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The shooting shirts off their backs

On Saturday, March 6 the California Golden Bear women’s basketball team will be holding a silent auction to raise money for the Berkeley Food and Housing Project. The silent auction of specially designed shooting shirts will go from 11 a.m. through the end of the first half of the Stanford game.

The players will each be designing a special shooting shirt that they will wear during the pregame warmups. The shirts will be available to be bid on as soon as the doors open to the public (11:00 a.m.). The starting bid for each shirt will be $100 with bid increments of $10. The auction will take place in the Haas Pavilion Club Room.

This is the second year that the players have participated in a shooting shirt auction. This season, one hundred percent of the proceeds will go to Berkeley Food and Housing Project. Last year’s auction raised $3100 for the SEEDS Foundation.

Go Bears!

This Week:
The No. 4-ranked California men’s swimming team (5-2, 2-2 Pac-10) – featuring 2009 NCAA champions Nathan Adrian and Damir Dugonjic, plus returning Pac-10 champions Nolan Koon and Martti Aljand – competes at the 2010 Pac-10 Swimming Championships this week (Wed.-Sat.) at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool in Long Beach. The Golden Bears will be looking to snap Stanford’s streak of 28 straight conference team titles. In fact, the last school to win the Pac-10 meet was Cal in 1980 and 1981. Third-year Cal head swim coach David Durden, who has led the Bears to back-to-back second place finishes at the Pac-10 championships and fourth place finishes at the NCAA meet, has another talented squad that not only includes juniors Adrian and Dugonjic, but six additional 2009 All-Americans – senior Sean Mahoney, juniors Aljand, Guy Barnea, Josh Daniels and Graeme Moore, and sophomore Koon.

vs. Davidson

This Week
California continues its homestand when it hosts Davidson at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 2, at Memorial Stadium. The Golden Bears bring a 0-3 record (0-1 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) to the nonconference match with the Wildcats (1-2, 1-0 National Lacrosse Conference). Cal has a 0-2 record in the all-time series with Davidson.

Scouting the Golden Bears
Senior midfielder Alyse Kennedy leads Cal in goals (6), assists (2) and points (8) through three games. Sophomore midfielder Lauren Johnson has grabbed seven draw controls to lead the Bears. Junior goalkeeper Allie Shropshire leads the team in ground balls (11).

Theresa Sherry, the 2008 MPSF Coach of the Year, is in her third year as head coach at Cal.

6th place going into final round of USC Invitational

WESTLAKE VILLAGE – Cal finished 36 holes of golf at the USC Collegiate Invitational on Monday with an even-par team score of 568 and will head into the final 18 holes on Tuesday in sixth place and 12 shots off the lead posted by fellow Pac-10 school Oregon (556, -12). The Golden Bears were eight shots better (280) on the second 18 holes than on the first (288) to move from 11th place after the first round to their current sixth-place spot at the end of the day’s action.

Arizona State (561, -7), Pepperdine (565, -3), UCLA (566, -2) and host USC (566, -2) follow Oregon to make up the top five of a field that features seven teams ranked in the nation’s top 25 and 12 among the country’s top 50.

“There are a bunch of good teams here,” confirmed head coach Steve Desimone. “It’s still close and we’re within 12 shots of the lead. On this golf course, anything could happen. It will be an interesting and fun day tomorrow.”

carp is so torn again

BERKELEY – After playing in three tournaments in as many tournaments to open the 2010 season, the No. 14/13 California softball team hosts its first home game of the campaign. On Wednesday, March 3 at 2 p.m., the Golden Bears (11-4) face off against UC Davis (6-7) at Levine-Fricke Field. This marks the first mid-week match-up for the Bears after playing five games over the course of three days in each of the past three weekends. Cal holds the all-time advantage at 16-6 against the Aggies, with its last win occurring April 29, 2009 in a 3-1 Bear victory.

Megan Jesolva and Alex Morgan

BERKELEY – California juniors defender/midfielder Megan Jesolva and forward Alex Morgan have been selected to participate in a training camp with the U.S. under-23 national team, it was announced recently. The U-23 head coach Bill Irwin will bring 24 players to the training camp in Sunrise, Fla., from March 7-14.

