I had the latest vaccine on Friday evening. Felt kinda achy 12 hours later for about a day - feeling maybe 60%. Sunday, felt about 80% - generally fine, but not good enough to do anything strenuous. Completely back to normal today.
Rebound covid for me this weekend/now-- grrrrrr. Did the Paxlovid, felt a lot better a few days after the Pax, that only lasted a few days then back to being sick and testing positive. Ready to not be sick.
Such an amazing and unique experience. I got goosebumps when the stadium came into view. Thanks to everyone who made the trip. Happy we could share this with y’all.
Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.
I hold no brief for McCarthy, but I truly expect there to be an even bigger shitshow on the other side. The only way this is good is if it turns off the lion's share of independents on the GOP.
Well, I guess a bunch of folks are gonna starve or eat shit.
Seems to me we're on the verge of open intra-party warfare within the GOP if a vacate the Speaker motion is introduced in the House. The phrase "put up or shut up" might very well apply to members of the House here.
Last Friday, Trump published a social media post that Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff General Mark Milley deserves the death penalty because he reassured China that the US was okay on Jan 6.
Rep. Gosar publishes this on his official Congressional website:
"After the riot was in full swing, the Chief [Trump]’s request for National Guard was finally approved. But even after approval was given, General Milley, the homosexual-promoting-BLM-activist Chairman of the military joint chiefs, delayed. Of course, we now know that the deviant Milley was coordinating with Nancy Pelosi to hurt President Trump, and treasonously working behind Trump’s back. In a better society, quislings like the strange sodomy-promoting General Milley would be hung. He had one boss: President Trump, and instead he was secretly meeting with Pelosi and coordinating with her to hurt Trump. That is, when he wasn’t also secretly coordinating and sharing intelligence with the Chinese military. "
Trumps words parrot these words, which seem dangerous, libelous, and perhaps treasonous.
Idaho rises to #3 in FCS after beating Sac State in a thriller, booting the winning FG with 1 second to go and then get a scoop-and-score on the kickoff. The Vandals won 36-27.
Idaho State gets its first win of the season over winless Northern Colorado 35-21. UNC was on the way to scoring with this play on a pass from Peter Sirmon's nephew... ISU got the ball back and scored, a 14 point swing - which was the difference of the game.
North American University - which lost earlier this year to Portland State 91-0 had a rough day playing Incarnate Word 63-3. NAU netted 12 yards on offense. How you gain 2 yards on 15 completions is beyond me.
In 2022, NAU had an enrollment size of 827. Their football team went 2-8 and were outscored 454-49 in their 8 losses. Their two wins were against an HBCU that was half their size in student body and a Christian prep-school/private community college that charges its players $1,725 to play. Believe it or not, they somehow played in a bowl game in 2022.
I read NAU and instantly assumed Northern Arizona (even though SG spells out the full name). Apparently I, like many Arizona students, struggle mightily with reading comprehension
I watched a good portion of that game and Air Force's wishbone offense is a thing of beauty. They chewed up 14:10 of clock in the third quarter. They're like the House of Prime Rib - they do one thing and they do it exceptionally well.
ACC watch: NC State holds off a bad UVA 24-21. #4 FSU beats Clemson in OT 31-24. #17 UNC beats Pitt 41-24. #18 Duke beats UConn 41-7 and Mike Elko has to be a candidate for a bigger school with money to throw (eg, MSU). #41 Miami smashes Temple 41-7. Cuse beats Army 29-16. Hokies lose to Marshall 24-17 as their season is already looking terrible. GA Tech beats Wake Forest 30-16. Jack Plummer has a stellar day as Louisville beats a pretty bad BC 56-28.
And in case you missed it, the end of the NC State/UVA game was bananas. Here's the almost end of the game. TD. A penalty that pushes the 2 point try back to the 18. Another penalty with 36 seconds left.
UVA gets pushed back on the kickoff due to the penalty and then they give up a 35 yard return. Three runs later and they're at Virginia's 30 to attempt a 48-yard FG with 3 seconds left. UVA blocks the kick, but it was an over the pile "leaping" penalty. NC State moves up 10 yards and knocks in the winner on an untimed play.
I still feel sorry for the kid from Clemson who missed the potential walk-off field goal, but the announcers played up his story so much during the game I wasn't disappointed when he missed it.
Stanfurd, down by 4 with 3 minutes left and 1 TO. The are 4-17 at the Arizona 28. They kick the field goal. They don't try an onside. Arizona gets 2 first downs and the game is over.
