DBD 2.23.10 - Bring back the Wild Grizzly
by carp on Feb 23, 2010 6:32 AM PST
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1) somehow convince SI on Campus to do a photo shoot of Carleeand Sarah, if they're so inclined to participate.
2) somehow convince the administration to bring back the live grizzly as the mascot, much like Colorado uses Ralphie,
3) ???
4) Prophet!
More after the yump.
Let's focus on goal # 2) for this post:
Think of the potential. We could have the grizzly lead the bears out onto the field!
Potential escape? Nevair!
Or we could just keep the status quo.
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Man “kept it real” by capping his former childhood rapist. The town of Fort Bragg wants him free. The widow of the departed wants him to be sentenced only to counseling. There is no precedent:
“My guess is it’s pretty rare, at the very least,” said researcher Lisa Jones of the center in Durham, N.H.
Let me get this straight: If McNeil would have killed Vargas in the act/attempt of mollesting him, then it would be self defense. If he does it after being continually harrassed after several years, but not immediately after/during an assault, he could get 50-life?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Yeah, technically McNeil is guilty of murder or at the very least manslaughter. Self defense only applies during the act, and usually you are under some duty to flee if possible (i.e., deadly force only as a last resort). The law doesn’t look favorably on revenge or vigilantism. However, particularly in a community like this, you might see “jury nullification” where the jury says “he may be technically guilty, but we’re just gonna say ‘not guilty’ cause we can.” This has been used in the past to do what is “right” even though a crime was technically committed.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 6:52 AM PST up reply actions
I wouldn’t even qualify it with manslaughter, assuming that he meant to shoot the guy. The man has committed a murder, pure and simple. His only real chance for a murder acquittal, based on the facts in the story, would be the “accidental” theory, but that just doesn’t seem likely. And if the defense wants to play the insanity card (which I doubt), that would be farfetched here. The report of the incident does not show insanity. If anything, it shows the sane and human emotion of revenge. As CALumbus Bear correctly points out, vigilantism is not romanticized in the law.
This dude has two hopes (again, assuming the facts are as cut and dried as the story suggests): (1) prosecutorial discretion and (2) jury nullification. As to (1), it doesn’t look like his getting that, as the Mendocino DA is going after a murder conviction. Best he can hope for on that front is the prosecutor instructing the jury on a lesser included manslaughter offense. Jury nullification is more likely. That, some might say, is part of the beauty of the jury system. A jury of this guy’s peers in his community could decide that this act is unworthy of criminal punishment.
I am a Vereenian.
Doesn’t the fact that he’s using a Civil-War style replica antique pistol say anything about his intent to shoot the guy?
I’d say he was being quite Civil.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 8:11 AM PST up reply actions
Well, it would be hard to shoot someone without some form of firearm. I’m no expert, but I think that’s true.
You could have a camera, or a young plant, and still shoot someone.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 8:32 AM PST up reply actions
Few questions:
Can the DA ask for the case to be moved (a la Scott Peterson) because of the chance of jury nullification?
Isn’t there a third option? Pardon by the mayor/gov?
In other words, Go Bears!
I’m not a criminal lawyer, but it is my understanding that only the defendant has the right to request a change of venue in a criminal case. Am I right, lawyers?
As for a pardon, the Governor of California has the absolute right to pardon anyone convicted of a crime by the state courts. (Neither mayors nor anyone else except the governor have any such authority.) But governors rarely exercise that authority, and almost always use it after the person has been convicted and served a substantial portion of his or her prison term. Granting a pardon is a huge political hot potato that governors tend to avoid. It would be very unlikely that any pardon would be granted before a trial, because we don’t really know exactly what happened until the evidence comes out at trial. And a governor would almost certainly want to see what the jury did — if they let the guy off, then the governor doesn’t have to get involved.
Snobby Chick - Senior Division
Jury nullification is never grounds for moving the case. Perhaps you are thinking of jury bias? That is grounds for moving a case.
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I was initially mixed up about this because usually jury bias occurs in situations where the public really hates the defendant and the defense counsel fears the defendant can’t get a fair trial and so they want to have the trial moved. Jury nullification is when the jurors don’t convict despite there being evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. You can have a case moved for the former, but not for the latter.
However, this situation is different in that the public bias is in favor of the defendant, rather than against him. So juror bias would result in a jury nullification (presuming there is evidence beyond a reasonable doubt).
That’s what didn’t process in my mind initially.
The whole process of jury selection is to weed out people who can’t be neutral. Despite this safeguard, the defense is still allowed to have cases moved due to public and jury bias. If this is allowable, then it seems fair that the DA, in opposite situations (such as here where the public is in favor of acquitting the defendant), should be able to get the trial moved too.
The wiki on Fort Bragg says that its population was a mere 7,000 people in the year 2000. In such a small town, it certainly might be very hard to find a neutral jury as since smaller towns are more closely knit and everyone knows everyone. If the town of Fort Bragg was like 1 million people, then that’d be different and would likely not be moved.
I don’t know what the answer is.
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Jury nullification is something which happens after the presentation of the case. Asking for a case to be moved has to happen before the presentation of the case.
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Hydro, I thought you were an aspiring chef, not a lawyer.
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 12:48 PM PST up reply actions
TwistNHook is my friend, and a lawyer. He teaches me all these cool lawyer things. So I guess I’m a pastry chef wannabe-lawyer.
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Why are you replying as if you are HydroTech? Has Rishi been Hydro all along?!?!
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Nevermind my two comments above. I wasn’t thinking about this properly.
This is an interesting case. Usually it’s the defense which moves for having a case moved, rather than the prosecution. So the question of whether the DA can request to move the case is relatively unheard of. I don’t know the answer to this.
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are you one of those pastry chef lawyers (“Your honor, I present this case where my client ordered crème brûlée and instead the waiter brought out a choux pastry.”) or a John Grisham fan?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
TwistNHook is my friend, and a lawyer. He teaches me all these cool lawyer things. So I guess I’m a pastry chef wannabe-lawyer.
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it's ok Hydro
this case is very complex, a lot of ins, lot of outs, lot of things to keep straight in old Hydro’s head
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by CBKWit on Feb 23, 2010 1:06 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, usually the things I have to keep in my head are simpler things like ingredient lists and cook times, not stuff like juries, bias, and nullification.
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don’t sell yourself short. should the your career in the restaurant ever take a powder, I’ve always wanted to convert a chef into a synthetic chemist. Same thing as a chef, more or less, except you have more badass explosions.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
The closest precedent I can think of is this case:
One evening in the spring of 1989, Ahluwalia was allegedly attacked by her husband later accusing him of trying to break her ankles and burn her face with a hot iron, apparently trying to extort money from her extended family. Later that night while her husband lay sleeping, Ahluwalia fetched some petrol from the garage. She poured it over the bed and set it alight, and ran into a garden with her three-year-old son.3
In a later interview she claimed: “I decided to show him how much it hurt. At times I had tried to run away, but he would catch me and beat me even harder. I decided to burn his feet so he couldn’t run after me.”2 She also claimed: “I wanted to give him a scar like those he had given me, to have him suffer pain as I had”
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Way to start the DBD off on a downer. That was depressing reading
Goodbye Bob Gregory. I am soooooo 6 dimensional now!
by Fire Starkey on Feb 23, 2010 8:47 AM PST up reply actions
You’ve got it straight. If you need to use deadly force to prevent a physical assault, that’s self-defense. After the assault is over and you are no longer in immediate danger, you are supposed to call the police. That is why we have police. If you wait until the assault is over and go hunt the guy down and shoot him, that’s murder. Individuals don’t get to unilaterally impose the death penalty on other individuals, which is what this guy seems to have done. If every crime victim made himself or herself judge, jury and — literally — executioner, we would no longer have a functioning society. That may not be emotionally satisfying, but millennia of human experience have proven that societies that permit blood feuds don’t prosper.
Snobby Chick - Senior Division
Yes
Because at that point he’s taking revenge and not defending himself. You can’t allow people to take justice into their own hands like that without some sort of imminent threat to their being.
by atomsareenough on Feb 23, 2010 12:24 PM PST up reply actions
Can we have Oski ride a real Bear?
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by CruzinBears on Feb 23, 2010 4:41 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
BrightSource Energy Inc. of Oakland won $1.37 billion in federal loan guarantees Monday to build solar power plants in the Mojave Desert, becoming the latest Bay Area green-tech company to receive major financial backing from the U.S. government.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Bear, easy.
It would take a pack of tigers, and even then a bear wouldn’t go down without tasting the blood of his assailants.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Replied to wrong comment. Too early for a carp to be swimming?
Who would win, a Carp or a Turkey?
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 6:51 AM PST up reply actions
Well, this is unacceptable. If they’re relying on federal loans, their employees should not get a salary!
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Hippie!
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 7:33 AM PST up reply actions
Unless they built a bunch of solar panels that turned out to be unrolled Pepsi cans painted black and then claimed that the national grid would collapse without them, I’d say your analogy might need some work.
Unless TARP funds were used to then create triple leveraged financial derivatives, I think your analogy might need some work too.
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Not really. You made oblique reference to the political hub-bub over banks in receipt of TARP funds paying (or not paying) salaries as a way of making a crack about federally funded solar panel work. My response was that in order for the situations to be truly analogous, the solar panel firm would have to be requesting federal funding after creating a house of cards, and then the righteous indignation could flow freely.
