Different religions teach that there are different ways to get into heaven, but students have decided that all they really need to do is cross Folsom Dam Road, make a few more turns, and they’re there. The spot isn’t really heaven, of course, but a growing number of students are finding that it makes a …
On the football field there’s just about no one smoother than Cal quarterback Jared Goff. In the shotgun, he’s poised and confident, and he makes threading pin-point passes to his receivers in double coverage look easy — almost too easy. He stays cool and collected as 300-pound defensive linemen rush at him, and he easily … Continue reading
Story After losing his grandfather in middle school, Eloi Vasquez would raise his pointer fingers to the sky after scoring a goal in a soccer game and say, “That’s for you, Papa.” Now, after the UC Berkeley freshman’s death, his two younger brothers — who are both soccer players — will do the same for … Continue reading
CORVALLIS, Ore. — All season, Jared Goff has looked otherworldly. But Saturday night, Goff struggled, and it was his teammate running back Daniel Lasco who looked like the superstar. Lasco’s 188 rushing yards and three touchdowns carried the Cal football team to a 45-31 victory over the Beavers. Coming into the game, Lasco’s career-best rushing … Continue reading
Bang A boy on the streets knows he has to keep moving. He’s got to keep his head down as he makes his way along the concrete streets and past the dark buildings as he walks to school. The sound is nothing new. Only 12 years old, and he’s become numb. Bang. Just an elementary-school … Continue reading
A last-second Hail Mary. A goal-line stand on fourth down. In the last two weeks, the Bears and their fans have seen heart rates spike to crazy levels. It’s hard to imagine how after two crazy weeks — which head coach Sonny Dykes joked made him age 100 years — this week could get any … Continue reading
The Cal football team did a lot of things right in the game Saturday. It just forgot one key part of the game plan: It forgot to knock on wood. At halftime, the game looked like it was over. The Bears led 28-6, and Arizona didn’t look like it was going to threaten the Bears. … Continue reading
A little girl trips and falls on the playground. Her dad, worried something will mar her perfect skin, runs over to her, kisses her boo-boo, holds her tight against his chest and whispers that everything will be all right as she wails and wails and wails. A little boy trips and falls on the playground. … Continue reading
Home. It’s a simple concept, really. It’s the place where you live, the floor you shuffle across in the morning to make a cup of coffee, that special seat you have with just the perfect view of the TV, where your favorite pillow — not too hard, not too soft — sits on the comfiest … Continue reading
Story originally appeared in the Daily Californian on March 9, 2014. If football is a game of inches, then baseball is a game of pitches. And, over the weekend at the Cal Baseball Classic, the four games the Bears played came down to five pitches. Against Tulane (9-5) on Friday, freshman starter Daulton Jefferies was … Continue reading
Story originally appeared in the Daily Californian on Nov. 1, 2013. Seventy-seven-year-old “Dog” Turner already knows how he is going to die: Cal’s football team will be beating USC by 30 points at Memorial Stadium. He’ll go down. The band will play the California Fight Song, and his ashes will be shot from the cannons. For … Continue reading
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