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ASU’s official mascots have been an owl, a “normal”, bulldog, and then in 1946 changed to a Sun Devil. Two years later, Stanfurd alumnus and ex-Disney illustrator Bert Anthony designed “Sparky” - a devil with a pitchfork - was supposedly modeled after Walt Disney.
On this day in 1958 in Memorial Stadium the Golden Bears defeated Washington State 34-14. The Bears, who had entered the game as seven-point underdogs, were led by quarterback Joe Kapp who was seven for ten passing and ran 15 times for 62 yards. The Bears raced to a 22-0 lead twice holding the Cougars after they drove inside the Bear ten yard line, first by stopping a fourth down attempt then with an intercepting. Cal had lost its first two games but the WSU victory was the start of a run of seven wins in eight games that culminated with their most recent Rose Bowl invite.
DBD celebrates 100 years of football in Strawberry Canyon with this daily feature appearing throughout the football season.
[MTEN] Carl Emil Overbeck won his two qualifying matches to reach the Main Draw at the ITA All American, which is in Tulsa OK. He faces Florida's wunderfreshman Jeremy Jin in what should be an even match.
[WTEN] #47 Jessica Alsola won her two qualifying matches to reach the Main Draw at the ITA All American, which is held in my hometown. I may go watch her match today, but she'll be an underdog from here on out
Speaking of bears, I found another school with a bear mascot. I was walking through the parking lot at the park I visited yesterday and noticed a license plate holder for the bears of Lenoir-Ryhne Univ.
Trump gets visibly & audibly upset about the lack of a jury at his NY court hearing. Nevermind that it was his own under-qualified lawyer who neglected to file for a trial by jury
I was settling in for a long & amusing read about the 'full list' of trump for speaker supporters. Turns out the list has 3 names. The article is in Newsweek online. I had totally forgotten that Newsweek became nothing more than a click-bait machine after Tina Brown turned it into a gossip rag. 2 minutes of my life wasted.
Fire at Illinois' stadium. Damage to be assessed. They are scheduled to host Nebraska on Friday. Fire reportedly came from vehicles on fire, but haven't ruled out that the dumpster fire of their season didn't spark it.
Ha, the lack of velocity reminds me of my niece’s soccer game that I attended Saturday - the kiddos are 8. None of them can square up the ball, so a vast majority of the kicks are all squibs. One of the kids had a 1 on 1 breakaway and of course miss-hit the ball such that the goalie had time to walk 4 feet to her left and was able to just pick up the ball.
Reminded me of Meet the Parents…YOU GOTTA SPIKE THOSE FOCKER!!
In DC they had a shooting in a park two blocks from the White House Sunday night. Monday a congressman was carjacked about a mile from the Capitol and a couple blocks from Nats Park by three (he thinks because they were wearing masks) kids with guns. Then last night a shooting near the soccer stadium not far from where the carjacking was. It's at the point where I really don't go to many areas of DC anymore.
I saw an article in the Post that most of the shootings are, as you would expect, among people who know one another, so just that surge alone would be bad, and then you add in some spread to typically "safe" areas... although tbh before the stadium, you'd not have been hanging around that neighborhood of an evening if you didn't have to.
Youth rugby team scores on final play and then kicks the conversion in an attempt to score the two points needed to tie. The kick is short and the apparent winning team starts celebrating. One lad kicks the ball in celebration before it lands, knocking it through - scoring the two points needed for the tie.
Did you guys see Kimbrel intentionally balk in order to move the runner from second to third so he couldn’t steal signs? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before!
I know it’s silly but I kind of like how the Jays have so many second generation guys on their team - Bichette, Guerrero, Biggio, and I feel like maybe one more that I am forgetting.
Rangers beat Tampa Bay on the road 4-0. The official attendance was more than19k (79% capacity), but the stadium looked less than half full. Marcus Semien went hitless, but did score a run.
Yes, but logistics got in the way. In a best-of-3 series, fans are only guaranteed 2 games. If you're going to give the lower seed team *just one game to host*, your choices are Game 1 or Game 2.
If the schedule was done NBA style, Game 1 would be at the higher seed's ballpark, Game 2 would be at the lower seed's ballpark, and Game 3 (if necessary) would be at the higher seed's ballpark. That's a lot of traveling for three games.
A better way is to schedule Game 1 at the lower seed team's ballpark with Games 2 and 3 (if necessary) at the higher seed's ballpark. But even that's kind of strange in that the higher seed doesn't get Game 1 and a best-of-3 set is broken up between two different ballparks.
