DBD 10.14.11 How do you vent frustration?

I have two meetings to prep for, so no time to bring stories :(

http://www.calbears.com/sports/m-footbl/recaps/101411aab.html

Zach Maynard committed four of Cal’s five turnovers, and the Bears dropped their sixth straight conference game dating back to last season.

Maynard threw for 294 yards and ran for a touchdown and his half-brother, Keenan Allen, had a career-high 13 catches for 160 yards but it wasn’t enough to overcome the litany of mistakes.

Cal was behind 23-0 early in the third quarter before the offense finally got going, with Maynard leading the Bears to a 27-yard Giorgio Tavecchio field goal and then scoring on a 3-yard run with 6 seconds left in the third to cut it to 23-9.

But Maynard’s third interception midway through the fourth quarter led to Curtis McNeal’s 2-yard touchdown run that made it 30-9 with 5:14 remaining.

The Bears turned the ball over four times in the first half and failed to convert a fake punt as they fell behind 20-0 at the break.

Cal’s defense did a decent job defending Barkley and the Trojans’ high-powered offense but USC took advantage of short fields for its scores.

Allen fumbled on Cal’s fourth play from scrimmage to set the tone for the game, but the Bears survived that miscue thanks to an odd play call by USC coach Lane Kiffin.

On fourth-and-goal from the 8, the Trojans lined up in an off formation and snapped the ball diagonally to Rhett Ellison, who dropped it for a fumble that was recovered by Cal’s Trevor Guyton.

The Trojans capitalized on the next turnover as Nick Perry forced a fumble by Maynard that led to Andre Heidari’s first field goal.

USC then broke the game open with 17 points in the second quarter, getting a 39-yard TD catch from Lee over fellow freshman Stefan McClure, a field goal after Chris Galippo intercepted Maynard’s pass deep in Cal territory and a 7-yard TD pass from Barkley to Brandon Carswell after punter Bryan Anger was stopped on a fake that made it 20-0.

Barkley completed 19 of 35 passes for a season-low 195 yards. Robert Woods, the nation’s top receiver, was held to five catches for 36 yards.

Cal’s only sustained drive of the first half ended in the final minute when Maynard threw into triple coverage and was intercepted in the end zone by Dion Bailey.

http://www.calbears.com/sports/w-volley/spec-rel/101311aaa.html

BERKELEY – This year’s Homecoming theme is I <3 Cal, and the California volleyball is no exception. On Oct. 12, the Golden Bears attended a Homecoming rally and will be celebrating Homecoming with two home matches. On Friday, Oct. 15, No. 4 Cal hosts No. 2 Washington in the FSN Match-Up of the Week at 7 p.m. at Haas Pavilion. In the spirit of Homecoming week, CalBears.com caught up with the Golden Bears to find out why they love Cal.

Kat Brown -
“I chose Cal because of its amazing athletic program and extraordinary academics. I love Cal because the culture here pushes people to be the best they can be. Everyone here works hard whether it is in the classroom or on the court.”

Jennifer Carey -
“I love Cal because it is a great mix of outstanding academics with amazing athletics in an amazing locale. Here we are in one of the most beautiful places in the world at one of the most prestigious universities in the world. I get to coach and be a part of an amazing athletic program with great people and great student-athletes.”

Lindsay Elgin -
“I love Cal and chose to come here because it has a distinct personality and unique/hard to find blend of amazing sports and incredible academics.”

Rich Feller -
“First of all, I love Cal’s location in the Bay Area. I can’t think of a better place to live for culture, entertainment and weather – all those things that just make living in an area great. I certainly enjoy the outdoors and all the activities you can do in the Bay Area. The next thing I love about Cal is the academic quality that helps me attract top student-athletes from all over the country and world. I think that is combined with the great athletic support we have to make just a perfect athletic and university atmosphere.”
 
Adrienne Gehan -
“I love Cal because it has a good balance of academics and athletics. It also has a very diverse and passionate study body.”

Correy Johnson -
“I chose Cal because it had the best of both worlds – high academics and a high level of volleyball. I love Cal because it’s not just a college town. Berkeley has its own identity besides the university. My favorite part besides playing volleyball with the best girls is the food in the area. It’s so diverse and has allowed me to try things that I would have never tried back home.”

Lauren Loerch -
“I love Cal because of all of the interesting people, the beautiful weather and great atmosphere.”

Robin Rostratter -
“I love this university because of the inspiring people, diverse culture, and endless opportunities that Cal provides for its students.”

