DBD 10.29.09 If you click on this link, you better post
by carp on Oct 29, 2009 6:21 AM PDT
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PrintWarm title, no? For the Lurkers out there, feel free to bring a link about anything interesting (Cal-related or not). Alternatively, make a joke or mock someone. In other words, participate! Onto the News and World Report:
All links SF Gate, SFW, and should open in a new window unless otherwise noted. Cal-related stories are in block quotes. Baby had to be rocked for a good 40 min so we runnin' this early bird style.
Why should we trust you this time: Bay Bridge may be repaired by tonight. Is it safe?
Public option? Yeah right. New bill aims to make it an option for those that don't have employer-based insurance.
Affordable housing in Walnut Creek (stop laughing).
Fox News admits they aren't fair and balanced.
RI motorist drove with man in the windshield. Think about that for a minute.
Obama meets caskets of fallen troops (LAT).
Shooter targeting SoCal synagogues (LAT).
Cell phone radiation weakens bones (LAT).
Fighting prostate cancer with facial hair (LAT).
Sex pheromones are bending the laws of attraction (ARA Lifestyle via LAT).
Enjoy poblanos this holiday season. Check out new pizzerias.
We goin' to Sizzler tonight: CA to award $230 million dollars in nonembryonic stem cell grants (NYT). Why I have to read about it in the NY Times is another issue.
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Cliff Lee was carvin'. 10 K's against that lineup is quite impressive.
The LA Times notes that the top four ranked teams could all be playing in the Rose Bowl.
Saturday's game at Arizona State might offer some insight. The Bears (5-2, 2-2 Pac-10) will meet an ASU team (4-3, 2-2) similarly searching for its identity, trying to determine if it will rise toward the top of the conference standings or drift toward the bottom. Plus, Cal must hit the road and play in front of a hostile crowd.
Put another way: The Bears should learn more about themselves Saturday than they did in victories over UCLA and Washington State the past two weeks.
"It'll be good to get a more quality opponent and really see what we're all about," linebacker Mike Mohamed said.
It was striking to hear Mohamed candidly wonder which Cal team will show up in Tempe. Much like fans, Mohamed sees the wide disparity between the way the Bears played in their five turbocharged wins and the way they played in their two disheartening losses.
"The biggest thing is, can we get the explosive Cal out there? The Cal that scores points early in the first quarter and then the defense shuts guys down," Mohamed said. "We've kind of seen opposite sides of Cal at times, mainly the USC and Oregon games. We're hoping to go out there, put up some points and then hold their offense."
The Bears jumped ahead early the past two games, each time scoring 35 points by halftime. That helped the defense, which knew opponents had to crank up their passing game. Cal surrendered gobs of yardage to UCLA and WSU, but only six second-half points.
Don't count on another gaudy first-half outburst Saturday. Coach Jeff Tedford likened Arizona State's defense to USC's - an ominous comparison, because the Bears managed only one field goal Oct. 3 against the Trojans.
Cal also could find itself in a close game for the first time all season.
Kawahara:Facing an ASU defense that Tedford said is similar to USC's in its personnel and speed, then, means preparing mentally for a game in which ground gains may come in smaller increments.
"We have to educate them to that," Tedford said. "They're going to be watching tape all week long, so it's not going to be a surprise, but it's something we've got to make sure that our mindset is right -- and that our mindset is that we're playing a very difficult defense."
Here’s something that could play no role, a minor or a major role: The weather.
Latest forecast for Eugene on Saturday evening: 50s, breezy and rain.
Now, I realize Matt Barkley isn’t your typical freshman quarterback in any way, shape or form. But I’d be curious to know when he last played a game in the rain. Has he ever played in the rain?
And regardless of that answer, he has not played a game in the rain against a defense like Oregon’s — that, we know for sure.
(If you don’t think playing in the cold, rain and wind could be an issue for a USC quarterback who was raised in SoCal, then you didn’t hear about Mark Sanchez’s five INT performance against the Bills in the cold rain in East Rutherford a few weeks ago.)
I came out of last weekend neutral on this game. But now, after pondering the matchups and the momentum, and after seeing that weather forecast, I’m leaning green.
Feels like a Duck day.
Last week: 2-3
Season: 20-23-3
Five-star special: 4-4All picks against the spread.
Lines taken from the Mercury News.USC (minus-3) at OREGON: Line opened at 4.5 and has been bet down to three just about everywhere, according to vegasinsider.com. Ducks won two years ago in Eugene, by a touchdown, in similar circumstances (i.e., the best teams in the league, huge stakes). Gimme: Oregon.
CAL (minus-6.5) at ARIZONA STATE: If Cal plays well, it’ll stomp the Devils. But Cal has been known to not play very well on the road. I’ve gone back and forth on this one, but with the number under 7, the favorite feels right. Gimme: Cal
The Bears do have some issues on the team. The defensive secondary and the LBs look like they need some improvement, and the mindset of Kevin Riley is critical. That being said, these kids can improve and they will. And, regardless of what people say - it is not the schemes of the coaches that are causing these lapses. It is the execution of the field. That is the least fixable part of the game - fixable generally only through recruiting. So stop killing yourselves because the kids are not as good as you thought they were. Over time, we will get better.
California 27, Arizona State 20: Arizona State's defense will mostly redeem itself after its letdown at Stanford, but the Sun Devils offense will make Cal's disappointing defense look stout again.
2. Were Arizona State's defensive numbers a mirage? Last weekend, Stanford piled up 473 yards -- 237 yards rushing -- against the Sun Devils, who entered the game ranked seventh in the nation in total defense (248 yards per game) and second vs. the run (58 yards per game). It's fair to ask if the Sun Devils' previously impressive defensive numbers were a function of the middling-to-poor offenses they faced during the early going. They can answer that question by shutting down -- or at least slowing down -- California and running back Jahvid Best.
6. Riley must be sharp in Tempe: Arizona State is going to gang up against Cal's run game, and the Sun Devils have enough talent and speed to make things hard on Best and the Bears' offensive line. That means, however, that there are going to be opportunities in the passing game. Can Cal QB Kevin Riley take advantage? He's been hot and cold much of the season. This would be a good time for some consistent execution. Of course, ASU ranks third in the nation with 13 interceptions.
Item 6 scares the crap out of me. Here's hoping he makes me eat my shorts.
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Bears to host the SoCal schools
THIS WEEK:
Haas Pavilion | Berkeley, Calif.
vs. No. 11 UCLA | www.uclabruins.com
Friday, Oct. 30 – 7 p.m. PT
vs. No. 16 USC | www.usctrojans.com
Saturday, Oct. 31 – 7 p.m. PT
BERKELEY – The Golden Bears look to extend their three-match winning streak as they begin the back nine in Pac-10 conference matches. Cal will be seeking revenge in a big way when USC and UCLA visit Haas Pavilion on Halloween weekend. The Bears faced each team in their first conference road matches and were edged out by the Trojans in five sets before falling to the Bruins in four. Cal hopes to maintain a strong attack as the conference leader in Pac-10 matches for hitting percentage. The Bears’ offense is attacking at a .291 percentage in conference play thanks in part to the recent hot hitting of outside hitter Hana Cutura. The senior captain was recently named the Pac-10 Player of the Week and the AVCA National Player of the Week for her dominating performances against Arizona and Arizona State.
THE FACTS: The No. 14-ranked California volleyball team (12-7, 5-4 Pac-10) will host No. 11 UCLA (16-6, 6-3 Pac-10) and No. 16 USC (15-6, 4-5 Pac-10) in matches at Haas Pavilion this weekend. The Golden Bears will take on the Bruins on Friday, Oct. 30, at 7 p.m. PT before hosting the Women of Troy on Halloween night, Saturday, Oct. 31, at 7 p.m. PT.
SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: Live statistics for both matches will be available via Gametracker through links at CalBears.com. Live streaming video is also available for both matches via CalBears.com All-Access.
PROMOTIONS: Head coach Rich Feller will host a free pre-match Chalk Talk in the Haas Pavilion Club Room at 6:15 p.m. before the UCLA match on Friday, Oct. 30. The Bears host the Cal Costume Contest on Halloween night (Saturday, Oct. 31) when USC visits Haas Pavilion. Fans are encouraged to wear their best Halloween costumes to the match.
CROATIAN SENSATION: Two-time All-American outside hitter Hana Cutura (Zagreb, Croatia) was named Pac-10 Player of the Week and the Sports Imports/AVCA National Player of the Week on Oct. 26 and Oct. 27 respectively. She registered 52 kills (4e, 79att) and a .608 attack percentage to go with 18 digs and four blocks in seven sets of play against Arizona (Oct. 23) and Arizona State (Oct. 25).
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Mens Soccer: UDub and OSU on the docket
California (8-7-0, 2-5-0 Pac-10) plays important Pac-10 Conference road games against Washington (4-5-4. 1-1-3), at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, in Seattle, and Oregon State (6-5-2, 2-3-0), at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1, in Corvallis, Ore., with the Golden Bears hoping to position themselves for an NCAA Tournament berth as the regular season winds to a close.
Scouting California
After opening the first half of the season with a 7-2-0 record (1-0-0 Pac-10), the injury-plagued Bears have lost four-straight games and five of their last six matches, including a 2-0 setback to Washington on Oct. 9 at Edwards Stadium in Berkeley. The lone victory in that stretch was a 4-1 win over Oregon State on Oct. 11 at Edwards Stadium. In that match, Cal senior forward Jeff Cosgriff scored his first career hat trick and. It was also the Bears’ and the Pac-10’s first hat trick of the season.
Junior forward Andrew Wiedeman, who scored the fourth goal against the Beavers on Oct. 11, continues to lead Cal in points (23), goals (10) and game-winning goals (5). A member of the 2009 Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy Watch List, Wiedeman also the leads the Pac-10 in goals and game-winning goals and is tied for the lead in points. Also in the conference, Wiedeman ranks second in points per game (1.53) and third in goals per game (0.67). In the national statistical rankings, he ranks 18th and 14th, respectively, in those same categories.
Cosgriff ranks right behind his frontline partner in points (16), goals (6) and gamewinners (2) and stands second on the team in assists (4). Junior midfielder Hector Jimenez paces the Bears and the Pac-10 in assists (8) and ranks third at Cal in points (10). He also leads the conference and is 17th nationally in assists per game (0.53).
