Astronomers have found binary white dwarf stars that are nearly ready to go supernova only 150 light years away and will become 10x brighter than the moon. "Nearly" is astronomical terms, which is 9 billion years, by when the earth and moon will have already been engulfed by our own sun when it turns into a red giant.
BERKELEY – Two members of the California track & field team competed at Edwards Stadium in the first day of the Brutus Hamilton Invitational on Thursday, with senior Riley Knott representing the Golden Bears in the decathlon and junior Torre Anderson appearing in the heptathlon.
The California men's gymnastics team begins its postseason campaign this weekend with the MPSF Championships, with the Golden Bears set to meet Oklahoma, Stanford and host Air Force on Saturday at 3 p.m. PT. This will be the second time this season that Cal has shared the gym with the Sooners and Falcons and its sixth time seeing the Cardinal.
After a long road trip, the 10th-ranked California men's tennis team (16-2, 8-2 ACC) returns to Berkeley to host its final two regular-season home matches against No. 15 Duke on Friday and No. 47 North Carolina on Sunday at the Hellman Tennis Complex.
The Duke and North Carolina matches will be featured on the Cracked Racquets ACC CrossCourt Cast on ACCNX.
The No. 2 California men's rowing team will co-host the Cal/Stanford Invitational alongside the Cardinal this weekend in Redwood Shores. The event features several dual races and brings in some of the top crews in the country in No. 1 Washington, No. 17 Wisconsin, No. 20 UC San Diego and No. 22 Oregon State, as well as Santa Clara.
Current Season Series Win Streak: Cal, 2 (1980-87)
— The first of the four all-time meetings between Cal and Clemson came on June 1, 1980, in a second-round elimination game at the College World Series; the Golden Bears were 6-4 winners
— The Tigers and Golden Bears also met in a three-game series at Clemson on May 9-11, 1997, with Cal winning two of three (12-11, 3-15, 12-10)
— Cal and Clemson are meeting for the first time ever in Berkeley
The California softball team (25-10) returns to Levine-Fricke Field for the first time since March 16 to face off against Nevada (28-9) on Friday at 3 p.m. PT.
It will be the 44th all-time meeting between the teams in a series in which the Golden Bears hold a 27-15-1 advantage over the Wolf Pack. Nevada enters Friday's matchup with a two-game winning streak after a doubleheader sweep of UNLV on Wednesday, while Cal looks to snap a three-game skid after dropping an ACC series to Clemson on the road last weekend
BERKELEY – Fifth-ranked California will host No. 14 Arizona State in an MPSF women's water polo match at noon PT Saturday. The contest will be played at Legends Aquatic Center.
It's the first of three consecutive home games to end the regular season for Cal (15-3, 2-2 MPSF), which is coming off a road sweep of Indiana and Michigan last weekend. The Golden Bears are 3-1 at home this season with the lone loss coming against then-No. 2 USC on March 22. They'll also host UC Irvine (April 13) and Stanford (April 18) over the next two weeks.
MIAMI -- Ja Morant showed off an imaginary gun. The NBA hit back with a real fine.
A day after Morant again used his aiming-a-gun gesture to celebrate making 3-pointers, the Grizzlies' star was fined $75,000 by the league Friday. It's the second time this week that Morant -- who was suspended twice in 2023 for incidents with actual weapons -- heard from the league about mimicking the act of using a gun during a game.
The Lakers offense struggled for most of the night on Thursday, leading to the Warriors grabbing a 123-116 win in Crypto.com Arena. The Lakers drop back down to the No. 4 seed with the loss.
While the team shot 45.3% from the field overall, almost all of that came in the fourth quarter. Golden State, meanwhile, went 19-42 from the 3-point line to punish the purple and gold.
the shooting the in 4th quarter was unbelievable by both teams, Podziemski, Curry, James, Reeves were all hitting deep 3s ..
fun to watch and glad to see the Ws come out on top. and to be fair, at crunch time, it was defense by Draymond and stability by Butler that sealed the win.