Lillian Schonewise -
“I love Cal because of all the incredible people – my teammates, coaches, trainers, friends, peers professors and strangers. Everyone comes from somewhere different but everyone has the same drive and motivation to succeed. It’s a great atmosphere to be surrounded with and I learn something new every day.”

http://www.calbears.com/sports/m-swim/recaps/101311aab.html

The California men’s swimming and diving team, the defending 2011 NCAA champions, started off the 2011-12 season with a strong performance, defeating Hawaii, 154-135, Thursday (Oct. 13) afternoon at Spieker Aquatics Complex. The Golden Bears, coached by two-time NCAA Coach of the Year David Durden, won nine of the meet’s events with nine different individuals placing first.

32 wittiest comebacks of all-time

Winston Churchill to Lady Astor

Lady Astro: “Winston, if you were my husband, I’d put poison in your coffee.”

Churchill: “Nancy, if you were my wife, I’d drink it.”

http://www.calbears.com/sports/m-tennis/recaps/101411aaa.html

SAN FRANCISCO – California men’s tennis senior Ahmed Ismail remained undefeated when he picked up a 6-4, 7-5 win over San Francisco’s Jacob Hartwig on the first day of the 2011 Battle in the Bay Classic at the California Tennis Club on Thurs., Oct. 13. The Golden Bears sent three players into the round of 16 with first-day singles victories.

Junior Riki McLachlan moved into the round of 16 with a 6-1, 6-3 win over USF’s Thai Tu, and freshman Andrew Scholnick claimed a 7-6, 6-3 win over Mark DeCastro of San Francisco. Scholnick completed the Cal trio thanks to an 8-6 win in the first-set tiebreaker. Freshman Chase Melton had the only first-round match to go three sets. San Diego’s Thibaut Visay took a 6-1 win in the first set, but Melton forced the third with a 6-2 win in the second. Visay came back to win, 6-1, in the third.

In doubles play, the Bears’ duo of Melton and senior Tommie Murphy claimed an 8-6 win over Jonathan Knowlman and Will Schumacher of San Francisco in the round of 16. Ismail and McLachlan went the distance against Pepperdine’s team of Clark and David Sofaer, but fell, 7-4 in the tiebreaker.

Don’t pet a drug sniffing dog if you have drugs on you.

Endicott police charged Kelly Simpson, 48, of Binghamton, after he petted K-9 Tarah while she was on foot patrol with an officer on Wednesday on Washington Avenue.

Police said K-9 Tarah detected narcotics on Simpson. Following a police interview, he was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation.

Simpson was given an appearance ticket and released, police said.

Don’t have sex while skydiving

The Federal Aviation Administration says it will look into a videotaped skydiving sex stunt to determine if the pilot might have been distracted during the incident over Kern County.

FAA spokesman Ian Gregor says any activity that could distract the pilot while he’s flying could be a violation of federal regulations.

Skydive Taft owner David Chrouch says he fired part-time skydiving instructor and porn star Alex Torres and hasn’t decided whether to fire the company’s receptionist, Hope Howell, who he said was Torres’ partner in the video.

The video shows the two having sex in a plane before jumping out in tandem and continuing the act midair.

NBC station KGET-TV in Bakersfield reported that Chrouch said that Torres put the stunt together in an attempt to get the attention of Howard Stern. “Apparently they told my pilot it was OK to do this. And got here early in the morning before anyone got here and shot this,” Chrouch told KGET.

Authorities say Torres had posted the video on his blog but removed it on Monday. Chrouch said he found out about the stunt when a Taft police officer told him that the video was making the rounds at a local school.

Taft police Lt. Ed Whiting told KGET-TV that no criminal charges are pending.

The Bears officially begin practice Friday for what promises to be an intriguing season.
Can they win their second conference title in three seasons? It’s their goal and it’s possible.I talked recently with coach Mike Montgomery, who laid out what he sees as the team’s biggest challenges and greatest strengths.

"We’d like to plan man defense and I’m concerned we’re not progressing as much as I’d like," he said. "So we’re going to try to get that to where it’s something we can do effectively.
"I don’t think we board like we should. We need to get more people going more aggressively to the offensive glass and making sure they get their block-offs."

On the flip side, he continued, "I think offensively, things will take care of themselves. I think we’re better in a lot of different ways. (Allen) Crabbe’s better. We add Justin Cobbs. Brandon (Smith) is better, Jorge (Gutierrez) is better, Richard (Solomon) is better.

