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UPDATED: Jake Spavital is rumored as an option for the Houston OC gig

Hold up—those aren’t California uniforms. | Ben Queen-USA TODAY Sports Is that the sound of the coaching carousel creeping forward again? Update: According to Mark Berman ( 30 years as Sports Director at FOX 26 in Houston ), Houston head coach Dana Holgorsen has filled their vacant OC role with... no one. College football source: @UHCougarFB will not add an offensive coordinator. The UH offensive staff is complete, with Dana Holgorsen continuing to be heavily involved with the offen...

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ESPN’s preseason SP+ has California ranked 58th nationally, 8th in the Pac-12

Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports ESPN is projecting another bleak year in Bear Territory... Three CGB posts in three days? Is CGB back?? No. Just the perfect storm of news, the piqued interest of a homeless writer, and a site that hasn’t otherwise been touched in nearly two years. Speaking of homeless writers and things that haven’t been touched in two years, it’s me—your writer. Thanks to the dozens of bots and readers who are still clicking on dead sites following suggestions by our fri...

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All-time great Cal Football RB Coach Ron Gould is headed to San Diego State

Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports Will we ever see Ron Gould return home? Better (one week) late than never, right? When the unthinkable happened—and the despicable Stanfurd Cardinal sentenced once–proud Golden Bear Troy Taylor to its role as Alistair H. Smarmsnobbery Director of Football-Related Operations and Activities—I immediately feared the prospect of a union between Taylor and then–running backs coach Ron Gould. Gould is one of the greats in the history of California Golden Bears Foo...

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California misses back-to-back Super Bowls for the first time in over 50 years

Joe Kapp was among three Bears to first represent California in the Super Bowl | Tony Tomsic-USA TODAY Sports A less-than-ideal accomplishment for the Bears in the Pros coincides with our struggles at Memorial Stadium. Despite the struggles of the California Golden Bears to be ranked or relevant in college football, we’ve had a puzzlingly rich history of success in the NFL. For instance, for the 21 NFL seasons from 1999–2019, 14 of those Super Bowl s featured a Golden Bear on the winning ...

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Cal product Alex Morgan named to U.S. women’s soccer team for Tokyo Olympics

Photo by Brad Smith/ISI Photos/Getty Images The USWNT stalwart’s inclusion is no surprise. We know there will be Cal Bears at the Tokyo Olympics, and on Wednesday, one of them was revealed, as Alex Morgan was named to the 18-player roster for the U.S. women’s soccer team for the upcoming Olympic tournament. Morgan will be making her third appearance at the Olympics, after playing a vital role in helping the United States win gold at the 2012 London Olympics and featuring at the 2016 Rio...

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Cal Signee Lu-Magia Hearns earns POY honors

Hearns was selected as multiple outlets Player of the Year California Golden Bears defensive signee Lu-Magia Hearns earned some significant end-of-season honors this past week, being selected as the San Francisco Chronicle and Bay Area News Group’s Defensive Player of the Year for the high school football season past. From a story posted May 8, Hearns was nabbed as the San Francisco Chronicle’s Metro Player of the Year . Hearns, The Chronicle’s 2021 Metro Player of the Year and a Cal com...

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Camryn Bynum continues Cal’s NFL Draft trend

Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports Bynum was the only Bear selected in the 2021 NFL Draft The 2021 NFL Draft didn’t hear quite as many California Golden Bears as any fan may have hoped, but that wasn’t that big of a surprise for any of those who watched the team the past few seasons. With the amount of talent they’ve produced into the league, mainly from the defensive side of the ball and in the secondary, it’s actually quite amazing they can keep producing top-notch players in such a short amou...

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