Can Cal Survive Another Year with Their Achilles Heel Kevin Riley Under Center?
Published on: 28th April, 2010
I’m spent. Seriously, I used my 6-month-old daughter as an excuse to skip the Cal football team’s spring game. She couldn’t possibly sit through that and a Cal-Stanford tennis match. Really, all it took to send this featured column into a month-long hibernation was one CalBears.com box score. In Cal’s first scrimmage of spring ...Five Reasons the Cal Bears Need a New Starting Quarterback
Published on: 18th March, 2010
Change is in the air in the Strawberry Canyon—a new special teams coach, a new defensive coordinator, and lots of big-time pieces (Syd'Quan Thompson, Jahvid Best) need replacing. So it only seems fitting that after two years as the Cal football team's starting quarterback, it’s time Kevin Riley starts seeing ...Could Cal’s Jeff Tedford Replace Urban Meyer at Florida?
Published on: 27th December, 2009
Could the second winningest coach in Cal football history be headed for the Swamp? Following one of his most disappointing seasons as the Bears' head coach, Jeff Tedford enters an offseason of relative uncertainty—Cal graduates eight senior starters and will likely lose Heisman candidate Jahvid Best to the NFL. On defense, he ...Why the Pac-10 Is on Its Way To a Second-Straight Perfect Bowl Season
Published on: 22nd December, 2009
If you're a college football fan and holiday cheer is what you're after this December, tuck away that BYU ball cap. Stash your Utes foam finger and Boston College tee. Bury your Sooner socks, Buckeyes bottle opener, and Cornhuskers hoodie. A year after turning in the only undefeated bowl season in ...How the Ducks’ Civil War Win Will Expose the Holiday Bowl, Cheat Cal
Published on: 4th December, 2009
And just like that, the Pac-10 sits just one Cal football win away from a four-way tie for second place. Oregon's 37-33 Rose Bowl-clinching win Thursday night against Civil War rival Oregon State ensured a three-way tie between the Beavers, Stanford, and the winner of USC-Arizona. A Bears win Saturday in Pullman ...More to the Cal and Stanford Rivalry Than Just ‘The Play’
Published on: 21st November, 2009
It's the ninth most played rivalry in college football history and yet Cal-Stanford amounts to little more than five laterals and a trampled trombone player. The Big Game has rarely lived up to its moniker, this year possibly being the exception to the rule: today's 112th Big Game marks the ...California QB Kevin Riley Deserves Better from Fans
Published on: 6th October, 2009
Kevin Mcdevitt Riley was born on Jan. 22, 1987 in Portland, OR to Faustin and Rhonda Riley. He attended Beaverton High School, was the vice president of his class as a junior and senior and quarterbacked his high school team with his father pacing the sidelines. Up until 2006, his first ...Pac-10 Football Against the Spread: Washington, Cal, UCLA in Trouble
Published on: 2nd October, 2009
Pac-10 Football Against the Spread came within an Oregon State touchdown of its first winning record in Week Four. Baby steps. Week Five in the Pac-10 is loaded with intrigue. UCLA opens Pac-10 play against the conference's only 2-0 team—Stanford—while No. 24 Cal hosts No. 7 USC with serious bowl implications in ...Pac-10 Football Against the Spread: Did Huskies Save Some for Stanford?
Published on: 23rd September, 2009
Don't ask me to blow on your dice in Vegas this week. For your sake. In two weeks, Pac-10 Football Against the Spread has been, well, struggling. I moved from a one-win Week Two to a one-win, one-tie Week Three—not exactly the "redemption" I was hoping for. With UCLA on a ...A Thorny Issue: No. 6 Cal Must Address Special Teams Concerns to Think Rose Bowl
Published on: 21st September, 2009
You could use all manner of adjectives to describe the Cal football team’s 3-0 start to 2009.Just stay away from the word “special.”Despite a lackluster effort from the kicking unit, the Bears turned a fourth-quarter deadlock into a two-score statement Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.With its 35-21 victory ...Featured Sponsors
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