Ohio State beats Notre Dame - needing a nearly perfect game by QB Kyle McCord and a 1 yard TD by Chip Trayanam that BARELY made it over the line with 1 second left
Ugh, am I really going to have to start worrying about ASU now? That was supposed to be a gimme (of course, same could be said about Colorado last year and Arizona the year before)
ASU was better than I was expecting on defense, they did a good job of receiver coverage, delayed blitzes, and that sort of thing. SC was plainly a bit rusty and ASU really highlighted that. On offense they did a good job of getting SC to overcommit and got some good play out of a guy named Skattebo who was doing some wildcat and alternate QB play, but when they were more than 1 score down in the 4th & had to get more conventional to pick up passing yards, SC started getting to Pyne (who didn’t do well under that pressure)
I still think we'll beat them and end up having a '23 season that mirrors the '22 season. Two OOC wins against weaker foes, a late September win over an Arizona school and a Big Game victory. 4-8.
Yeah agree. Big question is whether we see Sam Jackson develop as the season progresses or not. We kind of need him to in order to have some modicum of hope for 2024. I think 2023 seems hopeless
My daughter has been trying to figure out how she’s navigating instructors being on strike this week at Edinburgh. It’s complicated by the fact that different departments have different levels of action, some don’t bother at all, some leave it to individual instructors (nobody gets paid when they don’t teach and there’s plainly no strike fund), so there’s effectively no picket line and no social pressure against people who cross it. So she went to lectures today and if nobody showed, went to the library to work on reading and whatnot. Certainly not something I encountered as an undergrad
The Imitation Game (Prime Video, 17/19, WB). Outstanding acting performances turn what would otherwise be very dry material into a spark of something that is very watchable. A perfect movie to watch while recovering from a vaccine. Serious, but not too self-indulgent.
On this day in 1937 in Memorial Stadium the Golden Bears defeated St. Mary’s, 30-7. It was the first win in what would be an undefeated season (one tie) that would culminate with a Rose Bowl victory over Alabama. Cal led 17-0 at the half having out gained the Gaels 190 yards to minus four. Mercifully, Cal head coach Stub Allison rested his first team in the second half. The game was played under a haze of smoke from fires that were then raging in the Oakland hills.
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I turned the game off after 15 mins and deleted the recording of it. Felt a lot like the 2013 Oregon game. Not much point in dwelling on such things as a Cal fan, though I do want to go to more stuff that Cal is actually good at. Am thinking of going to some swim and women’s gym meets this year, have never been, and my kids do gymnastics so probably would like that
My recording did me a favor and corrupted itself. I saw the pick six, punt return TD, and that's about it. Though apparently I am sadistic enough to watch more of the game because I have tonight's re-air set to record.
I was straightening up the house before bed with the game on in the background. Managed to miss both those TDs then saw the score and decided I was really ready to go to bed.
The California women's golf team is in Seaside to co-host the Molly Collegiate Invitational alongside Oregon State on Sept. 25-26. All nine Golden Bears on the roster will compete on the par-72, 6,128-yard Bayonet Golf Course.
This will be the second competition of the young season for the Bears, who finished in the top half of the team standings at the Dick McGuire Invitational earlier this month. Cal's huge second-round score of 9-under-par 279 in the season-opening tournament was tied for the team's best round in 15 years.
SALT LAKE CITY – California volleyball hoped to play spoiler to Utah's Pac-12 home opener on Sunday, but ultimately found itself falling just short in a five-set, 3-2 heartbreaker in favor of the Utes (6-6, 1-1 Pac-12).
The Golden Bears (11-2, 0-2) held the Utes to .185 hitting on the match. Freshman Maggie Li posted her sixth double-double of the season with a court-leading 22 kills plus 13 digs, while junior Annalea Maeder reached the 2,000 career assists mark by adding 42 to her total. Senior Tara DeSa recorded 21 digs, the most by any player. Junior Ellie Hamm hit .471 with a career-high 10 kills and tied the court lead with seven total blocks; redshirt sophomore Ava Mehrten added another six stops to Cal's defensive efforts.
LOS ANGELES – The No. 1 California men's water polo team was defeated by No. 2 UCLA 12-10 in the MPSF Invitational first-place game on Sunday, falling for the first time in over 10 months.