Both teams shot well in the 4th. It was a heavyweight fight. A playoff type game. What the Warriors need right now to close out the season. Get the young guys some playoff atmosphere minutes.
I think the TNT Inside the NBA guys said they thought he could win. But it wasn't Ernie, Chuck and Kenny. It was Shaq, Candice Parker, Vince Carter, and some other guy.
The Golden State Warriors secured a massive victory on Thursday night, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers 123-116. With the win, the Dubs remain the fifth-seed in the Western Conference, and avoided falling all the way back to the eight-seed. With a difficult matchup tomorrow night against the Nuggets, the Warriors gave themselves a little breathing room.
US Senate passes budget blueprint. If you were to come up with a specific line-items that were to benefit the Donald Trump (ie, reduce tax bracket rates, increase AMT exemptions, more business deductions, allow business losses to be rolled forward more, favorable treatment of income shields like trusts, lower estate taxes, expand loopholes for more "charitable" donations deductions, increase gift tax exemption, extend removal of itemized deduction caps) - then you're in luck.
This will expand budget defecit by about $10-15 Trillion, pushing the US to become the world's second most indebted nation by debt/GDP ratio - worse than sick countries like Greece.
China hits back with a 34% retaliatory tariff on all US goods. However, the US exports more commodities than China, so its tariffs should correspondingly do more damage on sales and target red states.
Conan O'Brien did a bit in March 2000 where he went to an advertising agency to do a fake commercial. He was smitten by the woman in the piece (link below). He asked her out and they've been married for 23 years with two kids.
SHE BLINDED ME WITH...
Astronomers have found binary white dwarf stars that are nearly ready to go supernova only 150 light years away and will become 10x brighter than the moon. "Nearly" is astronomical terms, which is 9 billion years, by when the earth and moon will have already been engulfed by our own sun when it turns into a red giant.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02528-4
DBD Street Journal
Fed Chair Jerome Powell says they're not doing any rate action. Presumably we're all kind of screwed because of the possibility of stagflation.
https://thehill.com/video-clips/5232044-watch-live-jerome-powell-us-economy-tariffs/
Stagflation was the answer to one of the clues in today’s LA Times crossword.
On the Lighter Side
AP does a piece about NYC's bodega cats
https://apnews.com/article/bodega-cats-new-york-ebc2b1324c52bdbe6be70fcb71d12216
Freckles
CAL
[T&F] Knott Leads Decathlon Field After Day 1
https://calbears.com/news/2025/4/3/track-field-knott-leads-decathlon-field-after-day-1.aspx
BERKELEY – Two members of the California track & field team competed at Edwards Stadium in the first day of the Brutus Hamilton Invitational on Thursday, with senior Riley Knott representing the Golden Bears in the decathlon and junior Torre Anderson appearing in the heptathlon.
[MGYM] Bears Head To MPSF Championships
https://calbears.com/news/2025/4/3/mens-gymnastics-bears-head-to-mpsf-championships.aspx
The California men's gymnastics team begins its postseason campaign this weekend with the MPSF Championships, with the Golden Bears set to meet Oklahoma, Stanford and host Air Force on Saturday at 3 p.m. PT. This will be the second time this season that Cal has shared the gym with the Sooners and Falcons and its sixth time seeing the Cardinal.
[MTEN] No. 10 Cal Hosts No. 15 Duke, No. 47 UNC
https://calbears.com/news/2025/4/3/mens-tennis-no-10-cal-hosts-no-15-duke-no-47-unc.aspx
After a long road trip, the 10th-ranked California men's tennis team (16-2, 8-2 ACC) returns to Berkeley to host its final two regular-season home matches against No. 15 Duke on Friday and No. 47 North Carolina on Sunday at the Hellman Tennis Complex.
The Duke and North Carolina matches will be featured on the Cracked Racquets ACC CrossCourt Cast on ACCNX.
