Basketball: 3 more Pac-12 wins on Day 2
The Pac-12 remains unbeaten two days into the season after posting three more non-conference victories on Saturday: – Arizona State 79, Central Arkansas 64: Point guard Jahii Carson scored 15 points in...
View ArticleBasketball: NCAA clears UCLA freshman
The NCAA on Friday heard UCLA’s appeal on behalf of freshman Shabazz Muhammad, then ruled his eligible.
View ArticleFootball: Schwenke, D’Amato all-Pac-12
Cal’s 3-9 season earned the Golden Bears just two spots on the all-Pac-12 first team, chosen by the coaches and announced Monday. Center Brian Schwenke and placekicker Vincenzo D’Amato landed...
View ArticleBasketball: Pac-12 honor to Cobbs
Cal junior point guard Justin Cobbs, who won MVP honors at the DirecTV Classic in Anaheim, was named Pac-12 Player of the Week. Cobbs averaged 19.3 points over three games as Cal won the event,...
View ArticleBasketball: Big Josh Smith out at UCLA
Junior center Josh Smith is leaving UCLA and has received release from his scholarship, the school reported. Smith was averaging just 13.5 minutes and 5.2 points this season. Chronically out of shape,...
View ArticleFootball: From Aug. 29 through Dec. 7 — the complete 2013 Pac-12 Conference...
2013 Pac-12 Conference Football Schedule Thurs., Aug 29 USC at Hawai’i Utah State at UTAH Sat., Aug 31 Northern Arizona at ARIZONA Nevada at UCLA Colorado State vs. COLORADO (1) Nicholls State at...
View ArticleBasketball: OSU suspends Eric Moreland
Oregon State sophomore forward Eric Moreland, the Pac-12′s second-leading rebounder, will be sidelined again Saturday when the Beavers face No. 4 Arizona, suspended for a second straight game for...
View ArticleFootball: Arizona hires Jim Michalczik
Former Cal offensive coordinator and O-line coach Jim Michalczik was hired as offensive line coach by Arizona. Here’s the story, courtesy of the Tucson Citizen.
View ArticleBasketball: Cal nowhere on Lunardi’s horizon
Maybe a Cal win at Stanford on Saturday will impress ESPN Bracketologist Joe Lunardi, whose latest projected NCAA tournament bracket has the Cardinal as his fifth alternate for the field but leaves the...
View ArticleBasketball: Pac-12 honor to Shareef
Shareef Abdur-Rahim, who debuted at Cal in 1995-96 by scoring 33, 29 and 32 points in his first three games, has been chosen to the Pac-12 Hall of Honor. Abdur-Rahim and 11 other former players and...
View ArticleBasketball: Cal zooms to top of ESPN’s Pac-12 power ratings; Lunardi projects...
Not sure which one of these is more surprising/impressive: – ESPN.com’s Jason King has moved Cal to the top of his weekly Pac-12 power ratings. – ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi is projecting six (6!)...
View ArticleBasketball: Bears soar to No. 40 in RPI
Two weeks ago this morning, as the Bears prepared to play at Arizona, they were sitting at No. 75 in the RPI computer rankings. This morning, having won five in a row since then, they are No. 40. Cal...
View ArticleBasketball: UCLA wins, Bears remain in 4th
UCLA avenged an earlier loss to its cross-town rival with a 75-59 thumping of USC at the Galen Center to move into third place in the Pac-12 standings with a 10-4 record. Arizona and Oregon share first...
View ArticleBasketball: No surprise here — UCLA’s Howland says Shabazz Muhammad to leave...
Here’s one we could all see a mile away: UCLA coach Ben Howland said after Saturday night’s win over Arizona that star freshman Shabazz Muhammad will leave school after this season to enter the NBA....
View ArticleBasketball: What Bears need to get title share
A humorous moment after Cal’s win over Colorado on Saturday afternoon: Coach Mike Montgomery was asked if he planned to tune in to the Arizona-UCLA game on TV a bit later. “There are only two games...
View ArticleBasketball: Bears climb to No. 42 in RealTimeRPI
Cal’s seven-game win streak has translated into a No. 42 spot in the latest computer rankings, according to RealTimeRPI.com. The Bears were sitting at No. 46 headed into Saturday’s game against...
View ArticleWomen’s basketball: Gottlieb named Pac-12 coach of the year; 3 Bears on...
On the heels of an historic season, Cal women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb was named Pac-12 Coach of the Year and three Bears players were selected to the all-conference first team. Brittany...
View ArticleBasketball: Streaking Bears climb to No. 9 seed in Lunardi’s latest NCAA...
Winners of seven in a row and eight of nine, the Golden Bears seemingly have played their way off the NCAA bubble. ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi has Cal projected as a No. 9 seed in his latest...
View ArticleWomen’s basketball: Pac coaches snub Gottlieb
Media covering Pac-12 women’s basketball honored Cal’s Lindsay Gottlieb this week as the league’s coach of the year, but the coaches themselves gave the award to Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer. For the...
View ArticleBasketball: This couldn’t really happen, could it?
Another domino fell Thursday night in the long-shot scenario that could allow Cal to sneak in the backdoor to get a piece of the Pac-12 title. One night after the Bears lost 83-70 to Stanford in front...
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