Ted Grandy - the actor who played Gopher on the Love Boat - graduated magna cum laude with a BA in English from Harvard in 1970. Gopher's character's first name was Burl. He was a four-term GOP US House of Representative for Iowa's 6th district.
The kicker taken with a third-round pick didn’t last three seasons with the San Francisco 49ers.
After two wobbly years, the 49ers waived Jake Moody on Tuesday after his third season began with a wretched performance in a 17-13 season-opening win Sunday at Seattle, NFL Network reported. Moody missed a 29-yard attempt that clanged off the left upright, had a 36-yarder blocked due to poor protection and narrowly snuck in a 32-yarder inside the right upright to tie the game at 10-10 in the fourth quarter.
The Athletics are back home this week starting a three-game series against the Boston Red Sox that kicked off the homestand tonight at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento. Luis Morales, the 22-year-old rookie, will go up against 26-year-old lefty Garrett Crochet for the Red Sox.
Monday night was the 144th game of the season for the San Francisco Giants, and at no point this year have I been more curious to see what the vibes would be. The vibes were atrocious through the summer as the Giants inexplicably became the worst team in baseball, seemingly incapable of doing anything well on the diamond. The vibes were impeccable through the end of August and start of September, when they were shockingly the best team in baseball, rattled off 11 wins in 12 games, and emerged on the periphery of the postseason race behind a historic cascade of dingers.
My earlier analysis still stands - the Giants need a team ahead of them in the Wildcard race to get cold, very cold. The Mets may be obliging as they have lost their last 3 games and are 4-6 over their last 10 games (7-7 over their last 14 games).
The Giants snapped their 2-game losing streak as noted above, and are 7-3 in their last 10 games (12-3 in their last 15 games).
The Mets are 76-68 and currently hold the 3rd wildcard spot, while the Giants are 3 games back at 73-71. The Mets magic number is 16 with 18 games remaining while the Giants magic number is 22 with 18 games remaining.
Again, if the Mets merely play .500 ball in their last 18 games (9-9), the Giants must win 13 of their last 18 to move past and claim the last wildcard spot.
If the Mets were to post a 12-6 record in their last 18 games, they would have 88 wins. The Giants would then need 16 wins in their last 18 games (.888 clip) to pass the Mets. The Giants still have 7 games left against the Dodgers.
We're going Fri and Sun. Should be good games. ESPN guesses Ohtani/Verlander on Fri and Kershaw vs Webb on Sun. The way the Dodgers have been playing I fully expect a Giants sweep.
The series with the Dodgers this weekend could be high drama. That rivalry often is dramatic. There's also a 4-game set in Los Angeles coming up September 18-21. If the Giants are still in the race for the wildcard, it's almost guaranteed to be dramatic. There will still be 6 games after that series concludes for the Giants 2025 regular season.
If you didn’t know anything about these two teams watching this game, you could swear you were witnessing a fiercely contested battle of heavyweights as the Dodgers outlasted the Rockies in a 3-1 win at home. Tyler Glasnow and Chase Dollander were both outstanding, and it ended up being the efforts of the red-hot Mookie Betts against the Rockies’ bullpen that decided the game, with a two-run go-ahead double in the bottom of the seventh.
The California men's soccer team concludes its Boston-area sojourn when it takes on Harvard in a nonconference clash Wednesday at 3 p.m. PT.
The Golden Bears are unbeaten on the road at 3-0-0, including Sunday's 2-0 win at Boston College in their ACC opener. Cal has a 3-1-1 overall record, while the Crimson is 1-1-0.
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. – The California men's golf team placed two individuals in the top 25 after the first round of the season-opening Folds of Honor Collegiate on Monday at American Dunes Golf Club.
Sophomore Matthew Miyamoto birdied three of the first six holes before finishing with a 1-over par 72, which put him in a tie for 13th place. Fifth-year senior Charlie Berridge is a stroke behind at 2-over and tied for 24th.
California volleyball returns home for one mid-week match before hitting the road again this weekend, welcoming Vanderbilt to Haas Pavilion on Wednesday night and traveling to San Luis Obispo to face Cal Poly (Friday) and San Jose State (Saturday) in the Mustang Invitational at the Mott Athletics Center.
LAKE ELMO, Minn. - Senior Adora Liu shot a 2-over par 74 and sits in a tie for 15th place after the first round of the season-opening ANNIKA Intercollegiate at Royal Golf Club.
