DBD 11.17.11 Top Ten Ways You Know You're A stanfurd Student

CalBear81 already knew all of these

Dumb article, but I like the headline!

Why am I on Bleacher Report anyway?

1) Injuries
2) Lack of Offensive Drives
3) Tired Defense
4) Road Troubles
5) Level of Competition
6) No Game Changers
7) Talent Across the Conference
8) Quarterback Inexperience
9) Running and Passing Games
10) Inconsistent Conference

Potentially good news

The number of people applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level since early April, a sign that layoffs are easing and hiring may pick up.

Weekly applications dropped by 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 388,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. It was the fourth decline in five weeks.

The four-week average, a less volatile measure, dropped to 396,750. That’s the first time the average been below 400,000 in seven months.

Applications need to consistently drop below 375,000 to signal sustained job gains. They haven’t been that low since February.

The job market “is still weak but there are hopeful signs of some modest improvement,” Steven Wood, an economist at Insight Economics, in a note to clients.

The number of people receiving benefits also fell to the lowest level since Sept. 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the financial crisis intensified.

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4. Do you expect Keenan Allen and Marvin Jones give the Cardinal defense fits a la USC’s Robert Woods and Marquise Lee?

Kodiak: Yes. KA and Jones both do a nice job of getting open. I’m just not sure if our QB will consistently deliver them the ball.

LeonPowe: Only if we implement the all roll left offense.

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Celebrate the season together with someone – and something – you love at Starbucks. On November 17–20 from 2–5 p.m., when you buy one holiday beverage, you’ll get a second one free. Warm up with your choice of a Peppermint Mocha or new Skinny Peppermint Mocha, Caramel Brulée Latte, Gingerbread Latte or the longest-running holiday favorite, the Eggnog Latte.

49er16 is ECSTATIC

After Rebecca Black’s vanity release "Friday" became an unexpected Internet sensation overnight, the tween attempted legitimacy with the inspirational follow-up ballad, "My Moment." Now, Black returns to her upbeat and carefree ways with "Person of Interest."

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"There’s a crime scene on the dance floor/Ring the alarm/Police tape on the front door/And you are a person of interest," Black sings. "Can’t deny you’re implicated in the mayhem in my mind

This is going to end well

NEW YORK – Police have started to arrest protesters who are sitting on the ground and blocking traffic into New York’s financial district.

Police in riot helmets hauled several protesters to their feet at Nassau and Pine streets, one block from Wall Street, and handcuffed them.

Some of the police hit protesters as they resisted arrest.

Hundreds clogged the streets leading to Wall Street in lower Manhattan, bringing taxis and delivery vehicles to a halt. Police in riot helmets watched the protesters from behind barricades.

“All day, all week, shut down Wall Street!” the crowd chanted. At the corner of Nassau and Pine streets protesters were sitting on the ground and refusing to move.

Tedford in 10th big game:



This will be Cal coach Jeff Tedford’s 10th Big Game. The Fresno State graduate did not understand the importance of the rivalry when he was hired in 2002 but by now it’s part of the fabric of his life. He has a 7-2 record versus Stanford.

“Early in my career here it was really hard to understand” the game’s importance, he said. “When you’re a part of it, you’ve been on the positive end and on the wrong side of it. Now you don’t only hear the stories about it but you’ve been a part of it. When you don’t have the Axe, it means something.”

Ertz is out: Stanford coach David Shaw said after practice Wednesday that he would be “shocked” if tight end Zach Ertz could play because of his knee injury.

Tickets returned: For the second time in four years, Cal failed to sell out its complement of tickets for the Big Game at Stanford Stadium. The school returned about 2,000 of its 15,000-ticket allotment for Saturday night’s game, a Stanford spokesman said Wednesday.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/16/SPD21M07BO.DTL#ixzz1dyif7JPs

A century+ of Big Game history:

A few more things …


1. People seemed a little more chippy about this rivalry in the 1940a, 50s and 60s. If there were fights like the ones in this gallery, I suspect they would be replayed for days on SportsCenter. One more reason that my parents should be happy they grew up in an era without camera phones.

2. I was hoping to find a Junipero Serra photo, and ended up with three. But my favorite find was the Cal band visit to the Chronicle newsroom in 1961. That’s a really cool tradition (assuming you’re not on the phone with a source when the band comes by your desk). The Chronicle newsroom is a little bit grimy, but it has fantastic acoustics.

