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!

Aggies finished the Bruno Tournament with convincing wins over host, Brown, 18-6, and over St. Francis of Brooklyn, 10-4. Can't rest on any laurels though as they host No. 3 Cal this Thursday evening.

....whom the Aggies defeated, 18-10. Tomorrow begins with a match against host Brown and an afternoon game agains St. Francis of Brooklyn.

Street & Smith's piece on San Jose State ends with "Beyond the opener against UC Davis, it's tough to spot many victories on the schedule."

Fake News! #SAD! Making Aggies Great Again!

To be fair, Bee's Saturday print edition has an AP wire service article on the Davis game in the middle of page 2 of the sports section, (and nothing I could find on that other school.)

Whatever the expectations, the Mercury News wrote before and after articles, and with some size and analysis. The best anyone can expect of the Bee is a small bit in tomorrow's paper, with an attribution to "a campus website." Probably too late for even that. WIll have to write something about Slack's opener against the NAIA FIghting Saints of St. Francis University of Illinois.

San Jose Mercury News-

Pre-game:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/29/sjsu-should-thump-uc-davis-in-opener-thursday-night-and-heres-why/

Post game:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/31/what-we-learned-in-san-jose-states-opener-it-wasnt-good/

Utah took control and scored 34 unanswered points to win, 41-10.

In the other Big Sky opener Montana State topped visiting Western Illinois, 26-23.

A friend of my daughter's did a graduate ass't job at Texas A&M. Said she was pretty much "Howdy, Ma'am!"-ed out after just a few weeks.

Not sure if this is treason, or charity work, but former Aggie lineman Ron Sockolov, who used to spend his summers pushing a VW around Davis, is a team physician at that other school in the Greater Sacramento Metropolitan Area.
http://www.hornetsports.com/information/sportsmedicine/staff

I went with memory, but checked with google. In this day and age no question goes unanswered, but we must be ever vigilant of the dreaded 'fake news.'

Now to test my memory, I recall stories that there was a physician who worked with the athletic teams who also had a pilot's license. From time to time he was pressed into aviation service as he flew Rolf Benirschke from afternoon soccer games to evening football games. Somehow it was added to stories of the Miracle Game...that the doctor/pilot was flying Rolf to Hayward as the final minutes of the game played out. Then I think Rolf got out of the plane, chopped down a cherry tree, and threw a silver dollar across the Bay. I may be wrong.....

(FWIW: 1982, North Dakota State)

Apparently Slack recently worked out a similar arrangement with ESPN 1320:

http://www.hornetsports.com/sports/fball/2018-19/releases/20180731r54m67

https://espn1320.radio.com/blogs/espn-radio/espn-1320-now-home-sacramento-state-athletics-home-hornets

https://www.sacbee.com/sports/college/article216215400.html

http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/news/2018/8/6/football-uc-davis-signs-three-year-agreement-with-sports-1140-khtk.aspx

Great news!

Very cool....(though I would love to be at Jackson State when the band takes the field.)