I also remember Bowling for Dollars and the video game one where you can call in and play a video game online on Channel 2 KTVU. There was the tank game where the caller would yell "Pow" and try to shoot the tank. With Pat McCormick maybe.
The night before the 1993 Super Bowl in Pasadena, my wife and I were having coffee outside on Colorado. We saw a TV crew approaching. They were asking everyone what they thought about the upcoming Super Bowl. I said "We just want to see the Michael Jackson show at halftime". That was the sound bite that made it on the local news.
I, and some of my colleagues, have been interviewed several times by the SciFi channel. But I don't think I ever made it on the air.
After the Giants won their first World Series in 2010, I went down to the ballpark to join in on the revelry. There was a TV camera set up in the front plaza of AT&T Park that I wasn't even sure was on, but I went in front of it and cheered briefly while there. Then I later got a bunch of texts from people who had seen me on KTVU news.
My last year in Alaska I was drafted to do call-in shows on local stations in Anchorage and Fairbanks near the end of the tax season. Once I was interviewed on The Weather Channel when they had a reporter down near the Capitol and I was out on a run during a snow.
A friend and I went to La Vals underground to watch the Cal/Dook tourney game in 93. A couple of coworkers said they saw us cheering on KTVU(?) when they did a story about the game.
i should have driven to Chicago for that game. it was well within driving distance from Bloomington. instead i ended up going to the sweet 16 game in St Louis vs Kansas (i think) that we lost.
We’ve had a long stretch of 90+ days and today forecast is near 100. Sometime next week we may get back below 90 for a high temp. Humidity generally hasn’t been to bad this year.
going up to 90 today in NY area. not humid and not as hot as the heat wave last week. perfectly nice in the shade.
today is HS graduation. my wife just went to see a neighbor's kid give one of the speeches (salutatorian) and i am going to pop over the afternoon garden party. even though neither of our kids are around, it is nice to see one of the special neighbor kids do so well.
this kid is perfectly smart on her own and has highly educated parents. she has always treated us like secondary parents since she spent so much time at our house. They were our next door neighbors for the first 10 yrs. She wrote us a nice note when she got into college saying “thanks for making her smarter!”
BERKELEY – Jonathan Okanes, California's associate athletics director for communications, was the recipient of two national awards in the 2024 edition of the annual Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest that was announced Tuesday by College Sports Communicators.
Okanes won in the Coach/Administrator Profile category and was the runner-up for National Story of the Year for his feature about men's basketball head coach Mark Madsen. Cal added a third national award in the contest with football tight end J.T. Byrne's first-person feature about his mother's battle with breast cancer – nominated by Cal director of communications Keeler McJunkin – placing as the runner-up in the Student Submissions category.
That's practically cheating. Okanes has more than 19 years as a journalist before coming into his current position. He had over 13 years with the Bay Area News Group.
BERKELEY – California women's basketball assistant coach Elize Pierre was named to Silver Waves Media's Top 50 Most Impactful Women's Assistants list. The list, curated after months of research by a panel of industry professionals, features some of the most outstanding and impactful assistants in Division I women's basketball.
BERKELEY – California men's and women's cross country will compete in six meets this fall during its inaugural season as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The Golden Bears will once again open the fall campaign locally at the USF Invitational in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on Aug. 30. Both the men's and women's squads placed at last year's invite, with the men taking second-place and the women clinching third. Two men – rising junior Caden Carney and returning senior Garrett MacQuiddy – notched top-8 finishes.
BERKELEY – Twelve California student-athletes spanning seven varsity sports were named to the 2024 At-Large Academic All-District Teams, College Sports Communicators (CSC) announced Tuesday morning.
The Oakland Athletics played game two of the three-game series against the Los Angeles Angels at Angels Stadium in Anaheim tonight. Mitch Spence got the start tonight against Tyler Anderson for the Angels.
The San Francisco Giants entered their four-game series against the Chicago Cubs in a bad place. A very bad place. A place we all end up in from time to time, but all fight like hell to avoid.
The Giants had lost five consecutive games. Two of those games came at the expense of the team standing directly across from them. One of their starting pitchers was injured, and also another one, and that other one as well, along with the other three who were already injured.
Both starts near home for Bobby Miller this season were disastrous, including a two-inning clunker on Tuesday against the White Sox. But the Dodgers bullpen put up zeroes and the offense did enough to overcome that in a 4-3 win in the second game in Chicago.
Miller grew up in Illinois and played his high school baseball in McHenry, a little more than an hour away from both Wrigley Field and Guaranteed Rate Field. On April 5 against the Cubs, he allowed five runs and recorded five outs, so technically Tuesday night on the South Side was an improvement, though not by much.
