Golden Nuggets: Lots of Cheeses for Us Meeces!

A short nug so you can go back to visiting family, reading books, pretending to work, or watching A Muppet Christmas Carol.

Hello and welcome to the final installment of Golden Nuggets for the Year of Our Oski 2024. We’ll see you back in January once the holidays have settled and the new year begins! For now, we’ve collected some small bits of random links, stories, and other things Cal and Cal-adjacent you might have missed over the last week as we all worked extra hard in the final calendar days and definitely didn’t punt half the work to 2025….Anyways, on to the nuggets!

A New Music Hall

UC Berkeley news covered the unveiling of Wu Hall, the newest performance hall on campus. The official opening will be in the spring, but students started performing and exploring it this past semester.

UC Berkeley News Recap

Hey isn’t this my bit? Regardless, the folks over at UC Berkeley News put together the top 12 stories of the year they covered. You can read them here.

Baseball Fan Fest!

Details are forthcoming, but save the date of February 1st for the Cal Baseball Fanfest!

Women’s Water Polo Schedule

Cal Women’s Water Polo announced their 2025 season schedule this year in case you’re interested! Check the dates and plan your calendar here!

Golden Bear Honors

Men’s Soccer Alum Arik Duncan was drafted 14th overall by CF Montreal as part of the MLS SuperDraft. Nohl Williams was declared a consensus All-American after pretty much every major publication named him to their first team. Marta Saurez was named the US Basketball Writer’s Association National Player of the Week. Jayda Noble was profiled in the SF Chronicle for her customized shoe passion. Read it here.

Cal Athletics Round Up

Cal Football had an alright scrimmage in Los Angeles. Your #24 Ranked California Women’s Basketball beat Fordham and Temple. Men’s Basketball lost to San Diego St.

Cal Pros Round Up

Some weeks I just should call this “What Did Jared Goff Do This Week?”. To answer that question, this week Goff joined the likes of Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, other professional football names you might recognize. He also set a personal best throwing his 33rd touchdown of the season. Jared also set a franchise record of 11 games with a QBR over 100. And he had this incredible play in there too. Elsewhere, Cam Bynum continues to lead the league in incredible celebrations, paying homage to the finest of DCOMs (that’s Disney Channel Original Movie for anyone born before 1988), “Camp Rock”. Cam Bynum also went caroling. Marshawn Lynch interviewed Luke Starkiller Skywalker.

Not much this week as things quiet down! As always, please let us know what we forgot in the comments! Elsewise, Happy Holidays! Enjoy the downtime, the uptime, the family time, the quiet time, and everything else. See you in 2025 and Go Bears!