LOUISVILLE, Ky.- The California men's and women's cross country teams finished their second ACC championship appearance at Sawyer State Park. The men's team finished in 16th place and the women's placed 15th
Teddye Buchanan was named the NFL's Defensive Rookie of the Month for October to highlight the accomplishments by Pro Bears in Week 8 of the NFL season. The Baltimore linebacker registered 30 tackles, four tackles for loss and one quarterback hit in three contests, including a career-high 15 tackles and one tackle for loss in a 44-10 Week 5 home loss to Houston.
Some other top Week 8 highlights for Pro Bears included
BERKELEY – The California field hockey team (8-7, 3-5 ACC) closed the regular season with a 3-1 victory against Stanford (7-9, 2-6 ACC) on Thursday night at Underhill Field.
The Golden Bears closed the 2025 campaign with a 6-2 record on their home turf after Liz Klompmaker found the back of the net twice, while Holly Pears added one goal in the contest.
BERKELEY. – The California women's soccer team was defeated by No. 2 Stanford 8-2 at Edwards Stadium Thursday in the final match of the regular season. The Cardinal scored three goals in the first half and five in the second half to capture its first ACC regular-season title.
The No. 4 California men's water polo team (14-3) will head to Southern California for a pair of back-to-back games to close out the 2025 regular-season road slate, beginning Saturday at No. 1 USC (15-2), followed by a match at No. 2 UCLA (18-1) on Sunday.
California kicks off its 2025-26 campaign on home turf, welcoming fans to Haas Pavilion for a 7 p.m. faceoff against CSU Bakersfield on Monday (Nov. 3). The Golden Bears are 4-2 all-time against the Roadrunners in a series dating back to 1977 — with every game having been played in Berkeley. A victory would secure Cal's 300th win at Haas Pavilion in men's basketball and would give head coach Mark Madsen 98 wins in his career, just two away from 100.
The California women's gymnastics team unveiled its 2026 schedule on Thursday afternoon. Head coach Geralen Stack-Eaton's inaugural season leading the Golden Bears will feature 13 fixtures, including five home meets at Haas Pavilion this winter.
The Bears' 2026 campaign will begin on Jan. 3 at Washington as they take on a trio of former Pac-12 foes in the host-team Huskies, Oregon State and UCLA in Seattle.
The California women's tennis team will send four players – Greta Greco Lucchina, Mille Johanna Moerk, Anya Murthy and Tiziana-Marie Schomburg - to compete in the Dennis Rizza Intercollegiate Classic from Friday through Sunday in Southern California.
This marks the fourth tournament of the fall for Greco Lucchina, a sophomore ranked 125th nationally in singles who has already qualified for the NCAA Doubles Championship with her exploits in the recent ITA Northwest Regional Championships. With the fall half of the season winding to a close in November, the Dennis Rizza tournament is one of the last chances for the Bears to compete until the spring dual-match season.
Warriors lose to Bucks on the road. the W's kept themselves in the game by tying up after falling behid multiple times. in the end, they gave up way too many open 3s and the Bucks did not miss.
Look, I’ve been covering the Warriors for eight years, and at this point, I should probably just accept that this team operates on a different plane of basketball logic than the rest of us mortals.
They opened the season by dropping 119 on the Lakers. Beat them straight up. Then they went into overtime with the Nuggets and survived with 137 points. Dismantled Memphis 131-118. These aren’t scrubs. These are Western Conference playoff teams with championship aspirations. The Warriors looked at legitimate competition and said, “Yeah, we got this.”
maybe there has been a slow decline in the Ws defense over the years. yesterday it seemed that the Bucks outside shooters were wide open much of the game.
once upon a time w/ Steph and Klay, they took the league sort of by surprise. now it seems that most decent plays can consistently hit 3s, or at least that is all they try.
They seemed to shutdown the Clipper 3 nights ago. But maybe because it was the Clippers. Seemed a step slow and ex-Warriors Ryan Rollins absolutely torched them. Ryan Rollins of the CP3 trade.
There's also just some variance involved. You can't literally cover everybody, not if the offense is willing to pass the ball. So you choose who you might leave open at the end, and on some nights they happen to hit all of their shots. That's kind of what happened in this game.
While I'm hoping to leave the Cal/UVa game early so I can find somewhere to watch game 7, I'm fully expecting that while Yama can hold them to 1 or 2 runs, I don't have any confidence that anyone on the Dodgers can hit the ball. Just about everyone is struggling. Swinging for the fences instead of trying to make contact like the Blue Jays are.
