DBD 9.9.10: The IM Sports Campout!

Brian Anger is the Punt Professor! [Video]

Cal hosts Colorado on Saturday

California (1-0, 0-0 Pac-10) hosts Colorado (1-0, 0-0 Big 12) at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 11 (12:30 p.m. PT), with the future Pac-12 member making its first visit to Berkeley since 1968. Long-range forecasts show sunny weather conditions but with a high of only 62 degrees expected. Both teams started their 2010 seasons with victories last Saturday. Cal was a 52-3 winner over UC Davis at Memorial Stadium, while Colorado knocked off Colorado State at home, 24-3.

Help the Bears Jog for Jill!

On Sunday, Sept. 12, the second Jog For Jill 5K event, sponsored by the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation (BJALCF), will take place at Golden Gate Park at 4 p.m. The event is in honor of the late Jill Costello, a former coxswain on the California women’s crew who passed away from lung cancer on June 24. Cal student-athletes, staff, friends and family are encouraged to join “Team Jill.” Nearly all 27 Golden Bear teams will have representation at the event.

After being diagnosed with the disease on June 6, 2009, Costello remained an active member on the rowing team through the 2010 season, coxing the varsity 8+ to a Pac-10 Championship and a helping the Golden Bears finish second overall at the NCAA Championships. The 2010 Pac-10 Athlete of the Year, Costello graduated last May with a degree in political economy and was named to the Pac-10 All-Academic second team. She accomplished all of this while undergoing 22 chemotherapy sessions and 14 days of radiation treatments.

If you were at the game on Saturday, there was a really moving presentation.

Cal unveils National Championship Week stuff

The University of California officially kicked-off its 2010 National Championship Week with the unveiling of the National Championship Display Case and Highlight Video Tuesday, Sept. 7 in the Haas Pavilion Lobby. In attendance was Cal Director of Athletics Sandy Barbour, who made an introductory speech before the unveiling, plus David Durden, the 2010 NCAA Coach of the Year who led the Golden Bears to an national runner-up finish in men’s swimming and diving while directing three individual NCAA champions and four national champion relays, said a few words about his team’s success.

Ishino Wins Gold at Pan-American Championships

California gymnast Glen Ishino is now the proud owner of another gold medal after winning pommel horse at the 2010 Pan-American Championships. Ishino qualified for the individual event finals, the first of which were held Sept. 4, after doing well in the team finals, in which the Americans won gold as a team.

No. 19/18 Bears, Beach Square Off Sunday [Women’s Soccer]

Scoring 12 goals in one weekend may be difficult to repeat, but the No. 19/18 California women’s soccer team will look for its third win in as many games this weekend, welcoming Long Beach State on Sunday, Sept. 12. Cal is riding a two-game winning streak and an unbeaten streak of five, bolstered by a 4-1 win over Rice and 8-1 victory against Hawaii at last weekend’s Cal Invitational. In the game against the 49ers (4-1-1), the Golden Bears (3-0-2) meet a Big West Conference team for the second time this season after tying UC Irvine, 2-2, in double overtime on Aug. 22.

Women’s Basketball is Charitable

The team chose to make the UCSF Foundation and their research efforts on ARVD the beneficiary on behalf of Golden Bear Tierra Rogers. Rogers was diagnosed with Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia (ARVD) in September of last year. ARVD is a genetic disease in which the muscle tissue in the lower-right chamber of the heart (right ventricle) degenerates and is replaced by fat. As a result, patients can develop dangerous abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) or even go into cardiac arrest, particularly when under physical or emotional stress. Studies have shown that ARVD is a significant cause of sudden death among young athletes. Heart Rhythm Disorders are the cause of nearly 500,000 deaths a year in the United States. There is still so much to learn about these disorders. UCSF has implemented a program called Comprehensive Genetic Arrhythmia Program (CGAP). According to UCSF, “the mission of this program is to study and treat inherited Heart Rhythm Disorders. Through its research, CGAP aims to provide a leadership role in the process of understanding existing genetic causes of cardiac arrhythmias, identifying new candidate genes and applying this knowledge to improving patient care”.

