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Golden Nuggets: More on Randle's Player of the Year Award
by Berkelium97 on Mar 9, 2010 5:00 PM PST
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Randle and Monty talk about the Pac-10 Player of the Year award.
Randle on winning the award:
"I was surprised that it happened, but it feels great. I really want to give a lot of credit to my teammates. I probably would not have gotten this honor if it wasn’t for them. Coach has really believed in me. (Former) coach (Ben) Braun really paved the way, and taught me a lot. With Coach Montgomery coming in, it really opened the door for me and taught me a lot to become the player that I am right now. I just want to let him know and give him thanks."Randle on how he heard about the news:
"It was crazy. I was in class and coach Montgomery called me, and I thought that I must have done something wrong. I said, `What’s going on?’ I received a text from someone in the office saying that they needed to talk to me, so I went over to the office and they congratulated me on the honor. I gave them thanks for being there for me and teaching me a lot."Randle on his teammates also receiving awards:
"I feel like my teammates are just as responsible for this award as I am. They obviously had to make shots when I passed them the ball. Just being the great players that they are, really opened up the game for me. Patrick (Christopher) and Theo (Robinson) are great scorers as well, so it’s hard to just focus on one player. You have to focus on Theo, Patrick, Jamal, Jorge, all of them. I feel like it really opened up the game for me, so they really play a key role in this."On the feeling on campus:
"I’ve never seen this campus like this before. Everyone is excited. I’ve received a lot of messages, e-mails, all type of things. I’m really happy it’s like that. But then again, we still have a lot basketball to play. We need to go down to the Pac-10 Tournament, and take that (title) as well. But right now, it’s really exciting. Everyone is behind us 100 percent. We are just ready to bring it home again."
After the jump we look at linebackers and receivers, Randle earns more honors, Cal moves up in ratings/bracketology, and Jerry Palm really wants the Bears to travel to Spokane.
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TEASER: The Road to The Championship (Part I): Cal vs. ASU
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Cal vs. Stanford Women's Basketball Photo Essay II 3.6.10
by norcalnick on Mar 9, 2010 12:00 PM PST
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Cal v. Stanford Women's Basketball Photo Essay I 3.6.10
Note from NorCalNick: This post is up under my name but Twist did most of the writing and took all of the excellent pictures you'll see below. I added a few thoughts here and there.
Last we left off, there was TIP-OFF!
Now, let's look at some game action photos. Cal got off to a hot start with some key turn overs and fast break points. With Jayne Appel out, I had, unfortunately, hope. Damnable hope! It just leads to emotional devastation! And even when Cal started to cool off a little, they were pretty much tied with Stanford. The problem was Stanford was just getting the boards, the rebounds, the reboards. Cal could get some open looks, but if they missed and they had really bad luck in that regard, they would not get a second chance.
Stanford clamped down on Lexi. Last year, Lexi went off and led Cal to victory. But last year she was surrounded by much more talent. Ashley Walker. Devanei Hampton. Now, she is surrounded by freshmen. Talented freshmen, but not at the level of Ashley and Co. So, they basically took Lexi out of the game and said "Try to beat us, freshmen." In most situations, they didn't even really guard Eliza Pierre, known more for her defense than her offense.
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Cal vs. Stanford Women's Basketball Photo Essay I 3.6.10
by norcalnick on Mar 9, 2010 3:00 AM PST
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Note from NorCalNick: This post is up under my name but Twist did most of the writing and took all of the excellent pictures you'll see below. I added a few thoughts here and there.
While we were finishing up questions with the ESP people, a women's basketball Chalk Talk started. Apparently before every game, an assistant coach (here Charmin Smith) discusses the game. I did not really hear what she was saying. NorCalNick was able to hear some of it, because they were broadcasting the speech into the Pavilion apparently.
NCN: I actually was listening from the balcony above the seating area, which was nice because members of the Cal men's team were wandering around and preparing to kick Stanford butt. I totally wanted to tell Jorge how awesome he was but I'm shy and he looked like he had already put his game face on. As for Cal's strategy, as described by Coach Smith? Everything the Bears wanted to do on defense was to keep the ball out of the hands of Ogwumike and Appel, and if the do get the ball, make sure it's as far away from the basket as possible. Lots of responsibility was going to be in the hands of DeNesha Stallworth, Talia Caldwell and Gennifer Brandon
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Zack Follett versus lions. REAL lions. WHO YA GOT?
(According to the Detroit News, the stunt is part of an effort to raise money for the Cat Haven Wild Animal Park near Fresno, Calif.) HT Huffington Post and Pride of Detroit for the links!
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Golden Nuggets: Randle and PC Continue to Make History
by Berkelium97 on Mar 8, 2010 5:00 PM PST
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Cal was well represented in the awards given out by the Pac-10 today. Randle won Pac-10 Player of the Year, Randle and PC were chosen to be on the Pac-10 all-conference first team, Theo and Boykin made the second team, and Jorge filled a spot on the five-man all-conference defensive team.
By earning spots on the first team for the second year in a row, Randle and PC became part of a select group of Cal players twice chosen for first team all-conference honors.
Jerome Randle and Patrick Christopher are just the 10th and 11th Cal players to earn multiple first-team all-conference honors since the league went to a single division in 1955-56.
By making the all-Pac-10 first team for the second straight year, they join the select company of ex-Cal stars Darrall Imhoff (1959 & ‘60), Bill McClintock (1960 & ‘61), Russ Critchfield (1967 & ‘68), Kevin Johnson (1986 & ‘87), Brian Hendrick (1990, ‘91 & ‘92), Lamond Murray (1993 & ‘94), Jason Kidd (1993 & ‘94), Sean Lampley (2000 and ‘01) and Leon Powe (2004 & ‘06).
Hendrick is the Bears’ only three-time all-conference selection.
After the jump JO looks at O and D-lines, baseball upsets no. 17 Arkansas in the final game of their three-game series and softball goes a perfect 5-0 in an otherwise tough weekend for Cal sports.
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Cal Baseball Shuts out #17 Arkansas 6-0
by natteringnabob on Mar 8, 2010 1:10 PM PST
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After dropping the first two games of their three-game homestand against the Razorbacks, Cal avoided a sweep this afternoon with two home runs and a touchdown's worth of run production while holding the 2009 College World Series semifinalists to only 6 hits.
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Jerome Randle named Pac-10 Player of the Year
Other Cal honors:
1st team all Pac-10: Randle, Patrick Christopher
2nd team: Jamal Boykin, Theo Robertson
Pac-10 All-defensive team: Jorge Gutierrez
Honorable mention: Christopher
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