Maine's Democratic primary gets weird. Former front runner was Graham Platner, but has been recently passed by old and not-very-popular governor Janet Mills. Platner fits the mold of Maine democrats - blue collar, counter-party views, angry, and you wouldn't be surprised if he beat his wife and kids. His popularity has taken a hit after oppo research uncovered that he has a big nazi tattoo and posted a bunch of racist and homophobic stuff online.
Should also say for Platner that he basically folds this stuff into the "story" he's telling on the campaign: that he had dark times in his life and wants to show you can move past them. We'll see if the voters buy that.
Trump administration reduces refugees from 125,000 to 7,500 and reserved most of those for white South Africans. This deal smells. This has a stinky musk all over it.
was setting up this device last night. a nice upgrade from the Chromecast TV that i have had for years. i use YouTubeTV as my primary "live TV" watching source so this is a good match.
hopefully it is better across all the other streaming apps. one of the biggest pain points before was the time it took to switch between apps when watching.
looks like i'll be switching over to the Disney Plus app a lot to watch ESPN since YouTubeTV sent me a note thing morning that they cant reach a deal w/ Disney.
I suspect the YouTube-ESPN dispute will be resolved pretty quickly, but you never know. Disney can be a pretty stubborn negotiator.
Fortunately in the streaming age people have a lot of other options to watch stuff they want to watch. I might try out a trial of DirecTV streaming to see how that feels.
He is 6-3, but has only beaten two Division 2 teams (Bowie State, Southern CT), barely beaten three teams (Albany, Norfolk State, St. Francis) that are a combined 2-22. His next three games are against teams with 0.500 or better records.
CAL
[XC] Cal Completes ACC Championships
https://calbears.com/news/2025/10/31/cross-country-cal-completes-acc-championships.aspx
LOUISVILLE, Ky.- The California men's and women's cross country teams finished their second ACC championship appearance at Sawyer State Park. The men's team finished in 16th place and the women's placed 15th
[FB] Pro Bears NFL Week 8: Buchanan Earns League Honor
https://calbears.com/news/2025/10/30/football-pro-bears-nfl-week-8-buchanan-earns-league-honor.aspx
Teddye Buchanan was named the NFL's Defensive Rookie of the Month for October to highlight the accomplishments by Pro Bears in Week 8 of the NFL season. The Baltimore linebacker registered 30 tackles, four tackles for loss and one quarterback hit in three contests, including a career-high 15 tackles and one tackle for loss in a 44-10 Week 5 home loss to Houston.
Some other top Week 8 highlights for Pro Bears included
[FH] Bears Close Regular Season In Winning Fashion
https://calbears.com/news/2025/10/30/field-hockey-bears-close-regular-season-in-winning-fashion.aspx
BERKELEY – The California field hockey team (8-7, 3-5 ACC) closed the regular season with a 3-1 victory against Stanford (7-9, 2-6 ACC) on Thursday night at Underhill Field.
The Golden Bears closed the 2025 campaign with a 6-2 record on their home turf after Liz Klompmaker found the back of the net twice, while Holly Pears added one goal in the contest.
[WSOC] Cal Humbled By No. 2 Stanford
https://calbears.com/news/2025/10/30/womens-soccer-cal-humbled-by-no-2-stanford.aspx
BERKELEY. – The California women's soccer team was defeated by No. 2 Stanford 8-2 at Edwards Stadium Thursday in the final match of the regular season. The Cardinal scored three goals in the first half and five in the second half to capture its first ACC regular-season title.
[MPOLO] No. 4 Cal Closes Road Slate In Southern California
https://calbears.com/news/2025/10/30/mens-water-polo-no-4-cal-closes-road-slate-in-southern-california.aspx
The No. 4 California men's water polo team (14-3) will head to Southern California for a pair of back-to-back games to close out the 2025 regular-season road slate, beginning Saturday at No. 1 USC (15-2), followed by a match at No. 2 UCLA (18-1) on Sunday.
