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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 head coach Justin Wilcox
Football

Cal's Losing Streak Is a Sad Movie We've Seen Before

Cal lets a 13-point lead in the fourth quarter slip away against NC State for its fourth straight defeat. Bears have lost their last three games by a combined margin of four points

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Cal place kicker Derek Morris
Football

Cal Football Game Summary: Bears Blow Lead, Lose to North Carolina State

Cal loses its fourth straight game, and those four losses have been by a combined nine points

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North Carolina State quarterback CJ Bailey
Football

Cal Football Game Preview: Bears Host North Carolina State Saturday

It's Homecoming for the Golden Bears, who hope to end a three-game losing streak

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Nohl Williams
Football

ESPN Ranks Cal DB Nohl Williams Among the Nation's Top 25 Players

Williams is one of just three ACC players on this ESPN midseason list of standout college players

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Virginia head coach Tony Bennett
Basketball

How Does Tony Bennett's Surprising Retirement Affect Cal?

When Bennett, one of the top collegiate basketball coaches, calls it quits it benefits every other team in the ACC

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Cal head coach Justin Wilcox talks to line judge Peter Beratta during Saturday's game at Pitt
Football

Cal’s Justin Wilcox Among the ACC’s Lowest Paid Coaches

USA Today ranks the salaries of college head football coaches, and two ACC coaches make more than twice what the Cal coach earns

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Cal quarterback Fernando Mendoza has faced a pass rush all season
Football

Why Sacks Are Such a Problem for Cal

Only one FBS team has allowed more sacks than the Golden Bears this season – and it seems to be getting worse

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Davante Adams (17) and Aaron Rodgers together in Green Bay in 2021
Football

Davante Adams Shows Up With Aaron Rodgers on Pat McAfee Show

Former Cal QB Rodgers was "pissed" after Monday lost, but "excited" after learning a little after midnight that Adams was a J

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Cal head coach Mark Madsen
Basketball

Cal Men Picked to Finish 16th in ACC Preseason Basketball Poll

Duke and North Carolina projected to finish first and second. No Golden Bears players on preseason all-ACC team

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Cal head coach Charmin Smith
Basketball

Cal Women Picked to Finish 14th in Preseason ACC Basketball Poll

Notre Dame and North Carolina State picked to finish first and second; Stanford picked seventh

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Cal kicker Ryan Coe
Football

Will Ryan Coe or Freshman Derek Morris Be Cal’s Kicker on Saturday?

Bears coach Justin Wilcox is considering making a change after Coe has struggled this season

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Aaron Rodgers
Football

Hail Mary! Hail Aaron Rodgers!

For the fourth time former Cal quarterback Rodgers hits a Hail Mary pass, this time at the end of the first half Monday

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