Entering the day on a 15-game win streak, the Golden Bears (12-1) fought back to erase a four-goal deficit in the third quarter, tying it 9-9 on a gorgeous backhand goal by senior Nikolaos Papanikolaou. That was the two-time Cutino Award winner's 235th career goal, moving him into a tie with Ivan Rackov for No. 3 all time at Cal.
SAN FRANCISCO – The California men's tennis team completed its campaign in the Battle in the Bay Classic on Sunday, with freshman Ethan Schiffman falling to Pacific's Justas Trainauskas on the final day of the annual tournament at the California Tennis Club.
The first-year Golden Bear captured the first set but fell to the Tiger 3-6, 6-3, 10-7.
BURLINGTON, Vt. – The California field hockey team scored three goals in a blistering first quarter but it was not enough as host Vermont came back to stun the Golden Bears 4-3 in overtime at Moulton Winder Field on Sunday.
"I feel like we are building a pyramid," Donna Fong Director of Field Hockey Shellie Onstead said. "We are still getting some stuff in place in the bottom levels. What we did today was have a perfect start, which was the opposite of our situation on Friday. In any conference game you can't settle into a lead like that, I don't think we did that, credit to Vermont for coming back to earn the win. That's what makes conference games exciting, tie games and overtime. I think we need to get better at managing the stress of the game when things get evened up."
Kudos for watching the whole half! Being down 14-0 without the other team even running an offensive play was an entirely new level of ineptitude for us. Def had some Holmoe-ish vibes
Dolphins score 70 and get the ball back with 8 minutes to go. They start kneeling the ball because they don't want to set the record for most points scored. Even Christopher Brooks got 9 carries for 66 yards.
Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa - who was an 800m specialist who only ran her first competitive marathon in April last year - smashed the women's marathon record. She came in at 2:11.53, more than 2 minutes better than the previous record of 2:14.04 by Kenya's Brigid Kosgei in 2019.
Arizona beats Dallas 28-16. Cards backup Joshua Dobbs has a nearly perfect game (17/21, 189 yards 1 TD, 0 INT) thanks to a rushing attack that exposed Dallas' defense. Dak reverted to form by throwing an INT in the end zone with 3 minutes left.
The Oakland Athletics battled to the end, but some base running mistakes and a lack of timely hitting sent them to a 2-0 loss Sunday against the Detroit Tigers.
JP Sears made his 31st start of the season in Sunday’s game and allowed a two-out double to Spencer Torkelson in the first inning. However, Sears would leave him stranded as Miguel Cabrera grounded out to end the inning.
In a 2-2 tie in the 10th with the bases loaded and 1 out, Patrick Bailey shot a grounder back up the middle that lifted off the arm of reliever Shelby Miller into the Los Angeles night.
For a moment it looked like another lucky break for the San Francisco Giants—a Thairo Estrada pop-up to center got lost in the lights and dropped for a single a batter earlier setting up this bases loaded threat. But the ricochet took a direct route to shortstop Chris Taylor’s glove a couple of feet behind second base. A couple of steps to the bag and a throw to first had Bailey out easily to complete the double-play, end the inning and keep the Giants from scoring.
The runs were hard to come by in the Dodgers’ 3-2 win against the Giants on Sunday, but Chris Taylor changed all that in the 10th with a walk-off hit to right.
Each team scored their first two runs on homers, with James Outman batting in J.D. Martinez on the first pitch he saw in the second inning. The Giants struck in the fifth inning: Tyler Fitzgerald reached on a fly ball to Outman, who couldn’t quite run in far enough to make the catch, and LaMonte Wade Jr. smacked a homer right after.
Not strictly professional but Scotland beat Tonga in the rugby World Cup. Some BIG guys on the Tonga team with names that would make the average Pac12 fan’s ear perk up, including a guy named Havili (not the SC player who seemed like he was there for 10 years)
Some of the Metro stations have electronic ad displays on the platform. I was in one over the weekend and the display had an ad for Mother's Circus Animal Cookies. I remember them from when I was a kid but didn't know they were still around. I know they're from Oakland and I have a vague recollection of going to where they were made on a field trip in elementary school. Why they are advertising in Metro in DC is a mystery to me
Wiki shows that like many of those types of businesses they've been sold a number of times. Latest owner is an Italian company. It says they were last baked in Oakland in 2006, but they're still Oakland to me.
Hah! They tried to sell that building to me in 2005! Actually might have been 2006 - The warehouse area was amazing cool looking as a Japanese structure - way nice looking as a building.