“We are all pleased for Alex and Megan,” Cal head coach Neil McGuire said. “They are great ambassadors for our Cal program, and they are very deserving of this call up. This experience will be invaluable to them.”

In 2009, Jesolva suffered a knee injury that limited her time on the field to just 11 games, seven of which she started. The La Mirada, Calif., native still dished out two assists – the gamewinners against Texas A&M (Sept. 4, 2009) and Portland State (Sept. 11, 2009).

“I’m really excited to be invited back after getting injured and not playing a lot this past season,” Jesolva said. “I’m looking forward to being apart of that team again.”

Last summer Jesolva traveled to England with the U.S. Under-23 national team for two games against the English U-23 squad. Jesolva saw significant playing time in each of the two matches – playing 70 minutes in 2-0 loss on July 4 and the entirety of the July 6 3-1 victory.

From Faraudo

BRACKETOLOGY: ESPN.com’s Joe Lunardi still has Cal as the only Pac-10 team in the NCAA field. He projects the Bears as a No. 9 seed, matched against No. 8 Texas (Jamal Boykin, meet Damion James) at Jacksonville, Fla. This scenario would have the winner facing No. 1 Duke in the second round. A tough arrangement all around.

(My personal theory is most teams are better off being seeded No. 10 than No. 8. A No. 10 is probably only marginally inferior — if at all – -to the No. 7 team it will play. The No. 7 team beat No.10 in three of four matchups last year, although No. 7 was 15-5 the previous four years. Either way, the 7-10 winner isn’t rewarded by a matchup with No. 1, as the No. 8-9 winner is.)

Lunardi also has Saint Mary’s in the field, seeded No. 11 against No. 6 Baylor in Buffalo.

Thursday 10:30 am

Our live online chat with Cal senior Theo Robertson has been moved from Wednesday to Thursday at 10:30 a.m., due to a conflict in his schedule.

Indians outfielder Shin-Soo Choo is uncertain if his baseball career will be interrupted by military service in South Korea.

South Korean men are required to serve two years in the military by the time they turn 30 years old. Choo will be 28 in July and will have to deal with this issue soon.

“It’s hanging over my head a little bit,” he admitted.

Choo, who posted a .883 OPS and 5.0 WAR in 2009, is probably the best hitter on the Indians if not only second to fellow outfielder Grady Sizemore.

NBC asks the internet “to post photos, ideas, links, and other things you want Jay to see.”

Just guess what happened.

If you don’t like naughty things, read no further, and sure as hell don’t click on the link.

Every year you ask what I want for Father’s Day with the kids (conveniently?) sitting right in front of us, and every year I provide G-rated suggestions because (call me a prude) its sorta not appropriate to ask for sexual favors in front of the kids. So in the off chance you’re reading the rants or looking for a poolboy, even though we don’t have a pool, here’s what I really want:

I want to wake up to you sucking my cock. Defined, this means that I’m asleep and you go down on me while I’m asleep, not after 45 minutes of me pretending to be asleep and dreaming of winning the blow job lottery. Please skip the requisite if-I-have-to sigh and eye rolling for one day.

But our friends sure do!

Simine Vazire, Ph.D., Washington University assistant professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has found that the individual is more accurate in assessing one’s own internal, or neurotic traits, such as anxiety, while friends are better barometers of intellect-related traits, such as intelligence and creativity, and even strangers are equally adept as our friends and ourselves at spotting the extrovert in us all, a psychology domain known as “extroversion.”

“I think that it’s important to really question this knee-jerk reaction that we are our own best experts,” says Vazire. “Personality is not who you think you are, it’s who you are. Some people think by definition that we are the experts on our personality because we get to write the story, but personality is not the story — it’s the reality. So, you do get to write your own story about how you think you are, and what you tell people about yourself, but there still is reality out there, and, guess what? Other people are going to see the reality, regardless of what story you believe.”

Personality, Vazire says, is pervasive in many things that we do — clothing choice, bedroom arrangement, Web site and Facebook profiles, for example. “Everything you touch you leave a mark of your personality,” she says. “You leave traces unintentionally. You give off hints of your personality that you don’t even see yourself.”