The solar people haven’t failed – yet.
Eh, you’re taking this too seriously. I was just making a slight at the fact that bankers are evil and everyone else is good.
Of course, maybe solar hasn’t failed, but alternative energy has had failures — it’s called corn ethanol.
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Oh sure – corn ethanol’s another good example of what happens when you let people buy policies favorable to their economic sector. It looks easy because we’re already paying for wasteful crops and it fits the existing distribution infrastructure so why not?
Agreeing. The fact that the Iowa caucuses come at the beginning of primary season gives corn farmers a completely ridiculous amount of clout to force politicians to support ethanol.
Snobby Chick - Senior Division
Well, ethanol good. Ethanol from corn bad.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 1:04 PM PST up reply actions
ethanol not so good, even when not from corn.
much less energy per gallon than even gasoline.
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by Rocksanddirt on Feb 23, 2010 1:41 PM PST up reply actions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel#Efficiency_of_common_crops
It seems that, whatver in the hell miscanthus is, is useful.
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Not many widely available or mass-produceable compounds with more energy/gallon than gas…
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 1:48 PM PST up reply actions
an easy one, and easier to make....
diesel.
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by Rocksanddirt on Feb 23, 2010 3:32 PM PST up reply actions
Lol, I can tell you that every single day I go to work reinforces that it is NOT EASY TO MAKE at all. Not even close. Yeast LOVES to make EtOH.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 4:33 PM PST up reply actions
heh heh heh...
well yeah…but take any crude oil….warm in up and and then flow it up a gravity distillation column….at the right place….diesel.
easy breezy and no fickle yeast or nuth’n.
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by Rocksanddirt on Feb 23, 2010 4:52 PM PST up reply actions
but take any crude oil
haha methinks you are not quite exactly understanding the purpose of crop-based biofuels…….
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 4:55 PM PST up reply actions
Isn’t the most promising area of creating new biofuels in bioengineering? i.e. not chemically manipulating existing plant matter, but making plant matter give you what you want?
Just curious.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Yes, except not plant matter: yeast, bacteria, or algae hold the most promise. In addition, much work is being done to be able to use switchgrass as a feedstock to produce EtOH.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 5:37 PM PST up reply actions
Well, could hurry up on that? It would be great for our trade balance if we didn’t have to import any crude oil.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
god if you only knew how much I/my company wanted this…
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 6:14 PM PST up reply actions
Many plants such as palm and soya, along with jatropha, can be extracted to diesel. However the input is usually much, much less than the output, and palm/soya are chewing up rainforest at an alarming rate. Cane, switchgrass, and corn grow nowhere near the rainforest.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 24, 2010 1:12 AM PST up reply actions
sorry, *input is much MORE than the output. durr
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 24, 2010 9:04 AM PST up reply actions
I was also under the impression that the plants used to make ethanol will always displace food crops. That, with ethanol, we would have to choose between food and machine energy…
if the crop is cane sugar
that’s a good thing. Not directly for the US, but there are a lot of sugar countries.
I don’t know if sugar beets would work. That would be great for the central valley, especially if they genetically modified cactus to produce them. Cactus beets!
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 24, 2010 7:38 AM PST up reply actions
In Brazil? No. In the US? Partially true. If we use corn (which we shouldn’t, anyway, and the only reason we do is subsidies), that is true. But switchgrass can grow in places in corn can’t (more marginal land), and with much greater vigor.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 24, 2010 9:04 AM PST up reply actions
I think it’s absolutely ludicrous that gasoline has to be, what, 10 percent ethanol? And though they don’t explicitely say “corn ethanol”, getting sugarcane ethanol is too difficult due to all the restrictions.
Then they subsidize the corn farmers so they overproduce to meet this demand, driving corn farmers in other countries out of business.
Then, because all this corn is being used on ethanol, prices of food go up. All wihle it turns out that corn ethanol actually is worse for the environment when you factor in production costs.
WHOOOO
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Huh…I wonder if it’s possible to build a small scale solar thermal power plant from the inside of Coke cans? That would be fucking amazingly cool.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 9:46 AM PST up reply actions
or coastered CDs
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 24, 2010 7:40 AM PST up reply actions
Carp
I wild Grizzly Bear would be sweet. I am an advocate of real life mascots. This could lead us down a slippery slope, but who would win in a fight, a Golden Bear or a Tiger (LSU)?
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 6:46 AM PST reply actions
LSU has a live tiger pen on campus, right? I’d be in favor of that, as long as the bear had a lot of free space. The Eucalpytus grove is pretty useless and a good place for muggers to hide, just build the bear enclosure there.
We could have really used the live bear to chase the tree-huggers out of the trees a few years back...
Who wins, a golden bear or a running wolf?
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 6:54 AM PST up reply actions
The internet is truly amazing. Link to photo set of grizzly bear taking some wolves’ caribou kill.
I don’t think a grizzly bear would prosper in confinement. In the wild, they roam over hundreds of miles. They are also larger, more aggressive, and more dangerous than the bears that are kept in zoos, or live in the wild in California now. As far as I know, grizzly bear are not kept in captivity anywhere.
Snobby Chick - Senior Division
We don't need a grizzly. I'll take a brown bear.
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 11:17 AM PST up reply actions
It has come to my attention that all brown bears are of the grizzly bear species.
Can we get a black bear and paint it gold on game day?
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 11:25 AM PST up reply actions
most black bears are brown
in appearance, as you’ll quickly see if you leave some gum wrappers in your car overnight in Yosemite.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 24, 2010 7:41 AM PST up reply actions
Wear Headbands to Cal-Arizona Game to Support Cancer Awareness
2/22/2010 – M. Basketball
Cal-Stanford Game to Tip at 3 p.m. March 6. The University of California, is participating in the inaugural Love College Hoops … Beat Cancer Week, a fan-driven initiative created to support the fight against cancer. Cal fans are encouraged to support cancer awareness by wearing headbands to Thursday’s men’s basketball game vs. Arizona.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Blah....
Just trying to break up your spam fest of links. Don’t mind me.
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 6:47 AM PST reply actions
You’re a lawyer, right? What do you think about the cap-a-pedo story above?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Too early for me to be thinking about stuff like that.
I’ll let OhioBear and Calumbus Bear do the heavy lifting on that issue.
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 6:52 AM PST up reply actions
Question:
I feel like my bench press is limited by my shoulders / outer shoulders. What exercises/stretching would you recommend I do as to prevent these from being limiting factors?
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Please explain how/why you feel your shoulders are limiting your bench?
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 8:03 AM PST up reply actions
Without knowing anything else, the first two guesses are either your technique is off and you’re not keeping your shoulders blades back, or you need to work more on your traps. Either that or it could be bursitus or tendinitus, an overuse issue.
Technique is fine (I had a trainer work with me on it). I do have bursitis, though, so that could affect it.
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Or lupus. It could be lupus.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 9:47 AM PST up reply actions
You could either strengthen your shoulders (especially your rotator cuff — that is usually a key limiting factor), or not drop the bar as deep (if you go all the way down to your chest, stop 2-3 inches above, and it won’t hit your shoulders as hard)
not drop the bar as deep (if you go all the way down to your chest, stop 2-3 inches above, and it won’t hit your shoulders as hard)
Serious question: Can you actually develop your chest as much? I feel like this is something that could really help.
Danke.
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From what I read, and take this with a grain of salt as I am in no way a trainer or certified for any of this…most of the work your chest does is from the top to a little below your arms reach 90 degrees. After that, it hits your shoulders (and hard). I’ve seen some people who only drop their bars to 90 degrees, some who drop it all the way down, and most in between. I started dropping to 1-2 inches above my chest, and I didn’t see any reduction in gains. Also, it keeps you from “cheating” by bouncing the bar off of your chest, and it makes it harder on the way up.
But, that being said, developing your shoulders is also crucial. I devote a whole day to shoulders because it’s tough to work shoulders with another muscle (they fatigue fast).
I’ve injured myself too many times with shoulders, but I may try what you’re saying and then actually spend a day developing it.
Thanks for the suggestions.
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Quickly, if you are suffering injuries in the gym you either 1) are trying to lift too much,
2) have improper form; or 3) a combination of both. I’ve been lifting for over 10 years now and have only hurt myself on the few occasions I’ve tried to jack up more weight than I could handle. Consequently, I rarely ever try to max out now. It’s just not worth it.
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 2:02 PM PST up reply actions
Also, there are lots of little changes you can make to make benching harder, which will help your gains by “shocking” your system. Some of them are as simple as slowing down: count to 4 on the way down, pause for 2 at the bottom, then explode up. This is HARD but a great exercise. Or, try changing the order of your exercises (eg start with incline for a few weeks, then start with flat). Constant change is important for keeping you gaining.
When we don’t have links of Cal stories, people go “Oh this all so illegitimate bullshit that is a giant circle jerk.” When we do have links to Cal stories, now people are going “Oh, it’s all fucking spam.”
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Your mistake was reading what 33SS wrote.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 9:58 AM PST up reply actions
Spazz, you don't want to fuck with me.
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 10:08 AM PST up reply actions
HEY BRO YOU GOING TO THE FIST PUMPING CONVENTION LATER?
BRO I’M JACKED.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 10:20 AM PST up reply actions
You going to invest in a new joke book/study a new comedic routine.