Liu, the program's record-holder for single-season scoring average, registered three birdies on the back nine and sits seven strokes off the lead.
DEM House Oversight Committee members release another racy message from Trump to Epstein. The whole birthday books drips with conspiratorial talk about they knew what Epstein was doing, except Clinton - who is a political robot.
Happy Birthday Esther Cleveland - second daughter to President Grover Cleveland and the youngest first lady in US history Francis Cleveland (21). Esther's elder sister was Ruth. In 1921, a manufacturer of candybars renamed one of their products "Baby Ruth" during a record breaking year of Babe Ruth's career. Babe Ruth sued the candy manufacterer 10 years later. The manufacturer argued the bar was named after Ruth Cleveland, even though Grover Cleveland left office 28 years prior and 17 years after Ruth died of diphtheria at age 17. The candymaker was run by Otto Schering, who also invented Peppermint Patty and Butterfinger.
Esther Cleveland lived to be 86 years old. She was the first child to be born to an incumbent US President and First Lady.
Interesting factoids. I had heard the Baby Ruth story some time long ago, but had forgotten it.
Peppermint Patty became the name of a character in a comic strip (Peanuts), and Butterfinger became an epithet for receivers who dropped passes and people who dropped valuable items, often shattering them.
1850 - California is admitted as the 31st state of the United States. California's admission to the United States was a feature of the Compromise of 1850, which was the passage and enactment of five bills that briefly defused abolitionist vs. slavery tensions in the United States. To wit -
1) California was admitted to the United States as a free state,
2) passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850,
3) banned the slave trade, but not slavery itself, in Washington, D.C.,
4) defined the northern and western boundaries of Texas while also establishing a territorial government for the Territory of New Mexico with no restrictions on any future state in that territory would be free or slave, and finally
5) establishing a territorial government for the Territory of Utah with no restrictions on any future state in that territory would be free or slave.
Millard Fillmore, the 13th President of the United States, had succeeded Zachary Taylor on July 9, 1850, upon Taylor's death. Fillmore was a key influence in the passage of the Compromise of 1850 legislation along with Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun. Calhoun died before passage, but he issued a warning that the South perceived the balance between North and South to be broken, which would be increasingly apparent in the years leading up to 1861 and the Civil War.
Today is the 175th anniversary of California's admission, or Admission Day.
Interestingly, though California was admitted as a free state, enslaved individuals still existed in California. The largest concentration of enslaved Black labor occurred at the Kentucky Ridge Mine.
GOPHER
Minnesota is a 2.5-point favorite @ Cal. I'm inclined to believe that's fair.
Ted Grandy - the actor who played Gopher on the Love Boat - graduated magna cum laude with a BA in English from Harvard in 1970. Gopher's character's first name was Burl. He was a four-term GOP US House of Representative for Iowa's 6th district.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Grandy#Early_life,_family_and_education
PRO
You knew it was coming -
49ers waive kicker Jake Moody, 2023 third-round pick who has underperformed
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers/article/49ers-waive-kicker-jake-moody-2023-third-rounder-21039086.php
The kicker taken with a third-round pick didn’t last three seasons with the San Francisco 49ers.
After two wobbly years, the 49ers waived Jake Moody on Tuesday after his third season began with a wretched performance in a 17-13 season-opening win Sunday at Seattle, NFL Network reported. Moody missed a 29-yard attempt that clanged off the left upright, had a 36-yarder blocked due to poor protection and narrowly snuck in a 32-yarder inside the right upright to tie the game at 10-10 in the fourth quarter.
Ballers wait for the Odgen Raptors to arrive for the first round of the playoffs.
Athletics fall to Red Sox 7-0
https://www.athleticsnation.com/recaps/100040/athletics-fall-to-red-sox-7-0
The Athletics are back home this week starting a three-game series against the Boston Red Sox that kicked off the homestand tonight at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento. Luis Morales, the 22-year-old rookie, will go up against 26-year-old lefty Garrett Crochet for the Red Sox.
