1986, MBB. Broke a 52 game losing streak to the Bruins while the entire Harmon crowd yelled "CHERRRR-YYYLLLLLLL" over and over again to the world's largest ears.
I was at that game too. Yelled Cherrrr-yyylllll for 2 hours straight. Good times, although I sympathize on how tough it might have been to be Reggie that night. Not that I care….just sayin.
Cal breaking the 18 yr losing streak in football in 1990.
i think that was the game where the team came down thru the stands to start the game instead of thru the tunnel like they normally would. one of the loudest times at Memorial that i remember for a game.
that felt like the real beginning of the good streak that ended w/ the Citrus Bowl win the following year.
Also, 1994 MBB at the Coliseum arena. UCLA was undefeated and #1, the arena was the most electric I'd ever felt it. We led the whole game and Monty Buckley went off.
i like Biscuits and gravy. never had it until i moved to IN for grad school. now i usually get it if it is on the menu and have at least one go-to place in NYC when i want some, Bubby's.
I've usually only gotten it at bad hotels with the free breakfast. During Covid I started making biscuits, sort of successfully. To me they still weren't as good as somewhere like Bojangles. And I found a pretty good sausage gravy recipe which I've made twice now I think. MMM...makes me want to make it when I get back home.
Was awarded MVP for the 16 and under California state championship soccer game which my team won in OT on my goal. Won a few other things (like a Pulitzer) but that one means a lot because I've never met anyone else who's got one.
One of my 2023 fantasy football leagues on CBS Sports....many of my various teams have Godfather-inspired names (ie Fredo's Fumble, Appollonia's Necklace, McCluskey's Veal, Fontaine's Guinea Charm, etc.).
Led by the Dak Prescott/Cee Dee Lamb stack, Corleone's Caporegimes took home the title last season, which is significant because it paid for the Auburn trip in September!!
self-awarded .. most spirited dad award at sleepway camp 10 consecutive years.
i am the only dad that wears Waukeela branded clothes to camp drop-off and pick-up. not sure why it is only the women that care to be supportive in wearing their camp stuff.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WRAL) - The North Carolina Senate voted along party lines Wednesday to ban anyone from wearing masks in public for health reasons, following an emotional debate about the wisdom of the proposal.
The A’s dropped their third straight game to the rival Astros, falling to their division rival by a final of 3-0 on a night the bats could only muster two hits.
Right-hander Aaron Brooks, only just recalled today, made the start for the A’s in tonight’s contest. This is Brooks’ third different stint with the club, not something you see everyday in today’s game. He’s been putting up solid numbers for Vegas and the club needs starters so the club tapped him for tonight.
The Dodgers put up a solid fight considering everything but lost the chance at a sweep with a 4-1 loss to the Giants on Wednesday at Oracle Park. It’s just the middle of May, but we can confidently affirm the Dodgers won’t play a game under less favorable circumstances than the one they just did, concerning the pitching matchup at hand.
There is a special thing that happens in professional sports, and baseball is certainly no exemption. When a team is falling and flailing, they desperately reach for something, anything, to catch hold of. Occasionally they’re lucky and, like an unrealistic protagonist in an action film, grab hold of a ledge with the tips of their fingers. Fingers that suddenly have free soloist strength, and a ledge defying all that we know of architecture to stay intact long enough for the hero to pull themself up and out of danger.
Caitlin Clark, the much followed and ballyhooed rookie out of Iowa, had ten turnovers and shot 5-15 from the floor in her team’s twenty point loss to start the WNBA season vs. the Connecticut Sun. MEANWHILE, 33-yr old Golden Bear legend Layshia Clarendon, in the first game of the season for the Sparks, scored 11 points, had 10 rebounds, 10 assists and zero turnovers in thirty minutes. Triple Double!
we watched game instead of the Knicks playoff game at the same time.
saw some stat about Alyssa Thomas (Conn Suns) who had her 12th career triple double. only 9 others ever by any player. i suppose it is a hard thing to accomplish in only a 40 min game.
we have tix to the Caitlin Clark show vs the NY Liberty this Sat at Barclays Center.