[MROW] No. 2 Cal Co-Hosts Cal/Stanford Invitational
https://calbears.com/news/2025/4/3/mens-rowing-no-2-cal-co-hosts-cal-stanford-invitational.aspx
The No. 2 California men's rowing team will co-host the Cal/Stanford Invitational alongside the Cardinal this weekend in Redwood Shores. The event features several dual races and brings in some of the top crews in the country in No. 1 Washington, No. 17 Wisconsin, No. 20 UC San Diego and No. 22 Oregon State, as well as Santa Clara.
[BASE] Bears Host No. 6 Clemson
https://calbears.com/news/2025/4/3/baseball-bears-host-no-6-clemson.aspx
SERIES HISTORY/NOTES
All-Time Series: Cal leads, 3-1
Current Win Streak: Cal, 1 (May 11, 1997)
Last Clemson Win: May 10, 1997 (at Clemson)
Current Series Win Streak: Cal, 1 (1997)
Current Season Series Win Streak: Cal, 2 (1980-87)
— The first of the four all-time meetings between Cal and Clemson came on June 1, 1980, in a second-round elimination game at the College World Series; the Golden Bears were 6-4 winners
— The Tigers and Golden Bears also met in a three-game series at Clemson on May 9-11, 1997, with Cal winning two of three (12-11, 3-15, 12-10)
— Cal and Clemson are meeting for the first time ever in Berkeley
[SB] Cal Faces Nevada At Home
https://calbears.com/news/2025/4/3/softball-cal-faces-nevada-at-home.aspx
The California softball team (25-10) returns to Levine-Fricke Field for the first time since March 16 to face off against Nevada (28-9) on Friday at 3 p.m. PT.
It will be the 44th all-time meeting between the teams in a series in which the Golden Bears hold a 27-15-1 advantage over the Wolf Pack. Nevada enters Friday's matchup with a two-game winning streak after a doubleheader sweep of UNLV on Wednesday, while Cal looks to snap a three-game skid after dropping an ACC series to Clemson on the road last weekend
[WPOLO] No. 5 Cal Returns Home To Host Arizona State
https://calbears.com/news/2025/4/3/womens-water-polo-no-5-cal-welcomes-arizona-state-to-berkeley.aspx
BERKELEY – Fifth-ranked California will host No. 14 Arizona State in an MPSF women's water polo match at noon PT Saturday. The contest will be played at Legends Aquatic Center.
It's the first of three consecutive home games to end the regular season for Cal (15-3, 2-2 MPSF), which is coming off a road sweep of Indiana and Michigan last weekend. The Golden Bears are 3-1 at home this season with the lone loss coming against then-No. 2 USC on March 22. They'll also host UC Irvine (April 13) and Stanford (April 18) over the next two weeks.
Go Bears!!!
PRO
Ja Morant made a gun-shooting pose during a game. This is not a repeat from Tuesday.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/44525515/ja-morant-uses-finger-gun-gesture-earlier-warning
Grizzlies' Ja Morant fined $75K for finger-gun gestures
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/44532896/grizzlies-ja-morant-fined-75k-finger-gun-gestures
MIAMI -- Ja Morant showed off an imaginary gun. The NBA hit back with a real fine.
A day after Morant again used his aiming-a-gun gesture to celebrate making 3-pointers, the Grizzlies' star was fined $75,000 by the league Friday. It's the second time this week that Morant -- who was suspended twice in 2023 for incidents with actual weapons -- heard from the league about mimicking the act of using a gun during a game.
Check out Gianni's box score stats in the Bucks' 126-113 win over the Sixers. Goodness gracious.
https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401705681
Dodgers and Giants win the off-day. Unsurprisingly, A's are losers.
tight Western conference standings .. only 2.5 games separate places 3-8.
https://www.espn.com/nba/standings
Warriors did themselves a huge favor by beating Lakers last night in a fun and wild game. everyone else mostly won too. so it is as tight as ever.
