Gary Cavalli
- Dec 6, 2019
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 2, 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
- Nov 26, 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
- Aug 12, 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
- Dec 10, 2018
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
- Oct 31, 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
- Sep 4, 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
- Aug 7, 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
- Jul 31, 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
- Jan 2, 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...
