Golden Nuggets: The Life of a Showoski, Andrew Vaughn Updates, and Methane Microbes

Hey did you hear Taylor Swift has a new album out. Read my analysis here.

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!

The Life of a Show-Jared

We start this week with the most important news of the week, Taylor Swift is dropping a new album. Oh yeah this is my Cal Post, so here’s the big news.

While unveiling the new album on the “New Heights” Podcast, Taylor casually dropped Jared Goff’s name, proving once again, Cal is at the cultural center of the Football Universe. Listen to Jared talk about being name dropped by Taylor Swift here. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to enjoy some SEO.

Hot Links

• Andrew Luck and Ron Rivera appeared on the ACC Huddle this week to talk up their schools and the rivalry. Catch it here with an ESPN subscription.

• The ACC Network was in town this week and caught up with Ron Rivera (hey, he’s doing a lot of media! almost like he wants butts in seats. Get to Memorial this year, this man is working! Unrelated, the Cal Summer Reading Challenge is on, and you can score 2 free tickets to a home game. Read more here.)

• The Calgorithm is at it again, this time exploring the ripe memefield of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force

• Want to know what it looks like when the whole university is pulling in the same direction? The UC Berkeley Law School is starting a pro-bono NIL Clinic for student athletes. Read more here.

• Researchers at UC Berkeley are hacking microbes with CRISPR to discover environmental sources of methane (hint, it’s any time someone from Stanford opens their mouth)

• Cal Football Fanfest is this Saturday at 2 PM. Learn more here.

Golden Bear Honors

• Cal Women’s Basketball would like you to meet Puff Morris

• Cal Football dropped the second episode of Golden Era: Inside Fall Camp

• Julia Bonaguidi, Rosalie Hassett, and Coach Coralie Simmons took Gold in the World Aquatics U20 Championships for Team USA. Despoina Drakotou helped the Greek Team take Bronze

• Alfredo Ortiz (Soccer) was named to the ACC Preseason Watch List

• True Freshman Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele was named the starter at QB for Cal Football

• Liz Klompmaker (Field Hockey) was named to the Preseason All-ACC

• Mateo Bardana (Gymnastics) was named to the Academic All-American Team

Cal Athletics Recap

• Women’s Soccer beat UC San Diego (3-2) and tied CSU Fullerton (0-0)

Cal Pros Recap

MLB

• Andrew Vaughn continues to slug, murdering this baseball to the tun of 441 ft and 3 Runs.

  • In 48 games on the White Sox prior to being traded, Vaughn was hitting .189/.218/.314 (BA/OBP/SLG) with 5 HR. In 32 games since being traded to the Brewers, Vaughn is hitting .325/.391/.598 with 9 HR.

• The Baltimore Orioles are promoting Dylan Beavers to the Major Leagues. Catch the moment he was called up here.

NFL

• Jaylinn Hawkins and Craig Woodson are teammates again on the Patriots. Listen to Jaylinn praise Craig here.

Track and Field

• Camryn Rogers won the Women’s Hammer Throw at a meet in Poland this past week.

PGA

• Michael Kim just barely missed the PGA Tour’s Tour Championship, placing 31st out of 30.

Next Week in Bear Territory

• Men’s Soccer starts their season at Saint Mary’s (8/21) and UCLA (8/24)

• Women’s Soccer plays against San Francisco (8/21) and Pepperdine (8/24)

• Volleyball hosts an Intrasquad Match (8/23)

Thanks again for reading all the way to the end. And as always, if I forgot anything, please let me know in the comments. Taylor Swift New Album. Taylor Swift New Album. Taylor Swift New Album. Taylor Swift New Album. Taylor Swift New Album. Taylor Swift New Album. Taylor Swift New Album. Taylor Swift New Album. Sorry, just gotta juice the SEO a bit more.