Lakers struggle offensively, fall to Warriors despite late rally
https://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2025/4/3/24400841/lakers-vs-warriors-final-score-recap-stats-box-score-luka-doncic-lebron-james-austin-reaves
The Lakers offense struggled for most of the night on Thursday, leading to the Warriors grabbing a 123-116 win in Crypto.com Arena. The Lakers drop back down to the No. 4 seed with the loss.
While the team shot 45.3% from the field overall, almost all of that came in the fourth quarter. Golden State, meanwhile, went 19-42 from the 3-point line to punish the purple and gold.
the shooting the in 4th quarter was unbelievable by both teams, Podziemski, Curry, James, Reeves were all hitting deep 3s ..
fun to watch and glad to see the Ws come out on top. and to be fair, at crunch time, it was defense by Draymond and stability by Butler that sealed the win.
Sounds like it’s too bad I went to bed at halftime.
Both teams shot well in the 4th. It was a heavyweight fight. A playoff type game. What the Warriors need right now to close out the season. Get the young guys some playoff atmosphere minutes.
they kept saying Draymond is in the running for Defensive player of the year. i couldnt tell if that was from the W's announcers or for real.
i appreciate that he will very likely be on the all-defensive team.
I think the TNT Inside the NBA guys said they thought he could win. But it wasn't Ernie, Chuck and Kenny. It was Shaq, Candice Parker, Vince Carter, and some other guy.
Brandin Podziemski, Steph Curry carry Warriors to impressive 123-116 win over Lakers
https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2025/4/3/24400906/warriors-defeat-lakers-brandin-podziemski-lebron-james-steph-curry-luka-doncic
The Golden State Warriors secured a massive victory on Thursday night, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers 123-116. With the win, the Dubs remain the fifth-seed in the Western Conference, and avoided falling all the way back to the eight-seed. With a difficult matchup tomorrow night against the Nuggets, the Warriors gave themselves a little breathing room.
POLITICS
US Senate passes budget blueprint. If you were to come up with a specific line-items that were to benefit the Donald Trump (ie, reduce tax bracket rates, increase AMT exemptions, more business deductions, allow business losses to be rolled forward more, favorable treatment of income shields like trusts, lower estate taxes, expand loopholes for more "charitable" donations deductions, increase gift tax exemption, extend removal of itemized deduction caps) - then you're in luck.
https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/senate_amendment_h_con_res_14.pdf
This will expand budget defecit by about $10-15 Trillion, pushing the US to become the world's second most indebted nation by debt/GDP ratio - worse than sick countries like Greece.
The Freedom Cock-Ass flank of the GOP has objected to the blueprint, citing that the House has to do most of the cuts (and catch the blame).
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5231341-senate-republican-budget-plan-house/
I knew I should have tried to be independently wealthy. Damn it!
"I don't know why Americans are getting sicker now that I've gutted Federal healthcare. Oh, and I fired the wrong people. Whoopsie."
https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/1907173828448420155
Heil to the Orange King, Trumpjugend.
https://apnews.com/article/dei-trump-school-discrimination-federal-funding-7d1025753b9bd924711ace4069fca399
China hits back with a 34% retaliatory tariff on all US goods. However, the US exports more commodities than China, so its tariffs should correspondingly do more damage on sales and target red states.
https://apnews.com/article/china-tariff-trade-trump-earths-02cd23e913649f32985f075058e787c4
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
DBD AV CLUB
Conan O'Brien did a bit in March 2000 where he went to an advertising agency to do a fake commercial. He was smitten by the woman in the piece (link below). He asked her out and they've been married for 23 years with two kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HaHeQXBqxY
Russell Brand charged with rape and other charges in the UK
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0457d02e9go
DISCUSSION TOPIC: SHOULD DBD IMPOSE TARIFFS?
Only if you come to the discussion section asking people to do analytical work for you and /or the number 49 is in your username.
yes, only on people from certain countries though ..