Cal basketball: Ben Braun on the Bears’ title, his recruits and Mike Montgomery
As Cal’s seniors celebrated the school’s first conference title in 50 years, the coach who recruited them was in El Paso, preparing his last-place team for what would be another loss. But Ben Braun was...
View ArticlePac-10 basketball: Picks for POY, COY, the NCAAs and Saturday’s games
Lots to cover and much of it will be updated after Saturday’s games — wait, hold on a second ………. OK, sorry about that. I just got fouled by USC on a leaning 40-footer with the shot clock expiring....
View ArticlePac-10 basketball: Cal wraps it up, the seeds are set, Randle vs. Fields and...
Everything’s settled. UCLA wins the tiebreaker with Oregon State (based on the season sweep); Stanford wins the tiebreaker with Oregon (season sweep) and avoids the opening-round game; and WSU is...
View ArticlePac-10 basketball: Cal’s Randle wins POY, Sendek’s the COY, plus the...
The news from the Pac-10 office … * Cal’s Jerome Randle is the 2010 Player of the Year. My feeling: You could make a strong argument for Randle, an equally strong argument for Stanford’s Landry Fields...
View ArticlePac-10 tournament: Thoughts on Thursday’s action
*** Five thoughts on the Pac-10 quarters, starting with the day’s only upset. (UCLA over Arizona: Not an upset, despite what the seeds might say.) 1) Stanford basketball: 80 minutes from the NCAA...
View ArticleNCAA Tournament: Cal falls, St. Mary’s advances, the West impresses, plus...
Thoughts on the Madness with four rounds left, two down and one badly-busted bracket (mine) … Let’s start with two or three quick Cal items (because there isn’t much else to say): * I needed only one...
View ArticleThe Hotline’s all-Western Region team: It starts with Jimmer
Mentioned this the other day at the end of a tournament post … If you were picking an all-Western team team (from the Pac-10, WAC, WCC, Mountain West, Big Sky and Big West) to win six games in the...
View ArticleAction/reaction: NFL Draft (Gerhart, Best, Alualu), plus Cal basketball and...
In regard to the Bay Area’s top draft picks, comments will go in order of selection … Action: Cal DL Tyson Alualu taken No. 10 by Jacksonville. Reaction: He’s a very good player who will be a...
View ArticlePac-10 basketball: Previewing the NBA Draft
This post will be short and (hopefully) sweet — not because I’m currently elbow-deep in expansion news but because there isn’t much to say on this subject other than: The worst Pac-10 basketball season...
View ArticleNBA Draft winners and losers: The college perspective
Here’s the Hotline’s annual look at the draft, with one quick programming note: Now that things are slowing down on the expansion front, I plan to address several topics — including Pac-10 football and...
View ArticleCal basketball: Ben Braun on the Bears’ title, his recruits and Mike Montgomery
As Cal’s seniors celebrated the school’s first conference title in 50 years, the coach who recruited them was in El Paso, preparing his last-place team for what would be another loss. But Ben Braun was...
View ArticlePac-10 basketball: Picks for POY, COY, the NCAAs and Saturday’s games
Lots to cover and much of it will be updated after Saturday’s games — wait, hold on a second ………. OK, sorry about that. I just got fouled by USC on a leaning 40-footer with the shot clock expiring....
View ArticlePac-10 basketball: Cal wraps it up, the seeds are set, Randle vs. Fields and...
Everything’s settled. UCLA wins the tiebreaker with Oregon State (based on the season sweep); Stanford wins the tiebreaker with Oregon (season sweep) and avoids the opening-round game; and WSU is...
View ArticlePac-10 basketball: Cal’s Randle wins POY, Sendek’s the COY, plus the...
The news from the Pac-10 office … * Cal’s Jerome Randle is the 2010 Player of the Year. My feeling: You could make a strong argument for Randle, an equally strong argument for Stanford’s Landry Fields...
View ArticlePac-10 tournament: Thoughts on Thursday’s action
*** Five thoughts on the Pac-10 quarters, starting with the day’s only upset. (UCLA over Arizona: Not an upset, despite what the seeds might say.) 1) Stanford basketball: 80 minutes from the NCAA...
View ArticleNCAA Tournament: Cal falls, St. Mary’s advances, the West impresses, plus...
Thoughts on the Madness with four rounds left, two down and one badly-busted bracket (mine) … Let’s start with two or three quick Cal items (because there isn’t much else to say): * I needed only one...
View ArticleThe Hotline’s all-Western Region team: It starts with Jimmer
Mentioned this the other day at the end of a tournament post … If you were picking an all-Western team team (from the Pac-10, WAC, WCC, Mountain West, Big Sky and Big West) to win six games in the...
View ArticleAction/reaction: NFL Draft (Gerhart, Best, Alualu), plus Cal basketball and...
In regard to the Bay Area’s top draft picks, comments will go in order of selection … Action: Cal DL Tyson Alualu taken No. 10 by Jacksonville. Reaction: He’s a very good player who will be a...
View ArticlePac-10 basketball: Previewing the NBA Draft
This post will be short and (hopefully) sweet — not because I’m currently elbow-deep in expansion news but because there isn’t much to say on this subject other than: The worst Pac-10 basketball season...
View ArticleNBA Draft winners and losers: The college perspective
Here’s the Hotline’s annual look at the draft, with one quick programming note: Now that things are slowing down on the expansion front, I plan to address several topics — including Pac-10 football and...
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