You can almost see the eventual progression to adding one more wildcard team in each league, two best-of-5 series in each league (#3 vs. #6 and #4 vs. #5) and the top two seeds taking a bye in the first round. Too much? Too soon?
Weather has always been the point of contention about expanding the playoff field once it the League Division Series was added. Aside from weather considerations, athletes simply wear out in the course of playing (does the math) 174 to 183 games from the League Division Series on up to the World Series (176 to 186 games if a Wildcard team makes it to the World Series).
Does anyone else think that with such a lengthy schedule an element of demolition derby is introduced into the playoffs? Which players are going to be exhausted, or worse, injured during the playoffs due to the lengthy schedule?
Yeah but that’s what I am saying, who is watching a WC game in the middle of a workday? I think they would get better ratings if they had two games at 4, two at 7. A 1pm Tuesday game is just ridiculous
Kids are watching a ballgame in broad daylight on a workday. That's how you grow your audience.
Setting the first pitch for late afternoon/early evening (after the adults are home from work) means that kids will see less of the game and will be less invested in the game when they become adults.
i guess it is better than a 1-game wild card series which felt like a vary arbitrary way to decide things in the playoffs, especially for the division winners
Remember Bear fans Cal has never lost a Big Game in a year that the Phils have won the pennant. 1950, '80, '83,'93, '08,'09, 2022. (Philly also won the pennant in 1915 but their was no Big Game that year.)
Had a friend who went to a Cal-ASU game in Tempe. At one point he was walking by the ASU student section and some guys yelled the following at him: "Hey Berkeley, go read a book."
I like Dillingham…step-ma Chitwood went to ASU and they will likely be my team when Cal shudders their athletic programs because Justin Wilcox ran the football team into the ground.
CAL
On this day in 1958 in Memorial Stadium the Golden Bears defeated Washington State 34-14. The Bears, who had entered the game as seven-point underdogs, were led by quarterback Joe Kapp who was seven for ten passing and ran 15 times for 62 yards. The Bears raced to a 22-0 lead twice holding the Cougars after they drove inside the Bear ten yard line, first by stopping a fourth down attempt then with an intercepting. Cal had lost its first two games but the WSU victory was the start of a run of seven wins in eight games that culminated with their most recent Rose Bowl invite.
DBD celebrates 100 years of football in Strawberry Canyon with this daily feature appearing throughout the football season.
Go Bears!!!
[MTEN] Carl Emil Overbeck won his two qualifying matches to reach the Main Draw at the ITA All American, which is in Tulsa OK. He faces Florida's wunderfreshman Jeremy Jin in what should be an even match.
https://calbears.com/news/2023/10/3/mens-tennis-carl-emil-overbeck-advances-to-main-draw-in-tulsa.aspx
[WTEN] #47 Jessica Alsola won her two qualifying matches to reach the Main Draw at the ITA All American, which is held in my hometown. I may go watch her match today, but she'll be an underdog from here on out
https://calbears.com/news/2023/10/3/womens-tennis-jessica-alsola-qualifies-for-ita-all-american-main-draw.aspx
Speaking of bears, I found another school with a bear mascot. I was walking through the parking lot at the park I visited yesterday and noticed a license plate holder for the bears of Lenoir-Ryhne Univ.
It's Fat Bear Week! Vote early, vote often.
https://explore.org/fat-bear-week
Is it too easy to find REAL chemicals?
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Let's check in to see how Trump is doing with his gag order
https://twitter.com/frankrunyeon/status/1709616429761212453
Let him keep talking, right into a contempt of court charge.
Trump gets visibly & audibly upset about the lack of a jury at his NY court hearing. Nevermind that it was his own under-qualified lawyer who neglected to file for a trial by jury
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-finally-brings-his-online-rage-to-the-courtroom
All the more reason not to pay them.
TSA: Don't xray your pets
https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2023/09/27/tsa-tips-traveling-pets-through-security-checkpoint-buffalo-niagara
Speaker Pro Tem's first order of business: kick Pelosi out of her office
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4237209-mchenry-orders-pelosi-to-leave-capitol-office-in-first-acts-as-speaker/
Never underestimate the pettiness of insecure politicians.
SO fucking lame, I cant real find something so pathetic.
The start of his campaign to be elected official rather than temp speaker... guess he isn't going for a Dem/Repub coalition.
Because, why not? Who else has such a great grasp of legislative protocols.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/full-list-of-house-republicans-supporting-donald-trump-for-speaker/ar-AA1hGgaX?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b94f8c29ae1c4650b338b0b656cf3a63&ei=65
I was settling in for a long & amusing read about the 'full list' of trump for speaker supporters. Turns out the list has 3 names. The article is in Newsweek online. I had totally forgotten that Newsweek became nothing more than a click-bait machine after Tina Brown turned it into a gossip rag. 2 minutes of my life wasted.
