Golden Nuggets: The Green Trash Can with Legs Coming Out Of It
Another banner week for Cal!
Hello and welcome to Golden Nuggets! In this weekly write up, we try our best to cover all things Cal, UC Berkeley, University of Cal Berkeley, University of Berkeley at Cal, and California Berkeley University that happened in the last week that’s felt like 15 years.
Anyways, let’s get to it!
2025 Cal Football Schedule Release
We’ll start this week with my favorite content of the week, the 2025 Cal Football Schedule release. Cade Uluave got some help from students announcing the schedule. Should be a good season with games against the Georgia Beavers, the Princeton Tigers, the University of Minnesota Hedgehogs, the Florida State Seminoles, the Arkansas Eagleys, the Duke Alien, the University of Boulder, Colorado, the Georgia Thanksgiving Turkeys, the Vanderbilt Rebels?, the Wyoming Cardinals, the Green Trash Can With legs Coming Out Of It, before wrapping up against the SMU Mustangs. Going to be a fun year! The offseason started with the first team meeting of the year (peep the new faces!). And of course, Brett McMurphy shared the betting odds for early title favorites (bet responsibly but hey, we have twice the odds of UCLA and five times that of Stanford!)
TEDxBerkeley
TEDxBerkeley is this weekend, taking place this Saturday at Zellerbach Hall. Get your tickets here! Of note, Cal Rugby Alum Robert Paylor will be speaking!
As you likely know already, Robert was paralyzed from the neck down while competing for the UC Berkeley Men’s Rugby Team and an early prognosis thought he’d never walk or move his hand again. Robert of course proved them wrong and will be speaking at the event about his life, his recovery, and his positive attitude.
Charmin Smith Interview
The guys over at Tell the Whole Damn World podcast interviewed Charmin Smith this week. Catch the interview here or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Yogurt Park is the little treat that brings total satisfaction.
Fresh off ditching Lisan al Gaib, Zendaya left the spice and opted for some Yogurt Park on Berkeley’s South Side, choosing some Chocolate and Vanilla yogurt with rainbow sprinkles and reportedly was able to see a vision of the future when Cal Football went 16-0. Sounds like a visit is in order…
Tony Gonzalez, Stud TE, All-Pro, Star Baker?
After a distinguished NFL Career, Tony Gonzalez is making his way to the Big Tent this week (or atleast the American Big Tent in America. Not quite as idyllic but still cool!) to compete on The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Big Game. Catch the show on Roku, streaming soon!
Senior Night for Cal Hockey
Club Team Cal Hockey held their Senior Night this past Saturday and soundly beat San Jose State 7-2 in front of a raucus crowd. Everyone had a great time. Jaydn Ott and Jaivian Thomas were also on hand to drop the puck and a quick interview.
Golden Bear Honors
Cal Freshman Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele was profiled in the SF Chronicle
Giavonna Meeks was named ACC Women’s Field Athlete of the Week
Men’s Track and Field broke into the field for their first ranking since 2011 at #19
Bill Connelly ranked the Big Game (Good! #90) and the Miami Game (Bad! #6) in his top 100 games of the year
Jeremiah Wilkinson was named ACC Rookie of the Week for the second time this season
Women’s Basketball Incoming Recruit Puff Morris was named to the McDonald’s All American Team
Craig Woodson was named a Second Team Academic All-American
David Foster was named the ACC Men’s Track Athlete of the Week
Women’s Water Polo moved up to #3
Cal Dance Team competed in the UDA Nationals Floor for the first time in program history
Nohl Williams, Teddye Buchanan, Marcus Harris, and Craig Woodson showed out in Shrine Bowl Prep. Catch The Shrine Bowl Thursday!
Cal Women’s Basketball stayed ranked for the 7th Week in a row
Charmin Smith and the Splash Sisters are going to be on the Warriors Pre Game Show this Friday
What’s On The Calendar?
Men’s Basketball 1/29 @ SMU, 2/1 @ Pitt
Men’s Golf 1/29 @ Southwestern Invitational
Women’s Basketball 1/30 vs #15 North Carolina (and a Pride Night Celebration!), 2/2 vs Pitt
Men’s Swimming and Diving 1/31 vs Stanford (Senior Day
Track and Field 1/31 vs Washington, 1/31 vs New Mexico
Rugby 2/1 vs Arizona
Women’s Swimming and Diving 2/1 @ Stanford
Men’s Tennis 2/1 @ UCLA, 2/2 @ USC
Women’s Tennis 2/1 @ UCLA
Women’s Golf 2/2 @ Therese Hession Regional Challenge
Men’s Gymnastic 2/2 @ Stanford
Women’s Gymnastics 2/2 @ NC State
Cal Athletics Round Up
Men’s Basketball beat Florida State and Miami (THEO)
Women’s Basketball beat Stanford (and this Stanford fan says all the Cal fans were louder, proving once again that Palo Alto is Bear Territory).
Women’s Tennis beat for-profit university Grand Canyon, but lost to Oklahoma
Men’s Tennis beat Texas Tech and UC Santa Barbara
Track and Field competed at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invitational
Rugby beat the pants off Utah Valley (128-0) and Santa Cruz (108-0) who atleast got some good exercise in
Men’s Gymnastics lost at the Stanford Open to Stanford and Ohio State
Women’s Gymnastics beat Clemson
Cal Baseball beat the Alumni Team 3-1 and Coach Bob Milano was on hand to see it
Cal Pros Round Up
Cam Jordan was on the Le Batard Show and gave his thoughts on the ACC and the Calgorithm
Nikko Remigio and the Chiefs are headed to the Super Bowl
Jared Goff was named an MVP Finalist
Jaylon Tyson continues to make noise (and maybe a spot on the NBA Rising Stars Competition)
Max Homa and Colin Morikawa are getting ready for the Pebble Beach Pro-Amateur tournament this weekend
A quick note here at the end, I’m making an effort to share links and such outside the Twitter space. If you’d like to know why, well, you can send me a letter at 2227 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720 and I’ll reply. As always, thanks for reading and if I forgot something, drop it in the comments and see you next week!
What a great bunch of Cal news. I'm going to print it and post it right next to my TV.
Cam Jordan gives the right answer.