Your act is tired. Time to come up with something new chief.
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 10:35 AM PST up reply actions
NEW ACT? PLEASE BRO I'M SO SWOLL AFTER THE GYM THE LADIES DON'T NEED TO SEE AN ACT.
THEY FALL LIKE DOMINOES! YEAH! WHO’S JACKED!??! ARE YOU JACKED!?! I’M JACKED!!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 10:47 AM PST up reply actions
Spazz. The harder you try, the less funny you get. I love it.
Keep up the tired act.
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 11:18 AM PST up reply actions
Did that guy sweat through his shirt there?
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Twist, that is a different kind of “fist” pumping…
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by CruzinBears on Feb 23, 2010 11:27 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
PSA: ‘Esc’ will kill the fist pumping, for those unaware that it can do that. Otherwise, I think that GIF would trigger a manic episode.
thank you for the 411. Spazzy loves to link annoying videos.
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 12:49 PM PST up reply actions
Battle of the Bay To Be Broadcast on Fox Sports Net
BERKELEY –
The Pac-10 and Fox Sports Net announced today that the Saturday, March 6 Pac-10 regular-season finale between Cal and Stanford has been added to the broadcast schedule. The game will be carried locally on Comcast Bay Area.
The game was not on the original broadcast schedule for the Bears. It was selected today as a “wildcard selection” in the Fox Broadcasting package and will be shown nationally on FSN and locally on Camcst Bay Area.
The last two “Battles of the Bay” held in Berkeley have drawn over 10,000 fans to Haas Pavilion. Tickets are on sale right now, including Cal Kids Day youth tickets which are $1 general admission seats available for all youth 12th grade and younger.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
No. 3 Golden Bears Put 6-1 Eclipse on No. 28 Sun Devils
2/22/2010 – W. Tennis
The No. 3-ranked California women’s tennis team (7-1) earned a 6-1 win over No. 28 Arizona State (3-2) on Monday, Feb. 22, at the Hellman Tennis Complex. The Golden Bears came up with four of their points by winning three-set matches on courts two through five and earned their eighth doubles point of the season in as many matches. No. 20-ranked junior Marina Cossou provided the clinching point at the second singles court with her 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 win over No. 97-ranked Kelcy McKenna.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Cal Opens Home Schedule With No. 19 Ohio State, No. 1 Northwestern
2/22/2010 – W. Lacrosse
California (0-1, 0-1 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) opens its home schedule against No. 19 Ohio State on Friday, Feb. 26 and five-time defending NCAA champion and top-ranked Northwestern on Sunday, Feb. 28 at Memorial Stadium. The Bears, who have a 3-4 record in the all-time series with the Buckeyes, hosts Ohio State (1-1, 0-0 American Lacrosse Conference) at 3 p.m. on Friday, while the Bears, who are 0-6 all time against Northwestern, welcomes the Wildcats (1-0, 0-0 ALC) at noon on Sunday.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Go to rugby Wed or die.
BERKELEY – The premier annual cross-border collegiate rugby competition in North America kicks off Wednesday on Witter Rugby Field at 3:30 p.m. when the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds face the California Golden Bears in the opening contest of the two-match “World Cup” series.
Beginning in 1921 with a trophy to the winner from the Vancouver World newspaper, the “World Cup” has seen the Bears win three consecutive and 10 of the past 13 two-match battles, with one contest at each team’s venue.
Cal welcomed UBC to homecoming with a capacity crowd and television cameras last season on Witter Rugby Field and the Bears won, 31-15. Then-junior winger Dustin Muhn scored the game-winning try in the second half and was named Man of the Match on ESPNU.
The 16-point advantage was crucial to winning the series on total points, as Cal fell in the return trip to Vancouver, 24-23. The Bears had come back from a 15-point deficit and took the lead twice in the second half but could not hang on as UBC flyhalf Harry Jones kicked a penalty with time running out.
The T-Birds are coached by Spence McTavish, a 2010 inductee into the British Columbia Sport Hall of Fame.
Gates open on Wednesday at 2:30 with tickets $8 for adults, $4 for senior citizens and free for all Cal students and youth in grades 12 and below.
To accommodate fans driving to the event, a free shuttle will operate every 20 minutes between 1:30 p.m. and one hour after the match’s conclusion from the Anna Head West parking lot, which is located on the block west of Bowditch, east of Telegraph, south of Channing and north of Haste.
Anna Head West is a pay lot can be entered by going west on Haste just above Telegraph or from Channing, a two-way street between Bowditch and Telegraph.
Shuttle pickup will be on the corner of Channing and Bowditch.
This service offers an addition option to the Witter Parking lot, whose capacity has been reduced on Centennial Drive.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I must so torn: Cal Baseball Hosts UC Davis (2-1) Tuesday at Evans Diamond
Devin best shorten that stride/load otherwise he’ll be a candidate for the up n in by-u.
BERKELEY, CALIF. – The University of California baseball team (3-0), fresh off of three straight shut out victories over Southern Utah last weekend (14-0, 22-0, 10-0), returns to Evans Diamond for a non-conference game against UC Davis (2-1), Tuesday, Feb. 23 beginning at 1:30 p.m. Last weekend the Aggies won two-of-three games over Utah (won 4-1, lost 7-1, won 6-1) at Dobbins Stadium in Davis.
Starting on the mound for the Golden Bears will be junior right-hander Kevin Miller, who finished 2-3 last season with a 4.50 ERA and 43 strikeouts in 50.0 innings. Miller was a Freshman All-American in 2008 after going 6-1 with a 2.90 ERA, not allowing an earned run in his first 44.0 innings of college ball. Sophomore left-hander Nathan Slater will start on the mound for the Aggies.
Cal was dominating, both offensively and defensively, last weekend against the Thunderbirds, outscoring Southern Utah, 46-0, with a .449 team batting average (57-for-127), including 19 doubles, two triples and three home runs. On the mound, Golden Bear pitchers had 30 strikeouts and only three walks while limiting Southern Utah to 22 hits in 27 innings.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
so
Can we presume there will be something other than batting practice taking place at this one? Not a fan of preseason massacres in baseball any more than football.
Taking a series over Utah seems like a nice win for Davis; hopefully they get the game in today.
Does anyone happen to know if KALX (or anyone else) is airing any of the ballgames this season? KALX only has the basketball schedule posted at the moment, and the calbears baseball site doesn’t seem to say much either.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 23, 2010 7:33 AM PST up reply actions
thanks
and yes, I am dumb.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 23, 2010 9:06 AM PST up reply actions
not sure how good either of these teams are. Davis has beaten #1 Fullerton and Oregon St in the past, Cal has found a way to be “meh” for many of the past 30ish years. Me thinks it could be <10 run differential, and the Aggies could even stun the Furd grad’s squad.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
No. 13 California in Seventh Place After First Day of Wildcat Invite
Women’s golf: so much better than men’s golf.
TUCSON, ARIZ. –
The No. 13 California Golden Bears finished Day One of the Wildcat Invitational in seventh place. The two-day tournament, hampered by rains and wet conditions, has been shortened from 54 to 36 holes. Sophomores Emily Childs and Joanne Lee lead the Bears at +3 after 18 holes.
The teams, battling heavy rains that were coming down sideways at times, managed to finish one round of 18 holes in a long day at the 6,166 yard, par-71 course at Arizona National Golf Club in Tucson. Arizona State leads the teams at six-over. California is in seventh place at +18.
Joanne Lee and Emily Childs each score a three-over 74, tying them for 13th place among the individuals. Childs, who began play on the fifth hole, birdied seven (her third hole of the day) and had another late birdie on three. Lee, who started on the fourth hole, picked up birdies on the par-5 18th and the par-3 ninth. Junior Pia Halbig and sophomore Daniela Holmqvist both carded 77’s.
The final round of play is set to begin with a shotgun start on Tuesday, February 23 at 8:00 a.m. (MT). Live Stats will be available on golfstat.com. The link will also be available on the CalBears.com schedule page.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Women’s golf: so much better than men’s golf.
Exhibit A to support carp’s point: Pia Halbig, FTW!
I am a Vereenian.
Oh, Pia, stroke it!
… I feel dirty
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 7:35 AM PST up reply actions
Hit some small white balls with a big metal stick.
…………I feel dirty. Also, in pain
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by Fire Starkey on Feb 23, 2010 8:50 AM PST up reply actions
Q/A w/ Marissa Drewrey
BERKELEY – Standing in a 6-3, senior pitcher Marissa Drewrey is a formidable force in the circle for the No. 11/12 California softball team. Hailing from Oakdale, Calif., in the central valley, Drewrey easily transitioned into life in Berkeley, a city remarkably different than her hometown. CalBears.com chatted with Drewrey to find out more about her, including how she gave up fast food for an entire year.
CalBears.com: What’s something not a lot of people know about you?
MD: I am half-Portuguese.
CalBears.com: Your hometown of Oakdale is known as the Cowboy Capital of the World, why is that?
MD: We are actually called the Cowboy Capital of the World because the town’s rodeo cowboys have won 24 world championships. Oakdale holds many rodeos every year, and the rodeo grounds happen to be a couple blocks from my house. Even though I’ve lived in Oakdale for several years, I’ve never attended the rodeo!!
CalBears.com: What was it like to grow up in the small town Oakdale and then go to school in a town as unique as Berkeley?
