Welcome to the DBD, a Write for California community board where you can chat about pretty much anything. Like, do you still listen to the radio? If so, when and which one?
my wife and i went around 730a. no lines of any sort. we were done in about 5 min.
our polling place is a neighborhood prek-2nd grade school that both our kids went to. i didnt need a donut, but i donated some $$ to the PTA bake sale that was inside the gym where the voting was happening.
I’ve really expanded my jazz listening over the past few years. I never thought I’d “get into it” but it’s really good. So much variation too, so I can usually find something I like. As far as well-known, stuff, I’m a fan of Art Blakey and Thelonius Monk. I’ve never really warmed to Miles Davis, though.
Then we get into fusion and prog rock and it’s so good.
On fusion, rock fusion of Return to Forever is amazing, as are many of the 60s and 70s solo albums from folks associated with RTF, including Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Airto Moreira.
There’s a severe shortage of said clubs in 99% of the country, IMHO. There’s not a single town in the country that couldn’t use both a jazz club and a Top Dog.
I remember you used to be able to get the same dogs Top Dog uses on Amazon. For me, the buns are what make it Top Dog. They're not hot dog buns. Can't describe it but they're less bread-y than hot dog buns and more like sour dough rolls. That and the way they cook it.
When I buy Louisiana Hots from Costco I'll grill or fry them on a cast iron pan and then either use Semifreddi baguettes or a narrower artisan french bread.
The bun is a big part of the success, man. The thing that we shoot for with the bun is finding a bun that is light enough so that it doesn’t overshadow the dog, so your teeth can sink into it but you don’t have to chew the bun. You don’t want to spend most of your time chewing the bun. So instead of sourdough, we use a French Roll, which is much softer and will almost melt in your mouth.
You want to get it so that when you toast it up, it’s light and toasty on the outside, but soft on the inside, so we use sesame seeds on the exterior to allow the top to toast without burning all the way through. The sesame seeds absorb some of the heat from the toasting process.
I have fond memories of streaming Iran Radio while a student at Cal. I loved the traditional Persian station, but also rocked out to songs such as Dige Azat Badam Miad on the pop station.
I actually had a third class radio-telephone operator's license and did some DJing at KALX. Had to borrow a car to get up the hill from Bowles for the morning shift. "Austin Tatious" the night DJ once gave me a smoke and I did my broadcast, uh, affected... Good times.
Pa Chitwood was a radio DJ in Carmel for KRML when I was born. We still have a few cool records from his spinning days, tho Ma Chitwood adiosed a majority of them when they split back in the Kidd/Murray years…
My go-to radio stations are KDFC (classical), KCBS (news), and KNBR (Giants baseball). I will boycott KGO while Starkey is still announcing. KGO's format change is nonsense; after Starkey retires I hope to listen to Cal football on the radio again.
Most of the time that I listen to the radio now is while driving. Not so much at home.
I also listened to KGO as a diversion. The talk radio format allowed for diversions occasionally. KGO was a good station to listen to when I was doing something fairly mindless like yard work.
I made a crystal radio from a kit. It was cool, you had to have a really long antenna, like 30 feet or so, but it didn't require any other power source.
Satellite radio. I have a long commute (2 hours round trip) and it is a life saver! So worth the cost. The music channels are great, but so are the sports and comedy stations.
I got No 2 a used car before starting grad school and drove cross country with him. I did the free 3 month trial for XM for the drive. He had said he wouldn't use it because he could always use the radio or something like spotify. I think he likes it because for his bday he asked me to extend it for the year. I just did the $5/mo for a year extension they offered and going to $18/mo after. Wow I didn't realize it was so expensive.
SiriusXm ratchets up the price every year…this year it tripled. I do the same annual song and dance ritual where I call them and threaten some poor CSR in Bangladesh with cancellation, before finally getting another year after a marginal price increase.
I call it SiriusXM Day… it’s a yearly event now - my own personal Bobby Bo Day?
I used to do the same thing back when I had Comcast. Rates were fixed for 12 months, then they'd go up ~50% overnight. I'd call and pretend I'm going to cancel, get them back to the promotional rate, and repeat the process a year later.
I do listen to the radio. A little sports talk and a 24 hour news station (WTOP) that is much like KCBS in the Bay Area. Mostly listen to the news when cooking or eating. At times WTOP has had the highest revenue of any radio station in the country.
REM's first big song I guess. The first track on Eponymous, their first Best Hits compilation. Although Eponymous doesn't include Superman, their best song in my opinion.