RANCHO SANTA FE – California will return to the NCAA Men's Golf Championships for the first time since 2019 and 13th time in program history, punching its ticket with a second-place finish at the Rancho Santa Fe Regional at The Farms Golf Club on Wednesday afternoon.
BERKELEY – California's athletic communications staff was honored with the Super 11 Award on Wednesday, given annually to the best performing departments in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision.
The accolade was awarded based on the athletic communications staff's efforts during the 2023 football season.
BERKELEY – The California softball team opens play at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional vs. Southern Illinois on Friday at Tiger Park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The Golden Bears and Salukis are set for a 12:30 p.m. PT first pitch on ESPN+ with Kevin Fitzgerald and Aleshia Ocasio on the call.
BERKELEY – Cal alumnus H. Michael Williams, BA '82 P'22 knows as well as anyone the inspiring combination of athletic accomplishments and academic acumen that Cal student-athletes possess.
It is with that perspective that he and his wife, Jeanne, decided to make a $600,000 pledge to the Berkeley School of Education (BSE) in support of its Cultural Studies of Sport in Education master's program – led by Cal Athletic Study Center executive director Dr. Derek Van Rheenen, who is also a full adjunct professor in the BSE.
I don't know if this was mentioned while I was out of the country but Mia Mastrov has left Cal's women's basketball team. She's not entering the portal but -- rumor has it -- concentrating on being a social medial influencer. She completed her degree -- with academic honors -- in three and half years. She had a year of eligibility had she wanted to use it. Mia never emerged as an offensive threat but was a good rebounder and an excellent defender especially when the Bears would press. Yet some games she'd only get a few minutes or even none at all. I don't know that she ever had her heart fully in playing basketball team, in some ways it seemed like being on the team was a tool to improve her social media presence. I'm curious to see what she does in the future but given that she's now got a Cal degree and comes from a wealthy family and has half a million Instgram followers and 700,000 TikTok followers I'm sure she'll be fine. Interesting time at Cal.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Brenda Tracy's case against Mel Tucker is dismissed
https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/campus/2024/05/16/mel-tucker-michigan-state-lawsuit-brenda-tracy-text-messages/73698467007/
A memorable win over UCLA
1986, MBB. Broke a 52 game losing streak to the Bruins while the entire Harmon crowd yelled "CHERRRR-YYYLLLLLLL" over and over again to the world's largest ears.
I was at that game too. Yelled Cherrrr-yyylllll for 2 hours straight. Good times, although I sympathize on how tough it might have been to be Reggie that night. Not that I care….just sayin.
Cal breaking the 18 yr losing streak in football in 1990.
i think that was the game where the team came down thru the stands to start the game instead of thru the tunnel like they normally would. one of the loudest times at Memorial that i remember for a game.
that felt like the real beginning of the good streak that ended w/ the Citrus Bowl win the following year.
My freshman year. I got a kiss from a cute redhead after the game on the field.
And that, kids, is how I met your mother...
That was a great game.
The 2006 football game. Height of Tedford mania, The Bears were riding high. A sold out Memorial Stadium. Desean Jackson with a 72-yard punt return.
Triple OT at Memorial in 2000. I carried Boller around the field on my shoulders! (He was VERY sweaty)
Also, 1994 MBB at the Coliseum arena. UCLA was undefeated and #1, the arena was the most electric I'd ever felt it. We led the whole game and Monty Buckley went off.
I remember that game. Some old lady got mad at my friend and I for chanting over-rated. Said it diminished the Cal team
90 vs UCLA as HSB said.
91 @ UCLA. The Russell White flu game (and Doug Brien 47 yd FG to win).
23 @ UCLA. Total domination for the last Pac-12 game against UCLA.
Southern
Chicken fried steak. Done well, its fantastic.
Biscuits and gravy.
i like Biscuits and gravy. never had it until i moved to IN for grad school. now i usually get it if it is on the menu and have at least one go-to place in NYC when i want some, Bubby's.
Bubby's also has excellent pie
I've usually only gotten it at bad hotels with the free breakfast. During Covid I started making biscuits, sort of successfully. To me they still weren't as good as somewhere like Bojangles. And I found a pretty good sausage gravy recipe which I've made twice now I think. MMM...makes me want to make it when I get back home.
