There are many recaps of Sunday's glorious win, a rightful triumph of Cal over Stanfurd. But no one has recapped the meet-up before hand! What a terrible break-down in journalism.

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I am awake because I had a dream that a Tyrannosaurus-Rex was going to eat me. My mom was also there and foolishly wasn't cowering under the bed like me and the dog. She was sitting next to the open door trying to tell me that it wasn't real. Well, just then the T-Rex's head filled up the doorway and she turned around to see--but she attracted its attention! She tried to close the door, but of course the T-Rex was pushing open the door with its head. Then Mom told me to attack it. WTF mom! This is all your fault! So I go charging at the head that is as big as I am, thinking maybe I could poke it in the eye somehow --- and then I wake up.

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In the spirit of welcoming more people to our conversations, I’ve created a handy cheat sheet to help familiarize our new guests with our strange sayings. We’ve built up quite a culture here in the Daily Bear Dump and we talk about a lot of things here besides Cal Sports. But what’s interesting isn’t just WHAT we say but HOW we say it. 

Regular internet Memes:(Lets start out slow) 

FWIW – for what it’s worth

IIRC – if I remember correctly

IMHO – In My Humble Opinion

LOL – laughed out loud; differentiated from LULz

LULZ – subset of laughing out loud where in the laugh is at someone in a mean or mocking nature. Usage "When that racist gramma fell down the stairs I lulz’ed"

To Troll – to post a controversial viewpoint to see what arguments you can start. 

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So, we're Cal fans. Which means basically two things: 

1. We're smart
2. We're obsessive

I think it makes a lot of sense then to look at the numbers, queried by Royrules22 in yesterday's DBD. 

WHAT IS YOUR ROAD RECORD? Don't worry, I've made some awards as well. 

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While cleaning out what used to be our guest room, to make ready for a brand new member of the family, Ragnarok and I realized that there still was a lot of Cal stuff in the room. Now, we could use these pieces of Cal paraphernalia (including Cal Band poster, bear in a Cal sweater, Cal banner, Cal Band blanket, and a framed Daily Cal from when we won Big Game in 2002) to slowly guilt our poor offspring into thinking he (or she) can't please us unless they attend and love UC Berkeley. Frankly, I'm a little uneasy putting that kind of pressure on a fetus. So, I do what I always do when I have questions about life and the world -- ask the CGB regulars.

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Per Danzig's request, I have tried to compile a nice list of what a woman would want for the Holidays. BUT, disclaimer, if I know anything about women, it's that they like what they like. Every woman is different and should be treated as so. The point is to know your woman and to show her that.

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So, after going to bed embarrassingly early last night (I justify it because of a harsh day of 3 hours volunteering, 2.5 hours of job interview/job testing, 1.25 hours of fighting commute traffic, and a concert) I wake up this morning at 7:00AM and wander around the internets.

Check e-card from friend? DONE
Send e-card to same friend? DONE 
(Wonder why I don't have more than 1 friend? DONE)
Check international news? New Zealand Hunts Accidental Millionaires

Wander over to CGB and WHAAAT?!! No DBD already? The overworked Twist has finally let down torch? No Carp or Avinash to throw in their finely tuned piece of 3 legged men or harsh repartee with the world-wide idiots of the world wide web?!

So here it is, the quickest, laziest claim to glory there ever was-- all while Ragnarok and the dog are sleeping soundly.

Another great game and some more fun times in LA. Bears, I think I'm in love with you. And I'm not alone. 

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Saturday was an important game for the Cal Bears. I hope you were able to watch the game, although I did hear that ESPN decided to play NCAA  musical chairs during the game. Sorry about that. I'd like to write today about the experience of the game, from the point of view of the spirit groups, not necessarily about the players skills or performance. That you can get from much more talented sports writers. 

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Hey CGB'ers, I'm writing this fanpost in the Natasha Vital style  -- the blog. One from the road. Due to dumb luck and the power of unemployment, I am able to tag along with the spirit groups as they cheer the Bears in the NCAA (women). We are in LA! Which is just a return trip for a lot of the spirit group as they were JUST HERE for the Pac-10 tourneys (men and women).  This trip is scheduled to last until Sunday if we lose the first game, and Tuesday if we win the first game. After that, everyone will come home, and another group will leave next weekend.   The team already went down so the spirit groups are following down today. Just for context, all these kids just went through midterms and now are starting spring break! They're pretty excited but noticeably warn out. Even though they are on spring break, I know most of them have brought text books or readers. 

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Bob Briggs passed away this morning. Below is a lovely note from Jamie Rawson, Bass '77

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We’d have at least 175 Olympians (based off Team USA hometowns), more than any other state in the US (next is Texas with 44!), and more Olympians than 185 of the Countries in the Olympics. Team USA competed in 27 out of 28 sports, as the U.S. did not qualify for either the men's or women's team handball tournament in Beijing. Team Handball is the dumbest sport, so we're not that broken up about it. Also, Fun Fact, the US Olympic Training Center for BMX biking is in San Diego.

Go Bears!  Beat every other country in the world!  -  Image via cache.eb.com

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On Friday, August 1st, the 5 of us traveled into Berkeley to learn from the best -- Jeff Tedford and the Cal Football team. We learned all sorts of things, like how to get in proper defense stance, how to appreciate football players in the proper defense stance, but especially how to stay hydrated. Yes, especially the importance of hydration...So he's a review of what we most appreciated from AndBears, OskiWeeWee, RemorsefulBruinBabe, Kittwin, and BearBallCarrier.

After $35, a free t-shirt and guide to college football, free food and drink (I was 2 beers in before we started running) Jeff Tedford gave us a warm welcome and we gave him the highest-pitched 'Go Bears...' I'd ever heard.

Ladies love the Tedford

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There are the obvious relations between church and football. Many people gather to pray on a particular day of the week, sometimes making sacrafices to hygiene for the sake of luck. What I'd like to talk to you about today are the fundamental structures of these two institutions that make football the religious experience that we know it is. Both institutions are geared toward keeping and instilling faith into their respective worshippers and do that very successfully by appealing to innate social responses. So let's take a look at those social responses in the setting of football and the identity of the fans, then we can look at specific Cal traditions to see this in our own Memorial Stadium.

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