Check out the UC Berkeley ballot drop box at 0:02s. The instructions aren't in Spanish or Simplified Chinese. What languages are these? Is that Burmese, Russian, Telegu, [something], Thai, Korean, and Hindi?
Wikipedia says that Russian Cyrillic includes an umlauted E or e. There are a number of Cyrillic alphabets (maybe most?) that use an umlauted E or e. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabets
I despise political fundraising. It depresses me because it's obvious that if you have little money to give or no money to give, you have less voice. That's a remarkably plutocratic message to send.
My mom's been getting jillions of texts from Dem candidates asking for more money. Last week she intended to send $25 to Chuck Schumer but instead donated $2500 accidentally.
My work phone gets a bunch of "THIS IS ERIC TRUMP! WE NEED TO HELP MY DAD DEFEAT THE DEMS!" and my personal phone gets a lot of progressive ones addressed to my brother, for some reason.
Trump says he has a "very big announcement" coming on November 15th. Twenty bucks says it something to do with grift and/or a cotton-brained strategy to avoid prosecution
DeSean Jackson makes 2022 debut. Catches one pass, and one more that was called back on holding. Exits the game with hamstring injury and didn't return.
I got his autograph once at the Cal FanFest thing and stood next to him for a pic. He is maybe 5’7” or 5’8”, slightly built. Impressive he has had such a long career!
Ain't that the truth. Last year I was changing a lightbulb in a recessed light in the ceiling and my hammy popped. You can get injured doing the stupidest things. Oh to be 19 again and indestructible.
The Golden State Warriors avoided disaster on Monday night. Thanks to another amazing performance from Steph Curry, the Dubs defeated the Sacramento Kings 116-113 and avoided falling to 3-8.
The Warriors seemed to be following a dangerous script in the first half. Golden State’s starters jumped out to a 27-17 lead, but the Dubs collapsed as soon as Curry went to the bench and head coach Steve Kerr turned to the team’s reserves.
Former second overall pick James Wiseman, who had a team-worst plus/minus heading into play on Monday, did not play. If Kerr hoped removing the seven-footer would transform the effectiveness of his second unit, he was sorely disappointed with the results. The Kings erased the Dubs 10-point lead before the end of the first quarter.
NY Giants Xavier McKinney honors the tradition set by Clint Barmes, Jeff Kent, John Smoltz, Joel Zumaya, former USC WR Josh Shaw, and others with a dumb off-the-field injury
BERKELEY – The Cal women's basketball team officially opened the 2022-23 season with an 86-56 win over Cal State Northridge at Haas Pavilion Monday. The Bears were led by Evelien Lutje Schipholt's game-high 16 points (on 6-10 shooting) along with Leilani McIntosh's 14 points (on 4-7 shooting). Peanut Tuitele posted a game-high nine rebounds while Karisma Ortiz notched three steals, one away from her career high.
"This is who we want to be," said Cal head coach Charmin Smith. "I'm really proud of how we came out today and imposed our will. It was a big step forward."
After its 17-4 victory at No. 14 San Jose State on Sunday, the No. 1 California men's water polo team swept the MPSF men's water polo weekly awards, the conference announced Monday afternoon.
Junior goalie Adrian Weinberg was named Player of the Week for the second week in a row after his performance against the Spartans. Weinberg notched 15 saves and an assist in the match, anchoring a Cal defense that held SJSU to a season-low four goals in the contest. This is the third career MPSF Player of the Week honor for Weinberg.
When can we reasonably expect Carol Christ to retire?
Starting to think there will be no meaningful change in football or Men’s basketball until that transition occurs. That will hopefully prompt an AD change, and so on…
Based on the emails I receive from her to the campus community/donors it doesn't seem like she has any plans to step down. I guess what we can hope for is that the triumvirate of Knowlton, Fox, and Wilcox after some years wandering in the wilderness will finally arrive in the land of milk and honey.
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Cal’s loss to U$C Saturday means that this will be the 64th year in a row in which the Bears haven’t beaten their three rivals in the same season. The Sturdy Golden Ones have only ever accomplished the feat six times, the Rose Bowl years of ’37, ’48, ’49, 50 and ’58, and in 1941 a year in which they won only one other game (St. Mary’s — on the day Oski made his debut).
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I paid no attention to the team in the lead up to the season and I have no regrets about that decision. Looks like another year of completely ignoring men's bball.
It's going to take years to rejuvenate the fanbase after the Jones-Fox disasters.
