Kid is going to earn his in the pros but will not have the same opportunities to earn lifelong adoration of a fanbase as he does by staying around one more year. Gotta think this is part of his thinking...oh, and we are ensuring that he gets that NIL money too!
I was going to put together a top ten all-time Cal bowl victories but realized there have only been 12 (against 11 losses and one tie) so a top five will have to suffice. As you will note I couldn't decide on a number one so copped out and had a tie at the top.
1) 1921 Rose Bowl over Ohio State, 28-0.
1) 1938 Rose Bowl over Alabama, 13-0.
3) 1992 Citrus Bowl over Clemson, 37-13.
4) 2006 Holiday Bowl over Texas A&M, 45-10
5) 1993 Alamo Bowl over Iowa, 37-3.
Four of the five were blow outs and the other a comfortable win. Interesting to note that the Bears have only suffered two bad losses in Bowl games (38-12 in the '59 Rose Bowl to Iowa and a not as close as the score indicates 45-31 defeat to Texas Tech in the '04 Holiday Bowl).
Carolina Mudcats (Brewers Single-A affiliate) to move in 2026 to Wilson NC from Zebulon NC. Perhaps having a team in a town with fewer than 8,000 residents and nothing around it might have been a bad idea.
Texas Rangers right-hander Max Scherzer will be sidelined until midseason after undergoing surgery for a herniated disk Thursday, according to the team.
General manager Chris Young said Friday that Scherzer, who was removed from the roster during the World Series because of back discomfort, underwent surgery after injections and other less-invasive treatments didn't relieve the pain. Young said the team is hopeful the three-time Cy Young Award winner will be fully healed and recovered by June or July.
Dodgers get Rays ace and Cillian Murphy look-alike Tyler Glasnow via trade. Glasnow is a guy who feeds people power fastballs and then strikes them out with a filthy curveball that looks like his fastball as it comes out of his hand
Trade only goes through if the Dodgers can extend Glasnow. I'm curious to see how much he gets. For as good as he is, he's never thrown more than 120 innings in a season.
An exclave of Minnesota and the United States north of the 49th parallel. It shares a land border with Canada but is separated by Lake of the Woods from Minnesota. In other words, if you were to travel from the Northwest Angle to another part of Minnesota without traveling through any part of Canada, you'd have to do it over water.
Maybe that Nobel Prize stat is flipped? Surprised by 1) Cal 50% classes fewer than 20 (think I had 2 or 3 of those?) and 2) lack of TT winning conf seasons.
Was a little slow because I'm in my busy season at work and remembering to upload the DBD falls of the end and then I'm having a cup of coffee and I get the "did I leave the iron on" sinking feeling, except then I remember the DBD. That's when you see some even worse quality BS than normal
I'll be at a Holiday Party tomorrow so have it on record. I will have to either watch when I get home, which could be ridiculously late night, or Sunday morning.
Minnesota is playing in a Bowl. But they ran out of quarterbacks. They reportedly had to bribe their second string guy $30k to stick around and not leave.
Oklahoma Governor signs order to eliminate DEI at public universities. I would love it if POC stopped attending OU and playing on their sports teams and see how fast these fascists reverse their racists attitudes.
I think it's short term bad but long-term good. I think ESPN, FOX, and the biggest programs may look to shed some "dead weight" from their conferences with the next media deal scramble. The relegated teams would need to find homes. It wouldn't be a bad idea to still have the Pac around when our time with the ACC is done because we can't compete financially with NFL, Jr. teams.
That's what I meant by it being short-term pain. The Comcast accounting error wiped out the reserves. Without some runway cash, the conference goes bye-bye permanently (with WSU and OSU unlikely to recover).
$886b National Defense authorization bill passes Congress. It includes some - but excludes many - of the culture war provisions the GOP wanted. It contains only $0.3b for Ukraine and has language that prohibits a President from unilaterally leaving NATO.
The National Archives - whose requests for documents got Trump impeached once - is holding a naturalization ceremony and it's guest speaker is [checks notes]... Melania Trump.
Remember the Oregon state legislators who would flee in order to prevent a quorum in order to halt legislation. And then a 2022 law was enacted to disqualify legislators if they have more than 9 unexcused absences and then they continued to do that tactic and were agog when they were prevented from running again? Well, they lost their injunction case.
CAL
Go Bears!!! Beat the Red Raiders!
Jaydn Ott announces that he is going to the portal, but...
https://twitter.com/thejaydnott/status/1735689104535191930
Kid is going to earn his in the pros but will not have the same opportunities to earn lifelong adoration of a fanbase as he does by staying around one more year. Gotta think this is part of his thinking...oh, and we are ensuring that he gets that NIL money too!
Well, the fact that he joked about it, assures me that he is not transferring. I was afraid he could announce it anytime.
Whachu talkin’ ‘bout Jadyn?!?
