
Anders celebrated her birthday weekend at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic, hitting .625 (10-for-16) with six RBIs, collecting five runs, four doubles, two walks and a .875 slugging percentage. In two of the last three games against LMU and Northwestern, she recorded three hits and has recorded a hit in seven consecutive games.
Go Bears!!!
DEREK and homonyms
https://www.etsy.com/listing/659793378/maximum-derek-the-good-place
You forgot to tell us that when Thomas Derrick executed the Earl of Essex, he did so by beheading the Earl. Unaccustomed as he was to using an axe, Mr. Derrick required three swings to decapitate the Earl.
{Parenthetically, I thought that it strange that an execution at the Tower Green would be by hanging. Executions at that place were typically beheadings. So, I looked it up.)
Okay, what is "ruler of the Peole"? I think I know the answer, but I want to see if there's something I'm missing.
It's pronounced "peehole"
pqtm
POLITICS
Friend who works for the a government agency that keeps people safe from private parties not poisoning everyone with radioactive waste/accidents has informed us that enforcement essentially disappeared. Good luck with your air and water for the next... what's the half-life of [looks up half-life of various nuclear isotopes)... a long time.
[WaPo - paywall] FAA about to cancel $2.4b contract and give it to Elon Musk
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/26/musk-starlink-doge-faa-verizon/
now we can see if Verizon values its pending acquisition with Frontier more than it values an illegally canceled contract
The US Agriculture Sec said there would be no cut to SNAP (aka Food Stamps) benefits two weeks ago. Guess what?
https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/millions-of-low-income-households-would-lose-food-aid-under-proposed-house#_edn9
WHAT IN THE ACTUAL LIVING EFF IS GOING ON? This is not the act of serious people. This will not make the Sunnis (Egypt, Indonesia, Saudis, Pakistan, Turkey, Morocco, Afghanistan) happy.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/trump-gaza-video-shared-president-originated-israel-accounts-embraced-rcna193891
Dear gawd, no no no no no no no no no
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5165904-cuomo-2028-presidential/
he saw that RFK is putting the kibosh on the next flu vaccine and wants to show he can kill off meemaw too
"Some" Democrats need a swift kick in the arse or the nuts, as the case may be.
So much for people ever being "canceled."
Trump formalizes that global climate change as a hoax is now national policy and essentially makes much of the EPA disposable. Two thirds of the EPA is slated for firing.
https://apnews.com/article/epa-endangerment-finding-zeldin-trump-climate-change-4b34246d5ca798154af08560fd94f7b9
As Cal football fans we often use the term "doom" in jest. Here is in instance when it truly applies.
Kash Patel demands the list of 5,000 FBI employees associated with going after the Jan 6 traitors so that he can fire them
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/politics/kash-patel-first-week-fbi/index.html
Yesterday, Social Security Adminstration was told to fire 50% of all staff by the end of today.
Apropos: ALL Federal government agencies have been directed to fire half of their staff within two weeks
https://thehill.com/homenews/5165117-federal-employee-layoffs-plans/
JFC, the Federal government is going to grind to a halt.
That's the goal of the burn-it-all-down crowd.
I've been saying this for years. I feel like fucking Cassandra.
You know how the CDC analyzes the various flu strains that might emerge in the near future and then the vaccine is created. While the flu vaccine is generally only about 50% effective because picking them is an inexact predictive science, it does work. Well, that's in the shitter because RFJ Jr. just cancelled the meeting to pick the strains. This is already on the back of RFK Jr basically paralyzing the CDC and FDA's operations.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-vaccine-committee-meeting-kennedy-postponed-hhs-rcna191659
Pope Francis "I don't want to go on the cart. I feel fine. I feel happy!"
https://apnews.com/article/pope-vatican-pneumonia-conclave-a3f2410a612aa93c18fd638d08236ed3
Francis will continue to be alive up to the point that he is dead. Stating the obvious, obviously.
DBD AV CLUB
watched Inside Man (2006, Spike Lee joint) on the flight home the other day. (18/19)
seems like a normal bank robbery action drama. the social commentary, Nazi implications, self-motivated characters, were all an amazing combo.
now i am curious to see some more Spike Lee, which admittedly i have watched not that much
Start with his best, Do the Right Thing. Also see Malcom X, Bamboozled and BlacKkKlansman.
I haven't seen Bamboozled, but the other 3 are great. I also liked She's Gotta Have It where Mars Blackmon (from the Air Jordan commercials) is introduced. And Jungle Fever.
HSB - this is probably happened to you too, but I was walking down the sidewalk in Manhattan at a locally appropriate aggressive pace and almost ran over Spike Lee. I am pretty average sized. That dude is tiny.
Great movie, I would also recommend 25th Hour. I feel like it’s one of his best.
Mrs Slug loves, loves, loves that movie. I like it, too, a whole lot.
Paradise episode 7. Wow. I could see parts of this playing out in real life.
Gene Hackman (95) dies in his sleep, but it's from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning. His wife Betsy Arakawa (63) and dog also died. Gene and Betsy had been married for 34 years.
RIP to a great actor.
RIP a great actor. From Bonnie and Clyde through The Royal Tenenbaums, he made every picture he was in better.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
[MBB] #16 Maryland and Michigan State are tied at 55. The Terps Ja'Kobi Gillespie rebounds a miss by the Spartans with eight seconds to go, dribbles up the court to take the last shot - win if he makes it and go to OT if he doesn't. He just needs to not boof it off the edge of the rim right into someone else's hands.
https://bsky.app/profile/chrisvannini.com/post/3lj4s4re2wu2s
U New Orleans basketball players suspended for sports gambling, including their own games
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/44025939/reports-new-orleans-hoop-suspensions-possible-ncaa-violations
They're getting off lightly. They should have been dismissed from the team, if not expelled from the school.
U Michigan MGYM competitor Frederick Richard is waging a one-man campaign to prevent y'all from seeing his Richard
https://slate.com/culture/2025/02/gymnastics-frederick-richard-uniform-mens-winter-cup.html
It’s time once again for Oski Disciple’s Question of the Day.
Can someone assure people who constantly litter their conversations with “you know what I mean?” That if we ever don’t know what they mean we’ll let them know?
i often say, "no, i am not sure what you mean"