[MBB] Cal Men’s Basketball Kicks Off 2025-26 Season At Haas Pavilion
https://calbears.com/news/2025/10/30/mens-basketball-cal-mens-basketball-kicks-off-2025-26-season-at-haas-pavilion.aspx
California kicks off its 2025-26 campaign on home turf, welcoming fans to Haas Pavilion for a 7 p.m. faceoff against CSU Bakersfield on Monday (Nov. 3). The Golden Bears are 4-2 all-time against the Roadrunners in a series dating back to 1977 — with every game having been played in Berkeley. A victory would secure Cal's 300th win at Haas Pavilion in men's basketball and would give head coach Mark Madsen 98 wins in his career, just two away from 100.
[WGYM] Cal Women’s Gymnastics Reveals 2026 Schedule
https://calbears.com/news/2025/10/30/womens-gymnastics-cal-womens-gymnastics-reveals-2026-schedule.aspx
The California women's gymnastics team unveiled its 2026 schedule on Thursday afternoon. Head coach Geralen Stack-Eaton's inaugural season leading the Golden Bears will feature 13 fixtures, including five home meets at Haas Pavilion this winter.
The Bears' 2026 campaign will begin on Jan. 3 at Washington as they take on a trio of former Pac-12 foes in the host-team Huskies, Oregon State and UCLA in Seattle.
[WTEN] Bears Compete At Dennis Rizza Classic
https://calbears.com/news/2025/10/30/womens-tennis-bears-compete-at-dennis-rizza-classic.aspx
The California women's tennis team will send four players – Greta Greco Lucchina, Mille Johanna Moerk, Anya Murthy and Tiziana-Marie Schomburg - to compete in the Dennis Rizza Intercollegiate Classic from Friday through Sunday in Southern California.
This marks the fourth tournament of the fall for Greco Lucchina, a sophomore ranked 125th nationally in singles who has already qualified for the NCAA Doubles Championship with her exploits in the recent ITA Northwest Regional Championships. With the fall half of the season winding to a close in November, the Dennis Rizza tournament is one of the last chances for the Bears to compete until the spring dual-match season.
Go Bears, let’s Beat the Hoos!
PRO
Warriors lose to Bucks on the road. the W's kept themselves in the game by tying up after falling behid multiple times. in the end, they gave up way too many open 3s and the Bucks did not miss.
Warriors fell for another trap game vs Giannis-less Bucks
https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/warriors-analysis/104583/warriors-fell-for-another-trap-game-vs-giannis-less-bucks
Look, I’ve been covering the Warriors for eight years, and at this point, I should probably just accept that this team operates on a different plane of basketball logic than the rest of us mortals.
They opened the season by dropping 119 on the Lakers. Beat them straight up. Then they went into overtime with the Nuggets and survived with 137 points. Dismantled Memphis 131-118. These aren’t scrubs. These are Western Conference playoff teams with championship aspirations. The Warriors looked at legitimate competition and said, “Yeah, we got this.”
maybe there has been a slow decline in the Ws defense over the years. yesterday it seemed that the Bucks outside shooters were wide open much of the game.
once upon a time w/ Steph and Klay, they took the league sort of by surprise. now it seems that most decent plays can consistently hit 3s, or at least that is all they try.
They seemed to shutdown the Clipper 3 nights ago. But maybe because it was the Clippers. Seemed a step slow and ex-Warriors Ryan Rollins absolutely torched them. Ryan Rollins of the CP3 trade.
There's also just some variance involved. You can't literally cover everybody, not if the offense is willing to pass the ball. So you choose who you might leave open at the end, and on some nights they happen to hit all of their shots. That's kind of what happened in this game.
Tonight: Jays try to win the World Series tonight at home (8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific). Yamamoto tries to follow up his sparkling Game 2 gem.
While I'm hoping to leave the Cal/UVa game early so I can find somewhere to watch game 7, I'm fully expecting that while Yama can hold them to 1 or 2 runs, I don't have any confidence that anyone on the Dodgers can hit the ball. Just about everyone is struggling. Swinging for the fences instead of trying to make contact like the Blue Jays are.
The SF Giants are meanwhile rebuilding. I wonder whatever happened to that Kevin Gausman fella they got off the reclamation pile and turned around
they also had that Blake Snell guy last year
Guys don't want to play in Cincy, apparently
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46786376/jackson-third-bengals-player-request-trade
The Brown family should sell. Players know when owners create and keep a dysfunctional organization.
Kids to sell his father's stuff at auction, hoping to raise more than [puts pinky in mouth]... one billion dollars.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46780320/majority-jim-irsay-memorabilia-collection-going-auction
Don't forget to check your pelotas, gentlemen
https://www.tsn.ca/nba/article/thunder-g-topic-being-treated-for-testicular-cancer-n1-46782473/
WEEN
My old roommate's nickname for me.