Speaking of huskies...I took our dogs for a walk yesterday. As we were walking past Live Oak Park on Shattuck Ave., a small car drove in the opposite direction with a husky in the back seat, howling as the car moved northbound.
I can't ever recall hearing and seeing a dog howl from a moving car.
45 year old Psy enters the stage. Look at the energy of that crowd
https://twitter.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1706015728434909673
Today in Covid
Don't forget to order your 4 free Covid tests today.
https://www.covid.gov/tests
thanks for that
Just did it!
Done and done
I had the latest vaccine on Friday evening. Felt kinda achy 12 hours later for about a day - feeling maybe 60%. Sunday, felt about 80% - generally fine, but not good enough to do anything strenuous. Completely back to normal today.
But, of course. Those other two days don't belong to your employer.
Rebound covid for me this weekend/now-- grrrrrr. Did the Paxlovid, felt a lot better a few days after the Pax, that only lasted a few days then back to being sick and testing positive. Ready to not be sick.
noooooooo
I was testing positive from 11/7 - 11/25 of last year with that rebound
it was no good, best of luck getting better
Washington
Sailgate!!!
Such an amazing and unique experience. I got goosebumps when the stadium came into view. Thanks to everyone who made the trip. Happy we could share this with y’all.
Thanks to GO and lady friend for setting that up.
always great to see DBD people in person. good reminder of why we are all here.
Well, Sailgate was the best part of Saturday. Should've just stayed on the boat.
Oh Man...
I will miss playing them. I wish we could have beat them one last time or at least made the game competitive. Who knows when or if we play them again.
other than the game, great trip. had a wonderful time with fellow bears
Commanders trucked by the Bills.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
We may be in the last few days of the Speakership of Kevin McCarthy
Really looking forward to telling my folks they won’t get paid after they exhaust their pto
Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.
I hold no brief for McCarthy, but I truly expect there to be an even bigger shitshow on the other side. The only way this is good is if it turns off the lion's share of independents on the GOP.
I didn't order a shit sandwich, nor do I want one. But it is the only thing on the menu.
Well, I guess a bunch of folks are gonna starve or eat shit.
Seems to me we're on the verge of open intra-party warfare within the GOP if a vacate the Speaker motion is introduced in the House. The phrase "put up or shut up" might very well apply to members of the House here.
Wish in one hand and shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.
Last Friday, Trump published a social media post that Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff General Mark Milley deserves the death penalty because he reassured China that the US was okay on Jan 6.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/trump-milley-execution-incitement-violence/675435/
Rep. Gosar publishes this on his official Congressional website:
"After the riot was in full swing, the Chief [Trump]’s request for National Guard was finally approved. But even after approval was given, General Milley, the homosexual-promoting-BLM-activist Chairman of the military joint chiefs, delayed. Of course, we now know that the deviant Milley was coordinating with Nancy Pelosi to hurt President Trump, and treasonously working behind Trump’s back. In a better society, quislings like the strange sodomy-promoting General Milley would be hung. He had one boss: President Trump, and instead he was secretly meeting with Pelosi and coordinating with her to hurt Trump. That is, when he wasn’t also secretly coordinating and sharing intelligence with the Chinese military. "
Trumps words parrot these words, which seem dangerous, libelous, and perhaps treasonous.
https://gosar.house.gov/news/email/show.aspx?ID=P57YDUJWJGKSVINHGEIZ6D6JJM
Generally I don’t try and explain people being assholes by assuming they have a mental health issue, but he’s a genuine nut
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson was a Democrat but switches party to GOP. He ran unopposed in 2023 after previously winning by 11.2 points in 2019.
https://apnews.com/article/dallas-mayor-eric-johnson-democrat-republican-072490c1290c7da6cb965f50a46c7d89
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
The perfect NIL deal doesn't ex...
https://twitter.com/IowaPork/status/1706337772447949122
Idaho rises to #3 in FCS after beating Sac State in a thriller, booting the winning FG with 1 second to go and then get a scoop-and-score on the kickoff. The Vandals won 36-27.
https://www.kcra.com/article/idaho-sacramento-state-football-college-sports/45284464#
A winning FG, you say? Cal could never...
cal beats idaho who beat sac state who beat stanfurd go bears keep the axe
Our own mini circle of suck
#24 Iowa lost to #7 Penn State 31-0 and put up some of the most astounding offensive stats this year.