MD: It was definitely a culture shock. Oakdale is very conservative, unlike Berkeley. It took a lot of getting used to, but now I would definitely choose living in a big city over a small town.
CalBears.com: For your 2008 New Year’s resolution, you went the whole year without eating fast food. What was the process like? Did you get some fast food at midnight on New Year’s Day?
MD: This was definitely one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do, especially during softball season! People always make resolutions so I thought I’d just try it. When we got done late after games, the only place to stop was somewhere fast. I would either have to make a sandwich ahead of time or eat something else unhealthy like chocolate! When I had fast food for the first time in 2009 it was gross. It took me at least four times to try different things before I started liking it again.
CalBears.com: Who has been your favorite professor at Cal?
MD: I hate playing favorites, but if I have to pick, I would say Craig Nagasawa who taught my first paint class at Cal.
CalBears.com: What is the best thing about being a part of your team?
MD: I love how different our team is from any team I’ve ever been on. Every person is so unique and has a completely different personality, except for the twins, of course, who are identical. My most favorite thing about my team is that almost everyone loves to dance. Even though I am probably the one person who does not dance, I LOVE watching everyone else. I think it’s hilarious.
CalBears.com: As a self-proclaimed reality TV show avid fan, which show would you most like to be on?
MD: It would be between “Top Design,” which is an interior design show, or “Wipeout.”
CalBears.com: Speaking of reality television, ho do you want to win “The Bachelor” this season?
MD: Tenley! Even though Vienna is predicted to win, I’m all for Tenley getting to be the next Bachelorette!
CalBears.com: What’s one of the most important things you’ve learned while playing softball at Cal?
MD: Time management. I have to allot my time so that I’m able to manage softball, school, family and friends.
CalBears.com: Amy Bishop, the last person to do a Q&A, wanted the next softball player to answer: What is your most embarrassing softball moment?
MD: I can’t think of any embarrassing moments!!
CalBears.com: What question would you like the next softball player that does a Q&A to answer?
MD: Who is your celebrity look-a-like?
Check in next week to hear Jace Williams’ answer to that question!
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Folks, saddening news has hit me this morning. Sarah doesn’t appear to be part of your Cal Dance Team any longer. The word is she may have either graduated or had a falling out with one of the girls/coach. We wish her the best of luck in her future law/business/medical school career!
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
2/23/2010 Never Forget
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 7:14 AM PST up reply actions
Warning: hot wax may cause injury to exposed skin.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 8:13 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Pitt player kicked off team for......
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/350564-elijah-fields-off-the-team-in-pitt-but-was-he-paid-to-play
I’m sure this type of stuff goes on, and has gone on for many years, but with the growing popularity of FB and twitter kids are more apt to let the cat out of the bag. I love it.
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 7:10 AM PST reply actions
It was brought up yesterday…
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by CruzinBears on Feb 23, 2010 11:26 AM PST up reply actions
Football parking inquiry
Hey CGB’ers, I need some help/info:
My family is considering getting on-campus parking for the 2010 football season (we’ve done the shuttle from the BART station in past seasons) and are trying to get a sense of what lots we might get put in and how much of a donation we’d have to make to get to a good lot. We borrowed a pass from a friend last year for a single game for Underhill and thought that was plenty close, but fear being too far.
I know it’s anecdotal, but whatever experience you guys can provide as to where you’ve been placed and how much of a Bear Backer donation you make to get there would be appreciated.
I’m curious about this as well. Especially in regard to if you can effectively grill in a covered parking garage without suffocating. We’re getting a parking space soley for the benefit of real tailgating this year.
Other than the parking right near the stadium, I don’t think it is donation based. My dad has always parked at the Hearst/Euclid lot – it is pretty far, and costs a lot, but doesn’t require a donation from what I know.
by Tedfordisgod on Feb 23, 2010 7:49 AM PST up reply actions
From what I’m finding from other sites, this seems to be a very normal no donation lot. That and the lot at Channing and Dana on the other side of campus.
Speaking of which, any opinions of whether the north side of campus is a better location than the south side on game day? (Traffic, etc.)
I don’t know about parking in the official lots, but in general I think the traffic is less crowded on the North Side. If you have to hit the highway then Cedar and other parallel roads are a lot faster than University or Shattuck/MLK, and if you’re headed over the hills then you can take Grizzly Peak.
Yeah, especially if you’re heading north after the game. Northside is generally less crowded (basically because there’s no postgame scene) so you can pretty easily head north to Marin street, and from there to the freeway.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
good advice
I always wondered why people paid to park and then struggled down College more slowly than one can walk.
Which reminds me, if you don’t mind a walk, on a nice fall day you can park on Alcatraz for nothing and enjoy a nice stroll to the game.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 24, 2010 7:44 AM PST up reply actions
Do you need to park close bc of your kids? I mean I can tell you free places to park with generally plentiful spots that are moderately close to campus, but itd be a lot of walking (uphill).
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Yeah, I need something with minimal walking and also deterministic (i.e I don’t have to worry about not finding a spot and going to a backup lot) for the kids.
teaching the kiddos some the value of excercise will pay all sorts of dividends down the road....
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 9:28 AM PST up reply actions
No doubt that’s true when they’re a little older. Right now I’m dealing with toddlers and up and likely will have another baking in the oven by the time football season starts. The eldest of my 3 is at an age where a long walk is good for him, but not the younger ones.
My 9 month old is walking everywhere we go. She needs to get a scholarship.
LOL
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 10:08 AM PST up reply actions
That’s hardcore, I would have never brought any of my kids younger than 5-6 to a Cal Game. No chance Grandma et. al. could look after the little nippers?
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Oh, Grandma would love to babysit. In fact she gets all excited when she hears a game has a 7:00 PM start time because she knows that’s too late for little kids.
But we love taking them to the game and they love going. Sure, they don’t get what’s happening on the field until they’re 5 or 6, but they love cheering and the band and all the fun that goes along with it. We’ve got great seats for kids (on the isle and just above the tunnel so there’s nobody in front of us) so it’s a ton of fun.
Well, God willing. We’re not quite working on it yet. Not until the fall. But I’m just saying it’s a factor in getting parking.
In that case, I withdraw my congrats
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Or he’s using birth contr……oh….wait….ya, I forgot.
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Did you guys really want to get me going on my Catholic faith and what is and is not OK in this arena?
(NFP, of course is the short answer).
There’s a Catholic Arena?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 1:36 PM PST up reply actions
all I can think of is ANNNNND NOW LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT’S TIME FOR THE SERRRRRRMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN *fireworks * *strobes *
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 1:49 PM PST up reply actions
i’m guessing it’s probably something along the lines of “natural family planning”?
i believe it consists of keeping track of the woman’s cycles and such and avoiding procreative activities during high-fertility periods.
by atomsareenough on Feb 23, 2010 2:28 PM PST up reply actions
I thought it meant “No Fucking Pussy.” Which sounds like my.WAITFORIT.
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yeah, but you had to…. ON YOUR WEDDING NIGHT
by atomsareenough on Feb 23, 2010 2:45 PM PST up reply actions
I buy a parking pass with my season tickets. My Bear Backer donation is not enough to get preferred parking. I am assigned to a lot directly across from the west side entrance of campus, on Oxford. That puts me about two blocks closer to the stadium than the BART station. I actually like parking there. If we get to the game early, it’s a nice walk through campus, and we can stop and get something to eat on Telegraph. And if we get there late, we can jump on the shuttle and get to the stadium quickly.
The structure where I park is two stories. When we want to tailgate, we park up on the top, which is open-air. I would definitely not want to tailgate on the first floor of the garage, which would be icky.
For reference, when my dad was alive he was a Bear Backer at the Andy Smith Club level (currently $4200 a year). This got him parking in the Upper Hearst structure (corner of Hearst and Gayley). He was also able to get a second pass for me, in Lower Hearst (corner of Hearst and Euclid).
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So if I understand you correctly, the parking pass gets you into the garage itself, but spots are not assigned? Are most of the garages open-air on top, and in your experience, do those spaces fill up fast? I’ve always done the hike in from Claremont thing or taken BART. We’re just tired of paying tons of money at pubs, and want to reclaim the pre-game tailgate experience, even if it has to be on a roof. I’m already researching how to mobilize my sattelite service.
I’m not even 100% sure who you are, but based on what I know vaguely about your time period in the band and who I perceive you to be, I’m reasonably certain I know of a tailgate (sometimes open air) that many of your friends attend.
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dude, table for six is thatway -———→
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by carp on Feb 23, 2010 11:59 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
I’ve been with same small core of people since I graduated, and our pre-game experience has evolved slowly. I’m not opposed to going to already happening things, but some of the people aren’t assocated with the Band, and a lot of people I end up bringing to games aren’t either. I would proabably end up having a great time telling stories and catching up with people, while the others stood off to the side looking awkward. We could defintely stop by when the time arrives though.
You are correct that the parking spots are not assigned. My experience is that most people park on the lower floors first, and the roof fills in last, leaving plenty of space to tailgate, although for Big Game or games like U$C and Tennessee, it does get crowded pretty early.
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http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/content/equipment/satgo
F’ing awesome. Once you buy it, It’s only $4.99 per month, and you can deactivate it when football season is over and reactivate it at your convenience.