IES, STANFURD
Happy Hallo_
it is imy favorite SoulCycle instructor's favorite holiday and so i made sure to go to a class today and partake in the dark and gloomy music vibes.
the music is usually that way anyways. even more so this time of year.
A band introduced to me by Beavis and Butthead
T-
as in IN-BET-
a famous Judy Garland song
POLITICS
Federal government to dispatch election monitors to California & New Jersey
Totally-Not-A-Concentration-Camp
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/10/30/utah-gov-cox-says-homeless-campus-envisioned-to-fulfill-trumps-order-is-a-top-priority/
Maine's Democratic primary gets weird. Former front runner was Graham Platner, but has been recently passed by old and not-very-popular governor Janet Mills. Platner fits the mold of Maine democrats - blue collar, counter-party views, angry, and you wouldn't be surprised if he beat his wife and kids. His popularity has taken a hit after oppo research uncovered that he has a big nazi tattoo and posted a bunch of racist and homophobic stuff online.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/what-explains-graham-platners-popularity
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5573485-maine-senate-poll-mills-platner/
Should also say for Platner that he basically folds this stuff into the "story" he's telling on the campaign: that he had dark times in his life and wants to show you can move past them. We'll see if the voters buy that.
Trump urges Congress to eliminate the filibuster
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/politics/trump-senate-filibuster-nuclear-option-government-shutdown
JD Vance says at a Turning Point event that he hopes his wife dumps her Hinduism to become a Christian
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-usha-religion-charlie-kirk-b2855361.html
More Kangaroo Courts
https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-military-attorneys-immigration-justice-department-cb352bdb6c1d9d6d68f79642d69c6363
Trump administration reduces refugees from 125,000 to 7,500 and reserved most of those for white South Africans. This deal smells. This has a stinky musk all over it.
https://apnews.com/article/refugees-admissions-cap-immigration-trump-administration-197a8ef1c9c219ce6167da4aba3f5a6e
A young lady who is a mediocre golfer gets a rule exemption to play in an LPGA event. Huh. I wonder how that happened.
https://apnews.com/article/kai-trump-lpga-tour-pelican-annika-7776b72b21cf0ce1b94fd2d2f129117b
DBD AV CLUB
Google TV Streamer
was setting up this device last night. a nice upgrade from the Chromecast TV that i have had for years. i use YouTubeTV as my primary "live TV" watching source so this is a good match.
hopefully it is better across all the other streaming apps. one of the biggest pain points before was the time it took to switch between apps when watching.
looks like i'll be switching over to the Disney Plus app a lot to watch ESPN since YouTubeTV sent me a note thing morning that they cant reach a deal w/ Disney.
I suspect the YouTube-ESPN dispute will be resolved pretty quickly, but you never know. Disney can be a pretty stubborn negotiator.
Fortunately in the streaming age people have a lot of other options to watch stuff they want to watch. I might try out a trial of DirecTV streaming to see how that feels.
The decline of rap
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/no-rap-songs-top-40-002251507.html
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Nebraska essentially lock up Matt Rhule in this season's crazy-pants coaching carousel cycle
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46780529/sources-nebraska-rhule-agrees-2-year-extension-2032
The Fighting DeSean Jacksons beat the Fighting-In-A-Totally-Legal-Way Michael Vicks
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46787891/desean-jackson-wins-hbcu-clash-vs-michael-vick-hornets-top-spartans
Marshawn taking it all in
https://x.com/hbcugameday/status/1984042099877277815
DeSean Jackson for Cal Head coach
DeSean has only beaten one decent team - NCCU.
He is 6-3, but has only beaten two Division 2 teams (Bowie State, Southern CT), barely beaten three teams (Albany, Norfolk State, St. Francis) that are a combined 2-22. His next three games are against teams with 0.500 or better records.
Then, If he wins the next 3 games.
Take care of your chickens, take care of your mentals.
Sage advice. Really.
Reply fail. I meant that to be under the Marshawn subthread.
No prob! Knew what you meant.
LSU fires their AD shortly after firing Brian Kelly. This comes shortly after criticism from Governor Jeff Landry
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46787213/woodward-lsu-athletic-director-amid-landry-criticism
I hope they really do get Trump to choose their next AD and HC...
LSU is going to be a running joke for years.