Golden Nuggets: 150 Years of Rowing, A Look at the Calgorithm, and Cal on the Radio

Another distraction while the coaching carousel rolls on.

Hello and welcome to Golden Nuggets, our weekly recap article where we try to highlight all the fun, funny, or interesting things you might have missed roughly over the last week across Bear Territory (the whole damn world of course).

From the 1942 Blue and Gold Yearbook captioned “Grinning crewmen watch Marty Welch christen the “Banner Blue” with seltzer water as Oskie comments, “A squirt in time saves scotch.”

California Rowing at 150-Years Old

You’d think they’d have made it across the river but I guess it takes a long time. Anyways, Cal Athletics released a 30-minutes documentary about Cal Rowing as they celebrate 150 years of the sport at Cal!

Learning About the Calgorithm

This past week, Christopher Kamrani of The Athletic/New York Times published an article in the works for a bit looking at how college football fits in around Berkeley (spoiler, the picture Fox News paints is inaccurate!) It’s a great article looking at all levels of the program, from General Manager to Head Coach, Chancellor, and down to fans. It also includes this section:

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Chancellor Lyons, fresh off recording an episode of the Golden Bearcast with “A member,” Lyons said, “of the Calgorithm."

Hot Links

Pond Scum

In the latest Berkeley Talks podcast, UC Berkeley professor Randy Schekman was interviewed to talk up his life story from scooping up pond scum as a 12-year old to receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2013. Listen to it here.

Allegri on the Call

Awful Announcing graded every Power 4 CFB Radio Announcing Team and would you look at that, Stanford was ranked 68 out of 68 while Cal was ranked #2! Justin Allegri’s call of the clutch winning touchdown on Saturday was also Learfield’s Call of the Week

Small Bites

• Cal Women’s Basketball had Thanksgiving with Cynt Marshall while in Texas for the game

• Cameron Jordan debated Cal vs. LSU with Andrew Whitworth on their podcast

• Following Cal beating SMU and sneaking Duke Football into the ACC Championship game, a number of Duke Fans took to donating to Cal’s NIL fund in thanks

• Cal Twirlers debuted during the halftime show on Saturday night

Golden Bear Honors

• Coco Thistle, Alex Klos, Miriam Hils, and Malia McMahon were named to the CSC Academic District Team

• Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele was named the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback of the Week

• Jaron was also named ACC QB of the Week and Rookie of the Week

• Jaron is also in the running, but let’s be real he’s going to be the fan voted Manning QB of the Week

• Kendrick Raphael was named ACC RB of the Week

• Cal Football GM Ron Rivera was named the annual Glenn Seaborg Award recipient

• Hezekiah Masses was invited to the Senior Bowl

• Jacob De Jesus (AP/SP), Cade Uluave, and Hezekiah Masses were named to the All-ACC First Team. Jacob De Jesus (WR) was named to the All-ACC Second Team. Brent “Paco” Austin was named to the All-ACC Third Team. Kendrick Raphael (RB), Aidan Keanaaina (DL) and Luke Ferrelli (LB) were named Honorable Mentions

Cal Athletics Recap

• Volleyball beat Boston College (3-0) and reverse swept Duke (3-2)

• Women’s Basketball lost to Auburn (50-58)

• Football ended SMU’s ACC Championship Game hopes (38-35)

• Men’s Basketball beat Utah (79-72) and Mark Madsen is dancing like no one is watching

Cal Pros Recap

Football

Jared Goff threw for 256 yards and 2 TDs against the Lions in a loss to the Packers. Cam Bynum had an interception. Jaylinn Hawkins had a great pass break up. Cameron Jordan had a couple of good sacks. The Chargers put together a 47 minute video of every Keenan Allen 3rd Down conversion.

Basketball

Jaylen Brown put up 41 points in a loss to the Timberwolves, then scored his 12,000th point as a Celtic against the Cavaliers. Jaylon Tyson put up a season high 27 against the Pacers.

Next Week in Bear Territory

• Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving competes at the Minnesota Invitational (12/4-12/6) then the USA Winter Diving Nationals (12/8-12/16)

• Women’s Basketball takes on Missouri in the ACC/SEC Challenge (12/4) and San Jose State which will also feature the One Warm Coat Drive (12/7)

• Track and Field competes in the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener in Boston (12/6)

• Men’s Basketball plays Pacific (12/6) and Dominican (12/9)

And so we find ourselves again at the end of Golden Nuggets. I appreciate you all reading this, and I have a ton of fun writing it. Last week’s most clicked link was GFED’s All-Access Tour of Memorial Stadium. Give it another watch here.