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
No. 2 Cal Men’s Water Polo Hosts No. 7 UC Irvine, Visits No. 16 UC Davis
Bear Bites: The No. 2-ranked California men’s water polo team (14-4, 2-1) entertains No. 7 UC Irvine (13-6, 1-1) in a noon MPSF match Saturday, Oct. 31 at Spieker Aquatics Complex, before travelling to No. 16 UC Davis (12-12) Sunday, Nov. 1 for a noon non-conference contest at Schaal Aquatics Center. The Golden Bears have been playing well since placing second at the UCI Invitational Oct. 11 where they upset previously unbeaten and top-ranked Stanford (10-8), before falling to USC, 7-6, in the title match. Since that time, Cal has won three-straight, including topping No. 4-ranked UCLA, 7-6, on the road and No. 5 Pepperdine, 13-7, last weekend at Spieker Aquatics Complex, Against the Waves, the Bears were led by sophomore attacker Luka Saponjic’s three goals and sophomore goalie Wil Toppen, the Oct. 19 MPSF Co-Player of the Week, who notched 11 saves. Cal has had three MPSF Player of the Week accolades this season – sophomore Cory Nasoff Sept. 8, junior center Zach White Oct. 12 and Toppen Oct. 19.
Cal Standouts: Kirk Everist’s troops feature senior captains Spencer Warden and Mike Sample, and juniors Brian Dudley and Zach White – all members of the Bears’ 2007 NCAA championship team. Warden and Dudley notched scores during the 8-6 win over USC in the `07 final. Warden, a three-time All-American, garnered second-team All-America honors last year after leading Cal with 40 goals and 68 steals; while Dudley was an honorable mention All-American after scoring 28 goals, including a match-winning shot in overtime at Long Beach State. The Bears also feature sophomore attacker Nasoff, who earned this season’s first MPSF Player of the Week honor when he notched 11 goals in three Navy Open matches. Cal’s other MPSF Players of the Week this season were Toppen when he tallied nine saves in the Bears’ victory at UCLA, and junior center White, who had four goals apiece in both the LMU and Stanford wins, and had nine ejections earned in three of the four UCI Invitational matches.
Additional Bear Notes: After 18 matches, Cal is led by sophomore Ivan Rackov’s 36 goals (fifth in the MPSF with 2.00 gpg), followed White’s 28 goals and 24 goals by Warden…other Bear stat leaders include Rackov with 33 assists, Warden with 41 steals, White with 32 ejections earned and Sample with 11 field blocks…sophomore Charlie Steffens is also among the team’s leaders with 32 assists, 18 steals, six ejections earned and four field blocks…as a team, Cal is third in the MPSF with 11.94 goals per game, and defensively fourth with 6.78 goals per game…this past summer, Sample was a member of the U.S. World University Games team, coached by Everist, that placed sixth in Belgrade, Serbia…Saponjic, who has scored 13 goals in eight matches after returning from an injured left shoulder, helped Serbia to a bronze medal at the World University Games with six goals during the tournament…
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Alexis Gray-Lawson Unanimous Pick for Preseason All-Pac-10 Team
Senior guard Alexis Gray-Lawson was one of two unanimous selections for the 2009-10 Preseason All-Pac-10 team. The Pac-10 also released the 2009-10 Preseason Media Poll which predicts Cal will finish third in the conference this season.
Gray-Lawson, a first-team All-Pac-10 selection at the end of 2008-09, was a unanimous selection by all 21 members of the media voting on the five-player preseason team. Gray-Lawson earned first team All-Pac-10 honors last season, averaging 12.2 points per game and being among the nation’s leaders in assist-to-turnover ratio. She was also a 2008-09 honorable mention for Associated Press All-America honors.
Stanford’s Jayne Appel was the only other unanimous selection. Also earning Preseason All-Pac-10 honors were UCLA’s Doreena Campbell, Arizona’s Ify Ibekwe, and Stanford’s Jeanette Pohlen.
In the media poll, Cal was selected by the same panel of media voters to finish third in the Conference behind the unanimous pick for first place, Stanford, and Arizona State. Cal was in second place in the Pac-10 Coaches’ Poll released last week.
The Cal women will host an exhibition game next Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 6 p.m. at Haas Pavilion against Vanguard. Tickets for the exhibition game are free.
Cal’s home opener will be on Sunday, Nov. 15 when they host Idaho State at 5:00 p.m. at Haas Pavilion. Tickets for that game and all Cal home games are onsale now through the box office. New this season, reserved seats are available in sections 15, 16, and 17 in addition to sections 1, 2, and 3. Call (800) GO-BEARS or CLICK HERE to purchase tickets.
2009-10 Pac-10 Preseason Media Poll
1. Stanford (21) 210
2. Arizona State 175
3. California 170
4. UCLA 158
5. USC 124
6. Oregon State 84
7. Washington State 81
8. Oregon 64
9. Arizona 57
10. Washington 32
2009-10 Preseason All-Pac-10 Team
Jayne Appel (un) (Stanford, F/C, Sr.), Doreena Campbell (UCLA, G, Jr.), Alexis Gray-Lawson (un) (California, G, Sr.), Ify Ibekwe (Arizona, F, Jr.), Jeanette Pohlen (Stanford, G, Jr.).
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Men’s Swimming: Adrian, Mahoney, Durden Part of U.S. Dual in the Pool Team
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. – Three members of the California men’s swimming program – junior sprint freestyler Nathan Adrian, senior breaststroker Sean Mahoney and head coach David Durden – will be part of the U.S. team that will compete at the 2009 Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool Dec. 18-19 at the Manchester Aquatic Center in Manchester, England, USA Swimming announced Wednesday, Oct. 28.
The bi-annual Duel in the Pool is a made-for-TV event, designed to showcase the sport’s top swimmers. This year’s Duel takes on a new format with Team USA facing a team comprised of the top swimmers from Great Britain, Germany and Italy. Athletes will be awarded for world records, and wins, with world records commanding up to a $15,000 bonus and gold medal winners earning $1,000.
Adrian has the second-fastest U.S. times in the 50 (21.46 at World Championships) and 100-meter (48.00 at World Championship Trials) freestyle. He swam the anchor leg (46.79) of the United States’ July 26 gold medal-winning 400-meter free relay at the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome. Adrian also placed sixth in the finals of the 50-meter free (21.49) at the World Championships, and earlier had captured both the 50 and 100-meter freestyle at the ConocoPhillips National Championships, July 9-10, in Indianapolis.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
McKeever, Vollmer Named to 2009 Duel in the Pool U.S. Team
BERKELEY – California head coach Teri McKeever and former Golden Bears star Dana Vollmer were named to the U.S. team that will compete at the 2009 Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool Dec. 18-19 in Manchester, England, USA Swimming announced on Wednesday. McKeever, who served as a U.S. assistant coach in the 2008 Olympic Games, will work as a U.S. assistant coach in England, where Vollmer will vie with a select team of European swimmers.
The bi-annual Duel in the Pool is a made-for-TV event, designed to showcase the sport’s most exciting swimmers. This year’s Duel takes on a new format with Team USA facing a team comprised of the top swimmers from Great Britain, Germany and Italy. The event, a short-course meters meet, will be held at the Manchester Aquatic Center.
Swimmers will be awarded for world-records and wins with world records commanding up to a $15,000 bonus and gold medals commanding $1,000.
Vollmer, the 2009 NCAA and Pac-10 Conference Swimmer of the Year, won four NCAA titles (100- and 200-yard freestyles and 400- and 800-yard freestyle relays) en route to the Golden Bears’ NCAA team championship last season. The 2009 Honda Sports Award winner for swimming also won the NCAA title in the 2007 100-yard butterfly as well as a 2004 Olympic gold medal as part of the U.S. team’s record-setting 800-meter free relay.
McKeever was named the NCAA and Pac-10 Coach of the Year after producing the best season in the Bears’ history last season, when she also became the first female coach to lead a team to the NCAA women’s Division I swimming and diving championship.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Coach McKeever was on this year’s Cal coaches tour, at least at the Sacramento stop. For those of you who weren’t there, we learned that Coach McKeever was a swimmer at USC, her mother was a swimmer at USC, and her father, Mike McKeever, was one of the McKeever twins, who were All-America football stars at USC in the 1960s. (Tragically, Mike McKeever was injured in a car crash at age 25 and died after spending two years in a coma.) Coach McKeever said that when she first told her mother that she was applying for the head coaching job a Cal, her mother said, “Don’t get her hopes up, dear. When they find out who you are, you won’t have a prayer.”
Teri McKeever was offered the head coaching job at USC a couple of years ago. Like Joanne Boyle, she chose to stay at Cal rather than return to be the head coach at her alma mater. That says something really great about the way our athletic department is being run by Sandy Barbour.
She was there in Pleasant Hill, too, and said the same thing. She clearly needs new material.
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That’s a start, I suppose. But I was thinking of something a little more subtle. Like this:
Why did the USC graduate refuse to coach there?
BECAUSE $C SUCKS!
What would happen if you crossed an East German swimmer with a mermaid?
$C WOULD SUCK!
That sort of thing . . .
Flagged for implying that SC would not suck if an Eastern German swimmer was not crossed with a mermaid.
by Yes We Cannon on Oct 29, 2009 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Sigh. I guess this means another donation to the cannon. Fortunately, Halloween should give me the opportunity to steal plenty of candy from young children.
I’ve heard that taking infants from candy is even easier.
by Yes We Cannon on Oct 29, 2009 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I like the punch line, but the set up is lacking. It should be more like this:
“Why does USC suck?
BECAUSE USC SUCKS!”
It’s just the sort of circular logic that is all the rage amongst modern brick-wall comics.
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You know, Twist, I have enormous respect for Coach McKeever. She has proven herself a loyal Golden Bear coach. She has brought Cal its first national championship in women’s swimming. But even so, she is only an $c grad. I’m concerned that this type of exquisitely subtle post-modernist humor might be beyond her.
Twist must be so torn: Men’s Tennis Gears Up for Battle of the Bay Tennis Classic
BERKELEY – The California men’s tennis team will send four players to the inaugural Battle of the Bay Classic hosted by the University of San Francisco at the Cal Club this weekend (Oct. 29-Nov. 1). The Golden Bears will be represented by junior Zach Gilbert and sophomores Nick Andrews, Sky Lovill and Tommie Murphy in the four-day event which includes players from host USF, Stanford, Saint Mary’s College and Santa Clara. Admission is free to the general public.
The Battle of the Bay is an Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) sanctioned event that will count towards NCAA Division I singles and doubles rankings. The weekend will also highlight former ATP professionals in an invitational tournament. Action begins Thursday (Oct. 29) with the qualifying rounds. Singles play will begin at 10 a.m. PT, with doubles qualifying immediately following.
