William Cooke

It can be done. It has been done. But apathy has slowly poisoned a university administration and athletics department that does not seem to care about the passionate, devoted community of Cal football and basketball fans.

High-percentage shots and rebounds, not threes, are what kept Cal women’s basketball from falling behind against Arizona State this past weekend.

Cal will head to Arizona to play the Sun Devils this Friday night and the Wildcats on Sunday morning with good odds of adding one more blip to what is otherwise a skid.

The Bears now sit at 10-9 after a 9-2 start to the season. Cal now has at least 11 games left, including the first round of the Pac-12 tournament in Las Vegas, to recover what seemed to be such a promising year for fourth-year head coach Charmin Smith.

This Friday, No. 24 Colorado will come to Berkeley for Smith’s 50th. Then, on Sunday, the Bears will welcome the No. 8 Utes to Haas Pavilion to cap off a daunting weekend home stretch.

Mike Bloesch, Tim Plough and newly-hired offensive coordinator Jake Spavital all have experience as offensive coordinators at the FBS level.

Oladejo recorded 91 total tackles in the 2022 season over the course of 11 appearances, second-most on the team to fellow linebacker Jackson Sirmon.

Longhetto was Cal's active leader in scoring over the course of his five seasons with the Bears with 137 points.

He was cheerful throughout most of the interview, a big brilliant smile showing itself more than it hid. But when he brought up his surgeries, or the goals he has set for his football career, he would suddenly become more somber.