Apparently Yahoo is reporting that ex-USC all pro LB Junior Seau is dead by uncertain circumstances (other than a reported gunshot).

Hated his teams but respected his motor. Sad if true.

UPDATE: Apparently it was self-inflicted, with rumors being that he shot himself in the chest so his brian would be undamaged so the cororner to study any damage caused by football.

If that is true, it's all the more sad.

Chalk another commit to the Bears. The best part of it is the the puppies and Esteban Sarkiziano wanted him.

/toshfail

Welcome to Cal, Demariay!

Another one falls.

Three star recruit as reported by Scout.

#Dominoes, motherf***er

Welcome to Cal, Matt!

Scout has him as a three star guy.

Welcome to Cal, Steven!

According to this report, the Cal Athletic Dept had to return about 2,000 of the 15.000 tickets allotted for Cal because they couldn't sell them.

Could this be the year that there are actually more furds in their stadium than Cal fans?

Shudder.

Yet more USNWR rankings are out - this time for graduate programs.

Way too much stuff to list here, but the take home message is there is clearly only one public university consistently in the top-10 (almost always top-5), and it is in Berkeley.

Of the Pac-12, furd is well represented (as you'd expect), Ucla is a consistent lower-half finisher, Colorado performs very well, and USC shows up a bit more often than expected.

Again, this is a USNWR list, so these results could be skewed by some pretty irrelevant criteria, but it just goes to show that although some folks like to crow about their standards and excellence, their talk is a lot of hot air.

Go Bears!

Disclaimer: This is reported by USNWR, so who knows what criteria were used, but according to the report, this is a list based on recruiters for law firms, so it may have some substance.

The good news: Boalt comes in at #8, tied with Cornell, Dook, Northwestern, and Chicago.

The bad news? Furd is 2nd, tied with Yale.

The gloating news? Ucla is way down at 18th, tied with SC

No other Pac-12 universities made the list.

I'm shocked! Furd "student" athletes were given a list of skater classes like Beginning Improvising (Drama dept) and Social Dances of North America in order to help maintain their already guaranteed GPA.

Wait, I'm not shocked at all, actually. More surprised they felt the needed to resort to something like a list. Just showing up to classes there earns you a B, right?

Some really good stuff here coming out of the mouths of some players. Including this quote from SC WR commit Jordan Payton:

"you can tell Cal is really building something special. This was the first time I ever visited Cal but I felt like I fit in really well. I talked a lot with Zach Kline and he's a real cool kid. Me and Bryce [Treggs] are real tight and play on the same seven-on-seven team and I think Zach is going to be playing with us this year so it was cool to connect with him a little more.

"I loved the coaching staff, the campus the city, all of it [...]Coach [Erik] Kiesau is the man and we're real close [...] I'm still committed to USC, of course, but I'm definitely going to give Cal a look as well."

A Rams beat reporter looks over possible LB picks for the Rams and has nice things to say about Mohamed. The thing that struck me, however, was when going over Mohamed's strengths and body-type, he commented how he seemed more like a safety noting in particular his smoothness at being able to change direction and his impact as a coverage guy.

It made me wonder whether teams may be interested in him as a possible convert to safety.

Uncle Ted's take on Cal's LOI-day enthusiasm. I know it's been covered before, but the quote that stands out is this one from Coach Tedford:

"I'm going to be more involved with the quarterbacks this year."

It might be wise to buy stock in checkerboard manufacturers.

It's nice to see that these two are getting some much-deserved recognition. Particularly Conte who's career at Cal didn't live up to expectations (at least until this last year).

Hopefully the NFL scouts will like what they see.

Go Bears!

Seems as if Luck is having too much fun at the Furd. I wonder if his deep, brown, dreamy eyes will keep Harblow there, too?

"Will (Alameda):

Hey Ted - which PAC-10 fanbase do you find the most entertaining and why? You seem to delight in the CGB's witty (and long) analysis on Cal related matters.

Ted Miller (3:26 PM):

I love all fan bases. The California Golden Blogs is just a well-done, intelligent and amusing effort. Other "fan" sights aren't like that. Most are completely humorless."

Gee ... now who on earth could he be referring to???

Okay, I know this has absolutely nothing to do with our Golden Bears or college sports, but I saw this and it tickled my funny bone:

What Would Nixon Do?

What can I say. I'm easily amused. And bit of a Nixon fetishist, too.

The Domers are starting to unravel. That or ND has been admitting Protestants.

The guys at CC have an interesting post up which presents some pretty compelling evidence that a coaches's performance after only two years can predict their future success.