Round of 16 main-draw play begins at 10 a.m. PT on Friday, Oct. 30. Singles quarter- and semifinal matches take place on Saturday, Oct. 31, at 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. PT respectively. Championship matches will be played on Sunday, Nov. 1, beginning at 11 a.m. Sunday is also Kids Day at the Cal Club from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. PT; a special event put on by Harper for Kids, a local non-profit organization, in conjunction with the USF men’s tennis program.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I clicked.
It was good for me.
Act all day, dance all night. Let's get it poppin'... I'm in Bombay, trick!
I expect to hear epic stories of you partying like a rock star in my fair city on Monday. FYI, you will temporarily be raising our Indian population in Austin to 5.
In case you didn’t see it, Champions sports bar should be fairly close to your hotel to watch the Cal game. Its on 4th and San Jacinto. If that fails for some reason, 3rd Base is the other best option but is on the opposite end of 6th St, all the way to Mopac.
Couple of eating suggestions… both should have some vegetarian options
Moonshine is pretty awesome- on 3rd and Red River
http://www.moonshinegrill.com/
Iron Cactus is good, decent bar scene too- 6th and Trinity
http://www.ironcactus.com/menu.asp
Remember the Belmont- hopefully it still has the robust bar scene I remember- 6th and Lavaca
Goin' balls deep with Cal since 1972!
by Fire Starkey on Oct 29, 2009 7:28 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Thanks for the tips. I will definitely hit those places up. Partying starts tonight (getting in at ten, think we’re going to Trudy’s first, then bar hopping when Sixth Street isn’t a madehouse).
I was totally under the impression that there were tons of Indians in Austin. I know UT has some of the hottest desi girls in the country. Do they not make their way out to Sixth Street?
Act all day, dance all night. Let's get it poppin'... I'm in Bombay, trick!
Ahhh, Trudy’s. Decent food but the Mexican Martini’s there are awesome. Limit 2- they definitely sneak up on you- one note, they won’t serve you any booze after your 2nd Mexi Martini so if you get those, be aware or maybe switch up the beverages.
yeah, I was joking about the Indians here. There are a fair amount actually. I looked up the demographic out of curiosity, 1.18% of the population here! Who knew?
Goin' balls deep with Cal since 1972!
by Fire Starkey on Oct 29, 2009 8:35 AM PDT up reply actions
What is a Mexican martini?
If I diversify and get one of those and then switched to, say, mojitos, will they let me continue drinking?
Act all day, dance all night. Let's get it poppin'... I'm in Bombay, trick!
Chuy’s is decent for Tex-Mex (and it’s where Jenna Bush got caught underaged drinking) but the jalapeno ranch dip (you need to ask for it) is the best sauce for placing random bits of food in. It is best-in-world good.
Where’s the best actual tex-mex food (also given the fact that I am vegetarian and will be happy with a burrito, as long as the beans aren’t cooked in lard)?
Act all day, dance all night. Let's get it poppin'... I'm in Bombay, trick!
Chuy’s is ok- my wife loves that jalapeno ranch shit. Trudy’s is quite good- best green sauce in the city and awesome, spicy red salsa. Iron Cactus is pretty good. There are alot of hole in the wall type places that you won’t get to because you’re downtown.
One note- Tex-Mex is a significantly different than Cali-Mex. I hated Mexican food growing up in the Bay and started inhaling it once I moved here.
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by Fire Starkey on Oct 29, 2009 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Chuy’s is only ok, but that when I’m back in Texas in December, I’m making a Chuy’s stop (houston) for that jalapeno ranch.
For actual Tex Mex, in my limited experience, I really liked Angie’s.
Being veggie, you have to miss two of central Texas’ best cuisines – the Czech breakfast pastry known as kolaches and barbeque (I’m a Salt Lick guy)
I too love me some Salt Lick. Num num.
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by Fire Starkey on Oct 29, 2009 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions
What’s the main difference? My understanding is that California Mexican food is (not surprisingly) somewhat healthier, more burrito-centric, bigger on guacamole, while Tex-Mex is more meat-and-cheese-oriented. But I haven’t had enough Tex-Mex to know for sure.
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by HolmoePhobe on Oct 29, 2009 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
having grown up in california, tex-mex doesn’t feel like mexican to me at all. california mexican is SO much better.
by atomsareenough on Oct 29, 2009 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Flagged and epic PAIL all in one post.
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by Fire Starkey on Oct 29, 2009 11:05 AM PDT up reply actions
You’re mostly right – there aren’t a whole bunch of burrito places in Texas (Freebird’s – which is the staple Austin burrito joint originated in Santa Barbara – and Houston really only has Freebird’s and Mission Burritos) also central to California Mexican is the baja style fish taco.
Fast food staples aside, the fajita was invented in Houston, Texas (allegedly) at Ninfa’s – so there’s a lot more of that and the filling a tortilla type Mexican – but even West Texas Mexican tends to differ from Central and again from Eastern
if you’ve ever been to Portumex in Richmond, it is somewhat Tex-Mex like. I like their fajitas big time.
Tex-mex is heavy on melted cheese, meat based sauces, beans and spices and tortillas. Queso dip, chili con carne, fajitas etc are Tex-Mex “inventions”
Goin' balls deep with Cal since 1972!
by Fire Starkey on Oct 29, 2009 11:10 AM PDT up reply actions
oh no you didn’t…
1) In defining Cali-Mex, you have excluded all the bomb-diggety places in So-Cal.. LA, SD, just north of the border. Having said that…
2) Bay area mexi ROCKS. Orale Orale in SF is ah-mazing. Pancho Villa in the mission in SF does a ridiculous steak burrito. And believe it or not, the taqueia in the Bear’s Lair has one of the most legitimate chicken quesadillas ever.
I will give you that Texas margs are pretty excellent and have provided many a good time but then Tommy’s in San Fran is hard to beat. Oh man I want mexican for lunch today…
Wait -the taqueria next to the Bear’s Lair? Is that place still there?
When I was a junior I worked at the library – one summer I was working 39 hour weeks and I ate every single lunch there. For some reason I got into this groove – Carnitas Torta with a Snapple Lemon Ice Tea, no salsa. Then I’d go and spend $4 playing NBA Jam downstairs before going back to work.
2 straight months of that exact daily routine.
LOL. I can see maybe two weeks but 2 months?? Wow.
I’m sad you never got to try the quesadilla with the papas. Their salsa is out of this world.
Yes it is still there. On recruiting trips to Haas, I make sure to plan my interview/presentation schedule around a visit to the Bear’s Lair for the chicken quesadilla.
Dude, NBA Jam? That’s so fucking epic.
HE’S HEATING UP!
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the finger roll
My heart skips a beat every time I hear the band strike up 'Our Sturdy Golden Bear'.
by oskisunbear on Oct 29, 2009 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s still there, but not the same people run it – Taqueria Reyes is no more. The good news, the people who run it now make even better food, and are still very nice.
In the NBA Jam vein, my favorite quote comes from NFL Blitz:
“That was uncalled for, but a lot of fun to watch!”
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Where would you go for late night drunken food? Taco Bueno?
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When I was at UT we always ended up at Taco Cabana because there was one right by the dorm I lived in. Drunk, that food tasted great. Sober, it tasted like dog food. Bonus- they sell beer there.
On 6th St proper there are (or were) several pizza slice places and a couple of fajita taco carts. I can’t remember much beyond that.
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by Fire Starkey on Oct 29, 2009 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Drunk, that food tasted great. Sober, it tasted like dog food.
La Burrita, is that you?
dboneisloose
by HolmoePhobe on Oct 29, 2009 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions
Who eats La Burrita sober?!
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I eat La Burrita any way I can. When I make trips up to Oakland for work, I usually get a later flight home so that I can BART up to Berkeley, walk up Durant, get like 4 La Burrita burritos to go, and fly back to LA. Totes earns me brownie points with the wife, who loves La Burrita more than she loves me….cereal.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Not familiar with Watercube?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Dude…you live in LA…you have plenty of good Mexican food…
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by HolmoePhobe on Oct 29, 2009 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
La Burrita is so much more than Mexican food….its nostalgia!
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions
Pretty sure that’s not on the menu.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Oct 29, 2009 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Not explicity, but a bit of nostalgia is included in every bite!
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I actually ask for extra nostalgia.
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Did you ask them to throw it in the bag?
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by Rishi on Oct 29, 2009 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
rishi always intends to make reference to the latest rap songs
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Unless all those bridge and tunnel people are making the references, in which case, he hates it.
Also, I have NO idea what all y’all are talking about.
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I honestly hate that song, so annoying.
by CaliforniaCMB on Oct 29, 2009 11:35 PM PDT up reply actions
And they usually respond, “No es que?”
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Tell me more about these fajita taco carts.
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They’re just what they sound. Dunno what good it’ll do you since you’re a veggie but it fills you up when you need to regroup and inhale a taco or two
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by Fire Starkey on Oct 29, 2009 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions
Good luck with that. Probability of success? 0%
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by Fire Starkey on Oct 29, 2009 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Damnit. I thought Austin being a hippy town would help :(
Fine, I will get a quesadilla!
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Austin is more hippy than anywhere else in the south. That said, veggie fajitas on 6th St at 1am seem unlikely. Mind you, I’ve been proved wrong many, many, many times before and its not like I’ve hit the Street in any detail in 8 or so years.
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by Fire Starkey on Oct 29, 2009 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Do not. Do not. Do not. go to Taco Cabana.
Texas love it, but I think it’s because they grew up eating it. It’s really bad.
Like I said, if sober, TC is horrible…
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by Fire Starkey on Oct 30, 2009 6:27 AM PDT up reply actions
A mexican martini is similar to a margarita but its got some olive juice and orange juice added. Damned good.
Yes, you can keep drinking if you switch after 1.
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by Fire Starkey on Oct 29, 2009 9:54 AM PDT up reply actions
I have my plans for tonight set!
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Had a Mexican Martini at Trudy’s last night…they are excellent
by Tedfordisgod on Oct 29, 2009 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions
DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! THIS IS MY HOT BODY! I DO WHAT I WANT! I DO WHAT I WANT!
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How many times did your wife say that to you last night?
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Do you really want me to sit down and count? This could takea while.
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Will it take a while because it happened that many times or will it take a while because Sesame Street only taught you how to count to ten?