Gregory taking "parting shots" at Cal and Tedford?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail??blogid=95&entry_id=57637
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 8:09 AM PST reply actions
Sounds more like “We work so much I barely see my family for months.”
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 8:18 AM PST up reply actions
I dont think Cal is the only place where that happens.
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Yes, but your wife doesn’t seem to care what time you come home!
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 8:25 AM PST up reply actions
That’s an incredible example of taking one phrase out of context and jumping to conclusions. Wow.
I am a Vereenian.
Love it.....hence, the question mark.
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 8:38 AM PST up reply actions
Jim Harbaugh: full of bluster and 90’s relevance
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 8:30 AM PST up reply actions
Harbaugh went on to say he hopes Smash Mouth can make an appearance.
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Just imagining Harbaugh refusing to partake in halftime adjustments so he can be on the field for the hootie halftime show makes me crack up.
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by HOUSE66 on Feb 23, 2010 8:35 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
At least then their halftime show would be entertaining...
Hootie > LSJUB
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by CruzinBears on Feb 23, 2010 10:23 AM PST up reply actions
New nickname for Harby! Question is, do we call Hootie, or do we call him Blowfish? I kinda like the sound of Jim “Blowfish” Harbaugh.
by atomsareenough on Feb 23, 2010 12:44 PM PST up reply actions
Click, read, enjoy
A student at NYU’s Stern School of Business sent a complaint email to a hard-headed professor about his class’s lateness policy. The professor emailed back, eviscerated the student David Mamet-style, and now it’s gone viral. Welcome to internet immorality.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 8:37 AM PST reply actions
This is awesome, I wish more people would read the professors email. While it’s insanly cool that he just owned some random student, way too many kids do that now days, it’s very rude and dissruptive. I agree 100% with the prof.
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by HOUSE66 on Feb 23, 2010 9:14 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
nice.
that douche of b-student needs more than a little email whipping.
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by Rocksanddirt on Feb 23, 2010 12:06 PM PST up reply actions
I didn’t think that was all that bad, actually.
Does Ken Jowitt still teach Poli Sci at Cal? He had the ‘dick professor’ shtick down cold. On the first day of class, he had about a 10 minute rant on all the things you couldn’t do in his class (come late, leave early, read the paper, talk unless called upon, eat, drink, go to the bathroom etc.), which wrapped up with, “…and if you’re dying, die in your seat.” Believe me, we were on time from there on out.
What if you showed up late with the newspaper and then pissed on the floor while narrating it loudly, having not been called on to do so? What would he do there?
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PSoCY???
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by HOUSE66 on Feb 23, 2010 1:42 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
By the time you were a Senior, you were peeing with wild abandon in all the classrooms despite threats of an F, though?
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He was there when I was there. Chancellor Tien came in late one day. Sat through 20 minutes of lecture, then left. Then everyone stared at Prof. Jowitt for 5 seconds and he said “What, you think I’m going to yell at my boss?”
by LeonPowe on Feb 23, 2010 2:23 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Anyone know the most scientifically accurate films?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 8:44 AM PST reply actions
Any film involving space where there is (1) sound in space and/or (2) the ability to travel close to or faster than the speed of light and/or (3) non-disintegration when getting close to the event horizon of a black hole.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 8:47 AM PST up reply actions
Hey, energize THIS
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 12:37 PM PST up reply actions
Not to be all “aardvark is not a rodent” but why do you say that it’s not possible to travel close to the speed of light?
The energy it takes to get anything with mass up to the speed of light is redonkulous. Photons can do it because they don’t have mass. A spaceship has lots of mass, so the required energy would just kind of explode the galaxy. As CalBear81 says, there’s “some science stuff”.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 1:18 PM PST up reply actions
Kinda like how a Ferrari Enzo can get to 220mph on around 600hp, but a Veyron needs a full 400 more hp to make it to 253. Exponentially more energy required.
And yes bla bla no air resistance in space.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 1:24 PM PST up reply actions
That is such a silly car; technically impressive, but when you consider all the factors that need to be in place to drive 250 mph, it just seems ridiculous. That and running out of gas in seven minutes. I assume you saw the Top Gear esp. with this car?
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
It is deeply silly and all the more impressive for that. In 20 years when my geriatric health plan is riding a tri-shaw or whatever they call those things because oil has been reserved for fertilizers and medicine, I’ll look back fondly on the Veyron. Or something.
No
Say it ain’t so, I love fast cars! Just the Veyron seems silly. Also, Love Top Gear, and finally got the missus to enjoy it too. Sort cheated, cherry picked the eps I thought she would like, and she did.
Victory!
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
I’ve been able to get my wife to watch the ones with some ridiculous challenge, like the Vietnam show. The car porn segments tend to drive her out of the room though.
My better half enjoys it. Not quite as much as I do, but I think she enjoys the combination of boyish enthusiasm and rampant snarkiness.
by atomsareenough on Feb 23, 2010 2:44 PM PST up reply actions
The unbridled dorkiness of James May puts him at the top of the missus’ list. I think she just enjoys the quasi-slapstick of their efforts to do… well, anything really.
She’s been kind enough not to ask why I can’t get paid for being useless at practical tasks.
James is my favorite presenter. Somehow the simplest of statements is hilarious when he says it in his matter-of-fact British Dork way.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 4:34 PM PST up reply actions
Me too, love the digs at the car companies that won’t cooperate with them like Chrysler due to them being to snarky. I hooked her with the drive from SF to the salt flats esp.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
My favorite is definitely Clarkson. BTW, you should play her the Botswana episode. That one was not only epic, but highly entertaining. Also the one from where they buy beaters and drive from Miami to New Orleans, and manage to piss off a bunch of rednecks along the way.
by atomsareenough on Feb 23, 2010 2:54 PM PST up reply actions
I’m a missus and I enjoy it! I watch it even by myself – and then I tell Rags how great that segment was and I can’t believe he hasn’t watched it yet.
Ragnarok: Great Man or Greatest Man?
Good for you! I always thought of it as a guy show, but some girls like to drive fast as well. Helen Mirren was really funny as a guest. (Case in point).
One odd thing about the show is that some of the guests would only be known to an English crowd, which can making watching those bits unintentionally funny (who the hell is this guy, and why the hell is he famous?)
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
I find it funny when educated scientists discredit Hollywood movies for being untruthful, when the people within the scientific community can’t agree on what the truth is.
Case in point, when Danny Boyle and Alex Garland created the movie Sunshine, they consulted two phd physics professors from Manchester. Yet, when the movie came out, several articles were written (citing different physics professors from around the UK) blasting the movie and its creaters for inaccurate portrayals of space.
To me as long as the inaccuracies aren’t extreme (people can randomly fly, a toothpick holds up a building, etc.), I’m willing to give filmmakers creative license to interpret science.
I don’t think that the heart of this criticism is directed toward the type of science about which reasonable people within the community disagree.
I’m thinking more like invisible cars thanks to nanotechnology, a la James Bond.
Even still, writers and filmmakers should be allowed to imagine and develop whatever world they choose.
I’m living it baby! 77 degrees on Sunday, 2’ of snow on Tuesday. Texas, FTW!
Goodbye Bob Gregory. I am soooooo 6 dimensional now!
by Fire Starkey on Feb 23, 2010 9:57 AM PST up reply actions
ahem, 2"
Goodbye Bob Gregory. I am soooooo 6 dimensional now!
by Fire Starkey on Feb 23, 2010 9:57 AM PST up reply actions
I work at a certain corporation that makes processors in SW Austin. I’m a procurement manager
Goodbye Bob Gregory. I am soooooo 6 dimensional now!
by Fire Starkey on Feb 23, 2010 10:39 AM PST up reply actions
That narrows it down to about 20,000 companies.
Goodbye Bob Gregory. I am soooooo 6 dimensional now!
by Fire Starkey on Feb 23, 2010 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
Dude, discussing snow, not your penis length. Keep that talk to that other thread.
Goodbye Bob Gregory. I am soooooo 6 dimensional now!
by Fire Starkey on Feb 23, 2010 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
I was mocking your attempt at humor by taking the joke to the lowest common denominator.
WE ARE (clpa clap) ROYRULES (clap clap)
Goodbye Bob Gregory. I am soooooo 6 dimensional now!
by Fire Starkey on Feb 23, 2010 11:07 AM PST up reply actions
What’s your deal?
Goodbye Bob Gregory. I am soooooo 6 dimensional now!
by Fire Starkey on Feb 23, 2010 11:18 AM PST up reply actions
SC is sunny at 65 :)
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by CruzinBears on Feb 23, 2010 10:25 AM PST up reply actions
friday or saturday night maybe, I’m driving up for the ASU game during the day on saturday
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by CruzinBears on Feb 23, 2010 11:01 AM PST up reply actions
p.s. you should buy a ticket online and hop in the car with us, you’d get front seat ;)
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by CruzinBears on Feb 23, 2010 11:02 AM PST up reply actions
i have two tickets but medvjed sr. still isn’t in any condition to travel up to berkeley for the game. gonna stay and yell at the tv with him
This is true… Send him my best, and hopefully we can meet up while your in town!
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by CruzinBears on Feb 23, 2010 11:22 AM PST up reply actions
Always!
