Golden Nuggets: Media Days, SuperRon, and Scorigami (Caligami? ScoriCali?)

Truth, Justice, and the California Way

Hello and welcome to Golden Nuggets! In this weekly write up, we try our best to cover all things Cal, Berkeley, Bearkeley, UC Berkeley, University of Cal Berkeley, University of Berkeley at Cal, BerkeleyInspire, and California Berkeley University that happened more or less in the last week! Let’s dig in!

Cal Football and ACC Media Days

This past week, Cal Football held Media Days, with a number of players suiting up in uniforms for photo shoots. Here were some of my favorites.

I’ve seen enough, we’re going undefeated.

Then yesterday, the ACC Media Days started and Cal was part of Day 1, sending Cade Uluave, Devin Brown, Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele, Aidan Keanaaina, Justin Wilcox, and Ron Rivera which lead to some more great photos and content.

You’re the Man Now Dog

Cal Athletics featured an interview with Ron as part of the 2025 Summer Edition of Cal Sports Quarterly, Cal Athletics flagship magazine (which is sent to donors that contribute $600 or more). Or, you can be like me and read it for free every so often! Read the article here!

Hot Links

• Write for Cal Contributor and DBD Poster @SGBear took the time this week to create the Cal Football Scorigami. If you don’t know what Scorigami is, give this a quick read. Or look at the Cal Football version here. This project lead us to learn that Cal Football had its first 14-9 score this past year in all games since 1886! Can’t wait to watch a 5-4 Masterclass this fall (and knock off another Scorigami).

• The LA Times stepped into the UCLA vs UC Berkeley debate of "Who’s really the No. 1 public university in the country?” Read the article here. (The answer will not surprise you!) It lead to one of my now favorite media images though:

Golden Bear Honors

• Caisa-Marie Lindfors (Second Team) and Audrey Jacobs (Third Team) (Track and Field) received Women’s Academic All-American Honors

• Johnny Goode (Track and Field) was named a Second-Team Academic All-American

• Seventeen(!) Women’s Water Polo players were named to the ACWPC All-Academic Team

• Teagan O’Dell took the silver medal in the 400 Individual Medley at the 2025 World University Games

• Jeffrey Johnson was named an Allstate Good Works Team Nominee

• The Athletic ranked every projected starting QB (all 136 of them) for the upcoming Football Season. Devin Brown was ranked 84. (Formers Cal QBs Fernando Mendoza (17) and Ben Finley (77) were also ranked).

Cal Athletics Round Up

• Cal is set to host UCLA in Basketball at the Chase Center this Fall where Red Panda will put on a halftime show followed by UCLA furnishing a $10 Million check to Rich Lyons.

• Lucija Leko, Audrey Jacobs, and Mari Testa (Track and Field) competed at the European U23 Championships this past week

Cal Pros Round Up

PGA

• Collin Morikawa posted his audition for Happy Gilmore 2

NFL/CFL

• Cam Bynum was interviewed on whether or not he was bringing his dance moves to Indianapolis

• Kenny Lawler is lighting up the Canadian Football League and is currently on pace to break the single season all-time receiving touchdown record

MLB

• Andrew Vaughn is feeling at home in Milwaukee with 12 RBI in his first 7 games with the Brewers (and the Brewers haven’t lost since he was called back up).

• Ethan Foley and Carl Schmidt participated in the Cap Cod All-Star Game

• Alex Birge signed as an undrafted free agent with the St. Louis Cardinals

NWSL

• Alex Morgan received the Icon Award at the ESPY’s last week

Next Week in Bear Territory

• Just two weeks until we get sports back! In the meantime, why not watch 51 minutes of Nate Longshore highlights

Thanks again for reading to the bottom. I’m hitting done on this early, so if I missed anything at Media Days please let us know in the comments!