Flying out Thurs night on the red-eye. No 3 is flying home Sun afternoon because he has to work. I'm taking the train with No 1 and HSB to stay in NYC until Sat morning when I fly back for the Dook game. (Depending on the BC performance, entirely possible I change my flight Sat morning).
BREMERTON, Wash. – The California men's golf team carded the best score of the second round Monday with three players still out on the course before play was suspended due to darkness and the Golden Bears stand in sixth place heading into the final day of The Tindall at Gold Mountain Golf Club.
California freshman attacker Kai Inoue collected his first career honor after being named the MPSF Men's Water Polo Newcomer of the Week, as announced today by the conference. Inoue is the second Golden Bear to accomplish this feat after Aran Pina claimed the honor last week.
Inoue earned the award after leading the Golden Bears to a 3-1 record this past weekend at the Overnght MPSF Invitational, before they fell in the title game to the defending champion and No. 1 ranked team in the country, UCLA.
CARY, N.C. – California women's tennis senior Berta Passola Folch posted an impressive win in her qualifying singles opener at the ITA All-American Championships on Monday to advance to Tuesday's second round at Cary Tennis Park.
The California football team's game on Saturday, Oct. 4 versus Duke is set for a 7:30 p.m. PT kickoff on ESPN, the Atlantic Coast Conference announced on Monday.
The Golden Bears (3-1, 0-0 ACC) will host the Blue Devils (2-2, 1-0 ACC) at California Memorial Stadium for the first time since 1963. In their last meeting in Berkeley, the Golden Bears and Blue Devils played to a 22-22 tie.
Fuming about this. I know a lot of people who can't/won't do night games. Don't know anyone who can't/won't go to day games. It also sucks for the Duke fans not attending. Kickoff for them is 10:30 and the game will end around two. My initial reaction to hearing that it was another night game was to not say hell no I won't go. We'll see.... College football is doing everything it can to drive me away and it may eventually succeed.
"It also sucks for the Duke fans not attending. Kickoff for them is 10:30 and the game will end around two."
Now that Cal belongs to the ACC, visiting team fans traveling from the Eastern Time Zone will be discouraged from making the trip for the very reason OD cited. It's a small thing in the grand scheme of things, but it remains an erosion of something that helped to make college football a rich experience.
I hear you. College football managed to push me out of the stadium and onto my couch. Ever since my work schedule became even more early morning focused (in before 7:00 AM), the harder it is to attend night games. I will make an exception for The Big Game, but that's because it's me and my sons. Not sure how this will or might change after retirement.
I always felt one reason they were OK with getting 2 west coast teams is being able to fill the 730 PM slot. So I feel like unless we're playing Clemson or Miami, we've got the 730 slot for all home games.
If I knew for a fact that the majority of our home games were going to be 7:30 starts next season that would be the straw that broke the camel's back for me. Of course college football doesn't have the decency to announce game times before the season starts so....
If I had know last year that we would have had as many afternoon home games as we did, I would have given more serious consideration to buying season tickets. I'm happy I didn't this year. Happy isn't the right word. 12:30 is when college football games should start.
Yup. There's a certain kind of magic associated with a late November game and the sun hanging low in the afternoon sky. Stadium lights have banished that magic to history.
Major League Baseball will implement a challenge system for balls and strikes in the 2026 season after the league's competition committee voted Tuesday to usher in the era of robot umpiring.
Following years of testing in the minor leagues, as well as during spring training and at this year's All-Star Game, MLB forged ahead with a system that will give teams two challenges per game.
Hitters, pitchers and catchers will be the only ones allowed to trigger the system by tapping their head, and if a challenge is successful -- the pitch will be shown on in-stadium videoboards -- teams will retain it.
While the vote in favor of the Automated Ball-Strike challenge system was not unanimous -- some of the four players on the 11-man committee voted no, according to sources -- the vote was a fait accompli, with MLB owners all in favor and in possession of a six-seat majority on the committee.