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Re: That Walnut Creek housing link from carp’s main post here.
The affordable condo prices range from $133,000 to $148,000 and have either one or two bedrooms. Applicants must be first time homebuyers within the past three years and have qualifying income. Household incomes cannot exceed $46,350 for one person, $53,000 for two, $59,600 for three and $66,250 for four people.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ontheblock/detail?entry_id=50478#ixzz0VKw3ezDb
Damn, I wanna buy a condo for less than $150,000.00. I can’t believe they are limiting the income. Whatever happened to the free market!
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I wonder if income is based off base salary (sans bonuses) or what you put on your tax filings.
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If it’s the latter, I make $0.00 a year and can totally buy this condo with the money that somehow I mysteriously have even though I clearly earn no income!
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I wonder if I should just apply for this, strip down my salary, and snatch it up. I figure it could provide great returns if I sit on it for a couple years. I’ll sublease it in the meantime.
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There are a LOT of foreclosed places out here. It’s not as bad as the Antioch/Brentwood/Oakley corridor, but on my floor alone, apparently 3 of the apartments are in foreclosure. The one across from us is going for like $220,000.00 for a 2 bed room, which is redick. Too bad I lack $22,000.00 or, more likely, $44,000.00 for a down payment.
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Take a loan out.
Too bad I’m not a real estate speculator or I would be jumping all over this stuff.
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Take a loan out to cover the down payment? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of a down payment in the first place? Isn’t that the kind of reckless behaviour that got us into this mess in the first place?
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
No one is talking about actually living here in the first place — take a 4% loan out, put the down payment in, cover the monthly payments with rent from subleasing, or better, corporate housing.\
Within three years, you’ll have enough capital to pay back the loan and you can flip the condo for a lot more than $150K.
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So, I gather you’re not a fan of affordable housing in general? Does it clash with your free-market principles?
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
I just sense an arbitrage opportunity here.
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Don’t a lot of these first-time homebuyer opportunities have provisions that require you to occupy the property as your principal residence for a period of time? For example, the $8,000 1st time homebuyer tax credit requires you to actually live in the home for 3 years, or else you have to give back the money.
by atomsareenough on Oct 29, 2009 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions
Indeed. Hopefully, the rules surrounding the purchase of these affordable housing units are designed specifically to keep people from doing what you’re proposing.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Personally, I don’t have high hopes. There are usually investors out there who are smarter than the government hacks who write regulations.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
You’re a government hack?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 10:37 AM PDT up reply actions
Rishi’s comments are both funny and sadly disturbing.
Ah, the perspective of people who have money. Will they ever understand the other side of things…
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Dude, you ever seen the real estate auctions at the Court steps? They are so popular now.
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what for?
generic frat boy douchism?
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by Rocksanddirt on Oct 29, 2009 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Then shouldn’t it be a class-less action lawsuit?
by CalBear81 on Oct 29, 2009 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
The lawsuit, as I understand it, is not yet against the Cal Greek community. As of now, it is a threat of legal action by “a number” of Berkeley residents (one is a number, I suppose) against the City of Berkeley, should they fail to quell the “public nuisance” of Fraternity Row.
The whole letter reads like a bunch of bullshit. I can copy + paste the text here this afternoon.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
I hope I never get sued for public nuisance.
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I’m the President of my frat’s local alumni association, so I received a copy of the letter on Tuesday. I’ve already had talks with the actives and with an officer from our national organization.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
how seriously are they taking it?
is there any merit to the complaint letter?
don’t pepsi it.
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by Rocksanddirt on Oct 29, 2009 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
I have no idea what sort of evidence they might have. I’d imagine neighbor complaints and police reports, mostly. I also haven’t read the text of the statues cited.
My own chapter doesn’t appear to be in any legal danger here. What claims have been made either aren’t true with regards to them, or currently lack evidence of such behaviour (some are so vague that I can’t imagine how you would present evidence).
Nevertheless, our national is taking things at least somewhat seriously. Threats of legal action, regardless of how meritorious, tend to do that. Their preliminary assessment is that this might be the first step in an attempt to get rid of the Greek system in Berkeley. That seems like a farfetched result to me, given what I know of the City and the University, as well as Greek alums, but there it is.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
IMHO the university’s policies towards the Greek community over the last 6-7 years show pretty clearly that they would love to stifle it in any way possible.
dboneisloose
by HolmoePhobe on Oct 29, 2009 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
They’re not fans, no. But they’re also don’t have a very copacetic relationship with the City of Berkeley either, and the City can only do so much without University cooperation.
The Greeks biggest ally in all this is their alumni networks, which do have influence with the University. It’s also worth noting that Greek alumni tend to donate back to their University at a significantly higher rate than non-Greeks.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Yeah, definitely. But I dealt with the university/SJA/etc. fairly extensively during my time in the Greek system, and I got a pretty strong sense that they were constantly looking for an excuse to say “you did xyz, now we have to kick you off campus”.
dboneisloose
by HolmoePhobe on Oct 29, 2009 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, yeah, this is true. I don’t think the University hates Greeks so much as sees them as a huge potential liability — especially the ones that act out.
You might see a house or two shut down because of specific violations, but I can’t imagine it ever getting so far as to threaten the entire system. Much too much outrage with not nearly enough justification to try that.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
At least the frats in Berkeley don’t have swimming pools. At UCSB, many students have died or been paralyzed over the years by jumping off the roof of their apt/frat building into swimming pools. Sucks. Sad but true.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, except for AquaDelt. But yeah, a swimming pool sounds great in concept, but is really just a giant concrete hole filled with liability.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Its called...
“Natural Selection”
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by Fire Starkey on Oct 29, 2009 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions
or “Manifest Destiny”
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions
or “Rigor Mortis”
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Wouldn’t Manifest Destiny in this case be the frats taking over the neighborhood, giving the locals firewater and small pox ridden blankets and proclaiming it is their divine right to rule the entire area?
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by Fire Starkey on Oct 29, 2009 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Flagged for being a frat boy.
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Wow, I’m racking up the flags in this thread. Three more and I can open my own amusement park.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Maybe you’ll lose in two straights DBDs on your own blog. Like the Yankees!
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
After my dismal performance yesterday, I’m really looking for at least a moral victory today.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Post some NSFW pics!
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s a perfect opportunity to get in
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Its tougher than you think. Because they are just spouting out APNs quickly and all the people there are investor sharks. I tried to follow up and got really confused. You have to have a game plan going in. And a briefcase full of cash.
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I can get a $40K loan right now from my firm itself; but there’s no reason the down payment should even be that high if they expect people making that much a year to be living in them.
Income requirements I can get away with (number crunching).
The only thing that can stop me is if they’re already taken.
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I figure it could provide great returns if I sit on it for a couple years.
by Yes We Cannon on Oct 29, 2009 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
That’s what he said.
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Instea of TWSS. Get it?
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes, but why would he say that?
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I dunno. Why would you say that?
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions
Because I want to take advantage of low income housing for personal profit?
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Or you want to bear someone’s children.
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
while I’m sure this will spark a comment from teh HP, this sounds like a bad idea. Where are these going? I hope it’s closer to Claycord than P Hill.
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HolmoePhobe is on his best behavior today. Having said that, HolmoePhobe is not sure why affordable housing would be a bad idea.
dboneisloose
Because Pittsburg, Antioch, Vallejo, Richmond, Brentwood, etc all have discounted housing available?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
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That’s great…for people from Pittsburg, Antioch, Vallejo, Richmond, and Brentwood. But unless you’re advocating segregating poor people into specific neighborhoods…
dboneisloose
don’t people live in houses they can afford? They don’t
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extend things like this to middle or upper class people?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Just curious, are you opposed to people living beyond their means (which I would agree with) or to the concept of affordable housing in general?
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by HolmoePhobe on Oct 29, 2009 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions
This is California, even the state itself lives beyond its means!
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
I don’t! And I’m unemployed!
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Pics or you’re surfing the net from your public library because you can’t get DSL access in the VW van you live in.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 11:56 AM PDT up reply actions
It was cool getting in on the stock market at its very bottom.
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
And by getting in on the stock market you mean bribing a security card to let you walk around the trading floor at midnight?
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
To be fair, security cards are very susceptible to bribes.
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lol, good observation. yes, cards are totes more susceptible than guards.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve wandered around our trading floor at midnight.
It did nothing for me.
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But you did feel like you were getting in on the market at the bottom like Thoroughbred?
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
with taxpayer’s money? Good god.
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?!?!!?!?!
With my own saved money, sir!
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Just curious, are you opposed to subsidies for wheat (which I would agree with) or to the concept of feeding poor children in general?
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I’m against both? I’m against corn subsidies because it artificially lowers the cost of fucking up the environment and our public health.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Also indirectly causes poverty in Africa.
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And lupus. Corn causes lupus and AIDS in Africa.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought Mack Brown caused lupus and AIDS in Africa?
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by HolmoePhobe on Oct 29, 2009 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
What about Lassa fever?
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Denge fever yes, Lassa fever not sure.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions
oh shit! from House!
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I believe each city has to, by law, provide low income housing. I am sure WC already has something designated that. Thats why Alamo keeps refusing to incorporate as a city, because then theyd have to provide low income housing. Now, they get away with it, because the county in which they lie provides low income housing elsewhere.
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This makes HolmoePhobe sad.
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by HolmoePhobe on Oct 29, 2009 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions
rocksanddirt deny's this flag as today is
third person thursday.
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by Rocksanddirt on Oct 29, 2009 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Did people actually like YouTube Thursday? Should we bring it back?
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
It appears to be one block from BART, but it isnt clear from my memory this morning which BART. Prolly Concord.
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Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
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it would make a lot of sense to put it over there.
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It’s about two blocks from the Walnut Creek BART itself.
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Also is located a block from Target and close to Civic Park.
I think it may be time to put in a bid.
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Tell me if you get it. I might need a place to crash if Mrs. Twist ever kicks me out of the house!
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Not sure how to say this…The DubSea isn’t ready for The Rishi and his entourage.
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I was talking to a colleague last night who works in our New Orleans office. He has friends who work mostly in Houston but still come back to NOLA a lot, so they bought a weekend place halfway between the 2 cities: 5 bedroom house on 20 acres for $156k.
Of course that would mean living halfway between Houston and New Orleans, which my research reveals would put you precisely in the middle of nowhere.
Wait a second. Between Houston and New Orleans, you’re right in the Beaumont, Port Arthur, Nagadoches Texas area! Home of Clint Dempsey and Stephen Jackson.