Or something.

To many, the recent “riots” near Berkeley’s campus seem ill-timed at best, and reprehensible at worst, even among ostensible supporters of the movement. We should not, however, allow fallout from this incident to distract us from the March 4 mobilizations occurring across 18 states. Whether the events of Feb. 26 hurt us or help us is beside the point. The movement to save the tatters of public education that remain in California and to defend democratic educational institutions has always contained a range of political opinions. Its diversity, in fact, is its greatest strength.

And so, drawing strength from our diversity, we mobilize for March 4, despite the administration’s attempts to demonize the “rioters.” More homogenous groups, pressing for “achievable” goals by patiently and carefully issuing demands rarely see them met by policy-makers with a stake in preserving business as usual. Successful movements have always been a collaborative and messy process between groups, individuals, factions and fractions who rarely agree. Tension produces dialogue-total agreement is neither realistic nor desirable. Regardless of how we differ on tactics, strategy, and ethics-in a word, politics-we share a fundamental opposition to how the crisis of public education in California has been framed and acted upon by those in power.

If you read the paper Friday morning, you might have experienced a feeling of distance from those who took to the streets the night before. We encourage you to fight the urge to give up, the urge to walk away, or worse yet, the urge to police one another because of disagreement over tactics. There is always uncertainty surrounding tactical effectiveness. But there is absolute certainty about the consequences of disengagement from the movement.

LINK

While hundreds of students rallied in the state Capitol Monday, five students were arrested during the UC Student Association’s annual lobbying day organized to secure state funding to the university before the state budget is finalized.

About 12 students entered the office of Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, R-Yuba City-as about 100 students waited outside-demanding that he sign a letter promising support for increased funding for higher education as well as specific funding for recruiting and retaining low-income students, according to Filiberto Nolasco, a UC Santa Barbara graduate student who was one of the five students arrested.

When Nielsen refused to sign the letter, five students remained in his office until law enforcement was called in, Nolasco said.

Bret Stephens thinks so

In left-wing mythology—notably Naomi Klein’s tedious 2007 screed “The Shock Doctrine”—the Chicago Boys weren’t just strange bedfellows to Pinochet’s dictatorship. They were complicit in its crimes. “If the pure Chicago economic theory can be carried out in Chile only at the price of repression, should its authors feel some responsibility?” wrote New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis in October 1975. In fact, Pinochet had been mostly indifferent to the Chicago Boys’ advice until the continuing economic crisis forced him to look for some policy alternatives. In March 1975, he had a 45-minute meeting with Friedman and asked him to write a letter proposing some remedies. Friedman responded a month later with an eight-point proposal that largely mirrored the themes of the Chicago Boys.

For his trouble, Friedman would spend the rest of his life being defamed as an accomplice to evil: at his Nobel Prize ceremony the following year, he was met by protests and hecklers. Friedman himself couldn’t decide whether to be amused or annoyed by the obloquies; he later wryly noted that he had given communist dictatorships the same advice he gave Pinochet, without raising leftist hackles.

As for Chile, Pinochet appointed a succession of Chicago Boys to senior economic posts. By 1990, the year he ceded power, per capita GDP had risen by 40% (in 2005 dollars) even as Peru and Argentina stagnated. Pinochet’s democratic successors—all of them nominally left-of-center—only deepened the liberalization drive. Result: Chileans have become South America’s richest people. They have the continent’s lowest level of corruption, the lowest infant-mortality rate, and the lowest number of people living below the poverty line.

Chile also has some of the world’s strictest building codes. That makes sense for a country that straddles two massive tectonic plates. But having codes is one thing, enforcing them is another. The quality and consistency of enforcement is typically correlated to the wealth of nations. The poorer the country, the likelier people are to scrimp on rebar, or use poor quality concrete, or lie about compliance. In the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, thousands of children were buried under schools also built according to code.

LINK

Let me paint the picture. I head into New York City with a couple of buddies for a house party on New Year’s Eve. Meet a girl who really wants a midnight kiss. I oblige her, and we eventually make our way back to her place in Jersey City.