The San Francisco Giants lost their 80th game of the season by a single run to a similarly inconsistent St. Louis Cardinals. The 6-5 loss on Monday was like being spooked by our reflection. We smirked at the St. Louis’s baserunning in the 2nd inning, chuckled idiots under our breath as they ran themselves in a 6-2-5-4 double play on a groundball with a runner on third and one out.
And on the first day he had another catch where he went above the top of the fence and pulled it back. He caught that one clean so it’s not as memorable.
Trump tells the AG through Truth Social that he is tired of waiting around waiting for her to prosecute his political enemies. He wants to start with Adam Schiff and Fed Reserve Board member Lisa Cook.
NYT and Reuters reporting that the administration's border czar took $50k cash from FBI agents posing as government contractors. This has since been quashed with the FBI, Deputy AG, and AG all denying that it ever existed.
RFK Jr's administration cites Dr. Andrea Baccarelli's meta-study linking acetometophine and autism. This study is not widely supported. In a cruel twist, government officials tend to use the brand name "Tylenol", which undoubtedly has Kenvue - the Johnson & Johnson spin-off that owns the brand - in a tizzy.
Just to clarify, this is Virginia Tech. One of the local sports talk guys is from Virginia Tech and they were talking about this earlier this morning. He speculated Cal and Stanford were the schools below them in athletic funding.
Fun fact: All eleven presidents since Eisenhower have had at least one daughter. Five of them only had daughters -- LBJ, Nixon, Clinton, W Bush and Obama. Only the most recent of our presidents has lusted after one of his daughters.
CAL
It's been more than 48 hours. Shake of the L and let's get pumped for the sold out Boston College game. LFG
Flying out Thurs night on the red-eye. No 3 is flying home Sun afternoon because he has to work. I'm taking the train with No 1 and HSB to stay in NYC until Sat morning when I fly back for the Dook game. (Depending on the BC performance, entirely possible I change my flight Sat morning).
The crew is flying into Boston. We are going to raise mild heck as only middle-aged men with their spouses can do.
[MGOLF] Strong Second Round Puts Bears In Sixth At The Tindall
https://calbears.com/news/2025/9/22/mens-golf-strong-second-round-puts-bears-in-sixth-place-at-the-tindall.aspx
BREMERTON, Wash. – The California men's golf team carded the best score of the second round Monday with three players still out on the course before play was suspended due to darkness and the Golden Bears stand in sixth place heading into the final day of The Tindall at Gold Mountain Golf Club.
[MPOLO] Inoue Named MPSF Newcomer Of The Week
https://calbears.com/news/2025/9/22/mens-water-polo-inoue-named-mpsf-newcomer-of-the-week.aspx
California freshman attacker Kai Inoue collected his first career honor after being named the MPSF Men's Water Polo Newcomer of the Week, as announced today by the conference. Inoue is the second Golden Bear to accomplish this feat after Aran Pina claimed the honor last week.
Inoue earned the award after leading the Golden Bears to a 3-1 record this past weekend at the Overnght MPSF Invitational, before they fell in the title game to the defending champion and No. 1 ranked team in the country, UCLA.
[WTEN] Passola Folch Wins Opener At ITA All-Americans
https://calbears.com/news/2025/9/22/womens-tennis-passola-folch-wins-opener-at-ita-all-americans.aspx
CARY, N.C. – California women's tennis senior Berta Passola Folch posted an impressive win in her qualifying singles opener at the ITA All-American Championships on Monday to advance to Tuesday's second round at Cary Tennis Park.
Ranked 113th, Passola Folch defeated Texas A&M's 64th-ranked and seventh-seeded Daria Smetannikov 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.
[FB] Bears, Blue Devils Set For Evening Kickoff
https://calbears.com/news/2025/9/22/football-bears-blue-devils-set-for-evening-kickoff.aspx
The California football team's game on Saturday, Oct. 4 versus Duke is set for a 7:30 p.m. PT kickoff on ESPN, the Atlantic Coast Conference announced on Monday.