Oh.
Right then, as you were.
Actually its more like Orange TX or Lake Charles LA, both of which are the armpits of the universe and about as racially friendly as a Skinhead White Power rally.
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by Fire Starkey on Oct 30, 2009 9:12 AM PDT up reply actions
I can only assume Nagadoches is exactly as Cormac McCarthy described it in Blood Meridian, and therefore rad.
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It was fantastic."
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HA HA HA
I clicked on the link and didn’t post. Neener neener neener.
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Okanes report: Syd'Quan...and someone else
When Cal lines up against Arizona State on Saturday, there’s no guarantee Darian Hagan or Josh Hill will be playing the cornerback position opposite Syd’Quan Thompson.
Defensive coordinator Bob Gregory said tonight that he’s opened up the competition to include not only Hagan and Hill, but Chris Conte and Bryan Nnabufie. He said he did so based on the fact that neither Hagan or Hill played particularly well on Saturday, and also that Conte and Nnabufie have been improving.
Gregory acknowledged that Nnabufie did give up the 68-yard touchdown pass from Jeff Tuel to Johnny Forzani on Saturday, but said in general Nnabufie has been coming on of late. And Gregory has really liked the recent play of Conte, who has been seeing more and more reps during games.
Conte started three games as a freshman in 2007.
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Additionally: Hill is questionable with a shoulder injury, Summers-Gavin day-to-day with the same injury from Oregon, Syd'Quan will play
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 8:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Rest up, boys!
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 8:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Could Jerome Randle break Cal's all time scoring mark?
Sean Lampley’s a little worried.
"He’s kind of threatened about the whole (Cal) scoring title," Randle laughed. "I said, `Just chill out, man.’ I really don’t know. I might not have to score that much this year with the team we have. He’s really threatened right now."
Lampley scored 1,776 points in four seasons for the Bears, eclipsing the career record held by Lamond Murray, who logged 1,688 points in three seasons through 19939-94.
Randle enters his final campaign with 1,184 career points, ranking him 20th on Cal’s all-time list. He would need to score 593 points to move ahead of Lampley.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 8:15 AM PDT reply actions
Well, Randle averaged 18.3 ppg last year, and over 30 regular-season games, that wouldn’t be quite enough. Perhaps deep runs in the Pac-10 and NCAA tourneys would get him there, but it’d be a close-run thing.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
I’ll probably forget about it until May, when someone mentions it in passing.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions
BCS Debate
So it’s only halfway through the season and anything can happen from here on out, but I read an argument on espn last night that stated the following: IF LSU wins out, including wins against Alabama and against Florida in the SEC CG, they would go on to play for the BCS NC. This is regardless of what other teams do.
Now my argument is this — the BCS would most likely crumble up and die if that were to happen. In a scenario that involves, say, an undefeated Texas ranked #1, would the second team really be a one-loss LSU OVER an undefeated Cincinatti or Iowa? This would clearly illustrate that the BCS is broken. Sure, strength of schedule is important (though obviously not OOC — see USC’s exclusion from the game last year), but the whole “Conference A is tougher than Conference B” argument should only apply when comparing equivalent loss teams. (A and B both have one loss, but team A is in the SEC, team B in the Big East). Basically, what was said is that the SEC winner should go to the National Championship game no matter how many losses they have.
Imagine the outrage that would cause if an undefeated Iowa team were passed over by a one-loss LSU team. It would turn an already exclusive club into an even more exclusive club. And that really isn’t what college football is about.
And I don’t think the powers that be would allow it.
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Link to the argument?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 8:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Damnit, I was reading it on my phone.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?page=roadtobcs/0903
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Stan Marsh for Captain of Whale Wars...
I hate that show, but can’t stop watching sometimes because of the ridiculous, misled, craziness that is constantly taking place… I think Stan has a handle on what to do with the Steve Irwin(btw why you gotta insult one of my heros by naming your shitty ship after him)… Wasn’t anyone else stoked when they got arrested at the end… If only charges were actually pressed :(
That is all…
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Clarification: I hate whale wars, not south park... I love me some South Park
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I love me some South Park too. Although, I think whaling is a stupid practice which deserves to be temporarily halted, I hate Whale Wars and the advocates that they follow. All that show does is spotlight the pretentious douchiness of the activists, and make me sympthatic towards the whalers
This.
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by CruzinBears on Oct 29, 2009 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions
Stupid Eastwick. I can’t ever watch SP anymore. :(!
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I dunno if this has been covered on another DBD already
But I’ll post it anyway.
Praise be to Tedford!
We have an interview on the frontpage, check it out!
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 9:18 AM PDT up reply actions
ASU Injury report
A stretch of seven straight games without a weekend off has started to take its toll on the ASU football team.
In addition to taking a beating on the scoreboard against Stanford on Saturday, the Sun Devils got physically banged up with several players leaving the field with injuries.
Senior center Thomas Altieri had to be helped off the field in the fourth quarter against the Cardinal and did not practice on Tuesday.
In his place was sophomore Garth Gerhart, who is coming off an injury (turf toe) of his own.
Senior quarterback Danny Sullivan was knocked around in his return home to northern California and hobbled off the field late with a knee injury.
Though Sullivan practiced on Tuesday, freshman Brock Osweiler received
increased repetitions during the session.
Osweiler struggled during his time at quarterback against Stanford — 1 for 7 passing for 18 yards — but ASU coach Dennis Erickson believes the 6-foot-8 freshman from Montana is making steady progress.
"He made some throws the other night that were pretty darn good throws, so we know what kind of arm strength he has," Erickson said Monday.
"He’s just got to get a presence of the game, a feeling of the game I should say and understand what we’re doing offensively and steady it.
"He’s got a lot of talent and he continues to get better in practice and he’s going to play this year. I’m not saying he’s going to start, but he’ll play. He’ll get in games and he’ll get better all the time."
Sophomore Samson Szakacsy also took more snaps.
The walking wounded extends to the receiving corps, where banged up senior wide receiver Kyle Williams — who did not play against Stanford — and junior Kerry Taylor also sat out practice while nursing hamstring injuries.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 9:17 AM PDT reply actions
Is it wrong that I hope Sullivan plays?
Osweiler struggled during his time at quarterback against Stanford — 1 for 7 passing for 18 yards — but ASU coach Dennis Erickson believes the 6-foot-8 freshman from Montana is making steady progress.
Osweiler’s a freshman. Let’s see, how have we done against freshman QBs….
Praise be to Tedford!
Tuel’s a good one
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 9:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Might want to refresh your browzers, News and World Report is now complete.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Thanks. There’s nothing like a fresh NAWR.
by CaliforniaCMB on Oct 29, 2009 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Cal hoops ranked #12 in the coaches poll
1. Kansas
2. Michigan St.
3. Texas
4. North Carolina
5. Kentucky
6. Villanova
7. Purdue
8. Duke
9. West Virginia
10. Butler
Syracuse is ranked #24, UCLA #29, Ohio State is ranked #17, Washington ranked #13.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 9:22 AM PDT reply actions
basketball doesn’t start until late Feb.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
For you, it doesn’t start til early July
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 9:25 AM PDT up reply actions
But that’s when the NBA’s D-League starts, right? I have to watch the Bakersfield Illegals?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Is that where Rod Benson is now?!?!
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 9:29 AM PDT up reply actions
I went to grad school at Syracuse
I’m so looking forward to Cal whooping on them… a good game Cal whooping on them when they come to Haas in a couple weeks. In any case, playing a perennial national power like ’Cuse will be a good indication of what kind of team the Bears are this yeah, and if they have a team that advance in the NCAA tourney.
by atomsareenough on Oct 29, 2009 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Hate to break it to you, but we don't play
Cuse at home. Our non-conference home schedule is pretty weak and we pretty much have to run that table. Playing all that top quality out of conference competition (for once) means that we are going to have to win all the gimme’s if we want to make the tourney.
by 33SwisherSweet on Oct 29, 2009 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Dammit. Where’s the game? I’d just looked at the schedule on Yahoo!, and it’s not “at Syracuse”, so I figured it was a home game. Is it a tournament or something?
by atomsareenough on Oct 29, 2009 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, the weak home sked is pretty much what’s keeping me from buying season tickets. That, and my own personal economy.
Still, I like that the schedule has to punch to it, for once, even if it is all on the road. This is the sort of senior-heavy team you’d want to battle-test on the road, and I think it’s the sort of schedule that’s very similar to what Arizona typically plays, where they can drop a few games, and their RPI is still plenty high enough to make the tournament.
That said, you’re right, we can’t drop the gimmies at home. Win total isn’t everything, but losing at home to Princeton will more than wipe out any RPI gains from playing at Kansas.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
That sucks.
MSG is the next best thing to a home game for ’Cuse.
by atomsareenough on Oct 29, 2009 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions
In other news, I’ve learned that legal aliens that are working at UC will not get furloughed. Even if your family has been in California since the Bear Flag Revolt. I guess this means green card > USA citizenship?!?!
Before you know it alls find something to bitch about, take out your calculator and multiply your salary by 8% and then subtract that from your salary.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
or, alternatively, multiply your salary by .92
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions
kind of NSFW
http://www.funnybeez.com/funnypictures/math-made-fun.jpg
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
did you google ‘math nsfw’
i bet you did.
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Bama Fan of the Week
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Rishi is a Bama fan?!?!?!
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 9:29 AM PDT up reply actions
The Pirate does not care for your cost-cutting measures
But at least one idea from the AD association — eliminating off-campus stays by teams before home games, a common practice in football, where teams check into hotels to minimize distractions — is already proving to be an enormously unpopular notion, even with some athletic directors themselves.
“I think that’s a dumb proposal,” Texas Tech coach Mike Leach said. “And I mean that with the ultimate, utmost due respect.”
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 9:43 AM PDT reply actions
Man, the Dread Pirate has been extra crabby this season.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Tim Donaghy book excerpts on deadspin
Anyone have any thoughts on the notion of NBA refs willfully manipulating the league’s games?
http://deadspin.com/5392067/excerpts-from-the-book-the-nba-doesnt-want-you-to-read
If the NBA is so thoroughly pervaded by this kind of shenanigans from the officials, do you think other leagues such as the NFL and MLB are realistically any cleaner? Do college sports have the same issues?