I turned off the game at halftime. When I turned it back on we were ahead 62-61 with around 5:30 left. We then proceeded to lay an egg. Anyway I don't get Pac-12 Bay Area so I had to stream it from my phone where I have the Pac-12 Now App to my Samsung smart TV. Worked quite well, HD picture and so on. Still, the camera was way up in the rafters it seemed like so the perspective was a bit strange.
The lighting was strange - big hotspots in the area of the free throw lines. Either PAC-12 nets was using their camera bought on eBay or Cal needs to adjust the lights.
Same stuff from a Fox coached team that we’ve seen for now 4 seasons in Berkeley, and 13 straight overall, made slightly more embarrassing by his recent quotes paying lip service to how they’d been in rebuilding mode for 36 months and now finally had a proper Fox roster.
Chris Evans named People Magazine's sexiest man despite hanging dong on social media. Or maybe not "despite" but "because".
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/08/1135073663/chris-evans-named-sexiest-man-alive-by-people-magazine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erlZXAHuECI
If you're voting today, tell the DBD what you're seeing at the polls
FRAUD! FRAUD EVERYWHERE!!
Mark Fox, can’t be everywhere, can he?
I voted early in Austin but a co-worker needed almost 2 hours to get hers complete. Long long lines around here
in New Rochelle, NY ..
my wife and i went around 730a. no lines of any sort. we were done in about 5 min.
our polling place is a neighborhood prek-2nd grade school that both our kids went to. i didnt need a donut, but i donated some $$ to the PTA bake sale that was inside the gym where the voting was happening.
Au contraire, one always needs a donut
Especially Colonial DOnuts, at 2:00 am. ;)
Jazz
Fred Anderson, Hamid Drake and Harrison Bankhead at Velvet Lounge in Chicago circa mid-aughts. Mind altering.
I’ve really expanded my jazz listening over the past few years. I never thought I’d “get into it” but it’s really good. So much variation too, so I can usually find something I like. As far as well-known, stuff, I’m a fan of Art Blakey and Thelonius Monk. I’ve never really warmed to Miles Davis, though.
Then we get into fusion and prog rock and it’s so good.
On fusion, rock fusion of Return to Forever is amazing, as are many of the 60s and 70s solo albums from folks associated with RTF, including Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Airto Moreira.
I tracked down albums by the various members of Mahavishnu Orchestra and that’s been a good rabbit hole
Used to stop in a jazz club as I walked home on College Avenue to Piedmont area.
There’s a severe shortage of said clubs in 99% of the country, IMHO. There’s not a single town in the country that couldn’t use both a jazz club and a Top Dog.
I remember you used to be able to get the same dogs Top Dog uses on Amazon. For me, the buns are what make it Top Dog. They're not hot dog buns. Can't describe it but they're less bread-y than hot dog buns and more like sour dough rolls. That and the way they cook it.
When I buy Louisiana Hots from Costco I'll grill or fry them on a cast iron pan and then either use Semifreddi baguettes or a narrower artisan french bread.
Ahh...ask and you shall receive.
https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/78482/conversation-top-dog-guy
The bun is a big part of the success, man. The thing that we shoot for with the bun is finding a bun that is light enough so that it doesn’t overshadow the dog, so your teeth can sink into it but you don’t have to chew the bun. You don’t want to spend most of your time chewing the bun. So instead of sourdough, we use a French Roll, which is much softer and will almost melt in your mouth.
You want to get it so that when you toast it up, it’s light and toasty on the outside, but soft on the inside, so we use sesame seeds on the exterior to allow the top to toast without burning all the way through. The sesame seeds absorb some of the heat from the toasting process.
Maybe we need a Top Dog meetup sometime soon...
Anytime. I'm always up for Top Dog
ideally i would listen to jazz more but i never know where to start or how to branch out.
taking suggestions ..
Good places to start: Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Lester Young and Sidney Bechet.
I’m on a Bird kick.
i have some Ellington and Peterson, but will check out the others.
RADIO
Raheem
I have fond memories of streaming Iran Radio while a student at Cal. I loved the traditional Persian station, but also rocked out to songs such as Dige Azat Badam Miad on the pop station.
I actually had a third class radio-telephone operator's license and did some DJing at KALX. Had to borrow a car to get up the hill from Bowles for the morning shift. "Austin Tatious" the night DJ once gave me a smoke and I did my broadcast, uh, affected... Good times.