Clothes come off. She asks me if I have a condom. I ask her if she has one. Nada on both counts.

(I’ve discovered that whenever I pack a condom, I don’t get lucky. Kind of like how when you bring an umbrella to class and it doesn’t even drizzle.)

I inquire as to the prospects of a blow job. She feels uncomfortable. I inquire as to whether or not she would like me to pleasure her. She feels uncomfortable.

At this point, it’s already seven in the morning, and I’m ready to pass out and put a halt to this extended make-out session that’s headed nowhere.

But wait. Out of the blue she says, “Do you want to have other sex?”

(The last time I heard the word “other” in this connotation was over the summer-a dude asked me if I wanted to watch “other” porn with him. Oy vey.)

Since I had never stuck it in the caboose and almost instantaneously experienced a flashback to a time when a friend pleaded that I do an anal sex column, I jumped at the opportunity.

Fast-forward four hours. Let me take you inside my thoughts as I’m waiting for a train to take me home.

“Was it rude for me to laugh when she brought up the possibility of a long-term relationship after I mentioned that I go to school in California? … My penis is so sore; I told her a near-empty bottle of lotion wouldn’t cut it. … I thought I asked for this bagel to be toasted. … Was it rude for me to laugh at her when she asked, ‘Can I get pregnant from ana’-Oh shit. God dammit. Fuck, I need to get tested.”

LINK

Dressed in black with masks covering their mouths, students from the black community throughout the campus set out yesterday to address current racial tensions at UC Berkeley and throughout the UC system.

About 200 people participated in a silent demonstration at Sather Gate, which began at 11:30 a.m. At 2 p.m., the group moved to California Hall to deliver a letter to UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau-who was off campus-detailing incidents that occurred in the last 10 years in the campus community that they said are comparable to recent incidents at UC San Diego, where blacks have been targeted for mockery.

“The campus is not a safe space for all students,” said senior Lajuanda Asemota, vice president of Phi Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority. “People are often marginalized. People are often silenced throughout the day.”

A total of 3.2 percent of UC Berkeley students are black, according to the campus Web site. The passage of Proposition 209-which banned affirmative action at California’s public universities-has led to this “frighteningly” low representation of the community on campus, the letter stated.

Apparently, it’s a site which randomly hooks you up with another person with a webcam. I’m sure this works great in practice…

Well, EDSBS simulated chats between a prized recruit and head coaches…

Pinch hitting for Pedro Borbon . . . .Manny Mota . . ..

LINK

“If you were to take the best engineers in the world and asked them to design a perfect plug for a child’s airway, you couldn’t do better than a hot dog.” That’s according to a doctor with the American Academy of Pediatrics.

To solve the problem, Fast Company set design firm RKS to the task of creating a less-deadly processed meat paste sausage. Their solution was this spiral dog, the result of some delightful experiments with a Play-Doh Fun Factory.

Thoughts on eating a spiral dog (click image for link)?

The U.S. has one representative (at number 50), I believe this to be a token representative.

Long thought to be a big fish in a little pond, a loan from his Los Angeles Galaxy to Everton has rebuked that theory. For years Donovan has dominated in Major League Soccer, but three separate attempts to succeed in Germany had been fruitless. At Everton, he slotted into a resurgent team and showed that his beloved running at defenders in the open field could be effective elsewhere. Donovan is comfortably the best player ever produced by the United States and its youth systems but has yet to elevate the U.S. national team to the next level.

Scouting thumbnail: Pacy, creative player who flourishes in space. Lacks the one-on-one moves to beat a defender consistently, but uses the ball intelligently and excels on the counter attack. Has improved his set-piece delivery.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/story/_/page/100301topfifty/ce/us/top-players-2010-world-cup?cc=5739&ver=global

Thanks, OhioBear! You are the best

Rec’d for Manny Mota.

Item of interest to CGB readership:

Oregon Cheerleader Arrested for DUI

(sorry if this has been covered, but the link is to EDSBS so it is worth it.)

Let’s see what type of shit storm I can start today?

Is anyone else having the site constantly reset itself to the “narrow” setting? Every time I move to a new page, it’s been reverting to narrow.

Try to be as offensive as possible.

