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Hawaii runs past UC DavisHonolulu Star-AdvertiserChristian Standhardinger poured in 29 points as Hawaii beat UC Davis 86-77 in a Big West Conference basketball Saturday at the Stan Sheriff Center. UH improved to 8-5 in the league and 19-8 overall. The Aggies fell to 3-9 and 8-19. Hawaii won its sixth …Standhardinger leads Hawaii past UC […]
Irvine outlasts Hawaii in overtimeHonolulu Star-AdvertiserIn a thrill ride contested at well under the speed limit, UC Irvine edged host Hawaii 60-56 in a battle of Big West Conference men’s basketball contenders Thursday at the Stan Sheriff Center. The Anteaters avenged a 90-86 loss (also in overtime) to UH …UC Irvine shuts down Hawaii for […]
UPI.comCORVALLIS, Ore., Feb. 17 (UPI) — Volcanoes such as Oregon’s Mount Hood can go from dormant to active in just a few months, an Oregon State University geologist says. Magma sitting 2 to 3 miles beneath Mount Hood has been stored in near-solid …UC Davis: Volcano eruptibility is rareCentral Valley Business TimesVolcanic Eruptions Determined by […]
No. 10 Cincinnati Shakes Off HoustonESPNCINCINNATI — Sean Kilpatrick scored 28 points and Justin Jackson overcame foul problems to add 13 points, all in the second half, and the No. 10 Cincinnati Bearcats shook off Houston for a 73-62 win on Saturday. Sophomore forward Shaquille Thomas …Houston-Cincinnati PreviewFOXSports.comKilpatrick’s 28 leads UC over HoustonCincinnati.comSean Kilpatrick, Justin […]
SportingNews.comAgu and some of his teammates were on a training run near Memorial Stadium on Friday and multiple members of the Cal medical staff were supervising, according to the Associated Press. MORE: College football icons | Top 10 for 2014. Team physician Dr.California football player Ted Agu diesThe Seattle TimesCal grieving over death of football […]
The National Union of Healthcare Workers endorsed its lawyer, Dan Siegel, who’s running for Mayor of Oakland. Here’s my interview with Dan Siegel just three weeks ago: The National Union of Healthcare Workers was formed in 2009, and after a split with the Service And Employees International Union, or SEIU. In 2010, there’s no official […]
Even little amount of alcohol dangerous while driving: StudyANINEWSWashington, January 18 (ANI): A study has revealed that even .01 blood alcohol content can be dangerous while driving. The study, which is led by UC San Diego sociologist David Phillips, has found that even “minimally buzzed” drivers are more often to be …Drinking and Driving Unsafe […]
Atlanta Hawks Reportedly Likely to Sign James Nunnally to a 10 Day ContractSoaring Down SouthNunnally is a 6’7″, 205 lb. small forward who has spent the entirety of the season in the National Basketball Developmental League on the Bakersfield Jam, the D-League affiliate of the Atlanta Hawks. A 4 year player at UC Santa Barbara, […]
Nelson Mandela When Nelson Mandela was freed from prison in South Africa in 1990, he went on a United States “Thank You” Tour that included Oakland, California. You have to understand that, at that time I was just about three years out of grad school at UC Berkeley. And when I was there, protests against […]
There has been a lot of chatter why UC Berkeley doesn’t have a larger black student base. One recent publication reported that more than half of African-American students who are accepted at Cal don’t go there because “they feel unwelcome.” The LA Times featured a story on Cal freshman Kashawn Campbell, a straight A student […]
What will Samsung show at CES 2014 Las Vegas? Samsung’s Richard Bullwinkle gives us a preview while at the Play Conference 2013 by The UC Berkeley Haas Business School. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkhHg1LWdcc
The Yosemite Fire is spreading and not contained as of this writing. Here’s a Cal / UC Berkeley update As I was on the Cal Alumni Board and Awards Committee (1998-2003), I just received a memo from CAA’s Executive Director Jefferson Coombs on the status of The Bear’s Lair and Pinecrest Chalet given their proximity […]
The Disaster Tuesday, December 28th 2004, for me, was a weird mix of emotions. First, I was happy just to be with my Mom and Step dad here in Fayetteville, GA. (I’m also smiling over his feeling better during his battle with cancer.) Second, I did miss Oakland and the Bay Area (and wish my […]
Cal was soundly beaten by Oregon, 59 to 17, increasing calls for Cal Athletic Director Sandy Barbour to terminate Cal Football Head Coach Jeff Tedford. What’s interesting, and yet typical of these cries is that they don’t include a look at Tedford’s revised contract with the University of California and what UC Regents refer to […]
The >play 2012 Digital Media Conference is today at the UC Berkeley Haas Business School, and it promises to be an excellent presentation. The event is entirely student-run, and concerns the latest developments in digital media and social media (really, the same) with respect to mobile devices and video. And on the note of video, […]
Robert Birgeneau. Cal football fan? Yes! As word goes around that Cal Chancellor Robert Birgeneau announced he would step down from his post, but remain as a teacher at UC Berkeley, I can’t help but go back to the times he made himself available to this video blogger to celebrate Cal Big Game wins. So, […]
I just finished reading an interesting blog post on Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, and President Obama, written by an Oaklander named Aaron Bady (which means he lives not to far from me in the scheme of things). I was compelled to write this brief response because Mr. Bady concluded his rather long work called “The […]
Fox News Megyn Kelly has come under heavy fire from blogs like this one… … after she appeared on Monday’s The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News to say that the pepper spray used by UC Police Officer John Pike wasn’t all that bad, and said it was “a food additive.” Megyn made it sound like […]
UPDATE: Kelly explains pepper spray comments. Just about over a day after the November 18th UC Davis Police action against UC Davis students in non-violent protest, where UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike grabbed a bottle of pepper spray and started covering kneeling students with it, Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly made a silly statement. […]
Now that Oakland Mayor Jean Quan did a good move in bring Anne Campbell Washington back to Oakland, this blogger has one request: don’t fire her for hugging someone who may disagree with you! Because that’s exactly what happened to Anne Campbell Washington in 2008. Washington, who comes from the UC Berkeley Goldman School of […]
This video from MilesMathews on YouTube is totally horrifying and shows UC Berkeley Police openly, and without physical provocation, jamming their batons into the stomachs and pelvic areas of both male and female students protesting against law enforcement action against Occupy Cal. Unfortunately scenes like this one are becoming all too common, and because of […]
TechCrunch Founder and Editor, and friend, Michael Arrington, has weighed in on Warren Buffett’s op-ed in the New York Times Monday entitled Stop Coddling the Super-Rich. It’s a work worth reading. To put it simply, Warren Buffett explains how the super-rich essentially make money off making money, and it’s that money which they allow to […]