Good vibes: back (Giants beat the Dbacks 11-5)
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/san-francisco-giants-scores-standings-nl-west/100487/giants-diamondbacks-scores-recap-logan-webb-matt-chapman-jung-hoo-lee
Monday night was the 144th game of the season for the San Francisco Giants, and at no point this year have I been more curious to see what the vibes would be. The vibes were atrocious through the summer as the Giants inexplicably became the worst team in baseball, seemingly incapable of doing anything well on the diamond. The vibes were impeccable through the end of August and start of September, when they were shockingly the best team in baseball, rattled off 11 wins in 12 games, and emerged on the periphery of the postseason race behind a historic cascade of dingers.
My earlier analysis still stands - the Giants need a team ahead of them in the Wildcard race to get cold, very cold. The Mets may be obliging as they have lost their last 3 games and are 4-6 over their last 10 games (7-7 over their last 14 games).
The Giants snapped their 2-game losing streak as noted above, and are 7-3 in their last 10 games (12-3 in their last 15 games).
The Mets are 76-68 and currently hold the 3rd wildcard spot, while the Giants are 3 games back at 73-71. The Mets magic number is 16 with 18 games remaining while the Giants magic number is 22 with 18 games remaining.
Again, if the Mets merely play .500 ball in their last 18 games (9-9), the Giants must win 13 of their last 18 to move past and claim the last wildcard spot.
If the Mets were to post a 12-6 record in their last 18 games, they would have 88 wins. The Giants would then need 16 wins in their last 18 games (.888 clip) to pass the Mets. The Giants still have 7 games left against the Dodgers.
We're going Fri and Sun. Should be good games. ESPN guesses Ohtani/Verlander on Fri and Kershaw vs Webb on Sun. The way the Dodgers have been playing I fully expect a Giants sweep.
The series with the Dodgers this weekend could be high drama. That rivalry often is dramatic. There's also a 4-game set in Los Angeles coming up September 18-21. If the Giants are still in the race for the wildcard, it's almost guaranteed to be dramatic. There will still be 6 games after that series concludes for the Giants 2025 regular season.
Too bad it isn't the last series. Otherwise I could imagine Devers hitting a HR to knock the Dodgers out of winning the West.
Kinda like Joe Morgan dusting the Dodgers in 1982. I remember, very vividly, even though I only heard the call on a radio.
Tyler Glasnow dominates in win over the Rockies (Dodgers win 3-1)
https://www.truebluela.com/dodgers-scores-standings/103330/dodgers-rockies-recap-win-tyler-glasnow-mookie-betts
If you didn’t know anything about these two teams watching this game, you could swear you were witnessing a fiercely contested battle of heavyweights as the Dodgers outlasted the Rockies in a 3-1 win at home. Tyler Glasnow and Chase Dollander were both outstanding, and it ended up being the efforts of the red-hot Mookie Betts against the Rockies’ bullpen that decided the game, with a two-run go-ahead double in the bottom of the seventh.
CAL
[MSOC] Cal Takes Unbeaten Road Record To Harvard
https://calbears.com/news/2025/9/8/mens-soccer-cal-takes-unbeaten-road-record-to-harvard.aspx
The California men's soccer team concludes its Boston-area sojourn when it takes on Harvard in a nonconference clash Wednesday at 3 p.m. PT.
The Golden Bears are unbeaten on the road at 3-0-0, including Sunday's 2-0 win at Boston College in their ACC opener. Cal has a 3-1-1 overall record, while the Crimson is 1-1-0.
[MGOLF] Bears Place Two In Top 25 In Season-Opening Round
https://calbears.com/news/2025/9/8/mens-golf-bears-place-two-in-top-25-in-season-opening-round.aspx
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. – The California men's golf team placed two individuals in the top 25 after the first round of the season-opening Folds of Honor Collegiate on Monday at American Dunes Golf Club.
Sophomore Matthew Miyamoto birdied three of the first six holes before finishing with a 1-over par 72, which put him in a tie for 13th place. Fifth-year senior Charlie Berridge is a stroke behind at 2-over and tied for 24th.
[VB] Bears Host Vanderbilt, Travel To Mustang Invitational
https://calbears.com/news/2025/9/8/volleyball-bears-host-vanderbilt-travel-to-mustang-invitational.aspx
California volleyball returns home for one mid-week match before hitting the road again this weekend, welcoming Vanderbilt to Haas Pavilion on Wednesday night and traveling to San Luis Obispo to face Cal Poly (Friday) and San Jose State (Saturday) in the Mustang Invitational at the Mott Athletics Center.
