Golden Nuggets: Honk shooooo mimimi & Rehab Robots, Welcome to Golden Nuggets Health Week
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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).
Honk Shoooooooo
We start this week with a bit of a different Golden Nugget. I was made aware thanks to a Google Alert of this podcast hosted by Neuroscience Professor Matt Walker out of UC Berkeley. The podcast (linked below) covers Prof. Walker’s area of sleep research, examining how much productivity is lost economically due to lack of sleep because oh…say…you’re up driving back from California Memorial Stadium at 11:30 PM to your house. Or maybe another night you stayed up too late putting Oski onto the Celestial Seasonings bear. IDK sounds familiar.
Anyways give it a listen here!
Hot Links
Robot Rehab
UC Berkeley Engineering wrote about Reflex, a robot born out of a class project that’s now available for at-home rehabilitation, assisting in recovery of major leg injuries. Read more here!
Tilden Trains
The steam trains up in Tilden Park (great place to watch the 4th quarter of Cal vs Boston College after Headlands with your 4-year old) is having some leasing issues. Read more here.
Rivera/Luck
The San Francisco Standard caught up with Ron Rivera and Andrew Luck to talk up their GM duties. It’s a good read outlining how both are working to make the Bay Area the center of college football. Read more here.
Golden Bear Honors
Ryan Erisman (Swim) set a school record, taking second in the 1000-yard freestyle as a freshman!’
Mikayla Hayden (Volleyball) moved up the career blocks list in the Top 10 with 358. One more gets her to 9th!
Justin Pretre (Track and Field) was named the Athletic Study Center Scholar-Athlete of the Week
Cal Women’s Soccer is ranked #17 heading into the final week of the season (Go check them out for free at Edwards tomorrow when they take on Stanford!)
Dhiaukuei Manyiel Dut (Women’s Basketball) was named Loker Transfer Scholar-Athlete of the week
Lulu Twidale (Women’s Basketball) was named to the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award watchlist
Claire Weinstein (Swim) was named ACC Swimmer of the Week
Cade Uluave (Football) was named ACC Linebacker of the Week
Cal Athletics Recap
Men’s Soccer beat Radford (6-1) but lost to Virginia Tech (2-3)
Women’s Swimming and Diving beat Arizona State but lost to Stanford at the ASU/Stanford Tri-Meet
Men’s Swimming and Diving lost to Arizona State and Stanford in the ASU/Stanford Tri-Meet
Field Hockey beat UC Davis (2-1)
Football lost in 2 OT to the Hokies (34-42)
Rugby did…Rugby things beating SDSU (44-5), UCLA (41-0), Long Beach State (43-5) on Day 1, and then beating San Diego (53-0), and UCLA again (43-0) on Day 2 of the West Coast 7s Tournament
Men’s Golf competed in the The Preserve Golf Club Collegiate in Carmel, surging in the 2nd round on Day 1 and ending Day 2 in 11th place
Women’s Golf competed in the Nanea Invitational in Kailua Kona, HI (Day 1 Recap, Day 2 Recap) and look to move up from 5th on Day 3 today
Cal Pros Recap
Basketball
Jaylon Tyson started on Opening Night for the Cavaliers. Jaylen Brown is balding and getting it all over the other players jerseys.
Football
Kenny Lawler keeps getting it done up for the CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Amy Trask is moving forward among 21 other contributors in the Pro Football Hall of Fame consideration. Marshawn Lynch is soon to start selling energy cakes which look a lot like donuts. Oh and he’s recording lines for a new Star Wars movie. (This might be old but worth watching again.) Elsewhere Jared Goff appeared on the Manningcast. Jaylinn Hawkins caught a pick. Aaron Rodgers faced the Packers in the worst uniform you’ve ever seen. Jake Tonges celebrated National Tight Ends Day with a TD.
Gymnastics
Aidan Li became Canada’s highest-ever finisher on pommel horse at the World Championships, taking 8th overall.
Next Week in Bear Territory
Men’s Tennis keeps competing in the M25 in Harlingen, TX (10/29-11/2) and the Jack Kramer Invitational (10/31-11/2)
Women’s Tennis competes int he Jack Kramer Invitational (10/31-11/2)
Women’s Golf wraps up the Nanea Invitational (10/29)
Women’s Soccer takes on Stanford at home (and you can watch for freeeeeee) (10/30)
Field Hockey takes on Stanford (10/30)
Men’s Soccer also takes on Stanford at home (10/31) and begins the ACC Championship Tournament (11/5)
Volleyball takes on Wake Forest (10/31) and NC State (11/2)
Football competes against Virginia (11/1)
Men’s Water Polo plays at USC (11/1) and UCLA (11/2)
Women’s Basketball takes on Vanderbilt in the Oui-Play Tournament in Paris France (11/3)
Men’s Basketball plays against CSU Bakersfield (11/3)
Cross Country competes at the ACC Championships (10/31)
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 the SF Gate Belichick-Troll summary. Probably worth another read! As always, let me know what I forgot in the comments, and hope to see you around Bear Territory! Thanks again for reading, and see you next week!
Dear UC Berkeley Licensing:
If you licensed Oski to Celestial Seasonings I would buy SO MUCH Sleepytime Oski tea.