More here: http://www.ibabuzz.com/beartalk/2011/10/14/basketball-montys-thoughts-as-practice-begins/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BearTalk+%28Bear+Talk%29

Barry Zito: hotter in real life.

Cal’s Thursday night appearances are in the books for 2011 and possibly for the rest of eternity. Think ESPN wants the Bears back in prime time anytime soon? Goodness, gracious.
 
Let’s see … 43-15 to Oregon … plus 30-9 to USC … equals a combined score of 73-24 … which is better than being outscored 72-6 by the Ducks and Trojans — as Cal was two years ago.
 
Progress, right?

Wilner seems to be talking Cal fans off the edge, citing “winnable games” and a mediocore bowl trip. I’d settle for crisp football without those god awful mental errors.

Tedford’s agent must be pretty sharp for negotiating that extension.

MBB open practice:

BERKELEY – The California men’s basketball team will host an open practice at Haas Pavilion on Sun., Oct. 30, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. PT. This is the first chance to the 2011-12 Golden Bears before the team opens its season on Nov. 1 in a 7:30 p.m. exhibition game against UC San Diego. Admission is free and fans will have the opportunity to meet players and coaches during a post-practice autograph session.

In addition, sales representatives will be on hand to answer questions about season tickets and show fans around the arena. Fans interested in talking with a representative, in advance, can e-mail ticketsales@berkeley.edu. No registration is necessary. For more information about Cal men’s basketball, sign up for the Cal Basketball E-Newsletter at CalBears.com/BearTerritory.

MWP hosts USC:

Bear Bites:
In one of the biggest regular-season contests of 2011 and a rematch of the 2010 NCAA title game, No. 2-ranked Cal (14-2, 2-0) hosts No. 4 USC (11-2, 2-0) Saturday (Oct. 15) at 2 p.m. at Spieker Aquatics Complex. Spieker Aquatics was the site of last year’s NCAA finals in which the Trojans upended the Golden Bears, 12-10 in overtime. Looking to avenge last year’s loss, Cal features the 2010 National Player of the Year Ivan Rackov, who leads the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in scoring with 49 goals in 15 matches (3.27 gpg). The Bears also lead the MPSF in team scoring with 13.25 goals per game. USC, led by senior goalie Joel Dennerley, the 2010 MPSF Player of the Year, is tops in the league in defense, allowing 4.38 goals per game. Cal has outscored its opponents, 212-90, this season and defensively the Bears are second in the league with 5.63 goals per game. On Sept. 5 Rackov became this season’s first MPSF Player of the Week after tallying 12 goals with eight steals and seven assists in Cal’s Sept. 3 home victories over UC Davis and Santa Clara. Last week, the Bears’ junior goalie, Justin Parsons, was tabbed the Oct. 10 MPSF Player of the Week after tallying 26 goals in MPSF wins at No. 3 UCLA and Long Beach State, and a victory at No. 9 UC San Diego.

NinersNation talks receivers:



Yesterday, defensive coordinator Vic Fangio and offensive coordinator Greg Roman spoke with the media. I posted the Fangio transcript yesterday, along with a quote about Calvin Johnson and a shot at the Dallas Cowboys and Rob Ryan, so be sure to check that out. This morning, we’ve got the transcript from Roman’s conference, and there’s some notable quotes.

For one, Roman echoes my personal sentiments about the wide receivers and their blocking ability (though I’m going to assume he didn’t base his opinion off of mine, it’s safe to say I don’t have that much influence … yet). On Twitter and over at SB Nation Bay Area, I talked about how Michael Crabtree excelled particularly well at blocking, and particularly manhandled both Nnamdi Asomugha and Joselio Hanson in the game against the Eagles. Joshua Morgan is also very good at it, but he’s out for the season.

Silver And BlackPride is excited about Run DMC against the Browns:

Cleveland is 25th in rushing yards allowed per game. They are not playing as badly on run D as that number suggests though. They have faced the 29th most rushing attempts per game.

Cleveland is averaging a solid 4 yards allowed per carry. This is 13th in the NFL. They have done this by limiting open field yards. They are 10th in second level yards and 12th in open field yards.


Teams are succeeding 78 percent of the time in power situations. That is 26th in the NFL. They are stuffing only 18 percent of runs. That is 21st in the NFL.

This is not a good way to try and contain Darren McFadden. DMC is deadly if he can get past the line of scrimmage untouched.