The Golden Bears (3-1, 0-0 ACC) will host the Blue Devils (2-2, 1-0 ACC) at California Memorial Stadium for the first time since 1963. In their last meeting in Berkeley, the Golden Bears and Blue Devils played to a 22-22 tie.
Fuming about this. I know a lot of people who can't/won't do night games. Don't know anyone who can't/won't go to day games. It also sucks for the Duke fans not attending. Kickoff for them is 10:30 and the game will end around two. My initial reaction to hearing that it was another night game was to not say hell no I won't go. We'll see.... College football is doing everything it can to drive me away and it may eventually succeed.
"It also sucks for the Duke fans not attending. Kickoff for them is 10:30 and the game will end around two."
Now that Cal belongs to the ACC, visiting team fans traveling from the Eastern Time Zone will be discouraged from making the trip for the very reason OD cited. It's a small thing in the grand scheme of things, but it remains an erosion of something that helped to make college football a rich experience.
I hear you. College football managed to push me out of the stadium and onto my couch. Ever since my work schedule became even more early morning focused (in before 7:00 AM), the harder it is to attend night games. I will make an exception for The Big Game, but that's because it's me and my sons. Not sure how this will or might change after retirement.
My biorhythms are too set, so night games I get to watch maybe the first quarter, if that.
Pac-12 After Dark has become ACC After Dark.
This will persist until the program gets better. A lot better.
I always felt one reason they were OK with getting 2 west coast teams is being able to fill the 730 PM slot. So I feel like unless we're playing Clemson or Miami, we've got the 730 slot for all home games.
You make an important point.
This will suppress in-game attendance.
If I knew for a fact that the majority of our home games were going to be 7:30 starts next season that would be the straw that broke the camel's back for me. Of course college football doesn't have the decency to announce game times before the season starts so....
If I had know last year that we would have had as many afternoon home games as we did, I would have given more serious consideration to buying season tickets. I'm happy I didn't this year. Happy isn't the right word. 12:30 is when college football games should start.
Yup. There's a certain kind of magic associated with a late November game and the sun hanging low in the afternoon sky. Stadium lights have banished that magic to history.
Go Bears!!!
Go Bears!
US News rankings out again. UC Berkeley #1 Public University (#15 overall). UCLA is #17
Planned school shooting, apparently at Menlo-Atherton HS averted
https://abc7news.com/post/planned-school-shooting-attack-stopped-menlo-atherton-high-sandy-hook-promise-tip-line/17867637/
PRO
Best team in the area is the Oakland Ballers. Pioneer league champions.
Dodgers and A's have the day off. Dodgers play in Az today and A's host the Assterisks.
MLB approves robot umpires for 2026 as part of challenge system
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46357017/mlb-approves-robot-umpires-2026-part-challenge-system
Major League Baseball will implement a challenge system for balls and strikes in the 2026 season after the league's competition committee voted Tuesday to usher in the era of robot umpiring.
Following years of testing in the minor leagues, as well as during spring training and at this year's All-Star Game, MLB forged ahead with a system that will give teams two challenges per game.
Hitters, pitchers and catchers will be the only ones allowed to trigger the system by tapping their head, and if a challenge is successful -- the pitch will be shown on in-stadium videoboards -- teams will retain it.
While the vote in favor of the Automated Ball-Strike challenge system was not unanimous -- some of the four players on the 11-man committee voted no, according to sources -- the vote was a fait accompli, with MLB owners all in favor and in possession of a six-seat majority on the committee.
Giants can’t beat Cardinals either (lose 6-5)
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/san-francisco-giants-scores-standings-nl-west/101085/justin-verlander-nolan-arenado-cardinals
The San Francisco Giants lost their 80th game of the season by a single run to a similarly inconsistent St. Louis Cardinals. The 6-5 loss on Monday was like being spooked by our reflection. We smirked at the St. Louis’s baserunning in the 2nd inning, chuckled idiots under our breath as they ran themselves in a 6-2-5-4 double play on a groundball with a runner on third and one out.