😅 Go Bears!
*sigh*
Not cool!!!
Yeah, Cardiac Cal 10X!
Troll In-Chief
Official announcement from the team. Lol what? Since when do we have such post for non draft eligible players?
https://www.instagram.com/p/C04S7NVua_t/?igshid=ZWQ3ODFjY2VlOQ==
based on the stream the kids at the wbb game are having a *great* time
I was going to put together a top ten all-time Cal bowl victories but realized there have only been 12 (against 11 losses and one tie) so a top five will have to suffice. As you will note I couldn't decide on a number one so copped out and had a tie at the top.
1) 1921 Rose Bowl over Ohio State, 28-0.
1) 1938 Rose Bowl over Alabama, 13-0.
3) 1992 Citrus Bowl over Clemson, 37-13.
4) 2006 Holiday Bowl over Texas A&M, 45-10
5) 1993 Alamo Bowl over Iowa, 37-3.
Four of the five were blow outs and the other a comfortable win. Interesting to note that the Bears have only suffered two bad losses in Bowl games (38-12 in the '59 Rose Bowl to Iowa and a not as close as the score indicates 45-31 defeat to Texas Tech in the '04 Holiday Bowl).
Alamo Bowl performance was underrated. Jerrott Willard, with some of the largest shoulder pads in modern football, went off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uffZWp4_Cv4
I love how Willard picks off the pass and doesn't pivot his head to look for would-be tacklers but does take a peek at the Iowa sideline.
The fact that Cal has played in Rose Bowl, and that Cal has beaten Alabama and Ohio State, and both were shutouts, no one is going to believe it.
PRO
Carolina Mudcats (Brewers Single-A affiliate) to move in 2026 to Wilson NC from Zebulon NC. Perhaps having a team in a town with fewer than 8,000 residents and nothing around it might have been a bad idea.
Raiders score 63 points a week after losing 3-0.
they were up 42-0 at halftime!
I forgot the technical word for this
Raiders' blowout win over Chargers on 'TNF' ends with final score that's never been seen before in NFL history
Scorigami
The world's slowest scoop and score as the Chargers O-line stops to take pictures of Easton Stick's corpse
https://twitter.com/raiders/status/1735506674033758360
I really must applaud your brief yet descriptive narrative. Accurate, too
At least one person believes in Brandon Staley
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39117569/after-blowout-chargers-brandon-staley-says-deserves-continue-coach
The one person who matters doesn't believe in Brandon Staley. He and GM Telesco are fired.
https://twitter.com/chargers/status/1735707955541225938
Finally! Spanos holds onto lost cause coaches longer than Knowlton does.
I thought for sure he was going to get Kiffined at LAS
That was terse.
Didn't even bother to use proper capitalization! Dang.
And watch the Raiders return to form and score 6 points vs. the Chiefs next week.
Rangers' Max Scherzer out until midseason after back surgery
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39119999/rangers-max-scherzer-midseason-back-surgery
Texas Rangers right-hander Max Scherzer will be sidelined until midseason after undergoing surgery for a herniated disk Thursday, according to the team.
General manager Chris Young said Friday that Scherzer, who was removed from the roster during the World Series because of back discomfort, underwent surgery after injections and other less-invasive treatments didn't relieve the pain. Young said the team is hopeful the three-time Cy Young Award winner will be fully healed and recovered by June or July.
He was starting to have health issues his last couple years in dc and age has definitely caught up with him.
Sure the Rangers won the WS, without deGrom and with a very limited Scherzer, but those two contracts are going to be killers next year.
Dodgers get Rays ace and Cillian Murphy look-alike Tyler Glasnow via trade. Glasnow is a guy who feeds people power fastballs and then strikes them out with a filthy curveball that looks like his fastball as it comes out of his hand
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39111855/rays-trade-ace-pitcher-tyler-glasnow-dodgers-sources-say
Trade only goes through if the Dodgers can extend Glasnow. I'm curious to see how much he gets. For as good as he is, he's never thrown more than 120 innings in a season.
Looks like 4/110 extension on top of his 25 million. Going to have to go with a 6 man rotation with his glass arm.
I'm going to miss him. Because he was always injured when he was on the Rays, I frequently got to see him play in Durham for tune-up games
He also has an arm made of glass.
Northwest Angle
An exclave of Minnesota and the United States north of the 49th parallel. It shares a land border with Canada but is separated by Lake of the Woods from Minnesota. In other words, if you were to travel from the Northwest Angle to another part of Minnesota without traveling through any part of Canada, you'd have to do it over water.
I took the red dog there on the 2020 Coast to COVID road trip…it was pretty cool.
