Jake Curtis

Jake Curtis

Joined: Mar 21, 2023

Jake Curtis worked in the San Francisco Chronicle sports department for 27 years, covering virtually every sport, including numerous Final Fours, several college football national championship games, an NBA Finals, world championship boxing matches and a World Cup. He was a Cal beat writer for many of those years, and won awards for his feature stories.

Cal coach Mark Madsen

Cal head coach Mark Madsen

Duke is the only ACC team still alive in the NCAA tournament or the NIT

Justin Pippen finished with eight points on 2-for-13 shooting

Chris Bell made 7 of 8 three-pointers against UIC

Basketball

Cal men host Saint Joseph's in the NIT, and Cal women travel to Kansas State in the WBIT

Claire Weinstein

Other Sports

Claire Weinstein sets a school record while winning a national title in a 'shocker'

Jaydn Ott

Football

Former Cal star Ott as well as Cal cornerbacks Hezekiah Masses and Paco Austin go through drills for NFL scouts

Jacob De Jesus

Football

Cal WR Jacob De Jesus participated in Cal Pro Day as he awaits a court ruling on whether he will have another year of college eligibility

Cal forward Chris Bell

Basketball

Chris Bell scores 31 points to help the Bears get their first postseason win in 12 years

Jerod Haase while head coach at Stanford

Basketball

Jerod Haase was a key member of Cal's 1992-93 team that beat Duke in the NCAA tournament

Tosh Lupoi

Football

Cal head coach Tosh Lupoi expects players to be in full pads for most practices in spring ball, which begins Wednesday

Cal defeated SMU in Berkeley

Basketball

Cal’s record and results seem to favor the Bears over SMU, but the Mustangs are in and Cal is out

Cal coach Mark Madsen

Cal is in a postseason tournament for the first time since 2017

Cal guard Lulu Twidale

Golden Bears will host a first-round WBIT game against a Bay Area foe from the WCC

Jeremiah Wilkinson is Georgia's top scorer

Two head coaches of teams in this year's 68-team NCAA tournament field were players at Cal

Cal could not keep up with Duke

Cal won half of its eight games against teams that earned a berth to the 2026 NCAA tournament