Yeah, I heard that. But if nobody else publishes the whole book, as long as the material gets out there into the public… Just the stuff that was posted on deadspin is a pretty damning indictment of the league. Even worse, as much as it may disillusion people about the NBA, it makes me think that all the other leagues are probably just as bad.
by atomsareenough on Oct 29, 2009 10:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Unless there's corroboration out there
Why should I believe Donaghy? He’s a convicted felon, a proven liar, and a person with an incentive to bag on the league. It seems that the people who are inclined to believe him are already disillusioned about the league to begin with.
Praise be to Tedford!
You’ve got a very fair point there, and I would definitely take anything he says with a huge grain of salt, but the types of things he describes sound more than plausible to me. Especially with regards to the specific games he talks about, someone could go back to the game tape.
by atomsareenough on Oct 29, 2009 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Although I get frustrated by the refs, this reeks of conspiracy theory nonsense.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions
It does and it doesn’t. Every single allegation or incident doesn’t have to be true for the overall picture he paints to be broadly accurate.
by atomsareenough on Oct 29, 2009 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Could be. I’d like to see this from someone other than Donaghy though.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s possible that officials for other sports are on the take, but I don’t think they have nearly the power to alter the course of games that NBA refs do.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Especially considering the move to suspend refs. It will be interesting to see if that method gains momentum.
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To me, that method seems unlikely to improve performance, and more likely to cause refs to constantly look over their shoulder to call plays, becoming hesitant. Giving them better training, making the rules easier to understand and enforce, giving them better tools to quickly and reliably make the right calls, these are all things that will improve performance. Suspending them for mistakes? I don’t see how that helps. It’s not like they’re lazy or anything.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
The Swamphunter doesn't stop with the video game banter for today...
University Sweaters coming out for Xbox Live avatars; Cal is included among them.
Display your love for your favorite institute of higher learning with the Xbox Live Avatar Marketplace University Collection, as long as yours is one of the top 30 U.S. Universities.
…
Items in the collection range from 40 Microsoft point wristbands to 240 point varsity jackets. $3 for a varsity jacket might be a bit steep, but it’s definitely cheaper than actually participating in college sports.
I know what my avi will be rocking from now on.
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Chris Brown of Smart Football picks ASU
Chris Brown: Arizona State (+7) over Cal.
Can’t say I feel great about this pick, but I have a feeling that Dennis Erickson might pull out some of his old magic. (And by magic I mean hair grease, a flurry of unsportsmanlike conduct penalties on his own team, and miraculous, game-winning passes.) While Cal seems to have bounced back nicely from its two-game skid against Oregon and Southern Cal — where the Bears looked dreadful and Jahvid Best could not get going — Erickson has the Bears at home, where ASU has generally played well, and Cal’s road record under Jeff Tedford is fairly dreadful.
But the Sun Devils best friend might be Cal QB Kevin Riley, who in his two games against winning teams (i.e. USC and Oregon) compiled some rather ugly stats: He completed 38 percent o his passes for 4.5 yards per attempt, slumping to a dismal 73.3 passer rating with one interception and no touchdowns. And, before last week, the Sun Devils had grabbed an interception in 15 straight games. Arizona State might not win the yardage battle, but they have a good shot at winning the turnover one. And as turnovers go, usually so too goes the game.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 10:37 AM PDT reply actions
Well
we’ve done very well in TO margin this year
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions
mainly because of garbage TOs and few fumbles/ints
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions
Our offense has turned the ball over a total of 3 times this year. One fumble by Best on a bad handoff exchange, and two Riley interceptions. I think (hope?) we keep taking care of the football.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Exactly why we have good TO margin
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh man Chris Brown.
We’re DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Hahahahahahaa at Coug Center
A few days ago, my fellow author Nuss wrote this cute little post proclaiming Reid Forrest to be “better than your punter.” Now we all know that Nuss writes eleventy billion posts a day in hopes that one will stick, and the problem is some of those posts show a lack of research and analysis that you, the readers, expect from CougCenter.
But I digress. The reason I’m taking Nuss to task on this is not because he was wrong. It is true, Reid Forrest is better than your punter. Seriously though, is that really an amazing revelation? That is similar to saying “water is wet.”
I want to take it a little further. Reid Forrest is not only the best punter in the land, he is the best PLAYER in the land.
What’s that you say? What about Tim Tebow, Colt McCoy, or even that receiver from Notre Dame that sounds like he is out of a fairy tale? Sure, those players are great. They are just not even close to the level of great that Reid Forrest possesses. For instance, check out this chart:
Now if Reid Forrest’s perfect score of 100 in the “awesomeness” category does not impress you, then there is something wrong with you.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 10:42 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
How come you guys didn’t do an empirical study like this for Jahvid Best’s awesomeness? It would clearly be higher than 100%.
Jahvid Best’s awesomeness is so empirically obvious that any attempt to quantify it would do nothing but serve to bring Jahvid down towards the mortal plane inhabited by the rest of us.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
by ragnarok on Oct 29, 2009 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
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Why are you pointing to your picture of Al Pacino smelling his finger?
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Interesting excerpts from the Knight Commission: I'll list them point by point
#1—success related to donations?
As for donations, while winning records do not necessarily increase gifts, football bowl game appearances do, Frank wrote, to the tune of $6.50 per alumnus at public universities and $40 per year per alumnus at private schools. "The empirical literature seems to say that if the overall net effect of athletic success on alumni giving is positive, it is likely to be small," wrote Frank (2004).
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 10:55 AM PDT reply actions
So Cal has….I dunno, 400,000 alumni? That’s $6.50 per alumnus per year = $2.6M a year in extra alumni donations…..plus, the additional revenue paid to the school for attending and/or winning the bowl, which more than covers the expense of sending the team to a bowl.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions
Pretty sure those numbers increase gifts from those alumni who donate - not for all alumni. I think the number is around 60,000 a year, so it would be about $390,000.
However, that’s for the average public school – it’s possible that donations are less tied to football success at Cal than at a public school like Alamaba or Michigan.
Not that $390,000 or even $100,000 would be chump change – but Cal gets $300-400 million a year in donations, so a successful football program has a fairly marginal effect on contributions.
dboneisloose
by HolmoePhobe on Oct 29, 2009 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions
Must you always argue with me?
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
You’re damn right its you. Moron.
Kidding. KIDDING! I kid, I kid.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
As we get further removed from the beginning of the Tedford era, I just have a gut feeling money donated will be increasingly tied to football success (students who began in that era are now in the workforce and making more, etc)
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Maybe not that significant of an amount, but at least slightly so
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Now this is interesting--coaching salary no correlation to success
There are two other myths to be dispelled. First, there is no correlation between spending more on athletics and winning more, according to an NCAA report titled, "The Empirical Effects of Collegiate Athletics: An Interim Report" (Litan, Orszag, & Orszag, 2005). Second, increased spending on coaches’ salaries has no significant relationship to success or increased revenue, according to a follow-up study.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 10:56 AM PDT reply actions
Not too surprising. Coaches at big programs are always going be paid more.
dboneisloose
by HolmoePhobe on Oct 29, 2009 11:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Expenses breakdown
The median budget for athletics programs in the Football Bowl Subdivision is about $40 million, but that number is deceiving. There is a wide gap in spending from the very top programs to the bottom. If we split big-time athletics programs into 10 deciles of 12 institutions based on expenses, the median budget for the lowest decile was $14 million in 2007 and the median budget for the top decile was $83 million. The highest spending categories for the average athletics program includes the following:
* Salaries and benefits, especially coaches’ salaries (32 percent of total expenses);
* Tuition-driven grants-in-aid—or sports scholarships (16 percent);
* Facilities maintenance and rental (14 percent);
* Team travel, recruiting and equipment and supplies (12 percent combined);
* Fund-raising costs, guaranteed payments to opponents, game-day expenses, medical costs, conducting sports camps and other miscellaneous costs (12 percent).
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 11:20 AM PDT reply actions
I'm kinda surprized that salaries are only 32 percent.
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by Rocksanddirt on Oct 29, 2009 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions
Revenue breakdown
While universities and even the biggest athletics programs are not-for-profit organizations, some can generate significant sums from ticket sales, television contracts, and other sources. Most, however, depend on institutional transfers from general funds, student fees, and state appropriations to cover the expenses discussed in the previous section. The NCAA has begun to make this distinction in its reports as one between "generated" revenue—or that coming from external sources—and "allocated" revenue, which consists of intra-institutional transfers.
* External sources of athletics department revenue stand, generally, in this order:
* Cash contributions from alumni and others (30 percent);
* Ticket sales (28 percent);
* Payments from conferences, which include revenue from regular-season television contracts, royalties from the NCAA’s basketball tournament contract, and football bowl game payouts (17 percent);
* Local marketing income, such as in-stadium signs and payments from corporate sponsors, local radio-TV rights fees, etc. (10 percent).
The remainder comes from food and program sales at games, sports camp income, guarantees paid out by opponents for road games, and payouts from athletics department scholarship endowments.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 11:27 AM PDT reply actions
Should students be required to pay for athletics?
As financial burdens on typical college students have increased, the rise in student fees to fund athletics has stirred debate and controversy. At all levels of big-time college sports, students are funding their campuses’ athletics programs with mandatory fees; NCAA data shows that, generally speaking, programs at the lower end of expenses and revenues rankings tend to rely more heavily on student fees than financially successful programs.
In 2007, FBS programs with median expenses of $19.7 million saw students pay a median of $4.7 million, or nearly 24 percent of those athletics budgets. On the other end, in the top decile of programs with budgets in the $83 million range, students typically paid for less than 2 percent of their universities’ sports costs. In 2006, Fulks found that, across the board, six percent of total revenues at bowl-subdivision institutions were paid by student fees. At universities without football and, so, without substantial revenue-generating opportunities, students bore a higher burden; 18 percent of athletics budgets came from student fees (Fulks, 2006).
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 11:35 AM PDT reply actions
Personally, I’d rather my student fees went to the football program than to useless organizations like the ASUC.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
+111111111111111111111111111111
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
in the olden days (prior to '60) the athletic dept was part of ASUC
they sold it to the university, as the student body was less and less interested in running it, and those interested in ASUC were more and more interested in activism of stupid things off campus.
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by Rocksanddirt on Oct 29, 2009 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions
They also used to run the student store, right? And a student ski lodge in Tahoe? What happened?!??!?
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
IIRC they ran it into the ground and the university bailed them out financially in exchange for taking it over.
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by HolmoePhobe on Oct 29, 2009 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions
The ski lodge is still there and available to students. I guess He-Who-Must-Not-Be-NamedPhobe is saying that the university runs it now?