Pa Chitwood was a radio DJ in Carmel for KRML when I was born. We still have a few cool records from his spinning days, tho Ma Chitwood adiosed a majority of them when they split back in the Kidd/Murray years…
Ah was that when it was all jazz? I flip to it sometimes when I visit my parents in Monterey. It seems to be like an oldies rando station now
I usually listen to the local NPR station when I'm out and about
same. it only amounts to about 45 min a week and at very random times.
but i listen to the classical music variant of the same station mostly
My go-to radio stations are KDFC (classical), KCBS (news), and KNBR (Giants baseball). I will boycott KGO while Starkey is still announcing. KGO's format change is nonsense; after Starkey retires I hope to listen to Cal football on the radio again.
Most of the time that I listen to the radio now is while driving. Not so much at home.
Couldn't agree more - Starkey is retiring 47 years too late.
KGO used to provide some diversion while driving, now it's become a 24 hour sports infomercial. Airwave radio is turning into a bland diet.
I also listened to KGO as a diversion. The talk radio format allowed for diversions occasionally. KGO was a good station to listen to when I was doing something fairly mindless like yard work.
in a HS electronics class (freshman year) we built an AM radio more or less from scratch.
it was a kit where you had to solder all the right parts into place, but it was particularly gratifying when it finally worked ...
I remember that radio. It was pretty cool.
mine barely worked. there was something messed up w/ my power/volume knob. and even then you had to whack it a couple times to get it to work
I made a crystal radio from a kit. It was cool, you had to have a really long antenna, like 30 feet or so, but it didn't require any other power source.
KALX!
Satellite radio. I have a long commute (2 hours round trip) and it is a life saver! So worth the cost. The music channels are great, but so are the sports and comedy stations.
I love ch 28, The Spectrum
I got No 2 a used car before starting grad school and drove cross country with him. I did the free 3 month trial for XM for the drive. He had said he wouldn't use it because he could always use the radio or something like spotify. I think he likes it because for his bday he asked me to extend it for the year. I just did the $5/mo for a year extension they offered and going to $18/mo after. Wow I didn't realize it was so expensive.
SiriusXm ratchets up the price every year…this year it tripled. I do the same annual song and dance ritual where I call them and threaten some poor CSR in Bangladesh with cancellation, before finally getting another year after a marginal price increase.
I call it SiriusXM Day… it’s a yearly event now - my own personal Bobby Bo Day?
Hmm...I guess I'll do the same thing. I'll have cable renewal day and XM renewal day.
I used to do the same thing back when I had Comcast. Rates were fixed for 12 months, then they'd go up ~50% overnight. I'd call and pretend I'm going to cancel, get them back to the promotional rate, and repeat the process a year later.
Exactly! It’s a lifesaver on the road trips.
I do listen to the radio. A little sports talk and a 24 hour news station (WTOP) that is much like KCBS in the Bay Area. Mostly listen to the news when cooking or eating. At times WTOP has had the highest revenue of any radio station in the country.
, RADIO…
Elvis Costello
Ga Ga
Free Europe
REM's first big song I guess. The first track on Eponymous, their first Best Hits compilation. Although Eponymous doesn't include Superman, their best song in my opinion.
I liked REM when they came out, but after their first 4 albums, they just seemed to be repeating themselves.
I didn't listen to most of the new stuff after Automatic for the People.
I'm on a Mexican oh oh radio
heh, I just heard that song this weekend for the first time in a while
Wall of Voodoo
I saw them before that album came out, middle band at a show for one young band's last live show ever.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY GOES TO THE POLLS TODAY
Check out the UC Berkeley ballot drop box at 0:02s. The instructions aren't in Spanish or Simplified Chinese. What languages are these? Is that Burmese, Russian, Telegu, [something], Thai, Korean, and Hindi?
https://twitter.com/Cal/status/1590067923045191680
Google translate says
Албан ёсны саналын хуудас хулеэж авах xайpцаг
is detected to be Mongolian and translates to
"Time to download official ballot papers"
1. ?
2. Албан ёсны саналын хуудас хулеэж авах xайpца is Mongolian
3. ಅಧಿಕೃತ ಮತಪತ್ರ ಡ್ರಾಪ್ ಬಾಕ್ಸ್ is Kannada
అధికారిక బ్యాలెట్ డ్రాప్ బాక్స్i s Telegu. Look very similar to me
4.dorng leiz longc bieqc funx-hoc ginv longc ....could not read it all, and it stumps Google Translate
5.공식 투표용지 보관함 is Korean
6. आधिकारिक मतपत्र ड्रॉप बॉक्स is Hindi, but to my eye it looks the same as Maithili or Nepali or sanskrit
SGBear had some good guesses!
