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Is Kevin Riley Being Used Correctly At Cal?
There is a question that needs to be asked for California Golden Bear fans: Is Kevin Riley being used correctly? The answer is no! Here's another question that has to be asked: Why is he starting ...
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Nate Longshore's Career Decimated By Injuries
Nate Longshore came in for Cal his freshman year looking with high expectations. He was named the starter and looked good going 8-for-11 for 131 yards with 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ...
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USC Did Not Beat Cal; Cal Shot Themselves in the Foot
The Cal Bears did not lose this game because USC beat them. Cal lost because of their own mistakes. The worst one cost them a touchdown. Nyan Boateng was trying to get Jeremy Ross to get off the line...
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Quick Takes Before Kickoff: California
If you notice a different style of defense from Tedford's Bears tonight, it's because they made the switch from a 4-3 to a 3-4 in the off-season. That additional linebacker often drops into coverage, creating a formidable eight-man secondary...
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Is Nate Longshore a Better Quarterback Than a Machine?
(Started a thread about cardinal sins for Cal fans last night over at CGB. Come take a gander.) Lowell Cohn provides his bizarro logic as to why he rides the Nate Hate Train. I am not a Nate Longshore fan...
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Stake Your Place: Arizona State Preview
From a yardage standpoint, Cal looked on even terms with the Sun Devils last season (359 to 363). The Bears defense also came up big early, garnerng an early fumble return for a touchdown and ...
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The Longshore-Riley-Mansion Debates: Decision Making
After four weeks of action by our football team, we continue the California Golden Bears quarterback debates of 2008. MODERATOR: After a spirited first round, it’s time for a new topic...
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Blogroll Updates, Technical Matters
With commenting lagging over the offseason, you might have noticed this site has switched over to the Disqus commenting system to encourage and foster more discussion...
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East Coast Cal Gal: Julie Luck
Those of you have been around the Bay Area for awhile might be familiar with this face. Once a weekend reporter/anchor for San Francisco’s KRON-TV, Julie Luck now works on the other side ...
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Who Will Kevin Riley Throw to as Cal Bears Visit Washington State?
With their days numbered, the hippies can now be seen live. ABC7 has put up a feed of the Oak Grove for Cal fans everywhere to view the carnage. Well, mostly of those two hippies freestyling and yapping at cops, but whatever...
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Observations from MSU game
Despite some sloppy play, particularly around special teams and dumb penalties, the debut performance for the 2008 Bears was a solid one...
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Thermopylae This Was Not: Cal-Michigan State Report Card
In homage to Tightwad Hill (who started these awesome post-game analyses), the grades have been released for every Golden Bear element of Cal’s victory last Saturday. Me: EPIC FAIL...
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What QB Controversy? Kevin Riley Was the Right Pick by Jeff Tedford
The much talked about University of California quarterback battle turned out to be to be nothing close to it, if Saturday's game against Michigan State was a sign of things to come...
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Cal Shows Both Strengths & Weaknesses In Win Over Michigan State
There was a lot of uncertainty heading into the 2008 Cal Bears Football Season. Can they rebound from a disappointing 2007? Who's the starting QB? Can the Wide Receiver depth be replenished? ...
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The Last Lecture: California
Okay, this was supposed to be posted on EDSBS, but Orson Swindle was too busy being mesmerized by a poster of Rick Neuheisel that declared his monopoly on the college blogosphere over...
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ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?! (Week 1 CFB picks)
Football Fiends! The LONG — 40 weeks! We should have built an Ark to get us through the long, dry, desert known as the weeks without college football–wait is over! COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON STARTS TODAY...
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For Cal Bears Quarterbacks, Present is Past is Future
Regardless of all the games on the field, I sense that the big battle this year is about something more than just mere games...
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Observations from Cal Scrimmage
Run offense The offense looked good running the ball. Until the end of the scrimmage, when the offensive line was made up of second- and third-stringers, they were able to get significant push off the ball all day...
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Can Nate Longshore Ever Please the Cal Bears' Fans?
It seems football, more than any other sport, provides us with an interminable offseason of endless chatter that rinses and repeats the same old storylines...
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The OC (Frank Cignetti at Fresno State, Part II)
After about a month’s break since publishing Part I of the series, we’re going to dive back into the basic tenets of what we can expect from our new offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti...
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Who Should Quarterback the Cal Bears?
MODERATOR: Ladies and gentleman, welcome to Wheeler Auditorium for tonight’s momentous Cal quarterback debate. Remember, Coach Tedford is monitoring this very closely as a testament to your strength of character...
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College Football: In The Bleachers Podcast - 2008 Pac 10 Preview
Can USC make it a school record 7 straight Pacific Ten titles in a row in 2008? Find out the answer to that as well as the outlook for the rest of the teams in the conference in this week’s episode of the In The Bleachers Podcast...
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Tedford Tournament of Champions: Cal 2003 vs. Cal 2007
Time doesn’t allow us to do everything we want. But the Internet allows us to manipulate space and time and come with all sorts of fanciful solutions for that. Whatifsports.com is one of the best and worst sites in the world...
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Pac Ten Football Alley
I did a pretty thorough wrap up on Monday of what has been going on in Huskyland. One new piece of information is that our sports programs are doing well academically and will not face sanctions like WSU, and Idaho...
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The Crazy World of College FB: Oklahoma No. 1
I just watched Arkansas lose on a late field goal to Auburn after suffering yet another last-second defensive collapse. An hour ago, Cal was shocked at home by Oregon State and Mizzou turned the ball over time after time in losing at OU...








