Just stumbled across this thread. Good news as to both, but also a comment on the shrinking staffs at the Enterprise and newspapers in general. Same might be said about Joe Davidson at the Bee. He's doing more college stuff, but some of that is because the Bee pretty much canned the rest of the staff around him.

(Kind of like what I tell people who question why UCD left DII....maybe not so much UCD leaving DII as DII leaving schools like Davis.)

I digress. You do that at this age.

I think it was Aggies, but the ones from New Mexico State. In the upper left hand corner is a partial scoreboard with the letters ""...SU."

Scroll to the bottom of this recap of the New Mexico State match in a tournament (The Wildcat Classic) at Arizona on the UA website with the same video, but with the full scoreboard and a note in the text about the rally. https://arizonawildcats.com/news/2018/9/14/volleyball-recap-091418.aspx

The print edition (and thereby the pdf-esque e-edition) has the Aggie game on the front page of the Sports secion and Slack in a small column on page 3. I'm sure the Davis game only made the front page because it was an early game at 'furd, and since no Kings player is currently making the news because one of the cup holders in his car is chipped. Both the Davis and Slack games were on the road so the Bee had no writers on scene and instead used AP wire service reports. Do they even have sports reporters to send to home games? Maybe they can cover home games like they covered Fourth of July fireworks and State Fair foods,....by sending interns. "Please ReadLocal, even if we no longer WriteLocal."

A couple of message boards for the Idaho Vandals as they return to the Big Sky for football:

https://247sports.com/college/idaho/Board/ - Football is on the first board, titled "All Vandals"

https://sportshoop.la/forums/idaho-vandals.62/

If you're going to have a red-eye, better on a Friday night after the game.

Thanks, and nice win for the Mustangs.

Wonder what the travel arrangements were for USD at Harvard and Brown at Cal Poly on Friday. I think some of these FCS teams travel cross-country on game day or take red-eye plane flights to save hotel costs. Didn't Davis do something like that a few years ago when they played Northeastern, and Iona do something like that when they flew out here.

Then again I may be wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.

So I guess the UC Davis Ahwahnees is out of the question, too.

I had a friend who attended the Junior University at about that time. He favored "Robber Barons." In his words, cardinal isn't even a color, it's a "hue."

On a barely related note, the present day Arizona Cardinals acquired their nickname when, then known as the Racine, (IL) Normals, the team owner purchased old uniforms from the University of Chicago. He dubbed the color, "cardinal red," and the nickname was born. http://mentalfloss.com/article/25650/whats-nickname-origins-all-32-nfl-team-names
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Cardinals

Meanwhile the Bee is promoting a sports only digital newsletter:
https://www.sacbee.com/sports/article218293050.html
I only read this twice, but one word I haven't found yet is "college."

The thing I don't like about "Cal Davis" is that it sounds like someone's name rather than a school. I hear Cal Davis and I think Cal Worthington....(and his dog, Spot.) UC Davis is fine. Love the throw back logo. Even have a couple of caps with it. I am not a real baseball historian, but someone once compared it to the hat worn by the Chicago American Giants of the Negro Leagues. I like it better on the caps than the horse in a horse-shoe logo.

Wall Street Journal runs a similar poll. UCD is #41 overall and #5 in their public college listings.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/public-schools-make-gains-in-wsj-the-college-rankings-1536188663?mod=ig_collegerankings2019

Not from a giant of journalism, but on the personal side of this incident:

https://people.com/sports/jason-hairston-wife-speaks-out-about-cte/

From the stats it looks like Slack was up 14-13 with about five minutes to go in the game. Aztecs put up 15 points in the last 4+ minutes.

Odd that rugby might have safer rules about tackling and contact with players. Have to "wrap them up," no blocking, have to enter scrums or rucks from the back, no high-tackles.

I played a little bit of very poor football for a very poor high school team many, many years ago. Yes, we had helmets. Not, they weren't leather. Based stricly on being slow and the least small person on the team (at 185 lbs.,) I played on the line(s). On offense we were taught to block using a triangle...the three points being forearms and the forehead. I could make a joke or two, but this is neither the time or place.

Very sad twist on this story:

https://www.sacbee.com/sports/outdoors/article217920125.html

Wow, almost lost my after dinner snack...banner at athletic website suggests tonight's water polo score was UCD 13, Cal 10. (Or it did a few minutes ago.) Unfortunately that was an error and the actual score was Mother Campus 13, University Farm 10. Still a 3 goal loss to the Golden Bears is a small accomplishment in itself. Hopefully the team can build on that and improve over the season.

Hopefully this will avoid politics in the current era, but I am including this link because it suggests Jason may have had CTE/concussion issues:
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/nfl-star-jason-hairston-dies-after-hunting-trip-with-donald-trump-jr/news-story/368acb240dc6e51e97c89b33e5902c32

And yes, RIP Jason. WAY too young. As I googled his name it seems he had recently turned a love of the outdoor life into a very comfortable financial situation. Makes his passing at this age even sadder.

Everything is 5 points now....

UCD website now has a 2018-19 Causeway Cup page. As of last night Slack did not. The UCD site says there are 85 possible points this year. Last year there was no women's golf and softball was cancelled due to weather. The site shows four events yet to be scheduled; softball, men's track & field, women's track & field and men's tennis, however the Slack men's tennis page shows a match in Davis on January 19, 2019. No indication as to whether or not beach volleyball will be included.

Great win in volleyball as Ags defeat the Hornets, 3-1 (25-23, 25-23, 13-25, 25-14).

Running score is now UCD 10, CSUS 0.

Next event by my unofficial tally is the first of two men's soccer matches on September 29 at Davis.

Go Ags!