Tough week ahead for the Bears as both MBB and WBB take on the LA teams. Both teams are in the hunt for a Pac-12 championship. Wins against the LA teams are always great, but can be hard to come by. Try to make it out to Haas this week for both WBB games. They take on UCLA on Thursday night and USC on Saturday.

Also, there is a Cal baseball fanfest at 11 AM at Evans Diamond. Then, a scrimmage at 1. So, try to make it out for that. More info on the schedule and the CGB schedule after the jump. Remember, we can move any posts at any time without prior notice, because that's just how we roll! GO BEARS!

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Big week this week. The basketballs take on the Arizonas. MBB has two home games. Thursday we take on Arizona and Saturday we take on Arizona State. There is a lot of Cal-Stanford MBB discussion going on right now, so I'll keep this short. Check out the Cal Athletics Calendar and CGB Schedule after the jump. GO BEARS!

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We're nothing if not democratic over here. Since we rolled out the #CalGang T-Shirts earlier this month, people have been brainstorming further ideas for shirts. The #CalGang shirts have been so popular that even Coach Tedford's son, Quinn Tedford, was seen rocking one. Now, we have a few more options available at the store.

Firstly, we've added a woman's slimfit T-Shirt option. All of our #CalGang designs are now available in woman's slimfit T-Shirt, including the new designs being unveiled right now!

Secondly, as the last sentence alluded to, we've added some new designs. One of our favorite Cal sporting teams (and it is SO hard to pick a favorite!) is the Cal softball team. They had a great season last year and are looking to have another great season in 2012. So, we put together a #CalGang design for the Cal softball team.

You can see all the pieces of clothing available with the Cal Softball design here. There are a variety of both men's and women's items, including a track jacket, spaghetti strap tank, and even a junior's shirt.

We've also been impressed with the sheer awesomeness of Cal footballer Avery Sebastian. Not only is his name two really awesome first names, it is also two really awesome last names. Tough to beat that. He has a great line "We All We Got. We All We Need." And he was kind enough to allow us to fashion a design with that line.

Thanks, Avery! You can purchase this in men's t-shirt, women's t-shirt, muscle t, or the women's slimfit (as noted above). You can sort all the products in the clothing store by category by using the drop down menus right above the clothing items.

After the jump, we have a few more designs that can be purchased. And we're always soliciting suggestions. So, continue to tell us your thoughts and if they are cool enough, you might see them on the body of a slim and fit woman!

As a reminder, we do not make any commission off of the sales here. We set the commission at $0.00 to keep the cost to you as inexpensive as possible. So, when you think insane markup, you don't have to think CGB anymore! Thanks and GO BEARS!

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Big week this week. Cal v. Stanford in the basketballs. On Saturday, women's basketball takes on Stanford down at Maples. Then, on Sunday, we have CGB Night at Haas as men's basketball takes on the Trees. Should be a great week! Try to make it out to either event.

On our end, we'll have more this week on some of the new hires by the football team. Frankly, with all the news swirling these days, who knows what posts we'll have. I can assure you that when we were writing up the schedule last weekend, we didn't anticipate losing 2 coaches and having a key MBB player declared academically ineligible. So, while we have a schedule here for the week, anticipate changes.

Check it all out after the jump. GO BEARS!

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Hey guys, check out information on the Cal Athletics events for the week after the jump. We got some WBB at Haas and even some swimming events. Plus, what we're gonna talk about this week. I'll keep it short, because we've had a busy day with many great posts and I don't want to push down any of the posts. So, check out the joint schedules after the jump and GO BEARS!

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Deceptively busy week this week. There are many tournaments that various Cal sports teams are involved in. For example, rugby has a big tournament down at UCLA this weekend. Swimmings are super busy this upcoming weekend, too.

There are several events at Haas. Two MBB games, a men's gymnastics meet, and a women's gymnastics meet. All the information is behind the jump. You could go to Haas from Thursday to Sunday for tons of Cal sports action! If anybody makes it out to any of the events, feel free to do a fanpost (potentially with cool photos!). That would definitely be awesome.

Here are CGB, we're chockablock full of basketball stuff. Whether it is men's or women's, there is a lot to talk about. So, check out our schedule for the week after the jump, too. Hope to see you around this week. GO BEARS!

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And thus football season ended on the West Coast, with the Pac-12 earning a record of 2-5 in bowl games. Considering that USC's ineligibility cost the conference an elite bowl representative AND kicked every team up a rung in the pecking order, that dismal record can hardly be considered a surprise. If you're into caring about conference reputation, all that really matters is that the elite teams acquitted themselves well, winning one BCS bowl and losing another by the narrowest of margins. Hell, only Arizona St. got blown out - the four other losers all fell by 11 points or less.

Me? I'm done caring about conference affiliation. Thanks to the expansion of the BCS there is only one situation when conference reputation matters: when a team is competing for a spot in the national title game. After that, it's all about whatever it is that makes BCS bowls pick an at-large team, and as we've seen over the years football reputation is pretty low on the list of criteria.

Let's move on to Pac-12 events that might actually impact Cal. It didn't get a ton of coverage around these parts because the news was announced on the same day as a certain bowl game in San Diego, but the Pac-12 announced a pretty big development: Larry Scott has made an agreement with Jim Delany and the Big-10 on a "collaborative effort'' that means annual non-conference games between the two conferences across basketball and many Olympic sports, with a full 12 football games starting in 2017.

With the Bears playing Texas in 2015 and 2016, I would guess that the Bears are one of the primary reasons that the full, 12 game Pac-12/Big-10 schedule isn't starting until 2017. I wouldn't mind if Cal added a lower tier Big 10 program to the schedule (your Indianas, your Minnesotas) but Texas and, say, Nebraska would be a little much for one year.

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Just in case anyone wanted to hang out in between reveling. And what better way to reminisce on days of yore than by watching Beast Mode, Aaron Rodgers, Desmond Bishop, Chris Conte, Thomas Decoud, and Tony Gonzalez? Happy Holidays!