Le Tour de France starts in Florence this Sat, finishes not-in-Paris for first time because of the Olympics.
i am mostly going to be on the west coast during this time. each days stage will end around 800a instead 1100a local time. i like the 1100a finish because i can just work and watch for a solid 3 hours each morning.
contenders
Pogacar - has won twice, just won the Giro, looking nearly unstoppable for Giro-Tour double which has only been done a couple times
Roglic - never won, perennial contender, switched teams, should be his closest rival, also from Slovenia. recovering from early season crash.
Vingegaard - two time defending champ, coming off a brutal injury in spring, unlikely to have recovered enough
Evenepoel - Belgium's next big hope, current world champ, first time in le Tour, will get his butt kicked but needs to learn the ropes if he is going to win someday. also recovering from early season crash.
sadly, American Sepp Kuss, who won the Vuelta, is out w/ coronavirus. he was probably not a legit contender, but the best American in le Tour.
...and it wasn't even close from what I read. Let's see if Colorado's 4th District wants to return a representative who does nothing but shoot her mouth off.
SCOTUS accidentally publishes opinion ruling on Idaho abortion, which stalls the enforcement of a complete abortion ban and allows hospital abortions where a mother's life is in danger. It's not a major win for progressives because it only delays specific rulings on state laws rather than overturns it and Roe v Wade is still dead. Gorsuch, Thomas, and Alito dissented on the 6-3 ruling.
The Acolyte - 12/19 - newest Star Wars series focusing on twin sisters, one who trained as a Jedi, another on the dark side or something.
i have seen 3-4 episodes now. it is not nearly as good or gripping as the other series, but still fun to watch if you are a Star Wars fan.
i would say this series is more for the devoted fan as opposed to the Mandalorian where EVERYONE loved Baby Yoda and the Western style story-telling was really well done.
I’m purposely waiting to begin House of the Dragon S2 and Mayor of Kingstown S3 so I can binge multiple episodes.
Watching The Boys S4 episode by episode. Remains simply wild.
The Bear S3 drops tomorrow.
My buddy I am staying with in the Adirondacks does not have a working shower yet somehow has STARZ, so I plan to catch up on Hightown S3, which I missed because I dropped the channel.
Jonesy pup and I made it to our destination in upstate NY Sunday night…saw Newellbany briefly. Now that we’re finally settled for about a month, binge watching will soon commence.
that seems like a good binging strategy. i am not a TV binger. i usually enjoy one episode at a time. max 2. so i dont mind when they space out the episodes by a week.
Have you ever been on TV?
i just thought of something funny for Bay Area people if you remember this PSA clip called Borrowing Without Asking - Charley & Humphrey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdiQkaXKJ78
while they were not on TV, my kids did a re-creation of it ..
https://youtu.be/69xExwBva-s
HAHA that's great. Borrowing without asking!
I also remember Bowling for Dollars and the video game one where you can call in and play a video game online on Channel 2 KTVU. There was the tank game where the caller would yell "Pow" and try to shoot the tank. With Pat McCormick maybe.
Two instances, I can think of -
1. Antiques Roadshow segment on Mornings on 2 (KTVU; probably 20+ years ago)
2. KPIX segment on "how are you keeping warm during this cold snap?" (probably 34 or 35 years ago)
The night before the 1993 Super Bowl in Pasadena, my wife and I were having coffee outside on Colorado. We saw a TV crew approaching. They were asking everyone what they thought about the upcoming Super Bowl. I said "We just want to see the Michael Jackson show at halftime". That was the sound bite that made it on the local news.
I, and some of my colleagues, have been interviewed several times by the SciFi channel. But I don't think I ever made it on the air.
After the Giants won their first World Series in 2010, I went down to the ballpark to join in on the revelry. There was a TV camera set up in the front plaza of AT&T Park that I wasn't even sure was on, but I went in front of it and cheered briefly while there. Then I later got a bunch of texts from people who had seen me on KTVU news.
My last year in Alaska I was drafted to do call-in shows on local stations in Anchorage and Fairbanks near the end of the tax season. Once I was interviewed on The Weather Channel when they had a reporter down near the Capitol and I was out on a run during a snow.
A friend and I went to La Vals underground to watch the Cal/Dook tourney game in 93. A couple of coworkers said they saw us cheering on KTVU(?) when they did a story about the game.
i should have driven to Chicago for that game. it was well within driving distance from Bloomington. instead i ended up going to the sweet 16 game in St Louis vs Kansas (i think) that we lost.
a bunch of us were on national TV at the game vs TCU
https://photos.app.goo.gl/mSkFkAueSNrBPKxEA
RIP Cugel (the man in the gold shirt and panama hat)
WEATHER
I think it's supposed to cool down after about 4 days of heat. Mid 70s after low 90s since the weekend.