Also, the ASUC does a lot of good stuff for student groups and funds awesome campus events. So ‘useless’ is not a word I would use to describe them.
That sais, they also waste time and money figuring out whether or not to oust a senator for getting into a fight. Stupid, lame waste of money.
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The ASUC does a lot of great work but it’s overshadowed by a)the controversial political stances b)how ridiculously partisan they are for a student government and c)the unbelievably inflated sense of self-importance all the ASUC electeds have. Guys, you’re a student government senator because like 800 people voted for you. Hate to break it to you, but it’s not that big of a deal.
dboneisloose
That’s what one would say in a compromising position.
by Yes We Cannon on Oct 29, 2009 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
College sports construction excessive?
In 2005, the NCAA’s Presidential Task Force on the Future of Intercollegiate Athletics reported that nearly 20 percent of current spending on average is tied to facility expansion and capital debt. The task force warned that "higher education has monetized the anticipated growth potential of athletics for near-term benefits while mortgaging the long-term financial security of the university, if there is a downturn in the fortunes of college sports."
Recruiting costs remain a relatively small item in most budgets, accounting for only two percent of total departmental costs, according to the latest NCAA Revenue and Expenditures Report (Fulks, 2008). However, some argue that facilities construction should be considered a recruiting expense as different athletics programs woo 17- or 18-year-old high school seniors with the most lavish practice facility, shiniest academic study center or snazziest arena.
The University of Kentucky opened a $30 million basketball practice facility in 2007. Georgia opened a $31 million practice and weightlifting facility soon after for men’s and women’s basketball and gymnastics. Texas Tech University spent $4 million four years ago for a student-athlete center, and Texas A&M University topped that with a $27 million academic center and a $22 million basketball practice gym.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 11:45 AM PDT reply actions
Big Game
Have we gotten any information yet on the time?
dboneisloose
It may or not be in Palo Alto. I have to check.
I can tell you, for sure, that it will either be in Berkeley or Palo Alto. I think.
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions
They just published a press release, game time will be between 12:30pm and 5:00pm.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Let's be careful
They might schedule it for 12:30 and try to tell us it’s at 5:00.
Praise be to Tedford!
Those slippery Trees!
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions
All times PST
Three slots, four games to choose from
1) 12:30 PM ABC
2) 3:30 PM FSN
3) 7 PM Versus
Big Game
Oregon-Arizona
ASU-UCLA
OSU-Wazzu
If Oregon beats USC, Oregon-Arizona probably gets the ABC slot (and could still get it if Cal and Furd start losing games). As long as Cal and Furd perform well, this should either be at 12:30 on ABC or 3:30 on FSN.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
you have far too much time on your hands, but great analysis
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
I hate the ABC start time for home games because the stadium doesn’t seem to fill up til 2nd qtr
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Well all the ABC start times have been on the road so far, so they’ve benefited us!
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I would agree, but it depends if UCLA ends up being as shitty as they’ve been in Pac-10 play, for the rest of the year… What happens if Wazzu beats UCLA this weekend?
Undefeated in Southern California since Oct. 2009...
I think Bruins Nation would blow up the internetz
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions
They can’t ban us ALL, can they?
…they are small dickless bears, remember…
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NCAA exploiting athletes? (My answer: Duh)
Recently, a major trend among big-time institutions is the outsourcing of marketing, promotions, and sales to professional agencies. Those agencies, including IMG College, Learfield Sports, and ISP, guarantee athletics departments millions of dollars, and then sell a university’s sports marketing inventory to corporate sponsors and broadcast partners. Even in this widespread commercial practice, the "haves" and "have-nots" benefit at different orders of magnitude. According to USA Today, in 2009, Ohio State University signed a deal with IMG guaranteeing the Buckeyes’ athletics department $11 million a year for 10 years in marketing revenue; for that $110 million, IMG will then perform all the work selling in-stadium signs, coaches’ radio and TV shows, and other corporate sponsorships (Perez & Berkowitz, 2009). By comparison, Utah State University recently signed a 10-year deal with Learfield for a total of $7.7 million. Utah State will receive less money over a period of 10 years than Ohio State will each year.
As athletics programs seek more commercial funding, they must balance that objective with the principle of protecting athletes from commercial exploitation. This tightrope act has become more difficult with legal challenges that allege current commercial products licensed by the NCAA violate athletes’ publicity rights. Recently, athletes and former student-athletes have sued the NCAA and its commercial partners claiming their names and likenesses are being exploited without permission and compensation. As reported in the The New York Times, college quarterbacks’ jerseys numbers, height, weight, hair color, passing styles, home towns and other characteristics appear in EA Sports’ NCAA Football 2009 video game, although their names are omitted (Thomas, 2009). In the suits brought by current and former football and men’s basketball athletes, players charge they are being exploited; their likenesses are generating revenue for the NCAA and the game manufacturer, but not for the student-athlete himself.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 11:51 AM PDT reply actions
There’s also all the recent studies linking football and brain damage…you can make an argument that NFL players are willing to take that risk for the money they make, but it’s a lot harder to justify it for students who aren’t getting paid.
dboneisloose
by HolmoePhobe on Oct 29, 2009 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions
A look back (from Bleeding Green Blog)
In honor of Desean winning NFC POW:
Look at the WR’s taken before Desean
Donnie Avery – Rams
Devin Thomas – Redskins
Jordy Nelson – Packers
James Hardy – Bills
Eddie Royal – Broncos
Jerome Simpson – Bengals
I think the only good receiver taken before Desean was Royal and hes not having as good of a year as last year.
I like Avery and Nelson. They were good picks but Desean still should have been the first or second WR taken.
Anyone know how good Simpson, Royal and Hardy have been? Anybody have these guys on fantasy?
Devin Thomas and James Hardy haven’t done much… Simpson has been very promising in Natti practices but hasn’t played a huge in-game role. Royal has been very good as Denver’s #2 WR… He and DJax have been the best two from that class
Wouldn’t yet say anyone (except for Hardy maybe) has been a major bust since WRs tend to take a long time to catch on in the league
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Royal was very good last year for the Broncos. Not as good receiving numbers this season, but he had a KO return and punt return for TD in same game last Monday night vs. San Diego.
Simpson: caught 1 pass for the Bengals last year and has been inactive for first 6 games this year.
Hardy: caught 9 passes last year for the Bills and is on PUP list this year.
Praise be to Tedford!
Avery is on a horrible team, but has shown flashes of brilliance. I’d definitely rate Jackson ahead of him, but he looks good.
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Yeah, I was really surprised by that pick but he was good his rookie year. The Rams actually did some research. I thought he was going to be a bust, but he’s proven me wrong.
I have DeSean on both my leagues. Because you care.
PS When will the Bills do anything right??
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WHEN THEY PICKED MARSHAWN MOTHAF***IN' LYNCH!
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I think he meant to say
WHEN THEY PICKED MARFUCK MOTHERF***IN LYNCH
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Oct 29, 2009 2:51 PM PDT up reply actions
The guys in my league didn’t think he was gonna have a great year, so I got to draft him as my third receiver, behind Andre Johnson and Chad Ochocinco.
With those 3, Brees, Jones-Drew, John Carney, Pitt D, and having just picked up Vernon Davis off waivers – my fantasy team is doing quite well.
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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/do-more-bicyclists-lead-to-more-injuries/
Oh noes.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
How can more cyclists mean fewer accidents? "It seems unlikely that people walking or bicycling obey traffic laws more" just because more of them are on the streets, the author of the California study wrote. "Adaptation in motorist behavior seems more plausible." In other words, when more cyclists show up on the roads, car drivers become used to them and respond appropriately. As the British report pointed out, "common events are safe, and rare events are dangerous." Making cycling safer, the report concluded, " requires that it become more popular."
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
I hate bicyclists that ride in the middle of the street.
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me too.
However, I’m rollin’ on 23 mm tires pumped up to 120 psi. The bike lanes (when they do exist) are either sloped at a weird angle, filled with debris, have all kinds of sewer/water/electricity manhole covers, or have 1/3 of them taken up by the gutter/storm drains. All of those are no bueno for cyclists.
The most dangerous thing for me are either buses, people clippin’ me from my leftside, or overzealous right turners.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I’m going to run over you.
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This
You and I live parallel lives. Bicycling-wise at least. I am well-lit, obey traffic rules, and avoid busy streets, but have to constantly look out for dickheads that think the road belongs to cars and therefore they need not pay attention to anything else but their DVD, iPhone, GPS and heart thumping bass of the music they’re listening to.
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by CalBandGreat on Oct 29, 2009 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions
as a cyclist, i HATE it when other cyclists...
…ride their bikes AGAINST traffic. it’s the dumbest and most unsafe thing you can do, and people think it’s a good idea! I wish I could find a way for people to understand that you’re confusing the hell out of the drivers by coming towards them, and dammit it’s just so unsafe!!
Also: it’s called a STOP sign for a reason, assholes. You’re a vehicle, just like a car is. Follow the rules, and don’t you DARE get upset when a car almost runs you over because you chose to take your life into your own hands and speed through the intersection. Asshats.
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I lived in Holland when I was a kid, and at the time they actually had a national curriculum on safe bike riding. When I was in the 6th grade, we had to take a written test on rules of the road, sign posts meanings, etc., and then take a practical test where we rode to a start point, went along a street course with hidden observers, and then rode back to school. I suspect that if we had been seen riding against traffic, our bikes would have been confiscated and redistributed to refugees.
But that kind of socialist nonsense of actually teaching people how to use bicycles as part of an overall transit strategy has no place in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
I just hate it when they honk their horns. It makes me scared and angry! And sad. :(
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It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Awwww.
I feel bad, not that I’ve done it.
by CaliforniaCMB on Oct 30, 2009 12:50 AM PDT up reply actions
I’ve done it once.
I was about to drive onto a freeway entrance ramp and a guy bike rolls through the crosswalk, against the traffic light, to cut me off. I’m forced to stop short, so I honk my horn at him. He gets freaked out and almost falls off his bike (but doesn’t). I laughed and got on the freeway.
So basically, I never do it (i know how it feels to be honked at on a bike, it sux) unless they really really deserve it.
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I just feel bad because they probably get picked on a lot. I give them their space. They’re watching their carbon foot prints.
by CaliforniaCMB on Oct 30, 2009 12:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, they definitely do. I see what you’re saying, and I can tell you that the cyclists appreciate your efforrts to make their lives easier!
