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California Golden Bears to Reportedly Cut Baseball Program After 2011

The California Golden Bears will be dropping their baseball program after 2011, according to a report from Yahoo! Sports. UC Berkeley officials notified head baseball coach David Esquer on Tuesday that the program was being cut due to the athletic department tightening their budget. The Golden Bears have reportedly gone...

In Down Pac-10, Washington, Cal Rise

For most of this decade, the Pac-10 was UCLA and the rest. The Bruins have been the Pac-10's representation in the Final Four three of the four times the league has placed a team on the final weekend since 2000, failing to claim the championship each time, but pulling themselves ahead of the West Coast pack as the elite...

Memo to NFL Teams: Avoid the Wolverines, Hokies and Tedford QB's

So sayeth this guy.An analysis of the NFL performance of three particular groups of college players suggests these groups are vastly overrated in the NFL draft and unlikely to succeed in the NFL. Those groups are Michigan skill position players, Virginia Tech defenders and Jeff Tedford coached quarterbacks.The draft is...

07 Issues: The Need for Speed

Few things awe people more than the act of speed. I sit here writing this while the Daytona 500 plays out on my television screen, cars ripping across asphalt at nearly 200 miles an hour. The main event at the Olympic games is the 100 meter dash. In college football, our fastest players have quite often been amongst the...