Iowa QB Cade McNamara passing yards: 42. Penn State QB Drew Allar completions 37
Penn State offensive plays: 97, Iowa offensive yards 76
Iowa first downs: 4, Iowa fumbles lost 4
Iowa yards in their first 8 non-punting plays: 54 yards. Yards in the rest of the game: 22
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401520265
The best reddit comment was that Iowa's remaining schedule is so weak that they're worried that OC nepo-baby Brian Ferentz will not be fired
https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/schedule/_/id/2294
Iowa/PSU time of possession: 14:33 to 45:27
Wazzu wins the 2-Pac championship over OSU 38-35 in a thrilling game
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap/_/gameId/401524019
This was a really fun and exciting game.
Idaho State gets its first win of the season over winless Northern Colorado 35-21. UNC was on the way to scoring with this play on a pass from Peter Sirmon's nephew... ISU got the ball back and scored, a 14 point swing - which was the difference of the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOgdhx8-6l0
North American University - which lost earlier this year to Portland State 91-0 had a rough day playing Incarnate Word 63-3. NAU netted 12 yards on offense. How you gain 2 yards on 15 completions is beyond me.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/matchup/_/gameId/401544201
In 2022, NAU had an enrollment size of 827. Their football team went 2-8 and were outscored 454-49 in their 8 losses. Their two wins were against an HBCU that was half their size in student body and a Christian prep-school/private community college that charges its players $1,725 to play. Believe it or not, they somehow played in a bowl game in 2022.
NAU doesn't have a football field. They have to drive to the field that the local high school and middle school play on.
And yet they still managed to beat Arizona in '21
Different NAU. Northern Arizona University (the Lumberjacks) defeated Arizona 21-19 in Tucson in 2021.
I read NAU and instantly assumed Northern Arizona (even though SG spells out the full name). Apparently I, like many Arizona students, struggle mightily with reading comprehension
Lots of screens that yielded no or negative yards..
Air Force, which doesn't have a passing game, runs over SJSU 45-20 with 400 yards rushing - including this insane run
https://twitter.com/cfbonfox/status/1705450019367555120?s=42
I watched a good portion of that game and Air Force's wishbone offense is a thing of beauty. They chewed up 14:10 of clock in the third quarter. They're like the House of Prime Rib - they do one thing and they do it exceptionally well.
Haley Van Voorhis became the first female non-kicker to play in college football. She got a QB hurry. She is 5-6 145 pounds.
https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status/1705682802656645388
ACC watch: NC State holds off a bad UVA 24-21. #4 FSU beats Clemson in OT 31-24. #17 UNC beats Pitt 41-24. #18 Duke beats UConn 41-7 and Mike Elko has to be a candidate for a bigger school with money to throw (eg, MSU). #41 Miami smashes Temple 41-7. Cuse beats Army 29-16. Hokies lose to Marshall 24-17 as their season is already looking terrible. GA Tech beats Wake Forest 30-16. Jack Plummer has a stellar day as Louisville beats a pretty bad BC 56-28.
And in case you missed it, the end of the NC State/UVA game was bananas. Here's the almost end of the game. TD. A penalty that pushes the 2 point try back to the 18. Another penalty with 36 seconds left.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwi-xeAasQ0
UVA gets pushed back on the kickoff due to the penalty and then they give up a 35 yard return. Three runs later and they're at Virginia's 30 to attempt a 48-yard FG with 3 seconds left. UVA blocks the kick, but it was an over the pile "leaping" penalty. NC State moves up 10 yards and knocks in the winner on an untimed play.
I still feel sorry for the kid from Clemson who missed the potential walk-off field goal, but the announcers played up his story so much during the game I wasn't disappointed when he missed it.
Also, the play calling by Clemson was terrible on that last set of down and in OT.
Stanfurd, down by 4 with 3 minutes left and 1 TO. The are 4-17 at the Arizona 28. They kick the field goal. They don't try an onside. Arizona gets 2 first downs and the game is over.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/playbyplay/_/gameId/401524016
Good for Troy Taylor still not being able to stomach Stanford winning. Take ‘em down from the inside TT!
How very David Shaw of them.
Ohio State beats Notre Dame - needing a nearly perfect game by QB Kyle McCord and a 1 yard TD by Chip Trayanam that BARELY made it over the line with 1 second left
https://twitter.com/brdispatch/status/1706117605801538028
https://www.espn.com/college-football/playbyplay/_/gameId/401521330
Barely made it over despite ND only having 10 men on the field and no DE on the side of the line where Ohio State ran the ball.