Never underestimate the stupidity of public figures in thrall to another public figure.
I came across this which puts a crimp in the plan.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-speaker-plan_n_651d11f4e4b0b58c1894f1d2
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Podcaster Lucy Rohden wears a genius costume
https://twitter.com/lucy_rohden/status/1709214052734369898
Fire at Illinois' stadium. Damage to be assessed. They are scheduled to host Nebraska on Friday. Fire reportedly came from vehicles on fire, but haven't ruled out that the dumpster fire of their season didn't spark it.
https://twitter.com/amandabrennantv/status/1709379050202960184
NC State, embarrassed by losing to Jack Plummer, decides to bench its QB
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38548631/nc-state-changing-qbs-brennan-armstrong-mj-morris
Bet they wish they still had Vanilla Finley.
Akron QB out for the season. Backup doesn't throw the ball with... much velocity.
https://twitter.com/TheTailgateTent/status/1709335902604918792
Ha, the lack of velocity reminds me of my niece’s soccer game that I attended Saturday - the kiddos are 8. None of them can square up the ball, so a vast majority of the kicks are all squibs. One of the kids had a 1 on 1 breakaway and of course miss-hit the ball such that the goalie had time to walk 4 feet to her left and was able to just pick up the ball.
Reminded me of Meet the Parents…YOU GOTTA SPIKE THOSE FOCKER!!
Current odds:
OSU (-9.5) @ Cal; Arizona @ USC (-21.5); CU (-4) vs. ASU; Wazzu @ UCLA (-3.5); Utah (bye); Oregon (bye); Washington (bye)
Other than a Cal getting the upset, I am hoping for ASU to beat the Buffs. That would be so embarrassing for Prime.
Bye Bye Bye 🎶
LOTS o' bye.
Missing - Stanf*rd, who also has a bye week.
5 wounded at Morgan State shooting. Shooter still at large
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/03/us/baltimore-morgan-state-university-campus-shooting/index.html
This is getting really bad.
In DC they had a shooting in a park two blocks from the White House Sunday night. Monday a congressman was carjacked about a mile from the Capitol and a couple blocks from Nats Park by three (he thinks because they were wearing masks) kids with guns. Then last night a shooting near the soccer stadium not far from where the carjacking was. It's at the point where I really don't go to many areas of DC anymore.
I saw an article in the Post that most of the shootings are, as you would expect, among people who know one another, so just that surge alone would be bad, and then you add in some spread to typically "safe" areas... although tbh before the stadium, you'd not have been hanging around that neighborhood of an evening if you didn't have to.
Youth rugby team scores on final play and then kicks the conversion in an attempt to score the two points needed to tie. The kick is short and the apparent winning team starts celebrating. One lad kicks the ball in celebration before it lands, knocking it through - scoring the two points needed for the tie.
https://twitter.com/loosest_the/status/1708172629645877437
Own goal! 🏉
PRO
Keenan Allen (6-2" 211 lbs) shows Raiders DE Tyree Wilson (6-6, 275) to his seat
https://twitter.com/geoffschwartz/status/1709622754956206183
I wish we had WRs that could block like this.
Still 5 points shanks still points, still doom good.
Our WR’s are big.
In news that should come as focking NO SURPRISE, it is nothing more than coaching.
Wilcox is a disaster.
Aaron Rodgers says he wants to return this season, perhaps be in for another four plays
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38558036/jets-aaron-rodgers-attacking-rehab-eyes-return-season
Phils beat Marlins 4-1
https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401581116
Did you guys see Kimbrel intentionally balk in order to move the runner from second to third so he couldn’t steal signs? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before!
Kenley Jansen used to do that in 2020 and 2021 I think. I think he didn't want to sign or pitch location relayed to the batter.
Dbacks top Brewers 6-3
https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401581119
Corbin Burnes is one of the weakest Cy Young award winners you will find.
Even the numbers in his award winning season were weak.
I like that team though. Carroll is a nice player
Very.
Twins win 3-1 vs. Jays, ending 18 game post-season skid
https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap/_/gameId/401581113
I know it’s silly but I kind of like how the Jays have so many second generation guys on their team - Bichette, Guerrero, Biggio, and I feel like maybe one more that I am forgetting.
Didn't they used to have Mondesi?
