Sports

Pac-4 Blues: Monday Morning Quarterbacking the Pac-12 Implosion
By Scott BallIn case you missed the headlines, the Pac-12, Cal’s athletic conference, blew up over the weekend, leaving observers slack-jawed.

Remembering Joe Kapp
By Pat JosephJoe Kapp ’59 was the greatest bad quarterback there ever was—a larger-than-life character who left his mark as a player, coach, and activist.

How A Survivor Contestant Learned to Keep Her Head Above Water
By Karla Cruz Godoy ’16 as told to Josh Sens, M.J. ’95I found myself in the Pacific Ocean, trapped beneath a metal grate with the tide rising around me, fighting the urge to panic.

Scaling the Climate Crisis
By Margie CullenMolly Kawahata lives in Bozeman, Montana, so that she can climb frozen waterfalls in the frigid Rocky Mountain winters.

Batter’s Choice: Coach Zamloch’s Reversible Baseball
By Dan Schoenholz (B.S. '85; MPP '98)Unless you’re a hardcore baseball fan, you’re likely unaware of the new rules coming to major league baseball in 2023.

11 Things You’ll Never Believe Came Out of Berkeley!
By Pat JosephYeah, okay, you’ll probably believe some of it. Still, we think it’s a fun list.

Recounting the Play, Play-by-Play, 40 Years On
Context and insight on that moment in 1982 when the football gods proved to fans everywhere that the cliches really are true: Anything can happen, and It ain’t over till it’s over.

Where Do We Stand on Title IX?
By Margie CullenDonna Seid ’76 never thought she’d play a sport in college.

40 Years Later, Officials Reflect on the Most Outrageous Football Finish
By James RaineyThe pounding on the door sent a shudder through the tiny locker room.

How Cal Golf Went From A Ragtag Team to the Top of the Game
By Scott BallCal's masters of golf are leading the way. But it wasn't always this way.

Safe at Home! Remembering Cal’s Season on the Brink
Under darkened skies laden with humidity and sparked by lightning, Cal’s Devon Rodriquez slowly strode to the plate. It was June 6, 2011, the title game of the NCAA Baseball Regionals in Houston, the Golden Bears’ most crucial at-bat in their most dramatic of seasons—one in which the very existence of the team hung in […]

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