Giants lose, fall to 2 back of SD

Just like the old saying goes: when your only run comes on a Freddy Sanchez home run, your only run comes on a Freddy Sanchez home run. Woof. Keep sending those good, young pitchers into our division, you White Sox jackasses.

That was a 2009 loss, packed in dry ice and mailed to us here in the future. Let us never speak of it again after tonight.

Buffs fans preview the game (with stats!)

So, yes, Cal played FCS UC-Davis last week so these stats are very much skewed. Another reason for the skewed offensive numbers: Colorado ran only 60 plays from scrimmage against CSU. On the flip side, California snapped the ball 75 times. Consider that when evaluating the offensive numbers. It will be interesting the see if CU speeds things up this week against Cal or if they prefer not to get into a play for play shootout with the Bears on the road.

A few things stick out that I always like to see the Buffs make some progress on: tackles for loss, sacks and turnover margin. Colorado’s 8 tackles for loss last weekend against Colorado State was impressive. Even more eye opening was holding the Rams to 49 yards rushing when clearly that was supposed to be a strength of the team. Reading the great Cal site on SBNation.com, California Golden Blogs, they are slightly concerned about the offensive and defensive lines. For one, they feel the Bears should have sacked UC-Davis more than two times and second, they believe their running game with RB Shane Vereen should have had more big plays against an inferior opponent.

CGB Tailgate

with one of my TH roommates outside of the Telly Gamestop starting at 11 the night before they came in. they finally came in at 10 the next morning, and by that time we had accrued a line of about thirty dudes (conspicuous lack of ladies) from the units (i presume) behind us. We bought one each, taking two of the three that were delivered that week. We went back to TH and set one up and played for five days straight. I put mine on craigslist and sold it a half hour later to two guys who drove from SF to buy it from me for $400 (i paid $200 for it). it was my most successful campout to date, not counting the summer-long campouts at the lair.

Really? You have to camp out to sign up for IM sports? Wow, budget cuts are hitting Cal really hard!

In terms of needing to purchase something, I’ve camped out for Cal basketball season tickets – which was pretty awesome. Todd Bozeman brought out like 40 pizzas for the line. Jason Kidd, Lamond, Al Grigsby, Randy Duck, Monty Buckley and Anwar McQueen all came out to say hi.

I’ve also camped out for front row seats at Harmon – Cal vs. Arizona (Reggie Geary, Damon Stoudamire, Khalid Reeves)

I miss food from the US of A so badly!

stayed from 10-3…now two others are staying from 3-7 (when sign ups start).

On the Practice Squad

So much for Jason Whitlock and so much for my analysis of Nate Davis. He made it through waivers and was signed to the practice squad. The NFL community obviously agrees with the 49ers that Davis is not a desired player and maybe there are real questions as to his ability to learn an NFL offense. Nevertheless, this is good news for the 49ers, even though another team can swoop down and take Davis at any time and add him to their active roster. Whitlock, the Fox Sports columnist, predicted Davis would get claimed.

Jarrett Brown, former QB of WVU, was waived to make room.

But I’m a former “higher up” in intramurals, and while I loved 98% of it, I’m quite glad signups aren’t my problem anymore

Theres no Bill Clinton tickets option

Is to watch Matrix Reloaded on opening night. I think that was three hours in line.

To get me to camp out overnight would have to be for Super Bowl tickets or a date with Priyanka Chopra.

Daily Cal says something about a movie:

Zhang Yimou should’ve listened to Jean-Luc Godard’s dictum “All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.” Perhaps where Zhang goes wrong in “A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop,” his Chinese remake of the Coen brothers’ 1984 debut “Blood Simple,” is in the addition of a noodle shop to what is ostensibly a foolproof formula. While I’m loath to namedrop an artist as overtouted as that New Wave surfer par excellence, there’s a reason Godard omitted “noodle shop” in his polemic against conspicuously sensationalist cinema.

