Golden Nuggets: Can I Offer You a Distraction In These Trying Times?
I'm still working on my whale big board.
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).
Before we dive in, no we’re not gonna talk about any of that. Go read our Big Board here for that sort of thing.
Breaking Whale News
We start this week with the biggest breaking news out of Berkeley, linguists at UC Berkeley have discovered that whales use vowels.
“According to a new study from Gasper Begus (UC Berkeley Linguist) and his colleagues with Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), the whales make sounds that resemble vowels, a key part of human language. Their research was published Wednesday in the journal Open Mind.”
GFed Does Berkeley
GFedGoGrazy is a TikTok/Youtube Influencer who is on a mission to visit 100 Stadiums in 100 Days, this is past week spent the day in the beautiful city of Berkeley, touring California Memorial Stadium and Haas Pavilion. It’s a neat video showing a lot of behind the scenes sort of stuff us QQ denizens wouldn’t normally see up in the press box, so give it a watch!
Volleyball Senior Day
Cal Volleyball celebrated Senior Day this past week. Congrats to Mikayla Hayden, Natalie Lau, Peyton DeJardin, and Cherlin Antonio!
Hot Links
Important Oskientology Updates
In other important news out of Berkeley, SFGate did a deep dive into a mascot fight between Oski and the Stanford Tree nearly 30 years ago, including interviews with both Oski AND the Tree! Read it here.
The Band is on the Field E60
A few years, E60 put together a feature on the events surrounding the 1982 Big Game. That feature is now available to watch on Youtube below in case you don’t know what happened.
Small Bites
Samin Nosrat (B.A. ‘01), author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat has an event coming up in conjunction with the Sacramento Public Library. Learn more here!
Bryant Terry (MFA ‘25) is part of an event at the Headlands Center for the Arts featuring a meal and conversation with SF Artist George McCalman
The UC Berkeley Instagram profiled David J. Peterson, inventor of the Dotthraki and High Valyrian (and some other Sci-Fi) languages
SF Standard caught a bit of the Cal Band Cable Car Rally
South San Francisco is Bear Territory
Flag Football is coming to California Memorial Stadium in February!
Cal Men’s Gymnastics released their schedule
Cal Track and Field released their schedule
Golden Bear Honors
Berta Passola Folch was named a Singles All-American this past week by California Women’s Tennis
Grace Hong was named the UC Berkeley Athletic Study Center Transfer Scholar-Athlete of the Week
Cal Athletics Recap
Volleyball lost to Stanford (0-3), and then lost to Stanford again (0-3)
Women’s Basketball beat Saint Mary’s (70-62)
Berta Passola Folch advanced to the NCAA Singles Championship Final before losing in the Championship game
Rugby beat UC Santa Cruz (99-0)
Men’s Water Polo beat Johns Hopkins (26-4) but lost to UCLA (9-11) and Stanford (12-15)
Men’s Basketball beat Sacramento State (91-67) and beat #18 UCLA (80-72) and somewhere a small black cat is losing its mind
Women’s Basketball beat Grand Canyon (68-63)
Football lost the Big Game (10-31)
Cal Pros Recap
Football
Marshawn Lynch conducted an orchestra. Jared Goff threw a pair of touchdowns for 279 yards in a win over the Giants. Teddye Buchanan helped force a fumble. As did Cam Jordan.
Baseball
Marcus Semien is being traded to the Mets.
Basketball
Jaylen Brown keeps quietly chugging along, averaging 30 points, 4 rebounds, and 4 assists over the last week. Jaylon Tyson came close to a double-double.
Next Week in Bear Territory
Volleyball plays against Boston College (11/26)
Women’s Basketball takes on Auburn (11/26)
Volleyball travels to Durham to take on Duke (11/28)
Football plays SMU (11/29)
Men’s Basketball takes on Utah (12/2)
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 Jaron’s recommitment, so go ahead and enjoy that again.
Take care of yourselves. Enjoy Thanksgiving. Have a safe and happy holiday, and we’ll see you next week.
In a related development, Justin Wilcox was fired after nine years as head coach.