Golden Nuggets: Aaron Rodgers Is the 6th Best NFL Player in 2017

Cal in the Pros

• The NFL Network listed what they consider to be the Top 100 players in the NFL, and our own Aaron Rodgers was named 6th!

• To celebrate this honor, Cal Football’s social media team made this highlight reel of Rodgers’ Cal career (Or maybe this video is old, I don’t know)

• Support has rolled in for former NFL player Ryan O’Callaghan who came out as gay last week.
• Jaylen Brown was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team, with 106 votes (24 first-team votes).

Team USA

• Here’s a shot of Sam Singer on Team USA’s Jewish basketball team that’s playing in Israel (as I have reported in past Nuggets).

• The USA men’s Water Polo team finished fourth in the FINA World League Super Finals but Cal student Johnny Hooper had a great series, scoring in almost (if not every) game.
• Not really Team USA, but close enough since he is on Team USA. Collin Morikawa won the Northeast Amateur golf tournament!

Baseball

• Andrew Vaughn is on the Baseball America Freshmen All-American first team. If it seems like I’ve reported this before, I haven’t. He just keeps on winning awards from various baseball writers. And thanks to MLB draft rules, we still have him for two more years!

Athletics

• Sad news to report, John Sproul has passed away. The son of former Cal president Robert Gordon Sproul, he was a huge Cal Athletics supporter and was a key figure in the successful fight to save Cal Baseball in 2011.
• Not Cal related, but sharing this article about women in sports by Daily Cal writer Christie Aguilar in solidarity. Great read.
• Jon Wilner’s breakdown of 10 Pac-12 schools’ financial situations (USC and Furd excluded). Cal’s is obviously not good...

Basketball

• Joshua Christopher, brother of Pac-10 Champ Patrick, has his first offer... and it is from us!
• Charmin Smith, WBB assistant coach, was named the Assistant Coach Director on the board of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association. This won’t require her to leave her Cal job. Congrats!

Football

• Both The Daily Cal (Christie Aguilar) and Golden Bear Report (Trace Travers) have done a study of Cal’s offensive line.
• Trace breaks down defensive line coach Jerry Azzinaro’s contract. Here is Ryan Gorcey’s writeup of Azzinaro and Tuiasosopo (spelled both right on my first try!!) as well.

Note: Twice in this article I named the Daily Cal writer Christine, but her name is Christie. I fixed it quickly, but just in case anyone saw it... I apologize.

GO BEARS!