10 men on the field coming out of a time out. And then did it again on the next play
That was a crazy ending! Fun game to watch
USC beats ASU 42-28 in an imperfect game
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap/_/gameId/401524014
Ugh, am I really going to have to start worrying about ASU now? That was supposed to be a gimme (of course, same could be said about Colorado last year and Arizona the year before)
ASU was better than I was expecting on defense, they did a good job of receiver coverage, delayed blitzes, and that sort of thing. SC was plainly a bit rusty and ASU really highlighted that. On offense they did a good job of getting SC to overcommit and got some good play out of a guy named Skattebo who was doing some wildcat and alternate QB play, but when they were more than 1 score down in the 4th & had to get more conventional to pick up passing yards, SC started getting to Pyne (who didn’t do well under that pressure)
I still think we'll beat them and end up having a '23 season that mirrors the '22 season. Two OOC wins against weaker foes, a late September win over an Arizona school and a Big Game victory. 4-8.
Yeah agree. Big question is whether we see Sam Jackson develop as the season progresses or not. We kind of need him to in order to have some modicum of hope for 2024. I think 2023 seems hopeless
Seems about right. We might sneak in a win against OSU or UCLA but 5 wins seems to be the ceiling for this season.
Seems about right.
It was not a particularly good game for either team
https://twitter.com/jdeerhake/status/1705815455280329158
Wow, a real-life adaptation of the Springfield Film Festival's award-winning "Man Getting Hit by Football"
Right in the Calebs! (I was just relieved it wasn’t another knee injury, at the risk of sounding unsympathetic)
Utah (and Nate Johnson) pip UCLA ( and Dante Moore) 14-7
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401524017
If Utah's offense still missing half its starters in a few weeks, we're in for a 6-3 rockfight for the ages
I could see us losing 9-6 and of course we miss a FG or two.
Utah's defense is something else. They held UCLA to 9 yard rushing and limited Dante Moore to 15/35 passing.
What happened with Baby Garbers? Did he get hurt or just lose the starting job?
Oregon humbles Colorado 42-6, including going up 35-0 at half.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401524015
That "They're doing it for clicks, we're doing it for wins" speech by Lanning was hilarious
It was like he found a striking writer in LA and asked him to write his speech for a free lunch.
My daughter has been trying to figure out how she’s navigating instructors being on strike this week at Edinburgh. It’s complicated by the fact that different departments have different levels of action, some don’t bother at all, some leave it to individual instructors (nobody gets paid when they don’t teach and there’s plainly no strike fund), so there’s effectively no picket line and no social pressure against people who cross it. So she went to lectures today and if nobody showed, went to the library to work on reading and whatnot. Certainly not something I encountered as an undergrad
DBD AV CLUB
The Imitation Game (Prime Video, 17/19, WB). Outstanding acting performances turn what would otherwise be very dry material into a spark of something that is very watchable. A perfect movie to watch while recovering from a vaccine. Serious, but not too self-indulgent.
CAL
Go Bears! (and a big hug after the recent football outing 🙁)
On this day in 1937 in Memorial Stadium the Golden Bears defeated St. Mary’s, 30-7. It was the first win in what would be an undefeated season (one tie) that would culminate with a Rose Bowl victory over Alabama. Cal led 17-0 at the half having out gained the Gaels 190 yards to minus four. Mercifully, Cal head coach Stub Allison rested his first team in the second half. The game was played under a haze of smoke from fires that were then raging in the Oakland hills.
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I turned the game off after 15 mins and deleted the recording of it. Felt a lot like the 2013 Oregon game. Not much point in dwelling on such things as a Cal fan, though I do want to go to more stuff that Cal is actually good at. Am thinking of going to some swim and women’s gym meets this year, have never been, and my kids do gymnastics so probably would like that
My recording did me a favor and corrupted itself. I saw the pick six, punt return TD, and that's about it. Though apparently I am sadistic enough to watch more of the game because I have tonight's re-air set to record.
I was straightening up the house before bed with the game on in the background. Managed to miss both those TDs then saw the score and decided I was really ready to go to bed.