ICYMI: Jacob Young doesn't catch, but does catch the ball two days ago
https://x.com/MLB/status/1969840438103433714
Jacob Young doesn't catch, but does catch the ball one day ago
https://x.com/MLB/status/1970298410411413986
It's amazing that he did the same thing on back to back days.
And on the first day he had another catch where he went above the top of the fence and pulled it back. He caught that one clean so it’s not as memorable.
49ers' Nick Bosa out for season with torn ACL
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46347804/sources-49ers-nick-bosa-torn-acl-done-season
I missed it over the weekend but Michael Kim won the French Open golf tournament. He’s had a pretty good year.
WHERE
POLITICS
How gauche
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/donald-trump-turns-white-house-021543210.html
I have a friend who went on a White House tour in December because she knew she wouldn’t be going again for the foreseeable future.
SCOTUS transfers sizeable power from Congress to the Executive Branch in their ruling of Trump v Slaughter. Bow down to the king.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/09/supreme-court-ruling-trump-dictatorship.html
Trump tells the AG through Truth Social that he is tired of waiting around waiting for her to prosecute his political enemies. He wants to start with Adam Schiff and Fed Reserve Board member Lisa Cook.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bondi-prosecutions-james-comey-adam-schiff-doj-b2831016.html
Odds that was supposed to be a DM?
How would anyone know?
He feels bullet proof. Why would he want to keep it quiet?
NYT and Reuters reporting that the administration's border czar took $50k cash from FBI agents posing as government contractors. This has since been quashed with the FBI, Deputy AG, and AG all denying that it ever existed.
https://www.masslive.com/politics/2025/09/trumps-border-czar-who-promised-to-bring-hell-to-boston-caught-taking-50k-in-cash-from-undercover-fbi-agents-media-reports-say.html
Really impressive how they found a way to blame Joe Biden.
I don’t see any denial that he took any money.
I’m going to be looking at Cava bags differently now.
RFK Jr's administration cites Dr. Andrea Baccarelli's meta-study linking acetometophine and autism. This study is not widely supported. In a cruel twist, government officials tend to use the brand name "Tylenol", which undoubtedly has Kenvue - the Johnson & Johnson spin-off that owns the brand - in a tizzy.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/21/trump-autism-tylenol-acetaminophen-fever-00574564
They use “Tylenol” because we all saw Trump try to read and pronounce acetaminophen.
Will be interesting to see (if we ever get to) who shorted that company about 2 weeks ago...
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
I'M A MAN. I'M 58 YEARS OLD.
I'm unemployed.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46356439/sources-oklahoma-state-fires-head-coach-mike-gundy
AND I LIVE IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!
$15m in a lot of money to eat, even for the estate of T Boone Pickens
No kidding. I'd like to receive that kind of money, thankyouverymuch.
UCF Line Coach/former App State HC Shawn Clark passes away at the age of 50
https://apnews.com/article/ucf-coach-shawn-clark-dies-e6939053bfb423db0d76e7d491bf08fb
Wait. What? It's DION Sanders, not Deion
https://sports.yahoo.com/article/colorado-coach-deion-sanders-says-191431937.html
"His children also spell their names like their father. Deiondra is his oldest daughter. Deion Jr. is his oldest son."
Is he really a Jr then?
Just like Dion and the Belmonts.
14 male former student-athletes from NC State filed a lawsuit against the former head trainer for sexual abuse
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/46316318/2nd-sexual-abuse-lawsuit-accuses-nc-state-negligence
{Virginia, last year] "We can't afford to turn our universities into palaces of learning."
[Virginia, now]: https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/46346630/virginia-tech-proposes-adding-extra-229m-athletics-budget
Just to clarify, this is Virginia Tech. One of the local sports talk guys is from Virginia Tech and they were talking about this earlier this morning. He speculated Cal and Stanford were the schools below them in athletic funding.
DBD AV CLUB
Fun fact: All eleven presidents since Eisenhower have had at least one daughter. Five of them only had daughters -- LBJ, Nixon, Clinton, W Bush and Obama. Only the most recent of our presidents has lusted after one of his daughters.
And there is but one daughter in that group who is an only child - Chelsea Clinton.