We’ve had a long stretch of 90+ days and today forecast is near 100. Sometime next week we may get back below 90 for a high temp. Humidity generally hasn’t been to bad this year.
going up to 90 today in NY area. not humid and not as hot as the heat wave last week. perfectly nice in the shade.
today is HS graduation. my wife just went to see a neighbor's kid give one of the speeches (salutatorian) and i am going to pop over the afternoon garden party. even though neither of our kids are around, it is nice to see one of the special neighbor kids do so well.
this kid is perfectly smart on her own and has highly educated parents. she has always treated us like secondary parents since she spent so much time at our house. They were our next door neighbors for the first 10 yrs. She wrote us a nice note when she got into college saying “thanks for making her smarter!”
High of 102 today and standard Southern humidity. It's a preview of playing at Auburn
Visiting family in the Midwest: hot, muggy, thunderstorms.
CAL
[NEWS] Okanes Earns National Writing Honors
https://calbears.com/news/2024/6/25/athletics-news-okanes-earns-national-writing-honors.aspx
BERKELEY – Jonathan Okanes, California's associate athletics director for communications, was the recipient of two national awards in the 2024 edition of the annual Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest that was announced Tuesday by College Sports Communicators.
Okanes won in the Coach/Administrator Profile category and was the runner-up for National Story of the Year for his feature about men's basketball head coach Mark Madsen. Cal added a third national award in the contest with football tight end J.T. Byrne's first-person feature about his mother's battle with breast cancer – nominated by Cal director of communications Keeler McJunkin – placing as the runner-up in the Student Submissions category.
I didn't know he was on Cal staff now. Miss those days when I was reading Okanes and Ted Miller in pac10 coverage.
That's practically cheating. Okanes has more than 19 years as a journalist before coming into his current position. He had over 13 years with the Bay Area News Group.
[WBB] Pierre Named To Top-50 Most Impactful List
https://calbears.com/news/2024/6/25/womens-basketball-pierre-named-to-top-50-most-impactful-list.aspx
BERKELEY – California women's basketball assistant coach Elize Pierre was named to Silver Waves Media's Top 50 Most Impactful Women's Assistants list. The list, curated after months of research by a panel of industry professionals, features some of the most outstanding and impactful assistants in Division I women's basketball.
[XC] Cal Cross Country Unveils 2024 Schedule
https://calbears.com/news/2024/6/25/cal-cross-country-unveils-2024-schedule.aspx
BERKELEY – California men's and women's cross country will compete in six meets this fall during its inaugural season as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The Golden Bears will once again open the fall campaign locally at the USF Invitational in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on Aug. 30. Both the men's and women's squads placed at last year's invite, with the men taking second-place and the women clinching third. Two men – rising junior Caden Carney and returning senior Garrett MacQuiddy – notched top-8 finishes.
[NEWS] Cal Hauls In Academic All-District Honors
https://calbears.com/news/2024/6/25/athletics-news-cal-hauls-in-academic-all-district-honors.aspx
BERKELEY – Twelve California student-athletes spanning seven varsity sports were named to the 2024 At-Large Academic All-District Teams, College Sports Communicators (CSC) announced Tuesday morning.
Looking at the schedule, it is a little weird that we're in the ACC but only seem to meet ACC teams in the ACC championship.
2024 Cross Country Schedule
8/30/2024 – USF Invitational (San Francisco, Calif.)
9/20/2024 – Roy Griak Invitational (Minneapolis, Minn.)
10/11/2024 – Bill Dellinger Invitational (Eugene, Ore.)
10/19/2024 – Bronco Invitational (Sunnyvale, Calif.)
11/1/2024 – ACC Championships (Raleigh, N.C.)
11/15/2024 – NCAA West Regional Championships (Pullman, Wash.)
11/23/2024 – NCAA National Championships (Madison, Wis.)*
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PRO
Alex Morgan off USA Olympics women's squad as era ends
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/40436255/alex-morgan-usa-olympics-womens-squad-era-ends
Hey Alex, we enjoyed watching you!
A’s drop another to the Angels 7-5
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2024/6/25/24186250/athletics-angels-spence-alvarez
The Oakland Athletics played game two of the three-game series against the Los Angeles Angels at Angels Stadium in Anaheim tonight. Mitch Spence got the start tonight against Tyler Anderson for the Angels.
Bullpen games: back in fashion (Giants beat the Cubbies 5-1)
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2024/6/25/24186188/giants-cubs-recap-randy-rodriguez-sean-hjelle-matt-chapman
The San Francisco Giants entered their four-game series against the Chicago Cubs in a bad place. A very bad place. A place we all end up in from time to time, but all fight like hell to avoid.
The Giants had lost five consecutive games. Two of those games came at the expense of the team standing directly across from them. One of their starting pitchers was injured, and also another one, and that other one as well, along with the other three who were already injured.
Cubbies are in a free fall! Started out hot but have collapsed and I think may be deadline sellers now
I mean, if you want to give up Dansby for a bucket of balls, I'm sure the Dodgers won't say no...
