Piece from Trojan Football Analysis on how Cal has been the #1 overall rushing unit in the Pac-10 for the past six years.

A friend sent this to me

Go Bears!

Looks like Best is truly 100%

If this is a repost, sorry!

a couple days old, but here’s SMQ’s All-Up-and-Coming offensive team. Jahvid Best makes the cut, and Kevin Riley is an honorable mention.

“I’m so happy it’s starting early,” Cardinal Coach Jim Harbaugh said Monday at the annual Bay Area media gathering in San Francisco. “I’m jumping out of my skin to get started.”

And some other filler material about bay area college football here.

I’ll save you the time and give the bullet point breakdown here (someone tell me how to do bullet points please):
-Stanfurd is starting practice early with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind
-Cal was almost #1 last year, then took the world’s biggest dump on the rest of the season
-Who’s gonna start at QB for Cal? And furd? And SJSU? I don’t know. Do you?
-San Jose State has a football team.

LINK

Interview with Worrell Williams

The Bills can’t wait to throw the ball more this season to running back Marshawn Lynch. They didn’t want to over-burden him as a rookie last year, but he could top last season’s 18 receptions for 184 yards by the end of September.

“He’s definitely ready for it,’’ Jauron told me. “He’s a very talented player and we’ve got to use him. He’s a guy who understands that the game is to get the ball in the end zone, and he can do it from almost anywhere. So we’ve got to give him a lot of chances.’‘

I’m thinking Lynch could hang up some monster numbers this season. Maybe 1,300 yards on the ground, and another 700 through the air.

If indeed, such blogs exist.

Twist, when are you going to learn that Natalie only has eyes for me.

“Oh, CalBandGreat, please tell me again about high-step marching.”

BPD is kicking butt. Tons of new stuff.

This reader article called Connecting The Dots by Kingman Lim ROX!

I’ve had the opportunity to attend UC Berkeley, and graduate with a bachelor’s degree in environmental science. I’ve had the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with my student peers, and take with me a wide range of insights and opinions that I would not otherwise have been exposed to. However, after more than $20,000 in tuition fees, I soon realized that the university is, for the most part, a mind-control machine to process its students into an obedient, conforming, working-class member of society, who goes to a job, pays taxes, pays rent, and who doesn’t question this capitalistic system of mindless entertainment, consumeristic values, and endless war. Only a handful of courses I took encouraged critical thinking, community service, real democracy, and interpersonal relationships.

We need to get back in touch with the earth. She is screaming to be heard, but we continue to cover our eyes and ears, pretending that everything is fine. The city of Berkeley (the community, not the City Council) can lead us into the next age of truth, reconciliation, and sustainability, if we, as a community, come together in support of such a transformation. We don’t need Obama or the UC Berkeley football team (although they are welcome to participate); we need to honor and acknowledge those working in our community now, with real moral consciousness; those who set an example of taking action congruent with their vision of a better world.

This one vaguely relates to the stadium project and is a strong criticism of Bates.

Buckwald SPEAKS! This one is kind of a rehash of his “Secret Letter Stole Democracy From Us” article with a few new ideas sprinkled in. Here is the best part:

Please read the letter to the council from Nathan Brostrom. It is mostly composed of recycled statements from an earlier, widely discredited "settlement offer" UC Berkeley made before the initial hearing in the case, but with a few new vague and equally meaningless statements added. One consistent theme throughout is this: Nothing is guaranteed at all, and most of the concessions are merely offers to delay certain objectionable aspects of the stadium area projects until some later date. Also, readers should bear in mind some advice as they peruse the document: UC Berkeley officials are known for saying things that sound vaguely good, but when you read carefully you discover that what they are really saying is exactly the opposite of what they want you to think they are saying. It is diabolical.

DIABOLICAL!

Shirley Dean really wants to be mayor again. She says the lack of admitting the votes from the closed meeting violated the Brown Act. BDP has another article up that says that isn’t true, really.

BDP recaps the action. Interesting:

Meanwhile, the tree-sit picked up another celebrity endorsement over the weekend, with superstar James Taylor offering tributes to the branch-borne activists during his performance Sunday night at the nearby Greek Theatre and musing "I wonder if they can hear me now."

He dedicated one number in each of his two sets to the protesters, reported Doug Buckwald, one of the named individual plaintiffs and a supporter of the tree-sitters.