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by CruzinBears on Feb 23, 2010 11:26 AM PST up reply actions
I don’t get it
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
we are two guys… thats scissor… or something…
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by CruzinBears on Feb 23, 2010 12:19 PM PST up reply actions
“Interpret Science” – meaning there are various theories and we’ll pick the one that fits our plot – fine fine fine. But there is an agreed upon ‘Movie Science’ (lets say ‘folk science’) like sound in space, light-speed travel, cars blowing up in mid air, guns blasting open locks, atomic bombs can do anything you want, and recently shown on Independence Day, hackers can get into any system ever (including an alien language, logic, tech system), usually within a few hours.
The problem is that some people don’t know the difference, and a lot of people learn from popculture because thats how humans have been doing it for thousands of years. If you look at those scenarios up there, they are not everyday scenarios (unless its your field) so writers make up their own rules. This is what we should limit! Take a premise, sure, what if the core stopped spinning (it won’t), what if the magnetic poles suddenly switched (has before), what if everyone in the world lost consciousness for the same 3 minutes (we should reboot?)! But for educations sake, don’t go on and on and on and on without basic physics!
Ragnarok: Great Man or Greatest Man?
other one of my favorites, from “Thank you for Smoking (2005)”
Jeff Megall: Sony has a futuristic sci-fi movie they’re looking to make.
Nick Naylor: Cigarettes in space?
Jeff Megall: It’s the final frontier, Nick.
Nick Naylor: But wouldn’t they blow up in an all oxygen environment?
Jeff Megall: Probably. But it’s an easy fix. One line of dialogue. ‘Thank God we invented the… you know, whatever device.’
Ragnarok: Great Man or Greatest Man?
Oh
I must disagree. This the lame blame Hollywood approach for whatever your hobbyhorse is at the time. Conservatives blame Hollywood for sex acts by minors, violence in American society, drug use, basically anything they don’t like.
Holly wood is not the problem, its our rather lame public education system that produces so many scientifically ignorant HS graduates. BTW if they really applied this, it would ruin so much fun that comes from mocking the silly science in said movies.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Movies about any technical subject are always inaccurate. No one will watch lawyer movies or TV show with me because I spend the whole time yelling about how stupidly inaccurate they are. But if they were accurate, they would be boring.
Snobby Chick - Senior Division
I do the same thing with WWII movies; even when I was a kid I thought it was very amusing that Gen Patton was attacked by Nazis in 50’s vintage Patton tanks. If they really had a time machine, (or 1,00’s of Patton tanks) they would have won.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
What about lawyer films or lawyer TV shows?? They are so fucking unrealistic its not even funny. I cant watch them anymore. Why cant I call for lawyer films to be more realistic?
“Deposition: The Civil Attorney Story!”
“We need to get to the CMC and STAT! WE DON’T HAVE A LOT OF TIME, WE NEED TO SET UP DATES FOR FUTURE HEARINGS! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
“You better fucking approve this Order After Hearing as to form or else!”
President Emperor Warlord Of The Sun!
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Or else what? I’ll submit it to the court without your approval as to form?
Snobby Chick - Senior Division
“AND THEN THE JUDGE WILL HAVE TO MAKE A DETERMINATION!”
Bee Tee Dubbles, I have had attornies REFUSE (flat out REFUSE) to approve an order as to form and draft their own and submit both to the Court. I even tried to negotiate with the guy on the language to work something out. He wouldn’t budge and the Judge picked my Order. What a waste of time and money.
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I’ve refused to approve an order and submitted my own when the sleazeball attorney on the other side tried to sneak something in that the judge didn’t order. Was that you Twist?
Snobby Chick - Senior Division
PS “I’ve only got another hour and I have 14 more interrogatories to respond too, its gonna be tight!”
President Emperor Warlord Of The Sun!
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Please state or explain with particularity every FACT or ALLEGATION that YOU contend has anything to do with anything to do with you CLAIM.
Snobby Chick - Senior Division
Compelled AND costs assessed.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 12:27 PM PST up reply actions
Oh no!
The surprise witness has appeared! With all the evidence! The bad guys lose!
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 24, 2010 7:57 AM PST up reply actions
HOW DID WE NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS AFTER MONTHS AND MONTHS OF ENDLESS DISCOVERY?!?!?! I CAN’T BELIEVE THE ISSUE CONFERENCE STATEMENTS ET AL FAILED TO MENTION THIS SOMEHOW?!?!
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Cal v. ASU STILL not sold out....
Our fans are PATHETIC with a Capital P, A, T, H, E, T, I, and while I am at it, C.
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 9:29 AM PST reply actions
RR22, I know you'll be there in spirit.
by 33SwisherSweet on Feb 23, 2010 11:19 AM PST up reply actions
I’m going as it is late Feb. and the official start of hoops season.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
How about you stay home and sell your tickets to someone who actually cares about Cal basketball.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 12:05 PM PST up reply actions
You’ve been complaining that people aren’t going to the games, but now you’re telling carp to stay home. Is carp not a person?
Snobby Chick - Senior Division
well, I have the worst timing regarding cal basketball. That is, whenever I turn on/go to the basketball, Cal loses. Doesn’t matter the opponent. T-bred championed a no-carp zone, a dead day of sorts, where I cannot watch the Bears in key games without upsetting JuJu.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Tablets from the heavens proving you’re no longer cursed by Juju or GTFO
Whose domicile? OUR DOMICILE!
by Berkelium97 on Feb 23, 2010 12:13 PM PST up reply actions
let’s just say I watched the Oregon St game
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 12:17 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Only respecting the wishes of Thoroughbred. Get well bro.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 12:12 PM PST up reply actions
I bought my tix last night. Best I could get was the top of Section 10, so it must be pretty close to sold out, right?
by atomsareenough on Feb 23, 2010 12:58 PM PST up reply actions
George Farmer, WR (Gardena, CA)
Under Armour All-American wide receiver George Farmer (Gardena, Calif./Serra) has refuted the notion that he’s already bound to the Trojans, ESPN affiliate Web site DuckTerritory.com reports.
“You know I love USC, it’s a great school. But I don’t know about all that with me being a USC lock,” Woods said. “We’ll see, but I plan to keep my options open and take all five official visits. I’m just looking for a school with great academics. I’m also looking for a laid back atmosphere to be around. I also will look at team chemistry as a big factor to me as I evaluate these schools.”
“I have about 14 offers right now,” he continued. “Most of the Pac-10 has offered including USC, Cal, UCLA, among some of them. Miami and Florida have also sent me an offer at this point. I don’t have any top group, I’m looking at everybody with an open mind right now.”
WoodsFarmer caught 41 passes for 891 yards (21.7 average) and 12 touchdowns while also rushing for four more scores last fall.
Like the academics dealie, still would consider him a heavy USC lean at this early juncture.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 11:09 AM PST up reply actions
from nola.com
Scott and Jaclyn Fujita decided to donate half of his $82,000 Super Bowl check to charity. The Saints linebacker said some of the money will go to coastal wetlands restoration projects. "The rest will go to Haiti, which is even worse off than New Orleans was after Katrina,’’ he said.
I <3 Fujita
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by CruzinBears on Feb 23, 2010 10:27 AM PST up reply actions
Cal Dance Team: Beastmode?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one…
I clicked the link provided for “Carlee” (sounds like a made up name to me—kind’ve like Kiko Alonso) and immediately saw a much more attractive chick on the Cal Dance Team (what, I’m bored):
Given the opportunity to sum her self up in one word, Gabriele drops this bomb:
Is this chick a CGBer?
Nope, but she used to be in the band…. the band loved beastmode
My heart skips a beat every time I hear the band strike up 'Our Sturdy Golden Bear'.
by oskisunbear on Feb 23, 2010 10:44 AM PST up reply actions
Her boyfriend is a Duck. And a CGBer.
Oh, the feelings of envy and loathing must be rising.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 11:03 AM PST up reply actions
its spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-N-O-B-A-L-L-S"
by JShufelt on Feb 23, 2010 10:57 AM PST reply actions 6 recs
thanks for sharing
Goodbye Bob Gregory. I am soooooo 6 dimensional now!
by Fire Starkey on Feb 23, 2010 10:58 AM PST up reply actions
Haha nice
In communist Russia, Sanchez declares YOU!
by HOUSE66 on Feb 23, 2010 11:05 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
JShufelt, tell us why football recruits should choose the messed up Oregon program over fine institutions like Oregon State or Washington.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 11:07 AM PST up reply actions
There’s a beaver waxing joke in there somewhere.
by atomsareenough on Feb 23, 2010 1:02 PM PST up reply actions
Dude. Five years of HS?!
I know this doesn’t count as a crime exactly (fraudulent on some level) but who knew it takes five years of HS to land a scholly to a PAC 10 school?
The Bob Gregory of the tennis court
Cal tennis report from Daily Cal
He’ll return the shot, maybe by hitting a slice. Or stroking a backhand. Maybe he’ll even go around his backhand to hit a forehand. Either way, Christoffer Konigsfeldt will return the shot.
He’ll return the next shot. And the next one. And the next one.
Right now you think you’ve got him figured out. He’s calm and quiet on the court. He’s just a freshman. It’s his first year on the Cal men’s tennis team. He’s just returning your shots. You’re in complete control.
Then, he’ll mix it up. He’ll go right and hit a flat forehand. He’ll step back and hit a high one with topspin. He’ll move in and volley to your opposite side.
Even if you’ve already won the first set, it doesn’t matter. The pace, the tempo, the momentum � it’s all on his side now.
