Ooooh, so much drama last night.  Audrina v. Justin Bobby!  Audrina v.  LC!  Jake v. TwistNHook.

Yes, finally, my life was just like the Hills.  Last night I went over to our newfound allies, Building The Dam, and read this inanely cocky post.  Lord knows the karma gods aren't going to be happy after paragraphs like this:

So I wanted to know your opinions, since you've all been watching the Beavers all year long, with your team's only hope of something great being the "chance" to upset Oregon State on the road for the first time in a generation.  If the ducks could pull that off, it would clearly be one of their best wins in a long, long time--a huge, partial dignity-restoring win for your program. Also, because none of us have really been able to watch your team, since no network wants to televise any of your games (I would have to consider that a blessing for all of us) we don't know a lot about it this year.  You run the wishbone, right?

 

Basically, the entire post can be described as "Beavs Fans Don't Care About Quack People."

So, I went over there to explain to these people not to tempt the fates:

As a Cal, this pregame trashtalk makes me freak out karmically. I’m rooting for you now, OSU. Dont fuck it up, like we have so many times before!

When I got back, I had a message telling me I needed to speak only about Disney shows and that I had a 6 week mandatory sensativity training to attend.  Ai!  What is it with these Oregonians and their seeming inability to handle mature situations.  The Blazers blog put the kibosh on ANY swearing. 

So, I did the training and I speak only of Hannah Montana now.  Perhaps BtD will accept me again.  I'm sure we'll find out on the SBN Aftershow.  I just hope that doosh with the glasses isn't on there.  I hate that guy!

Mens soccer advances in NCAA Tourney after beating UCSB in 2OT:

SANTA BARBARA - Playing through intermittent rainfall, the No. 9 California men's soccer team defeated No. 19 UC Santa Barbara, 3-2, in double overtime in the second round of the NCAA College Cup at Harder Stadium on Tuesday night. The Golden Bears (12-3-5), who had jumped out to a 2-0 lead only to see UCSB (10-7-5) tie the match, were able to move on to round three with the overtime score. Tonight's game also marked the first-ever home NCAA Tournament loss for UCSB.

 

Sophomore forward Andrew Wiedeman scored twice for the Bears, including the gamewinner. Wiedeman's first goal came in the 61st minute and gave Cal a 2-0 lead. He ended the contest with his second score in the 103rd minute. Wiedeman increased his team lead in goals with 11 and points (27).

 

Fellow sophomore Davis Paul scored the game's first goal in the 23rd minute. Senior Chris Deal headed a ball to Paul, and he was able to blast a shot from the top corner of the box past the keeper to the far right post. Paul's goal tied him for second on the team in that category with three. His four shots tonight were a team high.

 

Junior Stefan Frei had one of his best games of the year with a season-best 11 saves. Although Frei allowed two goals, he was brilliant for most of the night, holding off a UCSB team that outshot the Bears, 24-12. The Gaucho goals were scored two and a half minutes apart in the 68th and 70th minute.

Womens B-Ball team goes abroad for tourney:

The California Golden Bears are coming off a 66-52 upset victory over No. 2/3 Rutgers Friday, Nov. 21, at Haas Pavilion. The victory was the sixth time the Bears have beaten a ranked team since head coach Joanne Boyle took over the program in 2005-06. Rutgers was the highest ranked opponent that any Bears team has defeated since they upset No. 2 Stanford in 1992. The Bears pulled off the stunner while playing shorthanded with neither senior post Devanei Hampton nor junior post Rama N'diaye suiting up for the contest. Both players had been practicing all week and were listed as game time decisions for the game. Their status for this week's tournament has also yet to be determined.

Redshirt junior guard Alexis Gray-Lawson led the team with 25 points in the Rutgers game. Gray-Lawson is averaging 14.7 ppg this season. She comes into the tournament 31 points shy of becoming the 20th player in Cal women's basketball history to score 1,000 career points.

