Golden Nuggets: Pebble Beach is Bear Territory and an update from VendingTimes.com

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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). Think of it like a cheat sheet for small talk about Cal.

Now Watch This Drive

Collin Morikawa got back to his winning ways after coming so so so close so many times. Morikawa won the Pebble Beach Pro-Am this past weekend for his first win since 2023. Oh and he announced that him and his wife were expecting. Pretty good weekend for the Morikawa’s! Watch a recap of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am here. Or watch an all-time announcer jinx. Going to be thinking about Jim Nantz “Well THAT’S Significant!” for a week or two. That and Jim Nantz saying Cal Bears over and over and over again.

Hot Links

Important VendingTimes.com Updates

To make sure I don’t miss out on things going on around campus and Berkeley, I have a Google News alert set up for the area, and nothing has given me as much laughter and pleasure as receiving the following Google Alert.

VENDING TIMES DOT COM? AN ENTIRE WEBSITE DEDICATED TO THE LATEST AND GREATEST IN FOOD VENDING? INCREDIBLE. Read about the new Fried Chicken Vending Machine here (RIP GBC Chicken Tenders)

Jumping Spiders with Hydraulics

While a cool headline, I’m not sure the content lived up to the vision in my head of a jumping spider cruising down main street with hydraulics, just dropping it nice and low for a good cruise. Anyways reading about the hydraulic mechanisms at play being researched up the hill at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab here.

Small Bites

• Four UC Berkeley faculty were elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Congrats to Kam Lau, Nitash Balsara, Jennifer Doudna and Ken Goldberg!

• Rich Lyons was interviewed by Berkeleyside about leading the University during the second Trump administration. Read it here.

• ESPN put together a list of things they’re looking forward to in the Fall. Apple picking. Pumpkin spice. A 10-Win California Golden Bears.

• Oski released a dating simulator.

• UC Berkeley Public Health profiled a gorilla doctor (not a gorilla who is a doctor) working to prevent the next pandemic

• Set your travel schedule for Homecoming 2026!

• Clint Evans (the namesake for Evans Field) was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend

The Week in the Resale Market

This week chefs, I have prepared for you a delicious new (old) Oski!

LOOK AT HIM. What a perfect logo and a perfect mascot. Only bummer is that its a white hate, but otherwise, flawless. Get it on eBay if you’re so inclined.

Golden Bear Honors

• Hezekiah Masses (Football) got himself an invite to the NFL Combine

• John Camden (Men’s Basketball) made his 1000th Career Point

• Mari Testa (Track) set a school record in the 60m Hurdles with a time of 8.21s

• Emma Donley (Beach Volleyball) was named to the first-ever AVCA Player of the Year Watch list

• Tonya Paulsson (Gymnastics) was named the ACC Newcomer of the Week for the 3rd Time this season

• Mary-Ambre Moluh, Silje Slyngstadli, Annie Jia, and Mia West (Swimming) broke the 200m Medley School Record with a time of 1:33.29

• Gavin Eddy (Baseball) was named the ASC Olympic Scholar Athlete of the Week

Cal Athletics Recap

• Men’s Basketball lost in a 2OT Thriller to Syracuse (100-107) but beat Boston College (86-75)

• Men’s Golf competed at the John A. Burns Intercollegiate, finishing 11th (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3)

• Women’s Basketball beat Virginia (64-58) but lost to Virginia Tech (58-68)

• Track and Field competed in the Battle Born Classic (Day 1, Day 2) and the Husky Classic (Day 1, Day 2)

• Softball lost to Utah (2-7) but beat Santa Clara (8-2), beat Santa Barbara (9-4) but lost to Santa Clara (4-8), beat Illinois State (8-4)

• Women’s Water Polo beat Hawaii (16-8) but lost to Stanford (7-14) and USC (12-15) in the Barbara Kalbus Invitational

• Lacrosse beat Florida State (10-9)

• Baseball went (2-2) against Santa Clara (2-13, 5-4, 4-3, 4-10)

• Women’s Golf completed in the Alice and John Wallace Classic (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3) finishing in 4th place.

• Men’s Tennis beat Saint Mary’s (5-0) and Pacific (4-0)

• Rugby beat Arizona (57-51) and destroyed Grand Canyon University (76-14)

• Gymnastics beat Stanford and Air Force by lost to Georgia in the Metroplex Challenge (Recap)

Cal Pros Recap

Football

Ron Rivera was inducted into the Hispanic Football Hall of Fame.

Golf

Collin Morikawa is set to group with Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood at the Genesis Invitational this weekend. Max Homa returns to where he won the 2021 Genesis Invitational.

Basketball

Jaylen Brown enjoyed All-Star Weekend. Jaylon Tyson lead the team in scoring in the Rising Stars showcase.

Next Week in Bear Territory

• Men’s Swimming and Diving starts the ACC Championships (2/15-2/21)

• Women’s Swimming and Diving starts the ACC Championships (2/16-21)

• Softball takes on UC San Diego (2/19), Fresno State and Nevada (2/20), Oklahoma (2/21), and Auburn and Nebraska (2/22) in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic (2/19-2/20

• Beach Volleyball competes against Stanford and Loyola Marymount (2/19), Texas and USC (2/20), and UCLA and Hawaii (2/21) at the Outrigger DUKE Kahanamoku Beach Classic

• Lacrosse travels to Oregon (2/19) and then plays UC Davis (2/23)

• Women’s Basketball plays against Florida State (2/19) and Miami (2/22)

• Women’s Tennis competes against Clemson (2/20) and Georgia Tech (2/21)

• Baseball takes on Irvine (2/20, 2/21, 2/22) and UC Davis (2/24)

• Women’s Gymnastics competes against North Carolina (2/20)

• Track and Field competes in the Cal All Comers (2/21)

• Women’s Water Polo takes on UCLA (2/21)

• Rugby faces BYU (2/21)

• Men’s Basketball hosts Stanford (2/21)

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 Tosh getting a haircut. Give it another watch here. Or watch Cal Football’s hardest video you’ve ever seen here.