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As has been the case in many recent games, Cal's women's basketball team had a chance to win in the closing minutes, but again fell short, losing to Utah 66-60 Wednesday night in a first-round game of the Pac-12 tournament in Las Vegas. Cal, the 11th seed in the tournament,...

Cal basketball signee Grant Newell may be surprised when he first steps onto the basketball court at Haas Pavilion and sees his last name emblazoned on it. “I don’t think he has any idea,” said Chad Myers, who coaches Newell at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, referring to the fact that the Bears’ playing surface is named in honor of the program’s late coaching legend, Pete Newell.

Christopher Brooks was a terrific player at Cal over four seasons, the program’s top running back when he was healthy. We just wish we could have gotten to know him a little better. Besides his obvious ability at 6-foot-1, 235 pounds as a punishing power back, Brooks was famous...

ARIZONA STATE (12-16, 8-10) at CAL (12-17, 5-13) WHERE: Desert Financial Arena, Tempe, Ariz. WHEN: Thursday, 5 p.m. Pacific time (6 p.m. Mountain time) CAL-ARIZONA STATE HISTORY: Arizona State leads the all-time series 48-41 but Cal won 74-50 on Jan. 2 in Berkeley, snapping a seven-game losing streak against the Sun Devils. That was Cal’s first win over ASU since February 2017.

Cal has hired Vic So’oto as its new outside linebackers coach, but exactly why the 34-year-old left Colorado after just two months depends on who's talking. Bruce Feldman first reported the news via Twitter that So’oto would join the Bears’ staff, filling the vacancy left when Keith Heyward departed last week after one season in Berkeley to become defensive coordinator at UNLV.

Former Cal star Aaron Rodgers could announce his decision on his future any day now, but in the meantime everyone is looking for little clues as to whether the Packers quarterback will remain in Green Bay for the 2022 season, request a trade to another team or retire from football.

The women's basketball all-Pac-12 team announced Tuesday includes 15 players, but the conference's leading scorer, Cal's Jayda Curry, is not among them. Hard to believe. In fact it has never happened before. The conference (Pac-12/Pac-10) has been naming women's all-conference teams every year since the 1986-87 season, and the conference's leading scorer was named to the all-conference first team every year. And in most of those seasons the first-team all-conference team consisted of only five or 10 players, not 15 like this season.

The chances for Pac-12 teams to get NCAA tournament berths seems fairly straightforward: Arizona, USC and UCLA are in, Oregon is on the bubble, and no other team has a shot unless it wins the Pac-12 tournament, as Oregon State did last year.. If you want to look at the...

Three questions with Pac-12 tournament and NCAA tournament fast approaching. ---Question No. 1: How did Arizona become part of history by losing?. Second-ranked Arizona’s 16-point loss to unranked Colorado on Saturday was a stunner, but the Wildcats are still projected to be a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. That’s because No. 1 Gonzaga lost to Saint Mary’s, No. 3 Auburn lost to Tennessee, No. 4 Purdue lost to Michigan State, No. 5 Kentucky lost to Arkansas and No. 6 Kansas lost to Baylor.

Cal coach Mark Fox revealed on his post-game radio show Saturday that he offered Andre Kelly the chance to start on senior night against rival Stanford. It was a nice gesture considering Kelly hasn’t played since suffering a season-ending ankle injury against USC on Jan. 29. "I actually asked...

Some of Cal’s most distinguished basketball alums returned to Haas Pavilion for the Bears’ home finale against Stanford on Saturday night, and coach Mark Fox was thrilled his team gave them the kind of performance they deserved to watch. The Bears used a 17-0 run to charge into...

Jerome Randle said he won’t soon forget the looks on the faces of his teammates on Ukrainian national team. It was Thursday and they were in Spain for a World Cup qualifying game while Russia was invading Ukraine. “Anything that’s going on, not only am I hearing it but...

Cal women's basketball team mounted a strong comeback bid in the closing minutes Saturday afternoon, but the Bears ended up losing to Washington State 73-67 in Berkeley in both teams' final regular-season game. The Bears will enter next week's Pac-12 tournament with an 11-12 overall record and a 2-10 Pac-12...

Most people were shocked when it was reported in December that Cal head coach Justin Wilcox turned down Oregon's offer to be the Ducks head coach, a job that ultimately went to Georgia defensive coordinator Dan Lanning. Wilcox later explained that he felt Cal was on the cusp of doing...

Shantay Legans and Dennis Gates, Cal teammates on a pair of NCAA tournament teams two decades ago, will close out successful regular seasons as Division I head coaches on Saturday. Legans, the Bears’ starting point guard in 2001 and ’02, is in his first season as coach at Portland in...

Jerome Randle, the leading scorer in Cal basketball history, is safely out of war-ravaged Ukraine, where he holds dual citizenship and plays professionally for a team in Kyiv. Randle, 34, was fortunate to be out of the country before Russia launched a widespread invasion this week. A member of Ukraine’s national team since 2015, Randle joined his teammates in Spain on Tuesday prior to a World Cup qualifying game on Thursday.

Former Cal star Aaron Rodgers reportedly wants the Packers to rework his contract to make him the highest paid player in the NFL "by a wide margin," something around $50 million a year. On Friday Rodgers called the report "categorically false." ESPN's Dianna Russini made the comments about Rodgers' contract...

After just one season as Cal's outside linebackers coach, Keith Heyward reportedly is headed elsewhere. Heyward is expected to be named the defensive coordinator at UNLV, according to Bruce Feldman. Heyward was Oregon's safeties coach for four seasons (2017-20), and he added co-defensive coordinator duties for his last three seasons...

STANFORD (10-16, 3-13) at CAL (11-17, 4-13) WHERE: Haas Pavilion, Berkeley. WHEN: Saturday, 5:30 p.m.. TV : Pac-12 Network – Ted Robinson (play-by-Play), Don MacLean (analyst) RADIO: 810-AM CAL-STANFORD HISTORY: Cal leads the alltime series 153-129, but Stanford beat Cal 57-50 earlier this season on Feb. 1 at Maples...

Cal's women's basketball team will probably avoid finishing the regular season in the Pac-12 basement, thanks to a victory gained by forfeit last week, but the Bears will regret the fact that they failed to get a win at home on Thursday against the other team at the bottom of the conference standings.