TEXAS TECH
UC Berkeley / Texas Tech University
#1 / #116: US News Top Public Schools
32, 579 / 32,831: Undergrad enrollment
11% / 67%: Acceptance Rate
82% / 41%: 4 year graduation rate
50% / 33% : Classes with fewer than 20 students
61 / 0: Nobel Prize Winners (corrected)
3/ 4: Pulitzer Prize winners (in 2023 for UC vs. school history for TTU)
0 / 2: Number of winning conference football seasons in last 14 years
Was gonna note the Nobel flipping, but it got covered below.
But “UCB”??? Please! “UC”! ;-)
Crap, signed in with my DBHQ credentials…
Maybe that Nobel Prize stat is flipped? Surprised by 1) Cal 50% classes fewer than 20 (think I had 2 or 3 of those?) and 2) lack of TT winning conf seasons.
I thought the same thing about the classes fewer than 20, assuming that this only includes undergrad courses.
Depends upon the major. All my Rhetoric classes were <20
I like our chances if we suit up the Nobels.
i was thinking there might not be DBD today since everyone is traveling to the Cal game!
we leave for India on a 800p flight tonight, so i guess i'll still be traveling when the game happens on Sat.
Was a little slow because I'm in my busy season at work and remembering to upload the DBD falls of the end and then I'm having a cup of coffee and I get the "did I leave the iron on" sinking feeling, except then I remember the DBD. That's when you see some even worse quality BS than normal
Thank you for your service!
I'll be at a Holiday Party tomorrow so have it on record. I will have to either watch when I get home, which could be ridiculously late night, or Sunday morning.
I'm traveling to Portland OR today. Gonna watch the game from Nike territory
I’m at SFO heading to Cancun. Will watch there :-)
Where half the Warriors seem like they already are.
Ouch!
That guy in the picture seems to really enjoy ringing his bell.
Too bad it isn't with someone else. 🤨
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Minnesota is playing in a Bowl. But they ran out of quarterbacks. They reportedly had to bribe their second string guy $30k to stick around and not leave.
https://clutchpoints.com/minnesota-football-rumored-to-be-paying-30000-for-qb-to-play-in-bowl-game
Oklahoma Governor signs order to eliminate DEI at public universities. I would love it if POC stopped attending OU and playing on their sports teams and see how fast these fascists reverse their racists attitudes.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/14/oklahoma-ban-diversity-dei-program-colleges
This will be on the front page soon, I'm sure.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39121069/washington-supreme-court-declines-review-pac-12-appeal
I like the PAC2- Revenge Tour idea, but screwing the existing members out of due revenue is not cool.
I think it's short term bad but long-term good. I think ESPN, FOX, and the biggest programs may look to shed some "dead weight" from their conferences with the next media deal scramble. The relegated teams would need to find homes. It wouldn't be a bad idea to still have the Pac around when our time with the ACC is done because we can't compete financially with NFL, Jr. teams.
What about our contractually due revenues from this and previous years?
That's what I meant by it being short-term pain. The Comcast accounting error wiped out the reserves. Without some runway cash, the conference goes bye-bye permanently (with WSU and OSU unlikely to recover).
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
$886b National Defense authorization bill passes Congress. It includes some - but excludes many - of the culture war provisions the GOP wanted. It contains only $0.3b for Ukraine and has language that prohibits a President from unilaterally leaving NATO.
https://thehill.com/homenews/4360407-congress-approves-bill-barring-president-withdrawing-nato/
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4359994-ndaa-defense-policy-bill-house-passes/
The National Archives - whose requests for documents got Trump impeached once - is holding a naturalization ceremony and it's guest speaker is [checks notes]... Melania Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/15/melania-trump-national-archives-naturalization-ceremony-00131762
Viktor Orban is still a Russian puppet
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67724357
Remember the Oregon state legislators who would flee in order to prevent a quorum in order to halt legislation. And then a 2022 law was enacted to disqualify legislators if they have more than 9 unexcused absences and then they continued to do that tactic and were agog when they were prevented from running again? Well, they lost their injunction case.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/12/federal-judge-denies-preliminary-injunction-to-republican-senators-seeking-to-run-for-reelection-after-walkout.html
A binder of Russian intelligence went missing in the waning minutes of Trump's administration. US officials are stumped as to suspects.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/12/politics/missing-russia-intelligence-trump-dg/
Probably got misplaced in all of the binders full of women.
If only it were that simple to find.
The bear does not quit, the bear will not die
https://nypost.com/2023/12/14/metro/nyc-teen-destroys-inflatable-menorah-carrying-bear-outside-jewish-familys-home/
a friend of mine is on the board of a pharma company and she said that Ben Carson is on the board too.
i didnt realize that
1) he didnt die of coronavirus
2) he is a likely VP pick for Trump
You're thinking of Herman Cain
you are right .. forgot about him
Rudy's on the hook for $148 million. That's a lot of meatball subs. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-defamation-trial-damages.html
I only wish Rudy had $148 MM to lose. Then he'd be destitute.
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