In my attempt to be as unPC as royrules22 seems to want, here are some statements that are sure to offend:

1. I respect royrules22
2. I feel that royrules22 is an intelligent person
3. I look forward to seeing royrules22.
4. I wish royrules22 nothing but the best in all future endeavors

Its rumoured they are considering 96ish.

But behind the scenes, executives in charge of this multibillion-dollar event are holding discussions that could drastically alter the future of March Madness. On the eve of potential network television renegotiations, committees and panels representing the NCAA and its members must soon decide whether to implement the first major expansion of the tourney’s field in 25 years.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/stewart_mandel/02/23/tournament.expansion/index.html

Anyone read the front page Yahoo! article about the quake in Chile disrupting the Earth’s axis?? Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t the Tsunami in 2004 have the same kind of effect?

Wilner on Monty. Wait, that sounded rong.

First off, Cal’s title is a major boost to his resume on two fronts:

1. Best I can tell — and I’ll check on this with the conference office today — Montgomery is the first coach in league history to win the title with two different teams. (Neither of which, by the way, was UCLA.)


** 8:18 a.m. update: It’s confirmed, courtesy of Dave Hirsch at the Pac-10: Montgomery’s the only coach to win the league at two different schools. (Only five have coached at two different schools.)

2. He has broken two enormous droughts, leading Stanford to its first title in 36 years (in 1999) and Cal to its first in 50 years.

(When he arrived, the Cardinal hadn’t finished higher than fifth in more than a decade, while Cal was coming off eighth- and ninth-place finishes.)

That’s pretty heady stuff.

Montgomery is also just 11 wins from 600 for his career, meaning he’ll hit the mark sometime in November or early December.

He has 236 league wins, which is fifth all time.

He has five league titles, which is fewer than John Wooden (obviously) and Lute Olson but more than Ralph Miller and Marv Harshman …

And four conference COY awards, which is second only to Olson. (The award didn’t exist during Wooden’s career.)

Plus a Final Four and two Sweet 16s …

And a streak of 12 consecutive years in the NCAAs: His last 10 at Stanford and his first two at Cal (we’ll count this year for the sake of argument, although the Bears have not, in my mind, locked up an at-large bid).

And again, his success came at Stanford, which had the highest admissions standards in major college basketball during his tenure … and at Cal, which hadn’t won a league title in 50 years and was coming off a ninth-place finish.

OhioBear, I know Candy Maldanado and you are no Candy Maldanado

A few days ago Andy Katz gave us a shoutout. I don’t know if it’s been posted:

Cal: Enough Pac-10 bashing for now. The Bears deserve props for winning the Pac-10 title for the first time in 50 years. Mike Montgomery, who engineered one of the more remarkable program-building jobs ever at Stanford, proved yet again why he’s one of the most respected coaches. He took a team that had talent, and even though it dipped at times, it still won what it was supposed to — the Pac-10 title with a sweep of the Arizona schools.

Kevin Lynch discusses DBs and SQT:

Cal’s Syd’Quan Thompson ran a slow time and is too short at 5-8 for the 49ers to be interested. But I like this guy. Mike Myock called him the toughest corner he’s ever seen and says he hits like a safety. He’d be perfect as a nickel corner in press coverage as long as he doesn’t have to cover deep down the field. He also returns punts. If he’s still around in the fourth or fifth rounds, the 49ers should consider him.

Link from the Chron

Chris Webber is getting sued for calling one too many time outs back rent and expenses on a restaurant he owned in Sacramento. Assuming he didn’t have a total idiot for a financial advisor, and the lease for the restaurant was signed by the restaurant corporation and not by him as an individual, wouldn’t placing the restaurant into Chapter 7 absolve him of any responsibility for this?

Well, I know where I’ll be on March 26, 2011 (besides celebrating the one year annvirsary of seeing Jerry Seinfeld on March 26, 2010). SF Symphony 2010-2011 season announced. Caution: PDF. Dvorak’s New World Symphony is the one I am referring to. Many great concerts there, though.

Dude, what if the Cal Bears are playing basketball on March 26, 2010? Where will you be then??

Not as fast as Jahvid