MBB Single game tix on sale:



BERKELEY – Single game tickets for California men’s basketball Pac-12 home games are now on sale to the general public. The Golden Bears begin their quest to win the inaugural Pac-12 championship with a home schedule highlighted by a New Years Eve matchup against UCLA and home contests against Stanford and Arizona.

Cal will also face Colorado and Utah, at Haas Pavilion, for the first time as members of the Pac 12 conference.

Tickets start at $10, for youth, with a reduced price for adult tickets to all conference games. To purchase your single-game Pac-12 tickets, click here.

A variety of multi-game ticket options are also available, including a seven-game Flex Pack, a four-game Pick-em’ Pack, and a new four-game Premium Pack, which allows fans to sit closer to the action in our Premium Bench sections. Season tickets are also still available.

Cal’s Pac-12 home schedule includes the following games:

Monday, Dec. 29 – USC
Saturday, Dec. 31 – UCLA
Thursday, Jan. 12 – Colorado
Saturday, Jan. 14 – Utah
Sunday, Jan. 29 – Stanford
Thursday, Feb. 2 – Arizona
Saturday, Feb. 4 – Arizona State
Thursday, Feb. 16 – Oregon
Saturday, Feb. 18 – Oregon State

Big Splash:



BERKELEY -

Sat., Nov. 19 at Stanford, Avery Aquatics Center Stanford, Calif. 5:15 p.m.
Bear Bites:
No. 3 Cal (19-3, 6-1) will invade No. 4 Stanford (18-4, 5-2) for the annual Big Splash Saturday (Nov. 19) at 5:15 p.m. at Avery Aquatics Center. The winner of the Big Splash will receive the Steve Heaston Trophy, named after the former Cal men’s water polo coach (1989-98, three NCAA titles) who passed away in 1999. The Big Splash also represents the final MPSF league contest before the Golden Bears, currently tied with UCLA (5-1) for second in the conference standings at 6-1, enter the Nov. 25-27 MPSF Tournament at UCLA. The winner of the MPSF Tournament is anautomatic qualifier for the 2011 NCAA championship, Dec. 3-4 at Cal’s Spieker Aquatics Complex. The Bears’ three losses this season have all been by one goal (6-5 to No. 1 UCLA Sept. 18, 10-9 in overtime to No. 4 Stanford Oct. 2, and 9-8 in sudden death overtime to No. 2 USC Oct. 15). Conversely, Cal also has victories over both top-ranked UCLA (8-4 Oct. 2 and 8-5 Oct. 7) and Stanford (8-7 Sept. 18). The Bears feature the 2010 National Player of the Year Ivan Rackov, who leads the MPSF in scoring with 62 goals in 21 matches (2.95 gpg). Cal also leads the MPSF in team scoring with 12.50 goals per game, and are third behind USC and Stanford in team defense (6.09 gpg). The Bears have outscored their opponents, 275-134, this season. On Sept. 5 Rackov was this year’s first MPSF Player of the Week with 12 goals in Cal’s Sept. 3 home victories over UC Davis and Santa Clara, and was the Oct. 24 conference POW with four goals in an 11-8 win over No. 6 Pepperdine. The Bears’ junior goalie, Justin Parsons, was tabbed as the Oct. 10 MPSF Player of the Week after tallying 26 saves in MPSF wins at current No. 1-ranked UCLA and Long Beach State, and a victory at No. 10 UC San Diego.

Returning Cal All-Americans/Top Newcomers:

WBB opens tonight:



Thursday, Nov. 17: Sacramento State at California, 7:05 p.m.
TV: none; Live Audio/Video Streaming: CalBears.com; Gametracker: CalBears.com
Sunday, Nov. 20: Illinois at California, 2:05 p.m.
TV: none; Live Audio/Video Streaming: CalBears.com; Gametracker: CalBears.com
BERKELEY- The California Golden Bears (0-1) and first-year head coach Lindsay Gottlieb play their first home games of the 2011-12 season, hosting the Sacramento State Hornets (0-2) on Thursday, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m., and the Illinois Fighting Illini (1-1) on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 2 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 17 is Youth Free Night. All kids 12th grade and below will receive free admission to the game. There will also be a post-game autograph session with the team.

The Bears and Hornets have not faced each other since 1993, when Cal won, 95-73 on the home court. Sac State has four victories over the Bears in the 1970’s to own a 4-1 series advantage.