Game, set, match.
“My opponent doesn’t know what’s going to come next, which makes it difficult for him,” Konigsfeldt says. “I know I hate playing players that mix it up all the time. So I figured it would be a good idea to do that.”
Konigsfeldt says he has always been using that style. But he’s been using it a lot more lately.
“I try not to take too many chances,” Konigsfeldt says. “I force (my opponent) to make mistakes.”
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 11:12 AM PST reply actions
His racket bends but does not break!
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by CruzinBears on Feb 23, 2010 11:24 AM PST up reply actions
Kevin Miller is back for Cal baseball
Kevin Miller will probably start today for the Cal baseball team against UC Davis, and that’s a good sign.
He’s healthy, for one thing, after spending the entirety of last season planting on an injured left hip. He’s also returning to the role that he owned as a freshman in 2008, spot-starting in mid-week games and pitching in middle- and long-relief situations.
From what we’ve seen over the last two years, that’s where Miller is at his best. This is the right-hander, remember, who didn’t give up an earned run in his first 44 collegiate innings. He made his earliest mark by entering games in high-pressure situations and calmly diffusing them.
So coach David Esquer is back to starting Miller on a Tuesday, in this case today at Evans Diamond at 1:30 p.m., and perhaps hoping that Miller will be back to pitching like his freshman-year self.
Miller was the Bears’ opening-day starter a year ago and lasted two rocky weekends in the Friday role before the coaches decided to make a change. In all fairness to Miller, who had a 4.50 ERA in 50 innings over the course of the year, the injury to his labrum-which didn’t come out until after the season-likely exaggerated the decline in his effectiveness.
Miller repeatedly returned to the weekend rotation because he was one of the most proven pitchers on an inexperienced staff and Cal needed him there. This year, that isn’t the case.
“A lot of our pitching that we relied on last year is coming back,” Miller said. “We had a lot of guys go off to summer ball and do really well. As long as we avoid injury, I would think with the young guys that came up and the guys we have coming back, we’ll be more than OK.”
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 11:13 AM PST reply actions
Bears win 4 hotly contested matchups against ASU
A true testament to how tough Arizona State proved to be for the Cal women’s tennis team lies in just how many three-set matches were played on Monday afternoon.
The Bears (7-1) played a total of four three-set matches against the Sun Devils (3-2) and were victorious in each of them, a feat that coach Amanda Augustus was most impressed with.
“I enjoyed seeing us fight through all the three-set matches,” she said. “I don’t think we’ve had that many all season, but we knew we were in for a fight (against ASU). When it comes down to three sets, we want to be the tougher team, and today we proved we can do that.”
The singles round was highlighted by the matches on the top three courts, as Jana Juricova, Marina Cossou and Mari Andersson each met stiff competition against ASU.
Juricova defeated Nadia Abdala in straight sets, but the senior Sun Devil gave her all she could handle.
The 6-foot-2 Abdala held an early 4-2 lead in the first set against Cal’s sophomore. Juricova, however, proved why she’s ranked No. 2 in the country as she answered Abdala each time and eventually clinched the match on an impressive forehand winner down the baseline.
Andersson and Cossou each earned hard-fought victories as well against quality opponents. Cossou defeated Kelcy McKenna, a former All-American Championship titleholder, while Andersson won her match against Micaela Hein, who received All-American honors in doubles competition.
Both players won in three sets, and it was Cossou who clinched for Cal.
“I’ve played (McKenna) before and I know her game, so I knew it was going to be tough,” Cossou said. “In the third set, I think all of us were able to pick our games and get a win for the team.”
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 11:16 AM PST reply actions
Cal rugby might be in trouble against UBC this year
The Bears have beaten UBC four consecutive times at Witter, but they will need a strong presence up front if they want to extend that streak to five.
“It’s going to be hard to win possession,” Clark said. “They’ve got a bunch of hard nuts in the forwards so it’s going to be hard to win balls. Our forwards are going to have their work cut out for them to keep half of the possession.”
Concerns have abounded about the forwards’ ability to control the front line all season.
If the young batch of big guys want to silence the doubters, however, they will need to create frequent pushes and win mauls against a strong Thunderbird group.
With the game on a Wednesday and not a Saturday, the event will certainly be more low-key than the sold-out bonanza last year, but fans are still expected to pack the reduced Witter grandstands.
“I think the Wednesday match will cut into the attendance, no doubt,” Clark said.
“The scale of the event is down this year, but I don’t think the importance of the event is down. This is a game where many of the informed alumni will evaluate our performance, and we know that. It may not be how many people in the stands, but who is in the stands.”
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 11:18 AM PST reply actions
Who takes a nap during the middle of the day?
You guys might have the right idea.
If you see a student dozing in the library or a co-worker catching 40 winks in her cubicle, don’t roll your eyes. New research from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that an hour’s nap can dramatically boost and restore your brain power. Indeed, the findings suggest that a biphasic sleep schedule not only refreshes the mind, but can make you smarter.
Conversely, the more hours we spend awake, the more sluggish our minds become, according to the findings. The results support previous data from the same research team that pulling an all-nighter — a common practice at college during midterms and finals — decreases the ability to cram in new facts by nearly 40 percent, due to a shutdown of brain regions during sleep deprivation.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 11:21 AM PST reply actions
Mine too, thanks
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by CruzinBears on Feb 23, 2010 12:21 PM PST up reply actions
EDSBS on coach's side jobs. Have any more to suggest?
Al Kapone, legendary Memphis rapper, still moves furniture for a living. Why? Because in an unpredictable life, everyone needs a side hustle, a little bidness/enterprise to keep you fed and happy through the lean times.
Coaches aren’t immune from the need for backup plans and economic stopgaps, either. Since graduate assistants are paid in stale bagels and rolls of nickels, they’ve been doing this for years and remain quite adept at it. Some of them are real, and some of them are so REAL you can’t handle their realness.
Mack Brown: Governor of Texas.
Rick Neuheisel: Hand Modeling. Like they’re carved from Vermont Marble, we tell you.
Joe Paterno: Writes erotic thrillers for the African-American market.
Pat Hill: Bounty Hunter.
Dennis Erickson: Details cars for $27 a piece in the parking lot of Sun Devil Stadium.
Commenters: Jim Harbaugh: The Fourth Musketeer, defender of the French crown
Lane Kiffin: Child Actor
Mike Stoops owns and operates his own Bojangles Famous Chicken n’ Biscuits franchise.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 11:38 AM PST reply actions
Joe Paterno: Writes erotic thrillers for the African-American market.
CUM TA PENN STATE
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 1:22 PM PST up reply actions
carp
First off, any old grizzly bear does not = Golden Bear.
Secondly, if anyone would appreciate having a creepy “pedo” bear mascot, as you call him, it should be you, no?
Thirdly, and most importantly, Oski is fucking awesome. He manages to combine a dignified, professorial air that oozes academic prowess with the ability to drink booze through his eye hole and score hella chicks. There is no better mascot.
by atomsareenough on Feb 23, 2010 12:22 PM PST reply actions
What about Oskiette?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 12:25 PM PST up reply actions
Cal Band Great!
but that was one of the more obscure halftime shows I remember, although I’d like to see a fake Tree tormented at halftime of every game. You know, for the kids.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 24, 2010 8:01 AM PST up reply actions
1) I’m OK with dropping the Golden bullshit. Yes I said it.
2) Point well taken, but I must note that allmost of my links comply with The Upgrade criteria (half ur age + 7).
3) Good call, and that’s why he’s perfectly acceptable for use in other sports (like basketball).
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
1) Feel free to write a fanpost on the matter. I’m sure no one will disagree with you.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 12:34 PM PST up reply actions
so we have the Golden Hurricanes, the Golden Eagles, the Golden Showers…when does it end? Haven’t we moved past Au on the Periodic Table? It’s all about palladium, bitches! (don’t tell Prof F. Dean Toste I said that) It’s magik dust! It makes carbon-carbon bonds from otherwise unreactive starting materials!
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Attn: CGB Chemists
Canadian Chemistry for Society is hosting the PacificChem Conference on our soil (Hawaii). Should we:
a) Retalliate with invasion of Canada. Tax their people to the max.
b) Remind them that U.S.Eh? won in hockey and their “pwn the podium” has backfired
c) a) + b)
d) c) but not a)
e) c) but not b)
f) d) and e) but not c)
g) Fire AlamarGregoryDavid Esquer
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Man, I would hate taking your standardized tests.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 12:31 PM PST up reply actions
a) Retalliate with invasion of Canada. Tax their people to the max.
Tell them to surrender pronto, or we’ll level Toronto.
I am a Vereenian.
Can we level Ohio instead and annex Ontario?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 12:37 PM PST up reply actions
Central Ohio can’t get any more level than it already is. Gotta travel an hour to see a hill.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 12:38 PM PST up reply actions
Do NOT force me to do my own google research!
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 1:18 PM PST up reply actions
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
is kameron jackson the younger bro of DeSean? ESPNU says he’s condisering Cal, but this linky says Sarkesian’s hot on the trail.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Because all people with the same surname from the same area are related?
Goodbye Bob Gregory. I am soooooo 6 dimensional now!
by Fire Starkey on Feb 23, 2010 1:26 PM PST up reply actions
that’s racis
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
No, he only has one younger brother, Desmond.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 1:26 PM PST up reply actions
Yes, it’s French for The Kevin. What’s the big deal?
