Posted by Cassie Myers on Wednesday, February 03, 2010 02:07 pm
Scott Fujita, linebacker for the Saints, was once a Cal Bear. How do we know? Well, because it’s widely reported, natch, but mostly because he acts like a Bear.
By now you’ve probably heard about the controversial commericals (or “controvercials”) that were set to play during the Super Bowl. One was anti-abortion, the other an ad for a gay dating site. (For the record, they’re showing the anti-abortion ad, but the gay dating ad was pulled. Go figure.) Everyone’s been talking, and everyone has an opinion about the ads.
Unsurprisingly, so does Fujita. He supports abortion rights and gay rights, and read more »
Posted by Jill Cowan on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 04:46 pm
Aw, yeah. The headline pretty much says it all, except, “Check out number eight’s mustache. This team obviously means business.” That should probably be said, too.
Also, Berkeley’s very own team, Berkeley Revolution, will be representing the entire U.S. of A. in the unicycle basketball world championships. Which are in New Zealand, by the way, the only logical place for the unicycle basketball world championships to take place.
Football team’s 2002 freshmen graduated at a rate of 71 percent, up from 53 percent the year before. Keep reading for more teams and numbers. Derive from this what you will: read more »
Posted by Jill Cowan on Monday, November 23, 2009 07:18 pm
Few Cal fans know that the Big Game wasn’t the only trans-bay football contest of epic proportions that occurred this past Saturday. Every year, on the morning of the Big Game, the staff of The Farm’s student paper, The Stanford Daily, battles the staff of our very own Daily Californian for the coveted Exacto knife (Get it? It’s like an axe! Only, smaller. And more paper-related) in a flag football game.
Every year, these two groups come together to perpetuate a rivalry older than time itself. Every year, flags are grabbed, touchdowns are scored and mirth is had by all involved. And every year (since, like, 2003 anyway) the Daily Californian prevails in victories that are as symbolic as they are impressive. Every year, that is, until this year. read more »
Posted by Cassie Myers on Saturday, November 07, 2009 12:18 pm
Since you can’t turn your head without hearing the words “budget crisis,” we’ll assume you’ve heard about the cuts in funding to various departments on campus. Since the problems began, some faculty even raised the question of cutting back funding for athletics. And this Thursday, the faculty voted to “urge the school to stop subsidizing its money-losing athletics department as soon as it legally can.”
Now take heed—this doesn’t mean that the football team is going be thrown unceremoniously from the gravy train. The legal part makes everything much more difficult. The Chancellor himself noted that contracts don’t expire for a few more years, so the university will “continue to help the read more »
Posted by Cassie Myers on Friday, November 06, 2009 03:48 pm
If you haven’t watched “The Office” recently, then you probably saw it via YouTube or in “Casino Royale.” Parkour is sweeping the world. And now, apparently, it’s even reached Berkeley. That’s right–it’s been reported that about a dozen people on the UC Berkeley campus practice parkour every Thursday night.
So what is parkour exactly? Etymologically (oh yes, we’re going there) “parkour” comes from the French word “parcours” which means “route.” Basically, though, it’s a lot of people trying to find the most interesting way to get around, including read more »
Posted by Cassie Myers on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 05:44 pm
As All Hallows’ Eve approaches, the evil spirits from other realms begin to awaken, entering the portal of our world. (Don’t worry, this will end up being about sports. Just hang in there.) Berkeley’s least favorite spirit, the hobgoblin known as budget cuts, is hard at work again, cackling and doing whatever it can to make college less fun.
Now some professors are saying that sports should no longer be subsidized. (Tellingly, they call themselves the Sports Grinch Club.) Even some Knight thinks so—the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, which reports that there is an “out-of-control ‘arms race’ among college football programs competing to pay increasingly high coaches’ salaries and other associated costs.”
Athletic departments around the country are almost always out of dough. Cal is out to the tune of about $6 million this year, read more »
Posted by Jill Cowan on Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:10 am
Oh Berkeley. You’ve birthed many a-strange thing. So many, in fact, we’re too tired at the moment to attempt even an iceberg tip-grazing list. (Look ma, no links!)
Yesterday, though, we found one that might just take the (cup)cake. Fine, giant $25,000 cupcake cars in a Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog are hardly the weirdest things to come out of Berkeley, but that pun was just too entICING to resist. Alright, alright, we’ll knock it off. We just think it’s rather telling that our first thought while reading about “Bay Area artist” Lisa Pongrace’s cupcakey creations on a national, in no way regional blog was “Hm. Five bucks says she’s from B-Town.” And we were right:
THINGS WE NEED: A $25,000 Cupcake Car [BWE]
Cupcake Cars [YouTube]
Posted by Cassie Myers on Monday, October 05, 2009 07:19 pm
As you may or may not have heard, someone has apologized to you recently. No, it isn’t that girl who hit you with her backpack in the slap-dash rush out of Wheeler on Friday afternoon. It isn’t even the guy who laughed uproariously at inappropriate moments while you were trying to watch a movie. No, it was Sandy Barbour, Berkeley’s Director of Athletics.
Before you get excited, she isn’t apologizing for a soul-crushing Homecoming. She’s actually apologizing for a more literal crushing—that of your body against a complete stranger’s at Memorial Stadium. The letter of apology, addressed rather ambiguously to “Cal Football Fans,” laments the lack of crowd control at this past Saturday’s game.
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