And that’s not to say there’s anything wrong with noodles. I love noodles. Really, I do. I’ll eat any noodle you put in front of me. But the danger in eating them at the titular shop in Geographically Ambiguous, China is that it happens to be owned by a balding cuckold and his nubile wife. Both seem to pose problems for anyone who steps foot in the shop. It ought to be burned down.

Daily cal looks at Buffs:

Now that last Saturday’s game against UC Davis is over and done with, it’s not worth much more than a scrimmage. The Cal football team simply got seven-touchdowns worth of practice reps – good preparation before playing an actual game this week against Colorado.

“Davis is a good FCS team, but in all honesty, they can’t compete with us on the football field �- as you saw,” quarterback Kevin Riley said. “The team is very aware for that. But it was good for everybody just to get out there, play a game and get the kinks out.”

Mike Mohamed’s decleating tackle of a UC-Davis ball carrier came in at # 2 on sportsillustrated.com’s list of top 5 hits of week 1 in college football.

Jogging For Jill:

Rigging boats at Lake Natoma in Gold River, Calif., captain Mary Jeghyrs and the Cal women’s crew team were warming up for an 8,000-meter practice run in preparation for the 2010 NCAA women’s rowing championships.

Jill Costello was a little late to practice. The senior coxswain, who had been diagnosed with Level IV lung cancer in June 2009, was arriving in Gold River after having CT scans read earlier that morning.

“We all knew that Jill had an important doctor’s visit that day and that she was going to come up late,” says Jeghyrs. “Before Jill got there, (coach Dave O’Neill) told us it wasn’t good news, and that we should make it great for her.”

Berkeley streets to be repaved/

Berkeley residents and visitors could be traveling down smoother streets this fiscal year as sections of city roads – a large portion of which are in District 7, which encompasses the UC Berkeley campus – are scheduled to be repaved as part of the city’s street rehabilitation program.

The city’s Public Works Department met last week regarding the status of its 5-Year Street Rehabilitation Plan, which organizes and schedules all street repaving and construction to occur within the next five years. This year, $2.8 million has been allocated to the plan, of which $2.3 million is from the city’s general fund and $500,000 is from Measure B, which implements a half-cent sales tax to fund transportation in Alameda County.

Daily Cal article on preparing set lists for live shows, WHAT/?!?!?

Performing musicians and concertgoers have different interests when it comes to the composition of a show’s setlist. It’s a maddening yet unavoidable truth. The artist, who’s been playing his or her latest album’s material to death over the last few months, wants desperately to play new stuff. But the fans, whose ears have still only recently been exposed to the artist’s latest opus, want to hear the familiar jams they’ve come to love.

Both parties’ preferences make the negotiation between these conflicting interests a tense affair. If the artist has to go through one more excruciating rendition of the single he’s been playing five times a day since the album dropped months ago, his very soul may be crushed. But fans still have every right to get pissy when they don’t hear the material that got them to shell out their hard-earned disposable income to come see this show in the first place. This conflict – the “Free Bird” dilemma if you will – puts fans and musicians at quite the impasse.

Buffzone discusses defense:

The contributions made by defensive tackles on the football field often go unnoticed or underappreciated. Colorado’s unheralded duo of Curtis Cunningham and Will Pericak seem to prefer it that way.

They were well on their way to a solid day stuffing the run and pressuring the passer last week in the season opener against Colorado State. Standard stuff that would earn them slaps on the back from teammates and coaches, but generally doesn’t make headlines.

Then Pericak had to go and block a field goal.

The big play earned the sophomore from Boulder High School the weekly award from coaches for special teams play and it also meant suffering through interviews.

Wilner has Cal at 6 in his Pac10 rankings:

6. Cal (1-0)
Last week: N/A
Result: Beat UC Davis 52-3
Up next: vs. Colorado
Comment: Bears scheduled to visit Boulder next fall. If CU has joined the Pac-10, that becomes a league game and Cal has to scramble to find another non-conference opponent.