Russian Cyrillic doesn't use umlauts. Maybe Belorussian?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_alphabet
Wikipedia says that Russian Cyrillic includes an umlauted E or e. There are a number of Cyrillic alphabets (maybe most?) that use an umlauted E or e. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabets
Well I'll be...I stand corrected.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589639376186724354?s=46&t=VWk542i9LZRSBdCT7LFmDw
Translated: I would like the government to be in gridlock so that it is unable to regulate me.
But midterms almost always flip and Wall street booms.
I’ve been getting so many political texts messages. That is new for me.
I despise political fundraising. It depresses me because it's obvious that if you have little money to give or no money to give, you have less voice. That's a remarkably plutocratic message to send.
My mom's been getting jillions of texts from Dem candidates asking for more money. Last week she intended to send $25 to Chuck Schumer but instead donated $2500 accidentally.
omg
I’m getting a bunch for the guy who either used to have my number, or once gave an incorrect number to some list.
My work phone gets a bunch of "THIS IS ERIC TRUMP! WE NEED TO HELP MY DAD DEFEAT THE DEMS!" and my personal phone gets a lot of progressive ones addressed to my brother, for some reason.
Me too. Hate them, even if from my party.
Florida bans DOJ observers from South Florida voting sites, sends its own observers to three sites.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/08/justice-department-monitors-florida-desantis/
Trump says he has a "very big announcement" coming on November 15th. Twenty bucks says it something to do with grift and/or a cotton-brained strategy to avoid prosecution
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/07/trump-very-big-announcement-00065587
I think he's going to cop to all his misdeeds then turn himself in.
He's changed and will promise he's a new man. Just like A.H. after his release from prison.
Last day of being bombarded by political ads!
let me be the first one to declare election fraud!
but maybe i am not the first ...
Rigged. Everything is rigged.
PRO
DeSean Jackson makes 2022 debut. Catches one pass, and one more that was called back on holding. Exits the game with hamstring injury and didn't return.
I got his autograph once at the Cal FanFest thing and stood next to him for a pic. He is maybe 5’7” or 5’8”, slightly built. Impressive he has had such a long career!
Those hammy’s tighten up at your age, yo
Ain't that the truth. Last year I was changing a lightbulb in a recessed light in the ceiling and my hammy popped. You can get injured doing the stupidest things. Oh to be 19 again and indestructible.
Steph Curry lifts Warriors over Kings with an amazing 47-point performance
https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2022/11/7/23446539/warriors-steph-curry-kings-draymond-green-andrew-wiggins
The Golden State Warriors avoided disaster on Monday night. Thanks to another amazing performance from Steph Curry, the Dubs defeated the Sacramento Kings 116-113 and avoided falling to 3-8.
The Warriors seemed to be following a dangerous script in the first half. Golden State’s starters jumped out to a 27-17 lead, but the Dubs collapsed as soon as Curry went to the bench and head coach Steve Kerr turned to the team’s reserves.
Former second overall pick James Wiseman, who had a team-worst plus/minus heading into play on Monday, did not play. If Kerr hoped removing the seven-footer would transform the effectiveness of his second unit, he was sorely disappointed with the results. The Kings erased the Dubs 10-point lead before the end of the first quarter.
He went off. Wouldn't let Warriors lose the game.
NY Giants Xavier McKinney honors the tradition set by Clint Barmes, Jeff Kent, John Smoltz, Joel Zumaya, former USC WR Josh Shaw, and others with a dumb off-the-field injury
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34971820/giants-xavier-mckinney-hurts-hand-atv-accident-weeks
TIL
https://twitter.com/ckamka/status/1589097271760924673
After suffering a UCL injury, Josh Allen's return is uncertain. Also, baseball players don't have a monopoly on UCL injuries.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34973650/source-bills-qb-josh-allen-being-evaluated-ucl-injury
Was he hit? Or was on a throw?
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
College football rankings, grades: Georgia gets 'A+', Clemson earns an 'F' on Week 10 report card
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-rankings-grades-georgia-gets-a-clemson-earns-an-f-on-week-10-report-card/
Gruden interested in South Florida HC job
https://twitter.com/FanStreamJP/status/1589619363384295425
But, but... what about the FFCA? Will he be disqualified?
