Pac-12 Coaching Surprises; Conference Championship Games on Tap This Weekend
No one expected Chris Petersen to resign as head coach at Washington on Monday. Perhaps even fewer—including this writer—anticipated that...
Gary Cavalli
Dec 6, 2019
"Sanctimonious Trolls" and Other Strange Behavior
Last weekend’s college football games, to put it mildly, featured a number of bizarre incidents. As the late John Lennon might say,...
Gary Cavalli
Dec 2, 2019
Big Game Postmortem and Other College Football Musings
After nine straight losses in the iconic series, Cal finally got over the hump and beat Stanford 24-20 in the Big Game. To make the...
Gary Cavalli
Nov 26, 2019
Baseball Blues; Little Support for 9am Kicks
A friend of mine asked recently if I thought America’s pastime might be past its time. It’s a fair question. It wasn’t that long ago that...
Gary Cavalli
Aug 12, 2019
Coaching Cornucopia
There were a number of important moves on the college football coaching front last week, and they ranged from impressive to interesting...
Gary Cavalli
Dec 10, 2018
Bear Revival, Maryland Mess
My apologies to Cal fans. My brother-in-law, Mike Hosterman, a proud Old Blue and Pleasanton's pre-eminent legal mind, gently chided me...
Gary Cavalli
Oct 31, 2018
Week 1 Winners and Losers
Ah, the beauty of college football. Week 1 of the 2018 season had its typical array of surprises, disappointments, dramatic finishes, and...
Gary Cavalli
Sep 4, 2018
Great Expectations
In the high pressure arenas of college and pro football, it’s always better to over-achieve than to disappoint. That’s why most coaches...
Gary Cavalli
Aug 7, 2018
Pivotal Year for Struggling Pac-12
By any objective standard, last year was a train wreck for the Pac-12. On the field, off the field, and at the cash register. The Pac-12...
Gary Cavalli
Jul 31, 2018
A Year to Forget for Pac-12
2017 was a disastrous year for the Pac-12 Conference. The conference suffered through one embarrassment after another, due in large part...
Gary Cavalli
Jan 2, 2018