Over the past six years, the Bears have dominated California schools who are not members of the Pac-12. In 19 games since 2005-06, the Bears have only lost once to an out-of-conference team from the Golden State, the 68-66 stunning loss to San Jose State during the 2009-10 season. The Bears 18 victories over California schools include two wins in the NCAA Tournament (San Diego, 2008; Fresno State, 2009) and a WNIT overtime win (U.C. Davis, 2010).

Cal has also been dominant in regular-season non-conference games in recent history. In the last six seasons, Cal went 50-12 against non-conference teams in the regular season, with nine of those losses coming against teams ranked in the top-25. During that same stretch, the Cal has gone 31-5 at Haas against non-conference teams.

Womens soccer to take on BC:


Friday, Nov. 18
4:30 p.m. – Cal (12-6-3, 5-4-2 Pac-12) vs. No. 16 Boston College (12-5-2, 6-4 ACC)
Laird Q. Cagan Stadium – Stanford, Calif.
Series Record with the Eagles: 2-0-0
Last Meeting: W, 5-0 in Amherst, Mass. (Sept. 16, 1990)

BERKELEY – The California women’s soccer team will face No. 16 Boston College in the second round of the NCAA Championship on Friday at 4:30 p.m. at Laird Q. Stadium on the campus of Stanford University. The Bears advanced to the second round of the post-season tournament for the second time in the last three years by defeating No. 11 Santa Clara this past Saturday on the road.

After Cal and Santa Clara played to a 1-1 draw during regulation and overtime, the Bears punched their ticket to the second round of the tournament with a 4-3 victory over the Broncos in the penalty-kick shootout.

California enters Friday’s match with a 12-6-3 overall record, while Boston College comes into the match 12-5-2 overall. The Bears completed the regular season with a 5-4-2 mark to place sixth in the highly-competitive Pac-12 Conference and the Eagles completed their Atlantic Coast Conference slate with a 6-4 record to place fifth in the league.

NinersNation talks red zone:

When Alex Smith speaks with the media this year, he has done a fairly solid job of replicating his head coach’s ability to say very little while answering a lot of questions. In his pre-practice Q&A yesterday, he actually provided some insight that isn’t stunning, but is something worth noting:

The wide receivers haven’t gotten into the end zone much, how have they dealt with that with you?

“We’re winning. I think that’s all that matters. Especially for those guys, no question they want to be in it, they want to score touchdowns, we all want that. But, just the style of games we’ve been in, the type of games, the way that the games have gone, that’s just the way it’s happened. But no question, I think me included and the guys outside, I think our production, especially in the red zone, needs to get better.”

The 49ers have done a solid job of putting points on the board this season, ranked seventh in the league. However, they have had some issues down in the red zone when it comes to punching the ball in. If they are going to take this thing to the next level this season, some improvement in the red zone would be nice.

As it currently stands, Alex Smith is 13 of 28 for 83 yards and five touchdowns in the red zone. I don’t have rankings of QBs in the red zone, but you can check them out team by team at USAToday.com. I did a quick look at a handful of quarterbacks and found these numbers:

Raiders are feast/famine:


Warren Sapp might have said something correct given enough time and given enough statements (even a broken Cuckoo clock is correct at the certain point in time). Sapp says, “the Raiders cannot stand success.” The statement, elaborated, suggests that the Raiders tend toward complacency, celebrate wins excessively and react to loses too gracefully, don’t play the entire 60-minutes, give up leads by carelessness and not finishing, consider halftime leads as sufficient to call it a day, etc.

Well, the man may have an argument using Week 9 as an example. With the division up for grabs, Oakland heads for the lockeroom at halftime leading Denver 17 – 7 just as the final score of Miami’s upset victory over KC (31 – 3) is announced at “The O”; cheers grow louder as that good news is followed by the halftime score of G.B. leading San Diego 28 – 17. Oakland begins the 3rd Quarter sluggish and dull and Denver takes over the game – scoring on its first drive and then scoring again and again and again and again (5 times) while Oakland manages only one score the entire 2nd half and loses what seems a sure victory.

The feast-famine dynamic of the Raiders is a fact but Sapp’s assertion of the cause of that dynamic is not a fact that is absolutely provable.

Sharks to take on Red Wings:

Heading into San Jose’s 2011-2012 campaign it’s doubtful Sharks Head Coach Todd McLellan ever figured he would be splitting up Patrick Marleau and Joe Thornton for an extended period of time.