Jaguars
Name something that you won or were awarded
Was awarded MVP for the 16 and under California state championship soccer game which my team won in OT on my goal. Won a few other things (like a Pulitzer) but that one means a lot because I've never met anyone else who's got one.
One of my 2023 fantasy football leagues on CBS Sports....many of my various teams have Godfather-inspired names (ie Fredo's Fumble, Appollonia's Necklace, McCluskey's Veal, Fontaine's Guinea Charm, etc.).
Led by the Dak Prescott/Cee Dee Lamb stack, Corleone's Caporegimes took home the title last season, which is significant because it paid for the Auburn trip in September!!
My brother and I were both the Most Likely to be US President in our 8th grade yearbook. Probably best for all that that never came true.
HS class superlatives
- loudest (or most annoying) laugh
- most optimistic ... people seem to not appreciate my sarcasm. i think i am the most pessimistic.
self-awarded .. most spirited dad award at sleepway camp 10 consecutive years.
i am the only dad that wears Waukeela branded clothes to camp drop-off and pick-up. not sure why it is only the women that care to be supportive in wearing their camp stuff.
wearing a camp hoodie today in fact.
Won some races and awards for running back when I was in Alaska. Sorta big fish in a small pond.
Dumb Government
NC Senate votes to ban people from wearing masks in public for health reasons
https://www.wect.com/2024/05/16/nc-senate-votes-ban-people-wearing-masks-public-health-reasons/
RALEIGH, N.C. (WRAL) - The North Carolina Senate voted along party lines Wednesday to ban anyone from wearing masks in public for health reasons, following an emotional debate about the wisdom of the proposal.
Joke is you GOP bozos. I'm part of an organization where there is a perpetual ritual that has me a wear a mask whenever I want.
https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2023/H0237
Gonna be super fun to have your surgeon not masked up while he's cutting you open. Can't wear a mask until he gets to the rally tonight.
seems like people should protest by wearing a mask!
Republican supporters of the ban said it would help police crack down on protesters who wear masks
Trick or treat 365 days a tear.
PRO
A’s bats silent in 3-0 loss to Astros
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2024/5/15/24157870/as-bats-silent-in-3-0-loss-to-astros
The A’s dropped their third straight game to the rival Astros, falling to their division rival by a final of 3-0 on a night the bats could only muster two hits.
Right-hander Aaron Brooks, only just recalled today, made the start for the A’s in tonight’s contest. This is Brooks’ third different stint with the club, not something you see everyday in today’s game. He’s been putting up solid numbers for Vegas and the club needs starters so the club tapped him for tonight.
Logan Webb holds Dodgers scoreless to prevent sweep in San Francisco
https://www.truebluela.com/2024/5/15/24157955/logan-webb-dodgers-giants-mike-yastrzemski
The Dodgers put up a solid fight considering everything but lost the chance at a sweep with a 4-1 loss to the Giants on Wednesday at Oracle Park. It’s just the middle of May, but we can confidently affirm the Dodgers won’t play a game under less favorable circumstances than the one they just did, concerning the pitching matchup at hand.
NBA
DAL beats OKC to go up 3-2. I think they take out OKC tomorrow.
BOS beats CLE 113-98 to win the series 4-1. They're just going to lose to DEN in the finals.
Beat LA (past tense)
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2024/5/15/24157884/giants-dodgers-recap-logan-webb-luis-matos-shohei-ohtani-heliot-ramos-mike-yastrzemski
There is a special thing that happens in professional sports, and baseball is certainly no exemption. When a team is falling and flailing, they desperately reach for something, anything, to catch hold of. Occasionally they’re lucky and, like an unrealistic protagonist in an action film, grab hold of a ledge with the tips of their fingers. Fingers that suddenly have free soloist strength, and a ledge defying all that we know of architecture to stay intact long enough for the hero to pull themself up and out of danger.
Cal
Go Bears!!!
Caitlin Clark, the much followed and ballyhooed rookie out of Iowa, had ten turnovers and shot 5-15 from the floor in her team’s twenty point loss to start the WNBA season vs. the Connecticut Sun. MEANWHILE, 33-yr old Golden Bear legend Layshia Clarendon, in the first game of the season for the Sparks, scored 11 points, had 10 rebounds, 10 assists and zero turnovers in thirty minutes. Triple Double!
