1. Preseason Blogpoll

    Enough of my moaning. The teams still need to be ranked. At a total loss Tuesday afternoon as to how to rank the top 25 preseason teams, I thought of the criteria with which I generally judge teams...

    Avinash Kunnath Written by Avinash Kunnath about over 4 years ago 70 reads 0 comments

  2. Abolish College Football Preseason Rankings

    Brian Cook (possibly pictured above) is a fine writer and by all accounts, a maniacal human being. Runs it steady over at MgoBlog, my source for almost everything Big Ten (on the days I, you know, care about the Big Ten)...

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  3. Sustained Groundedness: Tribute to Natalie Coughlin

    I don’t get a chance to dap many fellow hapas (and even more exclusively, fellow half-Filipinos), so it’s tight to see Cal’s own Natalie Coughlin casually add another six medals to her mantle...

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  4. A Roundup of Worthless Cal Football Predictions

    Lots of varying predictions about what Cal’s season is going to look like only confirm one thing: Someone on this list is going to look damned stupid. Phil Steele already set the bar by ranking Cal No...

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Ruthless Pursuit of Gold: How China's Gymnastics Wins Set A Dangerous Precedent

    From an athletic standpoint, there is nothing wrong with what the Chinese girls accomplished last night. I don't know what their age is, and didn't particularly care for the Keryoli's snide remarks about the issue in the aftermath...

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  8. Pac-10 Quarterback Analysis, Part III: The Situation Room

    (Read Part I on Longshore and Part II on Pac-10 QBs here) Seems people demand it, but it looks like it’s time to figure out what Nate Longshore and his Pac-10 brethren are truly capable of in situations...

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  9. The Open Door Policy

    I’d like to talk a lot about practice or the overall merit of it; not that I think it’ll have too much correlation with how Cal performs this season...

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  10. 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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  11. Give Me Bad Numbers: Pac-10 Quarterback Analysis, Part II

    The college quarterback rating formula is absurdly reductionist. It overvalues completions rather than completion percentage, it overvalues touchdowns rather than drives, it overvalues ...

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  12. Cal Bears: What’s Coming Up For Them

    As we’re now only weeks away from the season opener, we’ll be going to shorter posts every day...

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  13. The Big Play

    I hate this term. I hate this term more than Baby Boomers lamenting the thuggery of the NBA (and I really love basketball). I hate this term more than that dude from Florida with the billboards...

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  14. What Type of Wine is Cal Football?

    EDSBS Live had this radio special from a few weeks back dedicated to wine analogies for football teams, and although I could barely tell (my knowledge of wines is basically what ...

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  15. Ted Miller Really Loves the Pac-10 (But HATES Duck)

    If you’ve been following this recent post-Washington columnist/now ESPN blogger, he finds some pretty good stuff around the Pac-10, which makes him a pretty good man for finding the various info that I need to know about the Pac-10...

    Avinash Kunnath Written by Avinash Kunnath about almost 5 years ago 236 reads 1 comments

  16. Them Shores Be Long: Pac-10 Quarterback Analysis, Part I

    Part-time BN contributor Danzig wrote a killer post on CGB discussing the merits and demerits of Nate Longshore...

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  17. Which Tedford Team Was the Best? Cal 2004 vs. Cal 2006

    After some delay, it’s time to reveal which of Jeff Tedford’s team Cal fans should be most proud of. First Round Cal 2007 4, Cal 2003 0 Cal 2005 4, Cal 2002 1 Semifinals Cal ...

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  18. If Marshawn Lynch Was A Treesitter…

    I tried reading this editorial in good humor, but then the writer started invoking Goodwin’s Law and my mind blanked out...

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  19. Walk the Line: What Las Vegas Thinks About California and Pac-10 Football

    I have a gambling problem, not a gambling addiction (other than one bad incident that I deserved, I’ve been fairly frugal with my betting habits). No, my problem is that I’m no good at gambling...

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  20. What’s it Like Following a College Team?

    There is always a deterministic sense of following hometown teams. I would guess that the majority of Cal fans are also Bay Area fans (or So Cal counterparts), and their emotions fall ...

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  21. Pac-10 Podcast with In the Bleachers

    I was on radio for the first time ever tonight. A podcast to be precise. The second biggest college football podcast behind the impeccable EDSBS Live...

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  22. Rey Maualuga Wins the INTERNETZ (And other Pac-10 Links)

    Sunday Morning QB, Cal Preview: “The bad news from that perspective is that both the most reliable and most explosive players have all gone on to the pros, and the immediate ...

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  23. Jeff Tedford Tournament of Champions: Cal 2005 vs. Cal 2006

    And then there were three. After the decisive 2004 beatdown on a talented yet flawed 2007 team , we’re entering what appears to be the most entertaining matchup of this tournament so far...

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  24. Open Thread: Which Regular Season Game Are You Looking At?

    We’re two months away from kickoff and Bears Necessity is kicking into full preview mode; time for the readers to open up about the upcoming season...

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  25. My Cal Preview for Michigan State Fans

    Enlightened Spartan indulged me with my insipid Q&A , so I provided him with some thoughtless noninsight on his site . Note though: The site seems to have been made in 1997, because I can’t find a way to directly link to this...

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