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.

Washington transfer Adam Mohammed is likely to be Cal's starting running back this season

Cal quarterback Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele

Did former Cal head coach Sonny Dykes put the Golden Bears on his top-25 ballot?

Tosh Lupoi at Tuesday's press conference

Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele

Football

Sagapolutele is one of 11 ACC players on the Maxwell watch list

Shannon Dowell

Basketball

Dowell transferred from Missouri and adds the ability to penetrate that Cal needs

Alius Mayo

Football

Modesto Junior College defensive back Alius Mayo commits to Cal for 2027

Cal head coach Charmin Smith

Basketball

Cal carries high expectations for 2026-27 as summer workouts continue with four returning starters and important transfers

Cal cornerbacks Brent "Paco" Austin (4) and Hezekiah Masses

Football

Temporary Injunction means some football and basketball players who thought their eligibility was over might be able to come back

Michelle Onyiah at Cal in 2025

Basketball

Michelle Onyiah signs with the Indiana Fever on a developmental contract

Cal opens the 2026 football season against UCLA

Football

Cal announced a record amount of donor gifts to athletics for fiscal year 2026

Cal head coach Tosh Lupoi

Football

ACC presents only a first-team preseason all-conference squad

Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele

On SI ranked the starting quarterbacks of all 68 Power Four Conference teams, and Cal’s Sagapolutele is in the top 20

Jacob De Jesus (21) helped Cal upset SMU last year

Cal's football team does not face the overwhelming ACC favorite in 2026, but it does play a team picked to win its conference

Alius Mayo makes a strong tackle while at Lincoln High School in Stockton in 2024

Cal and Alabama seem to be the top candidates to land 2027 defensive back Alius Mayo

Jeff Kent during his Hall of Fame induction ceremony

Three other former Cal players were Major League stars, but none made it to the Hall of Fame