Welcome to the league, rook!
I'm more shocked that Clarendon is already 33 years old
I don’t know. I saw the team with her, Brittany Boyd, and Reshanda Gray play two games in DC and it seems forever ago.
we watched game instead of the Knicks playoff game at the same time.
saw some stat about Alyssa Thomas (Conn Suns) who had her 12th career triple double. only 9 others ever by any player. i suppose it is a hard thing to accomplish in only a 40 min game.
we have tix to the Caitlin Clark show vs the NY Liberty this Sat at Barclays Center.
[MGOLF] Cal Advances To NCAA Championships
https://calbears.com/news/2024/5/15/mens-golf-cal-advances-to-ncaa-championships.aspx
RANCHO SANTA FE – California will return to the NCAA Men's Golf Championships for the first time since 2019 and 13th time in program history, punching its ticket with a second-place finish at the Rancho Santa Fe Regional at The Farms Golf Club on Wednesday afternoon.
[NEWS] Cal Athletic Communications Staff Wins Super 11 Award
https://calbears.com/news/2024/5/15/athletics-news-cal-athletic-communications-staff-wins-super-11-award.aspx
BERKELEY – California's athletic communications staff was honored with the Super 11 Award on Wednesday, given annually to the best performing departments in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision.
The accolade was awarded based on the athletic communications staff's efforts during the 2023 football season.
[SB] Bears Set For Baton Rouge Regional
https://calbears.com/news/2024/5/15/softball-bears-set-for-baton-rouge-regional.aspx
BERKELEY – The California softball team opens play at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional vs. Southern Illinois on Friday at Tiger Park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The Golden Bears and Salukis are set for a 12:30 p.m. PT first pitch on ESPN+ with Kevin Fitzgerald and Aleshia Ocasio on the call.
[T&F] New Heights
https://calbears.com/news/2024/5/15/track-field-new-heights.aspx
Pac-12 Champion.
It is a prestigious title, one that Skyler Magula had been dreaming about for quite some time.
"It's the main reason I came to Cal," he said. "I wanted to go to a Pac-12 school specifically, and I always felt like I could win a title."
[NEWS] Cal Supporters Enrich Master's Program Experience
https://calbears.com/news/2024/5/15/athletics-news-mike-and-jeanne-williams-make-impactful-pledge.aspx
BERKELEY – Cal alumnus H. Michael Williams, BA '82 P'22 knows as well as anyone the inspiring combination of athletic accomplishments and academic acumen that Cal student-athletes possess.
It is with that perspective that he and his wife, Jeanne, decided to make a $600,000 pledge to the Berkeley School of Education (BSE) in support of its Cultural Studies of Sport in Education master's program – led by Cal Athletic Study Center executive director Dr. Derek Van Rheenen, who is also a full adjunct professor in the BSE.
I wonder if this is a Masters program partially targeted towards athletes.
I don't know if this was mentioned while I was out of the country but Mia Mastrov has left Cal's women's basketball team. She's not entering the portal but -- rumor has it -- concentrating on being a social medial influencer. She completed her degree -- with academic honors -- in three and half years. She had a year of eligibility had she wanted to use it. Mia never emerged as an offensive threat but was a good rebounder and an excellent defender especially when the Bears would press. Yet some games she'd only get a few minutes or even none at all. I don't know that she ever had her heart fully in playing basketball team, in some ways it seemed like being on the team was a tool to improve her social media presence. I'm curious to see what she does in the future but given that she's now got a Cal degree and comes from a wealthy family and has half a million Instgram followers and 700,000 TikTok followers I'm sure she'll be fine. Interesting time at Cal.
I think we did discuss her last week. Good for her to graduate in 3.5 years with honors.
I think her future is an influencer.
Her future is as an heiress. Everything else is just a hobby.
Did you mean that her future is to be an influencer, or that her future is influencing her?
Hmm. How is an influencer different from what we used to call a columnist? Herb Caen, George Will, Lesley Visser...
to be an influencer. Probably get paid to do instagram post and tweets about their products, and stuff like that.