Cal vs. Stanford.

Tomorrow.  1pm.  Haas Pavilion.

Pac-10 Title will go to the winner.

I’m not sure what else needs to be said besides, "Get your lazy butt down to Berkeley."  Our Cal women are currently 14-1 in the Pac-10, ranked 8th in the country, and they deserve our support.  Especially now, when they face their archrival, 13-2 Stanford, currently ranked 7th in the country.  While Stanford is the owner of more than half of the conference championships that have ever been awarded, Cal has never finished higher than 3rd.  They are in the midst of an historic season, and now they get to face Stanford at home, on Senior Day, with a chance to finally topple the Cardinal and claim the Bay Area and the Pac-10 as their own.  This is their last game at Haas this year, and if you haven’t caught them in person yet this year, you owe it to yourself to get down to Berkeley tomorrow.

Oh, you like the men’s basketball team better?  Why?  They’re currently mired in mediocrity, needing an extraordinary push over the last few weeks of the season to have a shot at the post-season.  Besides, it’s not like you’ve seen the men win a conference championship lately.  Their last title came in 1960, shortly after Castro assumed power in Cuba, when they finished first in something called the Athletic Association of Western Universities.  Given Ben Braun’s recent history of doing just enough to not get fired, we may see another 48 years pass before another conference title.

Remember how excited you were when your football season tickets arrived last year?  Perhaps you remember that, attached to them, was a voucher that could be exchanged for a free ticket to any home women’s basketball game.  Absolutely free!  My guess is, you never got around to using yours.  Well, tomorrow’s your last chance.  You don’t even have to give them money to support the basketball team.  Just cheer loudly for them.  Hiss at the Stanfurd players.  You’ve done all this before.  Except now, when you hurl inappropriate insults at Stanford athletes, everyone in the room (including lots of innocent 10-year-old girls) will be able to hear what you say.  So watch yourself.  CBKWit, I’m looking at you…

Anyway, it’s No. 8 Cal vs. No. 7 Stanford.  I can’t think of a good reason not to be there.

• Riley!  Longshore!  It’s spring drills in Berkeley, California!  Feldman blogs to say that will be the top QB battle this spring.  Honestly, I don’t know if I can handle another year of Nate "I make Drew Bledsoe look like Michael Vick - without the dogfighting" Longshore.
• The senior writer at foxsports.com, whats-his-face, gives Ryan Anderson some recognition for National Player of the Year.  Not listed - anyone I know.
• Thomas DeCoud takes the time to drop some knowledge, and gives us this fun fact: Arizona’s coaching staff = assholes.
• Lavelle Hawkins also dropped by the Worldwide Leader, and tells us that he hasn’t seen Alex Smith play wouldn’t mind playing for the 49ers.
• Stewart Mandel has our Bears making the field of 65.  I’d rather our Bears miss the postseason entirely if that’s what it takes to get Braun out.  ESPN.com has our Bears squarely on the bubble.
• Todd McShay says it’s time for THA1 to prove himself at the combine.  Since he didn’t exactly do that on the field for most of the year.
• Article from the Contra Costa Times saying he’s trying to do just that - with the help of Jerry Rice.