FearTheFin previews the DUcks game:


Man. Hard to get into a posting rhythm when the Sharks have been off for six days. It feels like cranking up NHL 12 Dynasty Mode to Hardcore Superstar mode, advancing to the second round against the Canucks, and then not playing videogames for a week. When you come back it’s a nightmare. Outlet passes skipping off the boards, manual line changes destroying your will to live, the Sedins putting more work into the cycle than a college kid’s parents during Thanksgiving Break*. Rough times.

*Yup, that’s a laundry joke.

The Sharks are the only team in the NHL to have played one game this season. Pretty sure Lemony Snicket wrote a series of books about that.

First things second— according to David Pollak of Working The Corners, Martin Havlat will not be in the lineup tonight. He is still waiting to get clearance from his surgeon in Cleveland as to when he will be able to play. That process doesn’t need to be done in person however. Although he traveled to Cleveland earlier this month to meet with the surgeon, he can receive clearance over the phone. With three games in four days upcoming for the Sharks there’s no official word on whether or not Havlat will play. That sentence was sort of useless, but I wanted to include the fact that San Jose will be playing three games in four days somewhere in the post and that seemed like a good place to put it. If I could do it all over again I would probably use it somewhere else. Like in the fourth paragraph or something.

I don’t really want to talk about football but it’s all that keeps running through my head. Sigh.

How you deal with depression, that game made me depressed – time to listen to Smiths CDs

Raj Rajnataram gets 11 years:

The fallen hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam received the longest prison sentence ever for insider trading on Thursday, capping an aggressive government campaign that has ensnared dozens and may help deter the illegal use of confidential information on Wall Street.

Judge Richard J. Holwell of Federal District Court in Manhattan sentenced Mr. Rajaratnam, 54, the former head of the Galleon Group hedge fund, to 11 years in prison. A jury convicted Mr. Rajaratnam of securities fraud and conspiracy in May after a two-month trial.

Insider trading is an assault on the free markets," said Judge Holwell, who also imposed a $10 million fine and ordered Mr. Rajaratnam to forfeit $53.8 million in ill-gotten profits. "His crimes reflect a virus in our business culture that needs to be eradicated."
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The sentence was a watershed moment in a two-year push by federal prosecutors. Over that period, Preet S. Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, has brought charges against 54 people with insider trading crimes. Of those, 50 have been either pleaded guilty or have been convicted at trial. Three others’ situations are pending, and the fourth is a fugitive.

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- Lost my voice encouraging the second deck to cheer with me and my fam
- Pounded the bordering scoreboard till my hands swelled
- Bumped the Tyler the Creator Pandora station for the hour+ drive back to Santa Cruz
- Tall glass of Elijah T. Craig on the rocks
- Cuddled up with the puppy and fell asleep to Get Him to the Greek

And repeat after me: We’re a Basketball school.

And repeated after me: We’re an academic school

Because Bill Withers’s Ain’t No Sunshine popped into my head last night and it hasn’t left.

Can’t link a youtube vid at work, so the lyrics will have to do:

Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone.
It’s not warm when she’s away.
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
And she’s always gone too long anytime she goes away.

Wonder this time where she’s gone,
Wonder if she’s gone to stay
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
And this house just ain’t no home anytime she goes away.

And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know

Hey, I ought to leave the young thing alone,
But ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, only darkness everyday.
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone,
And this house just ain’t no home anytime she goes away.

Anytime she goes away.
Anytime she goes away.
Anytime she goes away.
Anytime she goes away.

Am I the only one who had a lot of fun at the game last night?

True Story: AT&T sucks as a football venue…especially with the students in the End Zone

What’s really frustrating is… if Barkley and Woods had shredded us again like they did last year, I would’ve said, well, that sucks, but those guys are All-American caliber players who are gonna be playing in the NFL soon. Tip my hat to those guys and move on. But we had them contained. If we’d had ANY semblance of offensive rhythm and execution, we would have beaten them. Hell, the way we were playing D I think it could have easily been 30-10 in favor of the Bears.

It’s that lack of basic competence that really stings. It’s not something I ever expected to see from a Tedford-coached team.

Seeing Rishi shotgun a beer in a suit was a thing of beauty yesterday.

AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH

Back during my “teenage angst” phase, I’d go drive around aimlessly listening to music and singing along at the top of my lungs. Singing is a big help actually.

WTF? You guys need to get loud. And stand up, for God’s sake, you’re not fifty.

I seroiusly felt like the only person in my section who gave his all to the game. Which is unfortunate.

AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP BOOING YOUR OWN PLAYERS