The first storm of the season: P G & E reports that there are six power outages in Berkeley. Seven if you count the Cal offense.
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The final score was Stanford 48 – Cal 14, and those 14 points came late in the game against Stanford’s second team defense. So this year, however, the Bears can’t blame their Big Game loss on too much Luck.
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Despite the rivalry, however, Cal fans actually had nothing but good wishes for Stanford Quarterback Andrew Luck. In fact, after the game they were unanimous in saying that with his talents, Luck really should enter the NFL draft after this year.
After the 2010 season, Cal’s aging Memorial Stadium will be basically completely gutted and renovated. But today’s Stanford-Cal “Big Game” was only the second-to-last game, as the University of Washington comes to Berkeley next weekend.
Just as well, after today’s 48-14 loss, Bears fans might be more than willing to tear down the old stadium, with the team in it.
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The Vikings will activate wide receiver Sydney Rice for tomorrow’s game against Packers. Presumably coach Brad Childress wanted to make sure Rice was completely ready to play, both to catch passes and to tackle Green Bay defensive ends who intercept Brett Favre.
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The Golden State Warriors now have both Stephen Curry, a Davidson graduate, and Jeremy Lin, a Harvard graduate, on their roster. Which means they may well have the two NBA players with the highest SAT scores.
Said many of their fellow players in the league – “What are SAT scores?”
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It could always be worse department: The Illinois-Northwestern game today was the first college football game at Wrigley Field in 72 years. Just think, fans in attendance then were probably complaining about their Cubs’ 30 year World Series drought.
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Billionaire Mitt Romney told supporters that he thinks people are “exhausted” from the 2010 elections, so he wants to wait a while before he really gears up his presidential campaign for 2012.
Hmm, wonder when he last talked to his good friend and protege Meg Whitman?
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Another potential silver lining to this whole TSA potentially overly-instrusive patdown controversy. By the time you get to your airline seat, being cramped, nickel-and-dimed, and ignored by flight attendants will seem almost pleasant by comparison.
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The Redskins hope to rebound Sunday against the Titans. Or at least make a decision about saving some serious money.
Bill Littlejohn, on Donovan McNabb’s new $78 million contract giving the Redskins an out clause: “In the first quarter Monday night, it looked like a three-and-out clause.”
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Back to baseball – in a column this week Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Giants wrote while praising Brian Wilson that he nonetheless “pulled out every theatrical gimmick except a monocle and feather boa.”
So okay, Giants fans, we know who to blame next year when Wilson shows up with that monocle and boa….
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