Senior forward Ashley Walker posted the 36th double-double of her career, scoring 16 points with 10 rebounds against Rutgers. She is currently ranked second in the Pac-10 in scoring (22.0 ppg) and fourth in rebounding (11.7 rpg). Walker, who scored the 1,500th point of her career in the game against Nevada, continues moving up the career scoring and rebounding lists. She needs 14 points to move into fifth place on the all-time scoring list and 16 rebounds to move into third place on the rebounding list.

Mens water polo heads to Malibu for post-season play:

Bear Bites

The No. 5 seeded California men's water polo team (18-7, 4-4), the defending 2006 and 2007 national champions begin postseason play this weekend with in the MPSF Tournament. The Golden Bears face No. 4 seed UCLA (15-6, 5-3) on Friday, Nov. 28 at 3 p.m. at Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool in Malibu. Last weekend Cal closed out the regular season by falling to No. 3 Stanford, 9-8, in Berkeley and by defeating Pacific, 10-7, in Stockton on Sunday.

About the MPSF Tournament

The 2008 MPSF Tournament features the top eight teams in the MPSF standings. Besides Cal's 3 p.m. match versus UCLA, other Friday matches include No. 1-seed USC (24-0, 8-0) versus No. 8-seed UC Irvine (10-13, 1-7) at 10 a.m., No. 2-seed Stanford (22-4, 6-2) versus No. 7-seed Long Beach State (14-15, 2-6) at 11:30 a.m. and No. 3-seed Pepperdine (19-6, 6-2) versus No. 6-seed UC Santa Barbara (15-10, 4-4) at 1:30 p.m. If the Bears win Friday, they would play the winner of USC and UC Irvine match at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 29. If Cal wins Saturday, it would play in the MPSF championship match at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 30. Cal finished third in last year's MPSF Tournament when it fell to UC Irvine in a semifinal match and defeated Stanford, 12-9, to take third place. Cal won the 2006, 2002, 1995, 1993 and 1992 MPSF Tournaments, which is more titles more than any other MPSF team. Ticket information and complete bracket and results of the 2008 MPSF Tournament is available at http://www.pepperdinesports.com.

Okanes Tuesday night update (but not by Okanes):

Hello everyone. This is Curtis Pashelka. I attended Tuesday night’s practice at Memorial, filling in for Jonathan.

There’s not much to report. LB Zack Follett missed practice because a schoolwork-related activity, coach Jeff Tedford said. Tedford also said lineman Kevin Bemoll, who was moved to the offensive line as a stopgap to provide some depth, will be moved back to defense once the season’s over.  Also, depending on how next week’s practice goes, Tedford said QB Nate Longshore might get some snaps in the Washington game.  

Tedford commented on Washington, and how last year’s game was brought up in today’s team meeting. In that game, the Huskies dominated the line of scrimmage and piled up some 360 yards on the ground and scored three rushing touchdowns.

“That had never happened to us before, since we’ve been here, that I can remember. So there’s going to be a lot of motivation to make sure we take care of our assignments and do our job so that doesn’t happen again,” said Tedford, who added that any leftover excitement about Saturday’s win 

over Stanford has been officially put to bed.

 

BBall recruiting class gets little respect:

The recruiting Web site rivals.com rated the class Cal signed last week as only the No. 8 group in the Pac-10 Conference. The Bears signed post players Markhuri Sanders-Frison and Bak Bak, but also have a commitment from point guard Brandon Smith of De La Salle High, who is expected to attend without a scholarship his freshman year.

Here’s how rivals ranked the Pac-10 recruiting classes (with national rankings in parenthesis): 1. UCLA (8); 2. Washington (20); 3. Arizona State; 4. USC; 5. Oregon State; 6. Washington State; 7, Oregon; 8. Cal; 9. Stanford; 10. Arizona

HOW COULD THEY NOT RESPECT BAK-BAK!?!?!??!?!?  Go Bears!