[WGOLF] Liu Leads Bears After Season-Opening Round
https://calbears.com/news/2025/9/8/womens-golf-liu-leads-bears-after-season-opening-round.aspx
LAKE ELMO, Minn. - Senior Adora Liu shot a 2-over par 74 and sits in a tie for 15th place after the first round of the season-opening ANNIKA Intercollegiate at Royal Golf Club.
Liu, the program's record-holder for single-season scoring average, registered three birdies on the back nine and sits seven strokes off the lead.
POLITICS
Case against fake Michigan electors tossed by Dem appointed judge
https://wtop.com/national/2025/09/michigan-judge-tosses-case-against-15-accused-fake-electors-for-president-donald-trump-in-2020/
DEM House Oversight Committee members release another racy message from Trump to Epstein. The whole birthday books drips with conspiratorial talk about they knew what Epstein was doing, except Clinton - who is a political robot.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/08/house-oversight-receives-epstein-estate-files-00550721
SCOTUS decides that brown Americans don't get 4th Amendment protection
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/08/supreme-court-ice-raids-ruling-00550551
Chief Justice John G. Roberts will be viewed in history as a modern day analogue to Chief Justice Roger B. Taney.
What a sad, sad little man.
DBD STREET JOURNAL
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Which do you think was the weirdest upset from week 2?
Oregon beating OK State 69-3
South Florida beating #13 Florida 18-16 in the Swamp
Baylor beating SMU 48-45
Liberty losing to J-State 34-24
Fresno State beating Oregon State 36-27 in Corvallis, diminishing Cal's triumph there
West Virginia losing to the OTHER Ohio University 17-10
UMass losing to Bryant 27-26, who only recent graduated up to FCS status 14 months ago
Marshall losing 21-20 to Mizzou State, a transitional FBS program that won't be a full FBS program until next season
South Florida has been the biggest eye-opener so far. Blowing out Boise State and then winning on the road at Florida.
DBD AV CLUB
THIS DATE IN HISTORY -
Happy Birthday Esther Cleveland - second daughter to President Grover Cleveland and the youngest first lady in US history Francis Cleveland (21). Esther's elder sister was Ruth. In 1921, a manufacturer of candybars renamed one of their products "Baby Ruth" during a record breaking year of Babe Ruth's career. Babe Ruth sued the candy manufacterer 10 years later. The manufacturer argued the bar was named after Ruth Cleveland, even though Grover Cleveland left office 28 years prior and 17 years after Ruth died of diphtheria at age 17. The candymaker was run by Otto Schering, who also invented Peppermint Patty and Butterfinger.
Esther Cleveland lived to be 86 years old. She was the first child to be born to an incumbent US President and First Lady.
Interesting factoids. I had heard the Baby Ruth story some time long ago, but had forgotten it.
Peppermint Patty became the name of a character in a comic strip (Peanuts), and Butterfinger became an epithet for receivers who dropped passes and people who dropped valuable items, often shattering them.
Sorry. I couldn't pass up the opportunity.
1850 - California is admitted as the 31st state of the United States. California's admission to the United States was a feature of the Compromise of 1850, which was the passage and enactment of five bills that briefly defused abolitionist vs. slavery tensions in the United States. To wit -
1) California was admitted to the United States as a free state,
2) passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850,
3) banned the slave trade, but not slavery itself, in Washington, D.C.,
4) defined the northern and western boundaries of Texas while also establishing a territorial government for the Territory of New Mexico with no restrictions on any future state in that territory would be free or slave, and finally
5) establishing a territorial government for the Territory of Utah with no restrictions on any future state in that territory would be free or slave.
Millard Fillmore, the 13th President of the United States, had succeeded Zachary Taylor on July 9, 1850, upon Taylor's death. Fillmore was a key influence in the passage of the Compromise of 1850 legislation along with Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun. Calhoun died before passage, but he issued a warning that the South perceived the balance between North and South to be broken, which would be increasingly apparent in the years leading up to 1861 and the Civil War.
Today is the 175th anniversary of California's admission, or Admission Day.
Interestingly, though California was admitted as a free state, enslaved individuals still existed in California. The largest concentration of enslaved Black labor occurred at the Kentucky Ridge Mine.
https://yubanet.com/regional/kentucky-ridge-mine-site-and-grass-valley-ame-church-are-newest-historical-landmarks-in-nevada-county/