I don’t know who this James Taylor is, but I’m never voting for him forp resident EVER AGAIN.

Slightly old article where Buckwald takes a “Hey You Kids Get Off My Lawn” approach to living near dense student housing.

To illustrate my point, I offer this little story: Last Saturday night, around midnight, I was returning home after a late-night shopping trip to the grocery store. I was exhausted. After I parked my car, I began lugging several heavy bags full of groceries up the sidewalk towards the entrance to my apartment building. As I slowly made my way up the street, a group of about seven or eight students rounded the corner and headed down the sidewalk towards me. They were obviously heavily intoxicated, weaving and stumbling on their way, and laughing and shouting to friends across the street. As they passed my building, one young man reached out quite deliberately and pushed the garbage container over, spilling its contents onto the sidewalk and into the street. This clever prank really impressed his companions, who immediately broke out in laughter. The group continued heading my way, walking four abreast down the sidewalk. They lurched right up to me, and I was literally forced to step off the concrete sidewalk into the dirt or they would have barreled right into me and knocked me over.

Well, this was too much. I asked them in an even tone of voice, "Would one of you please go back and put the garbage can back up on the sidewalk? I live here, and I really don’t need this mess." The only response I got was from one young man, who chimed up, "It was an accident." This was followed by an eruption of laughter from the others. Big fun! Not appreciating this response, I asked again as they walked away down the street, "Hey, could one of you please put the garbage can back and pick up the trash?" This time, one young man stopped, turned around to face me through glazed eyes, and said, "Hey man, we’re college students. You can’t really expect us to do that, you know." Indeed.

OH NOES! THOSE YOUNG PUNKS!

On a better note, an interesting article on Burl Toler.

Story

WHAT THE FUCK?

This dude just randomly stabs a guy sitting next to him in bus (he was SLEEPING!) nearly 50-60 times, decapitates him, goes to the front of the bus and shows everyone the victim’s head.

Wow.

Victory4MSU

Someone/something named Rooster predicts every game in the Pac-10 season and has this to say about Cal:

California

Wins: Arizona, ASU, Stanford, UCLA & UW

Pac-10 record: 5-4

Breakdown:

Cal vs. UA – Cal’s strong secondary outmatches UA’s offense even without pressure on Tuitama
Cal vs. ASU – Cal’s linebackers and secondary handle ASU’s passing attack. Without Herring, who aggravates his hip injury in the Georgia game the previous week, ASU has nothing to take advantage of Cal’s week D-line. Cal upsets ASU by a field goal 3-0.
Cal vs. Stanford – If this game was at the beginning of the season I might give it to Stanford. Stanford returns a lot of guys on D but they were awful last year.
Cal vs. UCLA – Damn I don’t know. UCLA’s week O-line makes Cal’s D-line look like hero’s.
Cal vs. UW – Cal will come into this one with 6 or 7 wins on the line and playing for a bowl. Cal’s O has enough to take care of UW’s week D.

He says about our predicted losses

Wazzu vs. Cal – This early in the season WSU is healthy and their O-line controls Cal’s young D-line and/or potential 3-4 scheme to help Rogers’ effectively run the new offense.
Oregon vs. Cal – These two are actually pretty evenly matched but Cal, even though their young receivers are starting to figure things out at this point in the season, can’t do enough against Oregon’s D.
OSU vs. Cal – Like I said before Riley’s offense will be going at this point in the season. Look for the Beav’s strong O-line to be the key to this win at home.
USC vs. Cal – Any signs of improvement Cal’s offense has made to this point in the season don’t make a difference. Cal gets overwhelmed by USC’s D.

A loss to WSU and the idea that Stanford would beat us if we played them early in the season. Really?
He certainly lacks confidence in/underestimates our defense.

by FSN Arizona. i guess…

Not really Cal-related, but they’ve apparently found the world’s oldest joke. And it’s funnier than anything I’ve written.

It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”

A few others:

A 1600 BC gag about a pharaoh, said to be King Snofru, comes second—“How do you entertain a bored pharaoh? You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish.”

The oldest British joke dates back to the 10th Century and reveals the bawdy face of the Anglo-Saxons—“What hangs at a man’s thigh and wants to poke the hole that it’s often poked before? Answer: A key.”

Looks like a new Cal DB. Ranked #4 Rivals most physical.
http://cal.rivals.com/viewrank.asp?ra_key=2235