Rangers beat Tampa Bay on the road 4-0. The official attendance was more than19k (79% capacity), but the stadium looked less than half full. Marcus Semien went hitless, but did score a run.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/game/_/gameId/401581110
They should really move the Rays to Montreal … or Oakland!
RIP: Tim Wakefield
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/01/sport/mlb-tim-wakefield-dies-spt-intl/index.html
RIP: Russ Francis
https://sports.yahoo.com/former-nfl-tight-end-russ-142803773.html
Wild card round ...
all 3 games are played at better seeds park?
isnt that strange that there is not at least 1 game in the worse seed's park?
it seems that they change the format of the wild card round very often and i can barely keep up w/ the changes.
Yes, but logistics got in the way. In a best-of-3 series, fans are only guaranteed 2 games. If you're going to give the lower seed team *just one game to host*, your choices are Game 1 or Game 2.
If the schedule was done NBA style, Game 1 would be at the higher seed's ballpark, Game 2 would be at the lower seed's ballpark, and Game 3 (if necessary) would be at the higher seed's ballpark. That's a lot of traveling for three games.
A better way is to schedule Game 1 at the lower seed team's ballpark with Games 2 and 3 (if necessary) at the higher seed's ballpark. But even that's kind of strange in that the higher seed doesn't get Game 1 and a best-of-3 set is broken up between two different ballparks.
You can almost see the eventual progression to adding one more wildcard team in each league, two best-of-5 series in each league (#3 vs. #6 and #4 vs. #5) and the top two seeds taking a bye in the first round. Too much? Too soon?
At that point you probably have to shorten the regular season, because the playoffs are extending into winter weather for some locations.
Weather has always been the point of contention about expanding the playoff field once it the League Division Series was added. Aside from weather considerations, athletes simply wear out in the course of playing (does the math) 174 to 183 games from the League Division Series on up to the World Series (176 to 186 games if a Wildcard team makes it to the World Series).
Does anyone else think that with such a lengthy schedule an element of demolition derby is introduced into the playoffs? Which players are going to be exhausted, or worse, injured during the playoffs due to the lengthy schedule?
I think that is fine but why schedule them at 1pm on a Tuesday? Should all be at night even if it means they are concurrent
TV
Yeah but that’s what I am saying, who is watching a WC game in the middle of a workday? I think they would get better ratings if they had two games at 4, two at 7. A 1pm Tuesday game is just ridiculous
Kids are watching a ballgame in broad daylight on a workday. That's how you grow your audience.
Setting the first pitch for late afternoon/early evening (after the adults are home from work) means that kids will see less of the game and will be less invested in the game when they become adults.
Kids have school though
This is not different from how the other playoff rounds have historically worked. Plenty of weekday daytime games.
but with 2 games at the same time, they're splitting the audience I guess.
Baseball is still regional. Even the World Series is not totally immune from this.
I think 50% of a large pie is better than 100% of a small one, but no way to really know unless you try it I guess
It's so they can fit in three games in a row with no travel.
i guess it is better than a 1-game wild card series which felt like a vary arbitrary way to decide things in the playoffs, especially for the division winners
Basically this. You have to throw your top three starters with no off days. Much more fair.
It's still weird - not your choice - no blame of you, yet still odd.
Is what it is.
I think they started best of 3 at the higher seeded ballpack last year. 2021 was definitely 1 game WC at the higher seeded team.
Remember Bear fans Cal has never lost a Big Game in a year that the Phils have won the pennant. 1950, '80, '83,'93, '08,'09, 2022. (Philly also won the pennant in 1915 but their was no Big Game that year.)
DBD AV Club
Watched a couple of movies yesterday in San Diego…
Dumb Money at the Angelika in Carmel Mountain- not bad. The story of the Game Stop ride…good, not great.
The Covenant on Amazon Prime - Guy Ritchie movie re: Jake Gyllenhaal getting saved by Dar Salim in Afghanistan and then trying to save him in return.
Really odd.
Sparky
Arizona State
I like visiting Phoenix and will miss the rivalry. I will not miss our snake-bitten history of playing in the state of Arizona.
Had a friend who went to a Cal-ASU game in Tempe. At one point he was walking by the ASU student section and some guys yelled the following at him: "Hey Berkeley, go read a book."
Not the insult they evidently thought it was.
Hah, love it! My brother teaches at ASU and I tease him all the time about that kind of stuff
I feel like our snake-bitten history is more when we play in Tucson rather than Tempe.
I will miss ASU, it was a fun rivalry.
I like Dillingham…step-ma Chitwood went to ASU and they will likely be my team when Cal shudders their athletic programs because Justin Wilcox ran the football team into the ground.