He left Cal under a cloud, but no one would wish this on anyone. Todd Bozeman's son shot and killed over the weekend.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/community-remebers-father-msu-basketball-killed-in-shooting-at-dc-nightclub
[WGOLF] Cal Co-Hosts Molly Invitational In Seaside
https://calbears.com/news/2023/9/24/womens-golf-cal-co-hosts-molly-invitational-in-seaside.aspx
The California women's golf team is in Seaside to co-host the Molly Collegiate Invitational alongside Oregon State on Sept. 25-26. All nine Golden Bears on the roster will compete on the par-72, 6,128-yard Bayonet Golf Course.
This will be the second competition of the young season for the Bears, who finished in the top half of the team standings at the Dick McGuire Invitational earlier this month. Cal's huge second-round score of 9-under-par 279 in the season-opening tournament was tied for the team's best round in 15 years.
[VB] Cal Battles Utah To Five Sets
https://calbears.com/news/2023/9/24/volleyball-cal-battles-utah-to-five-sets.aspx
SALT LAKE CITY – California volleyball hoped to play spoiler to Utah's Pac-12 home opener on Sunday, but ultimately found itself falling just short in a five-set, 3-2 heartbreaker in favor of the Utes (6-6, 1-1 Pac-12).
The Golden Bears (11-2, 0-2) held the Utes to .185 hitting on the match. Freshman Maggie Li posted her sixth double-double of the season with a court-leading 22 kills plus 13 digs, while junior Annalea Maeder reached the 2,000 career assists mark by adding 42 to her total. Senior Tara DeSa recorded 21 digs, the most by any player. Junior Ellie Hamm hit .471 with a career-high 10 kills and tied the court lead with seven total blocks; redshirt sophomore Ava Mehrten added another six stops to Cal's defensive efforts.
[MPOLO] No. 1 Bears' Win Streak Snapped
https://calbears.com/news/2023/9/24/mens-water-polo-no-1-bears-streak-comes-to-an-end.aspx
LOS ANGELES – The No. 1 California men's water polo team was defeated by No. 2 UCLA 12-10 in the MPSF Invitational first-place game on Sunday, falling for the first time in over 10 months.
Entering the day on a 15-game win streak, the Golden Bears (12-1) fought back to erase a four-goal deficit in the third quarter, tying it 9-9 on a gorgeous backhand goal by senior Nikolaos Papanikolaou. That was the two-time Cutino Award winner's 235th career goal, moving him into a tie with Ivan Rackov for No. 3 all time at Cal.
[MTEN] Cal Ends Run In Battle In The Bay Classic
https://calbears.com/news/2023/9/24/cal-ends-run-in-battle-in-the-bay-classic.aspx
SAN FRANCISCO – The California men's tennis team completed its campaign in the Battle in the Bay Classic on Sunday, with freshman Ethan Schiffman falling to Pacific's Justas Trainauskas on the final day of the annual tournament at the California Tennis Club.
The first-year Golden Bear captured the first set but fell to the Tiger 3-6, 6-3, 10-7.
[FH] Bears Stunned By Vermont In Overtime
https://calbears.com/news/2023/9/24/field-hockey-bears-stunned-by-vermont-in-overtime.aspx
BURLINGTON, Vt. – The California field hockey team scored three goals in a blistering first quarter but it was not enough as host Vermont came back to stun the Golden Bears 4-3 in overtime at Moulton Winder Field on Sunday.
"I feel like we are building a pyramid," Donna Fong Director of Field Hockey Shellie Onstead said. "We are still getting some stuff in place in the bottom levels. What we did today was have a perfect start, which was the opposite of our situation on Friday. In any conference game you can't settle into a lead like that, I don't think we did that, credit to Vermont for coming back to earn the win. That's what makes conference games exciting, tie games and overtime. I think we need to get better at managing the stress of the game when things get evened up."
We did watch the first half...
Kudos for watching the whole half! Being down 14-0 without the other team even running an offensive play was an entirely new level of ineptitude for us. Def had some Holmoe-ish vibes
PRO
Chargers win 28-24 as Keenan Allen had a career day with 18 catches for 205 yards and a 49 yard TD pass to Mike Williams
https://www.espn.com/nfl/recap/_/gameId/401547436
Mike Williams tore his ACL and is out for the season.