I was just mad at that guy because I know better than to do what he did. If I didn’t ride a bike, maybe I wouldn’t have honked?
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Are you saying that if you did ride a bike, maybe you would not have honked? If that’s the case, I think so. It’s scary out there.
by CaliforniaCMB on Nov 1, 2009 12:56 PM PST up reply actions
No, I do ride a bike. I know how scary it is. I’m saying if I didn’t have all the proper bike safety in my head already, I might not have honked at that guy for being a dumbass.
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Somebody stop me
I’ve been on competitivecylist.com all day making bikes. I don’t think a complete bike has come in under $6,000. The Italians are SOOOO beautiful!
Ahh freeway entrance/exit ramps. The bane of my existence.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
They have the right to do so, though. I don’t begrudge them riding in the lane with cars for that reason – they’re not breaking any rules.
@carp: Don’t forget about parked cars opening driver-side doors! Always dangerous when people aren’t watching what they’re doing.
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I dream of getting in a high speed chase with a bike cop. I think I’d smoke ‘em cuz they’re rollin’ on hybrids and I got a roadie.
I’d get in said chase because I usually do not stop at stop signs or stopl lights unless I have to. I stop when traffic dictates that it’s not safe to run it. I aim to never have a motorist slow down for me.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I’d get in said chase because I usually do not stop at stop signs or stopl lights unless I have to. I stop when traffic dictates that it’s not safe to run it.
You’re one of those people.
by Yes We Cannon on Oct 29, 2009 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I cause no issues with other motorists. I just think it’s pointless to wait for a stoplight when it can’t sense that I’m there anyways.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
That’s what they all say.
Many a time have I been at a four way stop when it’s my right of way and some dbag bicyclist blows through the stop sign.
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Yeah, you’re one of the reasons I hate bicyclists.
Act all day, dance all night. Let's get it poppin'... I'm in Bombay, trick!
No. You hate the cyclists who don’t share the road. Big difference. I always get over or already am over by the time you roll up in your escalade.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I’m pretty sure Rishi likes men in spandex in general, just not the ones who don’t share the road.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m fine with cyclists who don’t share the road (ie stay on the sidewalk where they belong).
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you’re not allowed to ride on the sidewalk! That’s for peds and motorized ghost ridin’ wheelchair peeps.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
haha I’ve had that dream :-)
It’s rarely safe to blow through stop signs or stop lights though. Even if no cars are around, pedestrians can pop out, or maybe you just don’t see that someone’s around, and maybe a car with no headlights hits you, or a cop pulls you over and gives you a $300 ticket.
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Damnit, I shouldn't have read that 30 min before I'm going on a ride
The simple problem is cities don’t properly plan or have enough money for bicycle & car traffic to coexist safely. There’s a draft bike plan that’s been talked about here in Oakland for years, but nothing has really come out of it.
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by CalBandGreat on Oct 29, 2009 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Academics fire more round at the athletic department
Scale back athletics at UC Berkeley
Responding to criticism about the earnings level of University of California administrators, a letter to the editor from the UC Office of the President (“Finding facts on pay of UC administrators,” Oct. 7) unabashedly mounted the defense that the Cal football coach’s multi-million-dollar annual compensation is more than four times as much as the highest paid administrator at UC. Was that supposed to be reassuring?
Indeed, the coach is the highest paid employee of the State of California. The letter cleverly focused on the source of funds for the coach in an attempt to take our eye off the ball. But all the revenues and donations to Cal intercollegiate athletics fall short by millions of dollars annually to cover excessive expenditures of this program, which is propped up from the campus’ coffers with funds that could instead keep the library open on Saturdays, for example.
It is a myth that intercollegiate athletics earns money for the university; even the NCAA reports that increased spending on athletics does not increase alumni donations to the university, prompting its president to advise college presidents to reconsider their institutional spending on sports.
The UC Berkeley administrators should cease pouring money into intercollegiate athletics, which is overdue to put its house in order and scale back its operation.
BRIAN BARSKY
Professor of computer science and vision science
UC Berkeley
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 12:58 PM PDT reply actions
what the letter should say instead is that the administrators should cease pouring money into the sports that don’t make a positive margin….but that would be against NCAA rules, I think, given Title 9 (the even funding for men’s and women’s sports).
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 1:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Correct. They’re dicing around the issue, but really Title IX is what would need to be cut for the AD to no longer worry about positive margins. But they don’t want to come out saying they’re opposed to Title IX, so they target football and basketball, the cashcows.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m just so tired of every article implying that the football coaches’ salary is hurting the university, when then ignore the fact that the football program as an entity/subsidiary makes a positive margin.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions
So what you’re suggesting is that we cut all women’s sports?
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No, that’s not a viable (or legal) solution either. But if we cut the football program and/or men’s basketball, the athletic department would be operating at an even worse loss than they already are, and they would have to definitely cut sports that generate the worst losses in order to try and balance the budget.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
In other words, the skeptics should view football and men’s basketball as necessary “evils” that help make up the funding gap.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh yeah? Well, 72K people attend a football game. The largest class is 700 people. What now?
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Maybe we should start calling football game seminars
And then students would get credit for showing up for each game!
Interdisciplinary Studies 101: Study of Cheerleading.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions
am I qualified to teach that?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
You have written no fanposts on the topic for quite some time…
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve turned over a new leaf. I desperately wanted to throw up a pre-season All-Conference post, but I thought better of it after talking to God. He’s The One. I’d just like to thank him for allowing me to screw off at work.
You’re right, I’m unqualified to teach that. But dballisloose is.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I am no expert on cheerleading itself as an activity/sport/artform. I am, however, very astute in the topic of cheerleaders.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions
and how to get them to fill out an application with Vivid?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
No, I just hide in the bushes outside the Vivid building and watch them go in to submit their qualifications.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 1:32 PM PDT up reply actions
do they get a bunch?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
No, its often a long day with nothing exciting going on.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
…………………………………..go on.
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by TwistNHook on Oct 29, 2009 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
What did HE say? Is Syd'Quan really an expert on the subject?
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It would improve our graduation rate for our athletes!
Tyson Alualu: A+++ EXCELLENT CLASS PARTICIPATION WOULD START AGAIN
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Oh yeah? Well, 72K people attend a football game. The largest class is 700 people. What now?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Oct 29, 2009 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
anyone ever post this?
http://www.dailycal.org/article/106802/three_arrested_after_scuffle_with_stanford_tree_ma
UCPD, keeping serious offenders off our streets.
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Philly lass accused of giving sex for World Series tix.
A Philadelphia woman who was arrested for allegedly offering to sell her body in exchange for World Series tickets spoke to CBS station KYW-TV in Philadelphia.
Police in Bensalem say Susan Finkelstein, 43, solicited an undercover police officer to perform sex acts for World Series tickets. The undercover officer connected with Finkelstein after seeing her ad on Craigslist that read: “Desperate Blonde Needs WS Tix.”
“This is just an individual that got caught up in it, I guess in the hype of the Phillies World Series, she wanted her ticket at any cost and was willing to go the extra mile,” Fred Harran of the Bensalem Police Department said.
Finkelstein described herself as a “gorgeous, tall, buxom blonde diehard Phillies fan” in desperate need of two World Series Tickets. The rest of the ad read: “Price negotiable—- I’m the creative type! Maybe we can help each other!”
Finkelstein told KYW that she was only trying to make her ad stand out on the popular classified Web site.
“Trying to see if I could get some cheap tickets and seeing what was out there,” Finkelstein said.
Investigators said undercover officers met with Finkelstein at a bar in Bensalem and that her offer was simple.
“She basically said that she would trade sexual favors for a Phillies ticket. She was creative, she didn’t have any money. I don’t know what the Series tickets are going for, but she decided that she would give herself up for some World Series tickets,” Harran explained.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Remember the guy who did the Favre Rodgers star wars thing?
by Shadwhand on Oct 29, 2009 2:12 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Sullivan will start Saturday
When asked about the condition of his ankle heading into this week’s homecoming game against California, Sullivan responded “It’s fine. I’ll be ready to go.”
So it looks like Sullivan will make his 8th consecutive start this Saturday as the 24th ranked Golden Bears invade Sun Devil Stadium. Sullivan ranks 8th in the Pac-10 in passing efficiency (110.7), and has thrown for 1,414 yards, which is the 6th best figure in the Pac-10.
Sullivan spoke to the media on Monday about returning to his hometown to play against Stanford last Saturday, Cal’s defense and the resiliency of the Arizona State team being tested.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 29, 2009 2:39 PM PDT reply actions
Austin Baby!
See you kids on Monday! Flaming Doctor Peppers await!
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by Rishi on Oct 29, 2009 2:51 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Craigslist:I submit this brief in support of why we TOTALLY should get it on. – w4m
You & Me Doing It v. You & Me Not Doing It (2009)
Using that IRAC method we’ve been learning about, a compelling brief on why we should hump each other’s brains out.
FACTS:
You’re in my class at law school. You are tall, dark and very masculine. I find you quite attractive and it’s really distracting. I find reasons to look in your direction during class and I blatantly stare at you whenever we pass by one another. You seem to be returning the looks but I can’t figure out if you’re eye-raping me back, or if it’s more of a ‘what the fuck is this girl staring at’ kind of look. I’m not Megan Fox, but if I was a guy, I don’t think I’d kick me out of bed, so I dare to hope it’s the former?
Anyway, we’re expected to absorb class material sufficiently enough to one day pass the bar exam, and this is difficult when I’m more focused on what’s behind your zipper. It’s probably distracting to you as well for some chick to be gawking at you while you’re trying to cram massive amounts of information into your brain. (And I’m thinking about cramming appendages of yours into orifices of mine.)
Something tells me Rags won’t like this post
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Why not? I totally get her point of view, and I feel she makes a compelling argument.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
habeus corpus, habeus corpus!!!
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by dballisloose on Oct 29, 2009 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm inclined to say go for it
She definitely makes out a prima facie case for piercing her corporate veil. I wonder if there’s a danger that she will leave him something per stirpes, however.
Praise be to Tedford!
Stay classy CGB!
PS – god bless her.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Consider her blessed.
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I bet it was ch0ster
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I know it was Twist.
STAY THIRSTY, MY FRIENDS
by Thoroughbred on Oct 29, 2009 4:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I love you guys, just say'n.
Go Bears Go
by Rocksanddirt on Oct 29, 2009 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
You're not sayin', but you're just sayin'
My heart skips a beat every time I hear the band strike up 'Our Sturdy Golden Bear'.
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