Dodgers home runs & strong bullpen overcome short Bobby Miller start to beat White Sox
https://www.truebluela.com/2024/6/25/24185404/shohei-ohtani-freddie-freeman-dodgers-bullpen-bobby-miller-white-sox
Both starts near home for Bobby Miller this season were disastrous, including a two-inning clunker on Tuesday against the White Sox. But the Dodgers bullpen put up zeroes and the offense did enough to overcome that in a 4-3 win in the second game in Chicago.
Miller grew up in Illinois and played his high school baseball in McHenry, a little more than an hour away from both Wrigley Field and Guaranteed Rate Field. On April 5 against the Cubs, he allowed five runs and recorded five outs, so technically Tuesday night on the South Side was an improvement, though not by much.
Knicks mortgage their future to trade for Mikal Bridges
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40434308/new-york-knicks-trade-mikal-bridges-brooklyn-nets-load-picks
Le Tour de France starts in Florence this Sat, finishes not-in-Paris for first time because of the Olympics.
i am mostly going to be on the west coast during this time. each days stage will end around 800a instead 1100a local time. i like the 1100a finish because i can just work and watch for a solid 3 hours each morning.
contenders
Pogacar - has won twice, just won the Giro, looking nearly unstoppable for Giro-Tour double which has only been done a couple times
Roglic - never won, perennial contender, switched teams, should be his closest rival, also from Slovenia. recovering from early season crash.
Vingegaard - two time defending champ, coming off a brutal injury in spring, unlikely to have recovered enough
Evenepoel - Belgium's next big hope, current world champ, first time in le Tour, will get his butt kicked but needs to learn the ropes if he is going to win someday. also recovering from early season crash.
sadly, American Sepp Kuss, who won the Vuelta, is out w/ coronavirus. he was probably not a legit contender, but the best American in le Tour.
I might have that on the old personal laptop while I'm keeping an eye on things for work
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Trump claimed he graduated first in his class at Wharton. His Wharton classmates bring receipts that prove that he wasn't even close to that.
https://www.politicalflare.com/2024/06/trump-humiliate-claiming-graduated-first-in-his-class-from-college-wharton-proves-hes-lying-with-receipts/
Moderates win last nights primaries - dealing blows to both the Democrat's progressive wing and GOP's MAGA aligned candidates
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4740406-donald-trump-jamaal-bowman-lauren-boerbet-colorado-utah-new-york/
This is good news in that it suggests that voters may be tiring of polarization.
The longer I live, the more tired I become of the extremists, right and left.
Boebert won her primary, so 2 more years of that dipshit
...and it wasn't even close from what I read. Let's see if Colorado's 4th District wants to return a representative who does nothing but shoot her mouth off.
Adam Kinzinger (R) - former US Rep from Illinois - officially endorses Joe Biden
ttps://apnews.com/article/kinzinger-biden-endorsement-president-republican-30fd37b730fc435c308dcf801586f664
SCOTUS accidentally publishes opinion ruling on Idaho abortion, which stalls the enforcement of a complete abortion ban and allows hospital abortions where a mother's life is in danger. It's not a major win for progressives because it only delays specific rulings on state laws rather than overturns it and Roe v Wade is still dead. Gorsuch, Thomas, and Alito dissented on the 6-3 ruling.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-26/us-supreme-court-poised-to-allow-emergency-abortions-in-idaho
DBD AV CLUB
My kids are excited to see The Boy and the Heron, which started streaming yesterday. Has anyone seen it?
The Acolyte - 12/19 - newest Star Wars series focusing on twin sisters, one who trained as a Jedi, another on the dark side or something.
i have seen 3-4 episodes now. it is not nearly as good or gripping as the other series, but still fun to watch if you are a Star Wars fan.
i would say this series is more for the devoted fan as opposed to the Mandalorian where EVERYONE loved Baby Yoda and the Western style story-telling was really well done.
I generally enjoy the story of The Acolyte while being annoyed at various aspects of how it's made. So, it's fine.
Oh I totally forgot about this series.
there are SO many series these days. it is easy to miss one that you even want to watch!
I’m purposely waiting to begin House of the Dragon S2 and Mayor of Kingstown S3 so I can binge multiple episodes.
Watching The Boys S4 episode by episode. Remains simply wild.
The Bear S3 drops tomorrow.
My buddy I am staying with in the Adirondacks does not have a working shower yet somehow has STARZ, so I plan to catch up on Hightown S3, which I missed because I dropped the channel.
Jonesy pup and I made it to our destination in upstate NY Sunday night…saw Newellbany briefly. Now that we’re finally settled for about a month, binge watching will soon commence.
that seems like a good binging strategy. i am not a TV binger. i usually enjoy one episode at a time. max 2. so i dont mind when they space out the episodes by a week.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE