Surprisingly active. About 60 trick-or-treaters - mostly kids under 13 - and ran out of candy. I received a flavored vodka shot from one parent (who I knew). I put a "Out of Candy" sign up on my door and it effectively stopped all the teenagers who repeatedly come back to your house late in the evening.
Mostly good. We had a Big Lebowski theme with our costumes: Cf98 was The Dude, Es99 was Walter, Mrs Bk97 was Maude, and I was a nihilist (in a red skin suit and with giant, oversized scissors from The Dude's dream). We handed out full size candy bars to the kids and for the parents we had mystery shots (from a variety pack of 99 bananas, apples, peppermint, etc. wrapped in tissue and decorated as ghosts).
After all the neighborhood kids wrapped up, we went over to a neighbor's front yard for about an hour for pizza and drinks. While we were there someone stole our candy dish from our porch. I don't care that they took the candy (actually, they'd be doing us a favor), but the missus really liked that dish, a copper pumpkin.
Probably the most active my neighborhood has ever been on Halloween night. Actual trick or treaters coming to the door, and people out on their front stoops when I took my kids out for candy.
I feel like there have been more kids moving to the neighborhood over time who are now of Halloween age (we moved in about 7 years ago), and the neighborhood association has gotten more active about this stuff too. This also feels like the first year that is fully "post COVID" where no one is nervous about disease anymore. Nice to see!
Completely quiet. We live on a side road in a rural area, and there are now very few kids in the neighborhood. It was fairly lively when my daughter was growing up and there were several other kids of about the same age, but it was lively most days and nights of the year with a good mix of kids. They all grew up, and what few people who are left with kids pack up and go into town, where they can get much more candy per square mile.
we live in the Castro. When I was in my 20s (prior to living here), it was the place to be. mayhem and Uber-crowds put the kibosh on that. We have a few kids on our block – ours is 8 – but nobody comes by.
last few years, we went to Waller on the north side of Duboce Park. Yesterday was Belvedere in Cole Valley. Both are on the list of half-dozen neighborhoods that go all out.
It was quite crowded. There was a Cat Bus built around a bike (trike?). Someone was in their garage reading a rhyming "autobiographical" story, seemingly having lost the lower half of their body. Weather was nice (mid-60s).
Finally (after last year) got daughter to realize that chocolate is the way to go. The pure-sugar things (starburst, skittles) are a to be skipped.
It was great. My son (3) and I dressed up as astronauts. my wife and daughter (5) dressed up as witches. Lots of candy was collected by the kids, left a dish out at our house and most of it was gone.
We started at 6 and were home by 7:30. Lots of kids/families out and about. One house had an open bar with the mini shots so I made myself a Jack and Coke.
1 door bell ring, did not answer. I had no candy to give.
EDIT: I'd actually like to participate and give the neighborhood kids a reason to trick-or-treat at Casa de Slug, but we aren't set up for it and Mrs Slug has been spending a lot of time at her Mom's in the last few weeks. It just wasn't in the cards this year.
0 trick or treatera! YASSSSSSSSS! benefits of living on a street with houses far far apart from one another so the hoards of sugar eating monsters tend to hit other neighborhoods
I actually happened across that episode not long ago. I have a few TV channels that show old reruns and Head of the Class is shown at noon. I was eating lunch and tuned in and it was that episode.
Was it Wilcox who was hired by Raiders but then went somewhere else after a few days? Maybe it was Clancy who was hired by Raiders as DB coach and a week later became Cal DC
Cross-posting this subject. I wrote a short bio about George W for the student-led poli-sci publication leading into the '04 elections. I highlighted that his active management of the Rangers helped him win Governorship in '94, and allowed him to recover his image from a failed congressional run in 1978, where he was deemed an outsider and ridiculed for jogging and his elite, East Coast education. It was entertaining to see him throw out the first pitch in the WS. Brought back memories of such a definitive era in our nation and my time at Berkeley.
Torey Lovullo goes with the idiotic bullpen game in a must-win game 4 of the World Series at home. Worse yet, he rolls with a situational lefty in Mantiply and a guy that has no business pitching in big moments in Castro. Sheer lunacy.
Due to the schedule, the DBacks have only had to use 3 starters I think. The Dodgers series was helped with the off day between games 1 and 2. I guess 2 bullpen games. One in the NLCS and then also last night.
Ya, they're light a starter. And they've overachieved until now.
But my bigger problem is with the selection of Mantiply and Castro as the opener and 2nd guy. A situational lefty against that lineup...yikes. And Castro...ugh.
I would love it if Bochy's Rangers wrap it up tonight (or Friday night or Saturday night). But a word of caution: teams have come back from a 3-1 deficit in the World Series to win it. Within living memory, even.
2016 World Series: Chicago Cubs over Cleveland before-they-were Guardians. Kris Bryant woke up the Wrigley Field crowd in Game 5 with a homer that won Game 5. Addison Russell hit a grand slam in Game 6, and Ben Zobrist hit a 10th inning double in Game 7 to put the exclamation point on the Cubs's first World Series championship since 1908, ending the Cubbies' 108-year championship drought.
1985 World Series: Kansas City Royals over St. Louis Cardinals. Don Denkinger's blown call in Game 6. Need I say more?
1979 World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates over Baltimore Orioles. The "We Are Family" Pirates led by Willie Stargell overcame a 3-1 series deficit by limiting the Orioles to 2 runs in the last three games.
1968 World Series: Detroit Tigers over St. Louis Cardinals
1958 World Series: New York Yankees over Milwaukee Braves
1925 World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates over Washington Senators
Spurs come back from 20 down to beat the Suns. They get the lead for the first time all night with 1.2 left on the clock. KD got the ball down in the corner after the inbounds with 6.8 left and the Spurs double team him, a foul isn't called, and someone grabs the ball from him and makes a contested layup. Spurs going to a 3-2 match up zone completely took the Suns out of it.
On this day in 1975 in Memorial Stadium the Golden Bears upset U$C, 28-14 before a raucous crowd of 58,000 plus. The underdog Bears wracked up 477 yards of total offense against a Trojan defense that featured multiple future pro bowl participants. Joe Roth connected on 19 of 31 passes for 244 yards and two touchdowns while Chuck Muncie rushed 18 times for 143 yards. “This was, without a doubt, the finest victory I’ve been associated in my coaching career,” a jubilant Cal head coach Mike White said. The Bears would go on to lead the nation in total offense and finish as co-conference champions. Their final overall record was 8-3 after an 0-2 start which came before Roth was installed as starter. U$C had entered the game unbeaten and riding a 28-game conference winning streak. Among the day’s highlights was a Golden Bear goal line stand to end the first half.
(On a personal note this is my favorite all-time non Big Game victory witnessed at CMS.)
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1993 game vs. Oregon. Dave Barr was QB. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I think Mike Caldwell was the big man receiver, who caught the 2 pt conversion at the end to go up 42-41. Rich Brooks was hopping mad after that game. I was there for that one, too.
I heartily endorse this list. I also attended all four of those games and remember each of them for the milestones they represented. The only disappointment in any way, shape, or form, was the '91 UW game. And that only because UW won the game, 24-17.
I was putting together a top ten Cal games at CMS -- Big Games excluded -- and realized I had two Sonny Dykes games in it: the comeback against ASU and the goal line stand vs. Utah. I'd have one Wilcox game, the Evan Weaver game vs. UW.
Did you have the 1973 game vs UW? Cal built a 37-7 lead on the Huskies, only to have the Huskies make a furious comeback that ultimately fell short. A real barn-burner.
Okay here are my top ten non Big Games Cal wins at CMS (in chronological order) '65 Penn State, '75 U$C, '93 Oregon, '96 Arizona, '02 Baylor, '03 U$C, '06 UCLA, '15 ASU, '16 Utah, '18 UW.
I watched this nationally-televised game (on ABC, of course) from my living room in New Jersey. That goal line stand near the South End Zone was a thing of beauty.
USC had fours shots at the end zone, starting on Cal's 1 with 1st-and-goal just before halftime and came up with NOTHING.
EDIT: I am absolutely certain that this game had an effect later in the season when USC, playing UCLA, elected not to tie the Bruins with a late FG, thereby handing the Pac-8 title to the Bruins and denying Cal a Rose Bowl berth in spite of being Pac-8 co-champions.
CARMEL – The California men's golf team shot 23-under-par over the final 36 holes to rally back and win its second consecutive tournament title of the fall at the Cal Poly Invitational on Tuesday at The Preserve Golf Club. Redshirt junior Tony Chen was the catalyst for the victory, claiming individual medalist honors for the first time in his collegiate career with a 10-under-par 206.
BERKELEY – The California men's soccer team closes the home regular-season schedule at Edwards Stadium with two games, as the Golden Bears host UCLA on Thursday and San Diego State on Sunday. Cal (6-5-4, 2-3-2 Pac-12) will honor seniors Nate Carrasco, Evan Davila, Adrian Guzman, Jake Himelstein, Fernando Lara, Oscar Logevall and Juan Martinez before the SDSU game, which will represent the final regular-season home game of their careers.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.. – The California football program has yet another strong candidate for the Burlsworth Trophy in 2023 in Jack Endries and on Tuesday the redshirt freshmen tight end was announced as the Golden Bears' nominee. The honor is given annually to the most outstanding Football Bowl Subdivision player in the nation who began his FBS career as a walk-on.
BERKELEY – The California field hockey team is back in the America East Tournament for the seventh time since 2015 and will meet fifth-seeded Vermont in the opening round on Thursday. The contest starts at 9 a.m. PT at Wicked Blue Field in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Ten of the 11 former Cal football players on active NFL rosters were winners in their Week 8 matchups including five that are on teams atop or tied for first place in their NFL divisions as the league's season nears the halfway point. The list of first-place Bears includes Jake Curhan (Seatte, NFC West), Jared Goff (Detroit, NFC North), Cameron Goode (Miami, AFC East), Cameron Jordan (New Orleans, NFC South) and Patrick Mekari (Baltimore, AFC North).
Five other former Cal players – Chris Brooks (Miami injured reserve), Austin Clark (Miami defensive line coach), Matt Giordano (New Orleans defensive assistant), Patrick Laird (Tampa Bay practice squad, NFC South) and Nikko Remigio (Kansas City injured reserve, AFC West – are also affiliated with squads in first or tied for first place.
BERKELEY – The California women's basketball team will play its lone exhibition game prior to the start of the 2023-24 regular season when it hosts Westmont Thursday night at Haas Pavilion at 7 p.m. PT.
Cal last played Westmont on Oct. 28, 2021 in an 81-62 exhibition win.
I struggle to believe that Jimbo will get fired with a $75M buyout, all guaranteed, no offsets required. You thought Wilcox's contract was ridiculous...
In the first basketball game he coached, Bob Knight lost his temper and broke his clipboard. It was only a junior varsity high school game in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, but it wouldn’t be the last time that the objects and people around him felt his wrath.
During a coaching career of more than 40 years, Mr. Knight was one of the most complicated and polarizing figures in sports.
He was, by any measure, one of the most successful coaches in basketball history. At Indiana University, he led his team to three national championships, including in 1976, when his Hoosiers had the last undefeated season in men’s college basketball.
He was named the national coach of the year four times and led the U.S. men’s team to an Olympic gold medal in 1984. When he won his 880th game in 2007, he overtook Dean Smith of the University of North Carolina as the winningest men’s college coach in history.
But victory never seemed to be enough for the mercurial Mr. Knight, who was 83 when he died Nov. 1 at his home in Bloomington, Ind. His family announced the death in a statement but did not cite a cause.
i was at IU from 92-2000 during the end of the Bob Knight era. home games and the atmosphere at Assembly Hall was pretty impressive.
given the conservative nature of many IU fans in the state, his departure did not sit well w/ many people who complain that "kids are too soft these days".
Kansas City’s new airport is a vast aesthetic improvement over their old airport (think high school trailer classroom with an en-suite port-a-potty). The extra walking distance is worth it!
I remember visiting my sister and flying into LGA. I was thinking about just taking public transportation to her place in Brooklyn. She offered to pick me up. I looked at the bus options and said, yeah please come pick me up.
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WeWork files for Ch 11 bankruptcy
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How did your Halloween night go?
Surprisingly active. About 60 trick-or-treaters - mostly kids under 13 - and ran out of candy. I received a flavored vodka shot from one parent (who I knew). I put a "Out of Candy" sign up on my door and it effectively stopped all the teenagers who repeatedly come back to your house late in the evening.
Mostly good. We had a Big Lebowski theme with our costumes: Cf98 was The Dude, Es99 was Walter, Mrs Bk97 was Maude, and I was a nihilist (in a red skin suit and with giant, oversized scissors from The Dude's dream). We handed out full size candy bars to the kids and for the parents we had mystery shots (from a variety pack of 99 bananas, apples, peppermint, etc. wrapped in tissue and decorated as ghosts).
After all the neighborhood kids wrapped up, we went over to a neighbor's front yard for about an hour for pizza and drinks. While we were there someone stole our candy dish from our porch. I don't care that they took the candy (actually, they'd be doing us a favor), but the missus really liked that dish, a copper pumpkin.
You did a great job yesterday, I was very impressed.
Probably the most active my neighborhood has ever been on Halloween night. Actual trick or treaters coming to the door, and people out on their front stoops when I took my kids out for candy.
I feel like there have been more kids moving to the neighborhood over time who are now of Halloween age (we moved in about 7 years ago), and the neighborhood association has gotten more active about this stuff too. This also feels like the first year that is fully "post COVID" where no one is nervous about disease anymore. Nice to see!
Awww... Nice to see...
Completely quiet. We live on a side road in a rural area, and there are now very few kids in the neighborhood. It was fairly lively when my daughter was growing up and there were several other kids of about the same age, but it was lively most days and nights of the year with a good mix of kids. They all grew up, and what few people who are left with kids pack up and go into town, where they can get much more candy per square mile.
we live in the Castro. When I was in my 20s (prior to living here), it was the place to be. mayhem and Uber-crowds put the kibosh on that. We have a few kids on our block – ours is 8 – but nobody comes by.
last few years, we went to Waller on the north side of Duboce Park. Yesterday was Belvedere in Cole Valley. Both are on the list of half-dozen neighborhoods that go all out.
It was quite crowded. There was a Cat Bus built around a bike (trike?). Someone was in their garage reading a rhyming "autobiographical" story, seemingly having lost the lower half of their body. Weather was nice (mid-60s).
Finally (after last year) got daughter to realize that chocolate is the way to go. The pure-sugar things (starburst, skittles) are a to be skipped.
It was great. My son (3) and I dressed up as astronauts. my wife and daughter (5) dressed up as witches. Lots of candy was collected by the kids, left a dish out at our house and most of it was gone.
We started at 6 and were home by 7:30. Lots of kids/families out and about. One house had an open bar with the mini shots so I made myself a Jack and Coke.
Very cool...
1 door bell ring, did not answer. I had no candy to give.
EDIT: I'd actually like to participate and give the neighborhood kids a reason to trick-or-treat at Casa de Slug, but we aren't set up for it and Mrs Slug has been spending a lot of time at her Mom's in the last few weeks. It just wasn't in the cards this year.
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I don't think that worked
Crickets.
0 trick or treatera! YASSSSSSSSS! benefits of living on a street with houses far far apart from one another so the hoards of sugar eating monsters tend to hit other neighborhoods
We had 75 to100 kids I think, based on candy distribution
Some friends from NYC came to our neighborhood to enjoy seeing the little kids and costumes
Something headless
Dullahan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dullahan
Cal athletics. Actually it may not be headless as much as it is brainless.
Horseman
Was one of the best Scooby Doo episodes I remember as a child
Head
of the class. 80's TV show with Dr Johnny Fever.
Their Little Shop of Horrors episode has inexplicably stuck with me for decades!
https://youtu.be/DjQ1lir3QXM?si=WrcrxBoOrlez_Q94
I actually happened across that episode not long ago. I have a few TV channels that show old reruns and Head of the Class is shown at noon. I was eating lunch and tuned in and it was that episode.
Was it a spinoff of WKRP? Ohhhhh...you mean with Howard Hesseman ;-)
I'll see myself out the pedantry door, before you throw something at me!
Later replaced by Billy Connolly.
An odd choice, and I say that as someone who is a bit of a Billy Connolly stan.
Murray.
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Trump tried to buy the Buffalo Bills in 2014
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PRO
There's no such thing a a perfect Halloween costu...
https://twitter.com/bleacherreport/status/1719503526643061223
Raiders sack Josh McDaniels & GM Ziegler
https://twitter.com/Raiders/status/1719580179159552049?s=20
The Raiders should hire Justin Wilcox to replace him.
Was it Wilcox who was hired by Raiders but then went somewhere else after a few days? Maybe it was Clancy who was hired by Raiders as DB coach and a week later became Cal DC
MEANEE!
finally
Next man up!
Like that's going to have any effect. Mark Davis simply does not have the football acumen of his father even in Al's last days.
but his WNBA team is rockin', for some reason
Just a wild guess - Mark Davis doesn't involve himself terribly much in his WNBA franchise.
Running the franchise into the ground
Yup. And in a shiny, bright, relatively new stadium, too. Although that stadium will always be The Roomba to me.
Maybe the people who did the sacking will be sacked shortly...
Please. Unfortunately you can't fire the owner.
He is rather dumb.
49ers get Chase Young via a trade of a 3rd rounder.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38788085/sources-commanders-agree-trade-chase-young-49ers
If they can't start getting more QB sacks after this . . .
Rangers build 11-1 lead and hang on to cruise to a three-to-one World Series lead over the Diamondbacks
https://www.espn.com/mlb/game/_/gameId/401581098
Cross-posting this subject. I wrote a short bio about George W for the student-led poli-sci publication leading into the '04 elections. I highlighted that his active management of the Rangers helped him win Governorship in '94, and allowed him to recover his image from a failed congressional run in 1978, where he was deemed an outsider and ridiculed for jogging and his elite, East Coast education. It was entertaining to see him throw out the first pitch in the WS. Brought back memories of such a definitive era in our nation and my time at Berkeley.
Obviously I was no big fan of George W. Bush politically, but I do enjoy (what seems like) his genuine love of baseball.
Arizona deserved to lose.
Torey Lovullo goes with the idiotic bullpen game in a must-win game 4 of the World Series at home. Worse yet, he rolls with a situational lefty in Mantiply and a guy that has no business pitching in big moments in Castro. Sheer lunacy.
Due to the schedule, the DBacks have only had to use 3 starters I think. The Dodgers series was helped with the off day between games 1 and 2. I guess 2 bullpen games. One in the NLCS and then also last night.
Ya, they're light a starter. And they've overachieved until now.
But my bigger problem is with the selection of Mantiply and Castro as the opener and 2nd guy. A situational lefty against that lineup...yikes. And Castro...ugh.
I would love it if Bochy's Rangers wrap it up tonight (or Friday night or Saturday night). But a word of caution: teams have come back from a 3-1 deficit in the World Series to win it. Within living memory, even.
2016 World Series: Chicago Cubs over Cleveland before-they-were Guardians. Kris Bryant woke up the Wrigley Field crowd in Game 5 with a homer that won Game 5. Addison Russell hit a grand slam in Game 6, and Ben Zobrist hit a 10th inning double in Game 7 to put the exclamation point on the Cubs's first World Series championship since 1908, ending the Cubbies' 108-year championship drought.
1985 World Series: Kansas City Royals over St. Louis Cardinals. Don Denkinger's blown call in Game 6. Need I say more?
1979 World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates over Baltimore Orioles. The "We Are Family" Pirates led by Willie Stargell overcame a 3-1 series deficit by limiting the Orioles to 2 runs in the last three games.
1968 World Series: Detroit Tigers over St. Louis Cardinals
1958 World Series: New York Yankees over Milwaukee Braves
1925 World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates over Washington Senators
Marcus Semien with a big game. Maybe he can direct some of his WS bonus to Cal.
Yaaaay! Maybe
His wife wouldn't oppose.
Padres had to get a $50 mil loan to cover payroll. They asked for $100 mil but MLB only approved $50.
https://theathletic.com/5021659/2023/11/01/padres-payroll-loan/
I get the feeling that Bob Melvin got out of San Diego unscathed while the getting out was good.
Spurs come back from 20 down to beat the Suns. They get the lead for the first time all night with 1.2 left on the clock. KD got the ball down in the corner after the inbounds with 6.8 left and the Spurs double team him, a foul isn't called, and someone grabs the ball from him and makes a contested layup. Spurs going to a 3-2 match up zone completely took the Suns out of it.
CAL
On this day in 1975 in Memorial Stadium the Golden Bears upset U$C, 28-14 before a raucous crowd of 58,000 plus. The underdog Bears wracked up 477 yards of total offense against a Trojan defense that featured multiple future pro bowl participants. Joe Roth connected on 19 of 31 passes for 244 yards and two touchdowns while Chuck Muncie rushed 18 times for 143 yards. “This was, without a doubt, the finest victory I’ve been associated in my coaching career,” a jubilant Cal head coach Mike White said. The Bears would go on to lead the nation in total offense and finish as co-conference champions. Their final overall record was 8-3 after an 0-2 start which came before Roth was installed as starter. U$C had entered the game unbeaten and riding a 28-game conference winning streak. Among the day’s highlights was a Golden Bear goal line stand to end the first half.
(On a personal note this is my favorite all-time non Big Game victory witnessed at CMS.)
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My best Memorial game win, 91 $C, followed closely by 02 Big Game and 90 UCLA. Best overall game was 91 UW.
the comeback when down 30-0 against Oregon was pretty damned glorious
1993 game vs. Oregon. Dave Barr was QB. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I think Mike Caldwell was the big man receiver, who caught the 2 pt conversion at the end to go up 42-41. Rich Brooks was hopping mad after that game. I was there for that one, too.
Definitely a Memorial Stadium highlight for me.
I heartily endorse this list. I also attended all four of those games and remember each of them for the milestones they represented. The only disappointment in any way, shape, or form, was the '91 UW game. And that only because UW won the game, 24-17.
(I would NEVER forget that game, ever!)
I was putting together a top ten Cal games at CMS -- Big Games excluded -- and realized I had two Sonny Dykes games in it: the comeback against ASU and the goal line stand vs. Utah. I'd have one Wilcox game, the Evan Weaver game vs. UW.
The triple OT win over USC has to be #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_fShwQlANc&t=2s
Did you have the 1973 game vs UW? Cal built a 37-7 lead on the Huskies, only to have the Huskies make a furious comeback that ultimately fell short. A real barn-burner.
Final score - Cal 54, Washington 49
Not included because I was living in Europe at the time.See below for my top ten.
Okay here are my top ten non Big Games Cal wins at CMS (in chronological order) '65 Penn State, '75 U$C, '93 Oregon, '96 Arizona, '02 Baylor, '03 U$C, '06 UCLA, '15 ASU, '16 Utah, '18 UW.
I watched this nationally-televised game (on ABC, of course) from my living room in New Jersey. That goal line stand near the South End Zone was a thing of beauty.
USC had fours shots at the end zone, starting on Cal's 1 with 1st-and-goal just before halftime and came up with NOTHING.
EDIT: I am absolutely certain that this game had an effect later in the season when USC, playing UCLA, elected not to tie the Bruins with a late FG, thereby handing the Pac-8 title to the Bruins and denying Cal a Rose Bowl berth in spite of being Pac-8 co-champions.
UC Berkeley may not ever financially recover from this
https://www.reddit.com/r/berkeley/comments/17k8gc0/what/
pltm at the trigger warning
Five Nights at Oski's
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzEoHiSPPPC/
Booooooo to the guy dressed as a USC bandmember
https://twitter.com/CalBand/status/1719561992103719324
He should have been playing the slide whistle instead
[WBB] Cal gets a 2024 commit
https://twitter.com/loladonez/status/1719580937997123962
With Lulu Laditan-Twidale already on the squad this means that next season the Bears will have a Lola and a Lulu.
[MGOLF] Bears, Chen Win Cal Poly Invitational
https://calbears.com/news/2023/10/31/mens-golf-bears-chen-win-cal-poly-invitational.aspx
CARMEL – The California men's golf team shot 23-under-par over the final 36 holes to rally back and win its second consecutive tournament title of the fall at the Cal Poly Invitational on Tuesday at The Preserve Golf Club. Redshirt junior Tony Chen was the catalyst for the victory, claiming individual medalist honors for the first time in his collegiate career with a 10-under-par 206.
[MSOC] Cal Hosts 2 As Regular-Season Home Schedule Ends
https://calbears.com/news/2023/10/31/mens-soccer-cal-hosts-2-as-regular-season-home-schedule-ends.aspx
BERKELEY – The California men's soccer team closes the home regular-season schedule at Edwards Stadium with two games, as the Golden Bears host UCLA on Thursday and San Diego State on Sunday. Cal (6-5-4, 2-3-2 Pac-12) will honor seniors Nate Carrasco, Evan Davila, Adrian Guzman, Jake Himelstein, Fernando Lara, Oscar Logevall and Juan Martinez before the SDSU game, which will represent the final regular-season home game of their careers.
[FB] Jack Endries In The Mix For Burlsworth Trophy
https://calbears.com/news/2023/10/31/football-jack-endries-in-the-mix-for-burlsworth-trophy.aspx
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.. – The California football program has yet another strong candidate for the Burlsworth Trophy in 2023 in Jack Endries and on Tuesday the redshirt freshmen tight end was announced as the Golden Bears' nominee. The honor is given annually to the most outstanding Football Bowl Subdivision player in the nation who began his FBS career as a walk-on.
[FH] Bears Open Postseason Play
https://calbears.com/news/2023/10/31/field-hockey-bears-open-postseason-play.aspx
BERKELEY – The California field hockey team is back in the America East Tournament for the seventh time since 2015 and will meet fifth-seeded Vermont in the opening round on Thursday. The contest starts at 9 a.m. PT at Wicked Blue Field in Lowell, Massachusetts.
[FB] Pro Bears NFL Week 8
https://calbears.com/news/2023/10/31/football-pro-bears-nfl-week-8.aspx
Ten of the 11 former Cal football players on active NFL rosters were winners in their Week 8 matchups including five that are on teams atop or tied for first place in their NFL divisions as the league's season nears the halfway point. The list of first-place Bears includes Jake Curhan (Seatte, NFC West), Jared Goff (Detroit, NFC North), Cameron Goode (Miami, AFC East), Cameron Jordan (New Orleans, NFC South) and Patrick Mekari (Baltimore, AFC North).
Five other former Cal players – Chris Brooks (Miami injured reserve), Austin Clark (Miami defensive line coach), Matt Giordano (New Orleans defensive assistant), Patrick Laird (Tampa Bay practice squad, NFC South) and Nikko Remigio (Kansas City injured reserve, AFC West – are also affiliated with squads in first or tied for first place.
[WBB] Cal Hosts Westmont In Exhibition
https://calbears.com/news/2023/10/31/womens-basketball-cal-hosts-westmont-in-exhibition.aspx
BERKELEY – The California women's basketball team will play its lone exhibition game prior to the start of the 2023-24 regular season when it hosts Westmont Thursday night at Haas Pavilion at 7 p.m. PT.
Cal last played Westmont on Oct. 28, 2021 in an 81-62 exhibition win.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
👀
https://twitter.com/CFBRep/status/1719101030422528034?s=20
I struggle to believe that Jimbo will get fired with a $75M buyout, all guaranteed, no offsets required. You thought Wilcox's contract was ridiculous...
IIRC, Wilcox's contract isn't even in the Top 30 in FBS football in terms of annual payout.
CFB salaries are insane. The system is out of control and it heavily favors the blueblood programs.
* sigh *
https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1719495333112127984
We're better than Vandy!
#FireFarhan.
That is all.
Bob Knight, powerhouse college basketball coach, dies at 83
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/11/01/coach-bob-knight-dead/
In the first basketball game he coached, Bob Knight lost his temper and broke his clipboard. It was only a junior varsity high school game in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, but it wouldn’t be the last time that the objects and people around him felt his wrath.
During a coaching career of more than 40 years, Mr. Knight was one of the most complicated and polarizing figures in sports.
He was, by any measure, one of the most successful coaches in basketball history. At Indiana University, he led his team to three national championships, including in 1976, when his Hoosiers had the last undefeated season in men’s college basketball.
He was named the national coach of the year four times and led the U.S. men’s team to an Olympic gold medal in 1984. When he won his 880th game in 2007, he overtook Dean Smith of the University of North Carolina as the winningest men’s college coach in history.
But victory never seemed to be enough for the mercurial Mr. Knight, who was 83 when he died Nov. 1 at his home in Bloomington, Ind. His family announced the death in a statement but did not cite a cause.
i was at IU from 92-2000 during the end of the Bob Knight era. home games and the atmosphere at Assembly Hall was pretty impressive.
given the conservative nature of many IU fans in the state, his departure did not sit well w/ many people who complain that "kids are too soft these days".
Pacific Standard Time resumes in a little more than 84 hours. I look forward to this event each year.
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New airports
Kansas City’s new airport is a vast aesthetic improvement over their old airport (think high school trailer classroom with an en-suite port-a-potty). The extra walking distance is worth it!
The new Delta terminal at LGA is pretty nice. Lots of like, expedited security and baggage handling.
The only complaint is that if you have to go to one of the old gates, it is a good 15 min walk.
I just went through LGA two days ago. Super nice. Too bad about the lack of public transportation
NYC is unbelievably backward in that department.
I remember visiting my sister and flying into LGA. I was thinking about just taking public transportation to her place in Brooklyn. She offered to pick me up. I looked at the bus options and said, yeah please come pick me up.
This was for your 39.5 surprise party.
Algorithms
New recommendation experience at airport sent to my phone about 10 min after I ordered my espresso martini...
OTG: Would you like another round of drinks from Bubby's Diner?
Drink(s) will be delivered to the same seat you originally ordered from.
3 pleaze!!!!