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Duke QB Maalik Murphy transfers to Oregon State.

Moved from the ACC, but he will still get a shot at Cal.

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Government stuff

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would love it if the debt limit was eliminated per Trump push. Gotta love it when Warren and Trump agree on something. There are a lot more areas of potential bipartisan agreement, lets go get them done.

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There's plenty of commotion related to the looming government shutdown.

I used to care more, back when I worked for the government.

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It matters most when it suddenly matters the most.

I would be interested in DC T's take on this particular not so merry go round.

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DBD AV Club

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My friend who helped me with the move back to the 5-1-0 by driving my car up from Santa Barbara stayed at the house last night and we watched one of my favorites, Now You See Me…she had never seen it.

What a quality film. Like Sicario, I never saw the sequel because of my respect for the first installment. But the first is just a banger.

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Forbidden

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Dance…

The Lambada!!!

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I visited there in 2003 when I was teaching in Korea. There was a Starbucks INSIDE the gate to the Forbidden City. I felt deeply patriotic and saluted it!

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Fruit. It's delicious.

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City. Never been to China but I imagine it's pretty impressive.

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Pro

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20x rise in value...not bad

Report: Warriors' value tops in NBA; Knicks, Lakers next

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/43052997/warriors-value-tops-nba-knicks-lakers-next

The NBA, where a big three combination of players often proves successful on the court, has a big three in terms of franchise value too.

The Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers are the league's most valuable franchises by a wide margin, Sportico announced in its annual assessment Wednesday.

The Warriors are worth $9.14 billion, the Knicks $8.3 billion and the Lakers $8.07 billion, according to the report. Golden State is considered the second-most valuable franchise in U.S. sports, trailing only the Dallas Cowboys ($10.3 billion).

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Truly remarkable! I remember at Cal in late 90s/early 00s they had guys on the street hawking ticket plans for very little and no one was interested

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Go Bears.

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Go Bears!!!

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Despite winning a classic Big Game and going bowling, this as low as I've ever felt going into the "off season." A fifth straight losing season, no wins over winning FBS teams (which leaves us with one in two years), our starting QB gone and a ninth year of a weak head coach coming up. Holmoe lasting five years seemed bad, but this....

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We beat Furd! (but I get it)

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It's just that there's no positive momentum. There seemed to be some early in the season, but as usual for Wilcox it all got trashed with a dispiriting October losing streak. Just too many repeats of the same old song.

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I suspect that apathy will take an even greater hold on Cal's fanbase for all of the reasons cited. I also suspect that 2025 is the year that makes or breaks Wilcox. We'll see.

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football season is mercifully over. hopefully basketball is compelling to watch. HAG and i are going to UNC game in Jan.

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So far the women's season has been compelling. Beat Furd by 20, currently ranked #24 and are 11-1.

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My friend's dad said that Knowlton told him that UNC and Dook didn't provide any tickets to Cal. Looks like going the Seatgeek route for UNC but the cheapest ticket for Dook is 299, so look like I'm skipping Dook.

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If you are paying for flight down there already, I’d say the $299 investment is well worth forgoing coffees or other incidentals for a bit. There isn’t really a bad seat in Cameron, and it feels so small and intimate- think old Harmon Gym, not Haas, which is almost 2,000 bigger than Cameron. Smith Center, on other hand, is vast, over 2x capacity of Cameron and feels like even more cavernous. Fun place to see a game, but my Cal friends that visited said it was no contest for which gym they liked better.

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Unfortunately the UNC and Dook games are not on the same trip.

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bummer- obvs I haven't yet looked at the schedule.

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I can get a round trip flight for 30K miles. But still, $300 for a ticket is a lot.

I'm a huge UNC BB fan and the Dean Dome is a bucket list venue. I've seen the inside of the Dean Dome in 94, but wasn't able to go to a game there.

Cameron would also be a bucket list game, but not necessarily at $300. UNC @ Dook would be an incredible atmosphere, more so than Cal @ Dook. I'm sure the Cameron Crazies will be crazy for Cal, but probably not the other fans.

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Glad you get to go to bucket list venue! Good timing too- I'm hearing more and more about how the Smith Center will be replaced in the near(ish) future.

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Yeah I've seen a couple articles about that. Whether it will be off campus or on campus. I think they should try to keep it on campus, but don't know spacewise if that would work. Maybe they can temporarily play at Carmichael and redo the Smith Center.

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The ACC doesn't have a policy to provide at least some inventory to the visitor? First time I've heard of any DI program not doing that, at least for football/basketball/baseball. (Below that, there are always going to be some seats available, so no need.) A lot of them get turned back for some games, but still.

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It was over at halftime for me last night. It was close enough to bed time and I had not seen anything compelling to make me stay up late.

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Has Cal considered something drastically different - fielding a consistently competitive and competent o-line? For all the lamenting any number of other things, positions, and people, nothing will meaningfully change until this is addressed.

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Success is football hinges largely on the success of the lines. If we're going to confine ourselves to reviewing Cal's history, the best Cal teams all had O-lines that could make holes for their running backs and pass protect for an effective passing game. If we're talking about 9- and 10-win teams, they also had D-lines that could plug holes and limit the opposition running backs while also applying pressure to opposing QBs.

No such thing as consistency and piling up wins without excellence in line play on both sides of the ball.

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