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Can Cal Survive Another Year with Their Achilles Heel Kevin Riley Under Center?
I’m spent. Seriously, I used my 6-month-old daughter as an excuse to skip the Cal football team’s spring game. She couldn’t possibly sit through that and a Cal-Stanford tennis match...
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Five Reasons the Cal Bears Need a New Starting Quarterback
Change is in the air in the Strawberry Canyon—a new special teams coach, a new defensive coordinator, and lots of big-time pieces (Syd'Quan Thompson, Jahvid Best) need replacing...
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National Signing Day: Gem of 2010 Cal Class, Keenan Allen, To Play Wideout
The Cal football team signed the nation’s top-ranked safety in Keenan Allen on Wednesday—that we know. Here’s what we didn’t: Allen will play wide receiver...
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How Long Until DeSean Jackson is at Odds with the Philadelphia Eagles Too?
Despite what DeSean Jackson might lead you to believe, he didn't go straight from high school to the NFL. Rather, he spent three years playing college football, was an All-American, an All-Pac-10 ...
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Could Cal's Jeff Tedford Replace Urban Meyer at Florida?
Could the second winningest coach in Cal football history be headed for the Swamp? Following one of his most disappointing seasons as the Bears' head coach, Jeff Tedford enters an offseason of ...
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Why the Pac-10 Is on Its Way To a Second-Straight Perfect Bowl Season
If you're a college football fan and holiday cheer is what you're after this December, tuck away that BYU ball cap. Stash your Utes foam finger and Boston College tee. Bury your Sooner socks, Buckeyes bottle opener, and Cornhuskers hoodie...
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How the Ducks' Civil War Win Will Expose the Holiday Bowl, Cheat Cal
And just like that, the Pac-10 sits just one Cal football win away from a four-way tie for second place. Oregon's 37-33 Rose Bowl-clinching win Thursday night against Civil War rival Oregon ...
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More to the Cal and Stanford Rivalry Than Just 'The Play'
It's the ninth most played rivalry in college football history and yet Cal-Stanford amounts to little more than five laterals and a trampled trombone player...
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Cal Bears' Tailback Jahvid Best Should Go Down As Cal's Best Ever
On a cart. Not the shoulders of 70,000 screaming fans, not in a sea of blue and gold, not on a bed of roses. No, Saturday night, the Bears faithful saw electric junior tailback Jahvid Best exit Memorial Stadium, likely for the final time, on a cart...
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Cal Bears Good, Still Not Great
"When the boy began to delight in his daring flight, and abandoning his guide, drawn by desire for the heavens, soared higher...
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Pac-10 Football Against the Spread: Odds Against Cal Breaking Losing Streak
Pac-10 Football Against the Spread joined the Bears on their bye week last week but returns to action in Week Seven to find Cal staring down the possibility of Jeff Tedford's third three-game losing streak in eight years...
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California Bears QB Kevin Riley Deserves Better from Fans
Kevin Mcdevitt Riley was born on Jan. 22, 1987 in Portland, OR to Faustin and Rhonda Riley. He attended Beaverton High School, was the vice president of his class as a junior and senior and ...
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Pac-10 Football Against the Spread: Washington, Cal, UCLA in Trouble
Pac-10 Football Against the Spread came within an Oregon State touchdown of its first winning record in Week Four. Baby steps. Week Five in the Pac-10 is loaded with intrigue...
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Pac-10 Football: Conference of (Underrated) Champions
Pop quiz: Two teams ranked in college football's Top-10. Team One comes up short against a program with 15 losses in its last 16 games. Team Two falls to one of the preseason's Top 20. Who drops further in the rankings? A week after USC fell from No...
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Pac-10 Football Against the Spread: Did Huskies Save Some for Stanford?
Don't ask me to blow on your dice in Vegas this week. For your sake. In two weeks, Pac-10 Football Against the Spread has been, well, struggling...
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A Thorny Issue: No. 6 Cal Must Address Special Teams Concerns to Think Rose Bowl
You could use all manner of adjectives to describe the Cal football team’s 3-0 start to 2009.Just stay away from the word “special...
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Pac-10 Football Against The Spread: Nothing's Bruin with UCLA Just Yet
'Pac-10 Football Against The Spread' avoided a shutout in Week 2 thanks to a Stanford offense that didn't score a point following intermission in a 24-17 loss to Wake Forest...
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Xs and Lots of Os: The 25 Highest Paid Coaches in College Football
Cal football head coach Jeff Tedford is 5-1 in Bowl games in seven seasons in the Strawberry Canyon. He's a two-time Pac-10 Coach of the year, has a conference co-championship under his belt ...
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Pac-10 Football Against the Spread: Take USC, Stay Away from Stanford
Taking a page from Jon Wilner’s College Sports Hotline—this marks the first of what will be a weekly feature at Bleacher Report modeled after Wilner’s Picks of the Week...
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Cal Defense Upstages Impressive Heisman Audition By Bears' Best
This one was for the Eastern Time Zone.Taking advantage of his first of four nationally televised games this season, Heisman hopeful Jahvid Best and the Cal football team turned in a highlight ...
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After Five Play-Callers In Five Years, Cal Football Hopes Ludwig Lasts
The pressure is on Andy Ludwig.Not just to rejuvenate the Bears’ offense, but to stick around to see it flourish...
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Hands Down, a Healthy Marvin Jones is Cal's No. 1 Option at Receiver
If you’re looking for a prediction for No. 12 Cal’s season opener this Saturday in the Strawberry Canyon, Vegas has the Bears as a three-touchdown favorite against Maryland...
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Tedford Almighty: Cal Football Coach Works Mini-Miracles for Bears
The first time you meet Jeff Tedford, you might wonder what he did with his halo.Might ask how he traded in his white robe for blues and golds...
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Unlucky No. 12: AP Poll History Leaves Cal Bears with Long Odds
Since 1936, the year the Associated Press Poll was introduced to college football, 59 of the 73 teams to finish first in the final writers poll have been part of the AP’s preseason Top-10...
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Cost Analysis: Will Underwhelming Cal QB Kevin Riley Bring Down the Bears?
There are exactly 33 words Cal quarterback Kevin Riley will never forget.All from Versus play-by-play announcer Ted Robinson, all coming on October 13, 2007...