HYDROTECH FOR DC
by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 4:35 PM PST up reply actions
Is the young alumni season tix close to being sold out?
I need to renew/buy mine but I wanted to wait till Saturday…
In other words, Go Bears!
Unless I buy hundreds just t spite royrules22!
President Emperor Warlord Of The Sun!
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Why Cal cannot has Ros3 Bowl birf
Ursus arctos californicus – California Golden Bear (extinct)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Bear#Subspecies
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Not enough this (NSFW?), I suppose.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I should have just posted the photo…but I thought CGB mods/juju would get mad.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I can’t tell if she’s really enjoying that, or if she’s just trying to get him off her back.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
George Tullos, 41, male July 14, 2000 Brown His partially consumed body was found at Run Amuk campground in Hyder, Alaska.
Run Amuk campground?!?!
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
from oski.com (SFW)
The official mascot of the University of California, Oski, has been a tradition at the school since making his debut on September 26, 1941 during the football season-opener against St. Mary’s. Prior to his arrival, live mascots were used at Memorial Stadium with varying degrees of success. It was decided in 1940 that a costumed mascot would make a more suitable alternative to a live bear.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
The success degrees ranged from “awesome” to “dude got ate”.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 2:46 PM PST up reply actions
But those are really the same thing!
President Emperor Warlord Of The Sun!
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No, one is awesome and the other is awesomer.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 2:48 PM PST up reply actions
I imagine the leash/collar technologies weren’t quite on par with today’s carbon fibre. I mean, Ralphie escaped only a few times…
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
fibre
I declare you Rishi
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Feb 23, 2010 2:52 PM PST up reply actions
Cal science research for the win!
Many Mic Men died to bring us this knowledge.
Actually, “trained bears” were once upon a time fairly common fixtures, so that’s not totally surprising. I think this was about the time the Yosemite garbage dump was the bear viewing area, so attitudes have changed a wee bit. IIRC the justification for closing the dump down was because bears became unafraid of people, maybe that was about the same time.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 24, 2010 8:08 AM PST up reply actions
.——————————————————————————————————————————— It’s so someone else won’t post!
HYDROTECH FOR DC
by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 2:32 PM PST up reply actions
no u
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Twitter —→ Over there
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 4:39 PM PST up reply actions
Michigan hit with NCAA Notice of Allegations
NOTICE OF ALLEGATIONS
to the
President of the University of Michigan
[NCAA Bylaws 11.7.1.1.1, 11.7.1.1.1.1, 11.7.2 and 11.7.2.1 (2009-10 NCAA Manual)]
1. It is alleged that from January 2008 through September 2009, the institution’s football program exceeded the permissible limit on the number of coaches by five when quality control staff members (noncoaching sport-specific staff members who were not counted as countable coaches) engaged in on- and off-field coaching activities. The quality control staff members included Adam Braithwaite (March 2008 to the present), Dan Hott (January 2008 to the present), Josh Ison (February 2009 to the present), Bob McClain (January 2008 to February 2009), Eric Smith (January 2008 to the present) and Bryan Wright (June 2008 to the present). Specifically:
a. During 2008 and 2009 winter and voluntary summer workouts, and outside of the regular playing season, quality control staff members regularly monitored and conducted skill-development activities with football student-athletes that occurred two days a week. Additionally, the quality control staff members coached the football student-athletes through those activities to improve technique and develop fundamental football-related skills. [NCAA Bylaws 11.7.1.1.1, 11.7.1.1.1.1, 11.7.2 and 11.7.2.1]
b. During 2008 and 2009 spring and regular-season football practice, quality control staff members regularly assisted ’ with football student-athletes’ flexibility and warm-up activities. Additionally, on some occasions, the quality control staff members provided advice and/or corrections to football student-athletes pertaining to technique and plays. [NCAA Bylaws 11.7.1.1.1, 11.7.1.1.1.1, 11.7.2 and 11.7.2.1]
c. From January 2008 through September 2009, the quality control staff members sometimes watched game and/or practice film with football student-athletes and provided advice and/or corrections to the football student-athletes pertaining to technique and plays. [NCAA Bylaws 11.7.1.1.1, 11.7.1.1.1.1, 11.7.2 and 11.7.2.1]
d. From January 2008 through September 2009, the quality control staff members sometimes attended meetings involving coaching activities. [NCAA Bylaws 11.7.1.1.1, 11.7.1.1.1.1, 11.7.2 and 11.7.2.1]
Please indicate whether this information is substantially correct and whether the institution agrees violations of NCAA legislation occurred. Submit evidence to support your response.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 2:30 PM PST reply actions
Bulletpoints in English, whats going on
President Emperor Warlord Of The Sun!
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You're a lawyer. Figure it out.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 23, 2010 2:40 PM PST up reply actions
pics or else u know these by heart as part of USF’s Law skool education.
[NCAA Bylaws 11.7.1.1.1, 11.7.1.1.1.1, 11.7.2 and 11.7.2.1]
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
What kind of pics could disprove that I know certain NCAA Bylaws by heart???? A photo of my heart? A photo of me NOT paying attention in law school??
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- 1. It is alleged that from January 2008 through September 2009, the institution’s football program exceeded the permissible limit on the number of coaches by five when quality control staff members (noncoaching sport-specific staff members who were not counted as countable coaches) engaged in on- and off-field coaching activities. The quality control staff members included Adam Braithwaite (March 2008 to the present), Dan Hott (January 2008 to the present), Josh Ison (February 2009 to the present), Bob McClain (January 2008 to February 2009), Eric Smith (January 2008 to the present) and Bryan Wright (June 2008 to the present). Specifically:
- a. During 2008 and 2009 winter and voluntary summer workouts, and outside of the regular playing season, quality control staff members regularly monitored and conducted skill-development activities with football student-athletes that occurred two days a week. Additionally, the quality control staff members coached the football student-athletes through those activities to improve technique and develop fundamental football-related skills. [NCAA Bylaws 11.7.1.1.1, 11.7.1.1.1.1, 11.7.2 and 11.7.2.1]
- b. During 2008 and 2009 spring and regular-season football practice, quality control staff members regularly assisted ’ with football student-athletes’ flexibility and warm-up activities. Additionally, on some occasions, the quality control staff members provided advice and/or corrections to football student-athletes pertaining to technique and plays. [NCAA Bylaws 11.7.1.1.1, 11.7.1.1.1.1, 11.7.2 and 11.7.2.1]
- c. From January 2008 through September 2009, the quality control staff members sometimes watched game and/or practice film with football student-athletes and provided advice and/or corrections to the football student-athletes pertaining to technique and plays. [NCAA Bylaws 11.7.1.1.1, 11.7.1.1.1.1, 11.7.2 and 11.7.2.1]
- d. From January 2008 through September 2009, the quality control staff members sometimes attended meetings involving coaching activities. [NCAA Bylaws 11.7.1.1.1, 11.7.1.1.1.1, 11.7.2 and 11.7.2.1]
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 4:41 PM PST up reply actions
Ok, basically, they had “quality control members” who are technically not coaches act as coaches for all intensive purposes. And apparently you can only have a certain amount of coaches. So, having these 5 non-coaches act as coaches put them over the coaches limit.
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Which purposes are the intensive ones?
by atomsareenough on Feb 23, 2010 2:55 PM PST up reply actions
wow…this vote is really neck n neck! I didn’t know Oski had “extended” his warm welcome to so many of you!
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
SI Writer ranks the top 50 draft prospects
35. Tyson Aluala/DL/California: He could turn into one of the real gems of the draft. He’s well-regarded in the scouting community and is viewed as a defender who can line up at tackle or as a two-gap end.
40. Jahvid Best*/RB/California: The Cal junior offers the best combination of creativity, speed and pass-catching skills of any back in the draft. The concussions from last season are sure to be a topic of conversation for the medical staffs on hand at the combine.
They think Aluala (sic) is better than Best?
President Emperor Warlord Of The Sun!
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He’s probably got a lower ceiling than Best, but also has a lower risk of being a bust.
by atomsareenough on Feb 23, 2010 3:59 PM PST up reply actions
OH ZHANG
Zhang suffered a collapsed lung during practice Monday when he collided with a teammate. He saw a doctor today and will be re-evaluated in the coming days. He is out for Thursday; his status for Saturday’s game against Arizona State is uncertain, a spokesperson for the athletic department reported within the past half-hour.
http://www.ibabuzz.com/beartalk/2010/02/23/basketball-zhang-out-with-collapsed-lung/
shiiiiiiit this ALWAYS happens to tall, lanky, asian males.
No, I’m fucking serious, I read they’re genetically predispositioned for it.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 23, 2010 4:55 PM PST up reply actions
Kansas Man sues Royals claiming Hot Dog Injury
John Coomer has filed a lawsuit against the Royals seeking more than $25,000 for injuries he sustained Sept. 8 when he was smacked in the eye with a hot dog chucked by the team’s mascot, Sluggerrr.
Coomer said the wayward wiener caused a detached retina and the development of cataracts in his left eye.
Ragnarok: Great Man or Greatest Man?
Oh, Jon Coomer. I thought for a second it was former MLB utility man Ron Coomer.
by atomsareenough on Feb 23, 2010 10:03 PM PST up reply actions
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