Goff does enough for the Lions to beat the Falcons 20-6
https://www.espn.com/nfl/recap/_/gameId/401547433
Aidan Hutchison's sister sang the National Anthem
https://twitter.com/DanLeachDTM/status/1705991294588170264
Aidan Hutchinson does the stanky leg for his first two sacks of the season, the second being a strip sack
https://twitter.com/woodwardsports/status/1706035239317811445
Dolphins score 70 and get the ball back with 8 minutes to go. They start kneeling the ball because they don't want to set the record for most points scored. Even Christopher Brooks got 9 carries for 66 yards.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/boxscore/_/gameId/401547429
Travis Kelce is a subject of a future song, but for now... it's LFG
https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/1706072287449936036
Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa - who was an 800m specialist who only ran her first competitive marathon in April last year - smashed the women's marathon record. She came in at 2:11.53, more than 2 minutes better than the previous record of 2:14.04 by Kenya's Brigid Kosgei in 2019.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/66905203
I was a decent runner in my younger days and could hold close to that pace - for 5K.
That’s absolutely wild
Arizona beats Dallas 28-16. Cards backup Joshua Dobbs has a nearly perfect game (17/21, 189 yards 1 TD, 0 INT) thanks to a rushing attack that exposed Dallas' defense. Dak reverted to form by throwing an INT in the end zone with 3 minutes left.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/recap/_/gameId/401547437
Steeler Defense bottles up Raiders for most of the game, win 23-18. Jimmy G threw 3 picks
https://www.espn.com/nfl/recap/_/gameId/401547439
49ers fans should be very familiar with the kinds of interceptions thrown by Jimmy last night.
Why did the Raiders kick that field goal near the end when they still were going to need a TD?
That was such a David Shaw decision.
Mistakes costly for A’s in 2-0 loss to Tigers
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2023/9/24/23887855/tigers-vs-athletics-recap
The Oakland Athletics battled to the end, but some base running mistakes and a lack of timely hitting sent them to a 2-0 loss Sunday against the Detroit Tigers.
JP Sears made his 31st start of the season in Sunday’s game and allowed a two-out double to Spencer Torkelson in the first inning. However, Sears would leave him stranded as Miguel Cabrera grounded out to end the inning.
Leave ‘em loaded
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2023/9/24/23888708/mlb-final-giants-dodgers-9-24-2023-recap-leave-em-loaded
In a 2-2 tie in the 10th with the bases loaded and 1 out, Patrick Bailey shot a grounder back up the middle that lifted off the arm of reliever Shelby Miller into the Los Angeles night.
For a moment it looked like another lucky break for the San Francisco Giants—a Thairo Estrada pop-up to center got lost in the lights and dropped for a single a batter earlier setting up this bases loaded threat. But the ricochet took a direct route to shortstop Chris Taylor’s glove a couple of feet behind second base. A couple of steps to the bag and a throw to first had Bailey out easily to complete the double-play, end the inning and keep the Giants from scoring.
Chris Taylor leads Dodgers to walk-off win vs. Giants
https://www.truebluela.com/2023/9/24/23888576/dodgers-giants-series-win-chris-taylor
The runs were hard to come by in the Dodgers’ 3-2 win against the Giants on Sunday, but Chris Taylor changed all that in the 10th with a walk-off hit to right.
Each team scored their first two runs on homers, with James Outman batting in J.D. Martinez on the first pitch he saw in the second inning. The Giants struck in the fifth inning: Tyler Fitzgerald reached on a fly ball to Outman, who couldn’t quite run in far enough to make the catch, and LaMonte Wade Jr. smacked a homer right after.
Not strictly professional but Scotland beat Tonga in the rugby World Cup. Some BIG guys on the Tonga team with names that would make the average Pac12 fan’s ear perk up, including a guy named Havili (not the SC player who seemed like he was there for 10 years)
Everton actually won a match, beating Brentford.
Some of the Metro stations have electronic ad displays on the platform. I was in one over the weekend and the display had an ad for Mother's Circus Animal Cookies. I remember them from when I was a kid but didn't know they were still around. I know they're from Oakland and I have a vague recollection of going to where they were made on a field trip in elementary school. Why they are advertising in Metro in DC is a mystery to me
I doubt that they are still in Oakland.
Wiki shows that like many of those types of businesses they've been sold a number of times. Latest owner is an Italian company. It says they were last baked in Oakland in 2006, but they're still Oakland to me.
Hah! They tried to sell that building to me in 2005! Actually might have been 2006 - The warehouse area was amazing cool looking as a Japanese structure - way nice looking as a building.
Speaking of huskies...I took our dogs for a walk yesterday. As we were walking past Live Oak Park on Shattuck Ave., a small car drove in the opposite direction with a husky in the back seat, howling as the car moved northbound.
I can't ever recall hearing and seeing a dog howl from a moving car.