McLellan has always been a fan of the line blender when things aren’t going well for his team, tinkering with the parts under the hood much like a mechanic. He isn’t afraid to make a switch in the middle of a game, usually in the second period if San Jose is off to a slow start, but that really has never applied to the duo of Thornton and Marleau. For the most part McLellan has swapped the right-winger on that side of the ice, keeping his power unit of Marleau-Thornton on the ice together at both even strength and the power play.

Marleau has put up the best numbers of his career playing alongside Thornton on the Sharks top line— 125 goals over the last three plus seasons, the best in the NHL during that time frame besides Alex Ovechkin (145) and Steven Stamkos (130). That’s elite company, and while it might not all be due to Thornton’s buttery hands and eagle-like vision, a lot of it is related to how well Thornton can open up defenses from behind the net and slip the puck to his teammates like a silent assassin. Hard to imagine how a mammoth can be so graceful but we aren’t one to question things.

New judge in Sandusky case:

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A new judge was assigned Wednesday to handle the child sex abuse charges against former Penn State football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, whose televised defense earlier this week drew a rebuke from a lawyer for one of his accusers.

The change removed a State College judge with ties to a charity founded by Sandusky for at-risk children, The Second Mile.

Harrisburg attorney Ben Andreozzi said he represents a client who will testify against Sandusky, who is accused of abusing eight boys, some on campus, over 15 years.

More from ESPN.com
ESPN.com’s Rick Reilly wrote about the Penn State scandal last week. After it, he heard stories of hope from victims of child sexual abuse. He shares some here. Story

To date, no single entity involved has voluntarily done the right thing and put the children — the actual victims — first, contends ESPN.com’s Howard Bryant. Story

• Grantland: Open Letter to McQueary

“I am appalled by the fact that Mr. Sandusky has elected to re-victimize these young men at a time when they should be healing,” Andreozzi said in a statement released by his office. “He fully intends to testify that he was severely sexually assaulted by Mr. Sandusky.”

Sandusky’s lawyer, Joe Amendola, appeared with him on NBC’s “Rock Center” on Monday night and cast doubt on the evidence in the case.

Looks like MLB is moving Astros to AL and doing interleague play evey day:

HOUSTON — Major League Baseball told Houston businessman Jim Crane it would not approve his purchase of the Houston Astros unless he agreed to move the team to the American League, The Associated Press has learned.

Crane was forced to agree to move the sale along, a person familiar with the negotiations said Wednesday on condition of anonymity because no official announcement has been made by MLB or the Astros. Approval of the sale could be announced as early as Thursday at a meeting of baseball executives in Milwaukee.

Crane reportedly agreed to the move in exchange for a drop in the sales price valued earlier this year at $680 million. The person who spoke to the AP could not confirm the sales price.

We’ll let baseball talk about that," current owner Drayton McLane said Wednesday night. “There were a lot of adjustments, so we’ll just wait and see what they have to say (Thursday).”

The players’ association believes two 15-team leagues would create a more proportionate schedule and has urged baseball to make the switch. With schedules for next season already completed, the earliest such a move could take place is 2013.

Time is running out for approval of the Astros deal: Crane has said that his offer, which was announced on May 16, expires Nov. 30.

Messages were left seeking from Major League Baseball, but commissioner Bud Selig did address the Astros’ situation during a Twitter chat on Monday.

Thanks for the DBD and geart stories, RIshi

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Zach Polovchik, a senior at Pennsylvania State University, returned to campus after a job- hunting trip and was dismayed when he opened the student newspaper.

“No one from Penn State will ever be hired by any company I run in the future,” read a letter from Gregory White of Austin, Texas, to the Daily Collegian. “I am sickened beyond belief by the disgusting support of pedophilia shown by Penn State students.” Some students rioted after learning that longtime football coach Joe Paterno had been fired in a scandal.

Penn State officials are concerned about a backlash from employers as students begin their search for jobs and summer internships. They posted a letter on the school’s website last week imploring recruiters to maintain an open mind about Penn State job-seekers. They also plan to send letters to employers encouraging them to keep the scandal involving allegations of child molestation by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky out of the hiring process.

If you were caught rioting and overturning news vans on youtube, you deserve this.

But if you’re just a graduating senior from Penn State and didn’t take part in the riots… it sucks to have this held against you.

India win by innings despite Bravo ton

Darren Bravo’s resolute century, which left him with statistics identical to Brian Lara’s at the end of 12 Tests, wasn’t enough to deny India an innings win.

Caught maybe 10 minutes of Ishant bowling inconsistently, and yet Dhoni kept going back to him. Captain knows best, guess Yadav was tiring out.