Golden Nuggets: New Color Discovered, A New Book for Book Club, and a Charity Bowl Recap

Now just look right down the barrel of this laser...

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!

New Color Discovered!

Important new color news! “A group of scientists claimed they discovered a new color, but it can only be seen by getting shot in the eye with a laser. The researchers behind the study, which was conducted at the University of California, Berkeley and published in Science Advances, theorized that human vision could be pushed beyond its natural limits if the eye's color receptors were stimulated with highly-accurate lasers.” Read the full article here.

I’ve always admired science, especially the science that looks at your friends and labmates and says, “hey what do you think will happen if I shoot you in the eye with this laser beam.” Anyways, I look forward to my brand new 16k TV in a few years with this new “olo” color that just blasts whatever you’re streaming directly onto your eyeballs via laser. Should be a fun exciting new way to watch Cal Football!

Charitibundi Bowl Recap

Dear friends, we did it. And by it, I mean last week the internet and the Shutdown Fullcast Family of podcasts raised $1.37 million dollars for New American Pathways, an Atlanta based refugee resettlement non-profit. Your California Golden Bears started slow but ended the week in 11th place overall, good for 3rd in the ACC, 1st in the Old Pac-12, 1st among California Schools, and just over $5,000 more than Stanford. Thanks to all that donated, and if you didn’t this year, start saving because even just $5 will make a difference next year!

The top 13 schools that donated to the Charitibundi Bowl for no particular reason.

And now a word from Spencer Hall of the Shutdown Fullcast.

Robert Paylor Book

Former Cal Rugby player Robert Paylor teased us a few weeks ago with a book deal, and is now here to tell you all about it!

“Paralyzed to Powerful, launches May 6th! Even more meaningful… May 6th is also the 8-year anniversary of my injury. To release this book on that day is a full-circle moment I’ll never forget. Paralyzed to Powerful is my story from the rugby field to a hospital bed, to achieving what doctors said was impossible. It’s raw, real, and packed with tools to help you overcome what “paralyzes” you.

You can preorder “Paralyzed to Powerful” where most books are sold! I’d recommend Bookshop.org or your local independent bookstore.

Hot Links

• The Athletic Football Show talked about some mid-round gems including some familiar names you may have heard in California Memorial Stadium in Fall 2024

• Just in time for Summer, UC Berkeley Planetary Scientists announced the newest ice cream you’ll see in stores that Jupiter is basically just a giant mess of slushballs?

• Rich Lyons and Oski had some fun at Cal Day welcoming incoming students, prospective future students, and others that joined in the Cal Day festivities

• Cal Football is in the hunt for a recent portal entrant out of UCSB

Golden Bear Honors

• The 1V8 Women’s Crew was named the ACC Crew of the Week

• Mykolas Alekna was named to the Bowerman Mid-Outdoor Watch List

• Mya Lauzon took bronze on the Beam at the NCAA Championships, May was also named to the NCAA All-American 1st Team on Balance Beam

• Jasper Smith-Gordon set a season high on Vault at the Men’s Gymnastics ACC Championships

• Elia Dreibholz set a first in Cal Beach Volleyball History getting her 100th career win

• Garrett MacQuiddy set a school record in the 1500m race

• Aidan Li was the NCAA Runner-Up, taking silver on pommel horse at the NCAA Championships. Aidan also was named an NCAA All-American on Pommel Horse

• Leah Polonsky was named to the Academic All-American Second Team by College Sports Communicators

• Valentina Savya was named the ACC Women’s Freshman of the Week in Track and Field

Cal Athletics Recap

• Women’s Tennis made it to the Third Round of the ACC Championship but lost to Virginia

• Women’s Golf made it to the semifinals of the ACC Championship after knocking off Virginia before falling to Florida State

• Track and Field competed in the Mt. SAC Relays (Day 3)and the Bryan Clay Invitational

• Lacrosse lost to Stanford

• Mya Lauzon and Maddie Williams competed at the NCAA Championships

• Baseball was swept by NC State (0-9, 6-7, 2-5) and lost to Saint Mary’s

• Softball went 1 and 2 against Stanford (4-7, 3-9, 10-8) including a win in front of the largest NCAA Softball Crowd ever and beat Santa Clara

• Men’s Gymnastics competed in the ACC Championships

• Men’s Tennis lost in the quarterfinal of the ACC Championship

• Beach Volleyball beat Washington and lost to Stanford, beat Santa Clara and UC Davis

• Women’s Water Polo lost to Stanford

• Rugby beat Saint Mary’s to advance to the Championship Match of the D1A National Collegiate Championships

Cal Pros Recap

• Jaylen Brown and Jaylon Tyson began their quests for the NBA Finals and Championships! Good luck!

• Ben An tied for 38th, Michael Kim and Colin Morikawa tied for 54th, and Max Homa tied for 70th at the RBC Heritage Tournament

• Andrew Vaughn annihilated a baseball over the Green Monster

Next Week In Bear Territory

• Beach Volleyball competes in the MPSF Championships against Grand Canyon (4/23)

• Men’s Golf competes in the ACC Championship (4/24-4/28)

• Women’s Water Polo competes in the MPSF Championships against San Jose State University (4/25-4/27)

• Softball starts a 3-game series against Virginia Tech (4/25-4/27)

• Baseball starts a 3-game series against Notre Dame (4/25-4/27), USF (4/29), and San Jose State (4/30)

• Men’s and Women’s Rowing compete at the Cal-UW Dual meet against Washington (4/26)

And that wraps us up here at Golden Nuggets. As always, please let me know what I missed in the comments! Thanks for sticking around and not entering the transfer portal.