[MBB] #14 TCU comes from behind with less than a minute to go to beat AR Pine Bluff 73-72
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore/_/gameId/401483298
[MBB] All other Pac-12 teams roll to season opener wins except USC, which lost at home to the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles 74-61.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap/_/gameId/401483470
Fair. Cal is not a P5 team.
Ha...Andy Enfield loses to his old team.
CAL
Well, Go Bears!!!
[WBB] Cal Opens Season With 86-56 Victory Over CSUN
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/7/womens-basketball-cal-opens-season-with-86-56-victory-over-csun.aspx
BERKELEY – The Cal women's basketball team officially opened the 2022-23 season with an 86-56 win over Cal State Northridge at Haas Pavilion Monday. The Bears were led by Evelien Lutje Schipholt's game-high 16 points (on 6-10 shooting) along with Leilani McIntosh's 14 points (on 4-7 shooting). Peanut Tuitele posted a game-high nine rebounds while Karisma Ortiz notched three steals, one away from her career high.
"This is who we want to be," said Cal head coach Charmin Smith. "I'm really proud of how we came out today and imposed our will. It was a big step forward."
[MPOLO] No. 1 Bears Sweep MPSF Weekly Awards
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/7/mens-water-polo-no-1-bears-sweep-mpsf-weekly-awards.aspx
After its 17-4 victory at No. 14 San Jose State on Sunday, the No. 1 California men's water polo team swept the MPSF men's water polo weekly awards, the conference announced Monday afternoon.
Junior goalie Adrian Weinberg was named Player of the Week for the second week in a row after his performance against the Spartans. Weinberg notched 15 saves and an assist in the match, anchoring a Cal defense that held SJSU to a season-low four goals in the contest. This is the third career MPSF Player of the Week honor for Weinberg.
When can we reasonably expect Carol Christ to retire?
Starting to think there will be no meaningful change in football or Men’s basketball until that transition occurs. That will hopefully prompt an AD change, and so on…
Chancellors seem to churn through at an impressive rate at Cal. Christ is a good chancellor overall. She just has different priorities.
Based on the emails I receive from her to the campus community/donors it doesn't seem like she has any plans to step down. I guess what we can hope for is that the triumvirate of Knowlton, Fox, and Wilcox after some years wandering in the wilderness will finally arrive in the land of milk and honey.
Others may know more than me, but I wouldn't think any time soon.
Cal football trivia fun fact. Sponsored by Ask Jeeves, the preferred search engine of British butlers.
Cal’s loss to U$C Saturday means that this will be the 64th year in a row in which the Bears haven’t beaten their three rivals in the same season. The Sturdy Golden Ones have only ever accomplished the feat six times, the Rose Bowl years of ’37, ’48, ’49, 50 and ’58, and in 1941 a year in which they won only one other game (St. Mary’s — on the day Oski made his debut).
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Good news then, 2 of their rivals are leaving.
[MBB] Is it an "upset", Associated Press? Is it really? Bears go ice cold at the end of the game and lose for the first time ever vs. UC Davis 75-65.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=401483443
Women's team won earlier in the day beating Northridge 85-55. https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/7/womens-basketball-cal-opens-season-with-86-56-victory-over-csun.aspx
I paid no attention to the team in the lead up to the season and I have no regrets about that decision. Looks like another year of completely ignoring men's bball.
It's going to take years to rejuvenate the fanbase after the Jones-Fox disasters.
Yup, the saddest thing about this result is how unsurprising it was.
I put the total at decade…we’re 5.5 years in…
I turned off the game at halftime. When I turned it back on we were ahead 62-61 with around 5:30 left. We then proceeded to lay an egg. Anyway I don't get Pac-12 Bay Area so I had to stream it from my phone where I have the Pac-12 Now App to my Samsung smart TV. Worked quite well, HD picture and so on. Still, the camera was way up in the rafters it seemed like so the perspective was a bit strange.
The lighting was strange - big hotspots in the area of the free throw lines. Either PAC-12 nets was using their camera bought on eBay or Cal needs to adjust the lights.
It's a lighting system issue.
That's Haas Pavilion. The camera locations are among the most bizarre in sports.
Likewise, watched the first half - we get Pac-12 Bay Area.
Forgot about this game….oh my.
Same stuff from a Fox coached team that we’ve seen for now 4 seasons in Berkeley, and 13 straight overall, made slightly more embarrassing by his recent quotes paying lip service to how they’d been in rebuilding mode for 36 months and now finally had a proper Fox roster.
Please.