Apparently the bear is not the only animal problem on campus. Cheeto the cat is facing serious weight issues.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article231404188.html

And I am not sure what it says about the current state of newspaper journalism that the Bee runs a video of last week's bear in an article about this week's cat.

- Street & Smith's notes that the Big Sky scheduling "gives certain teams an advantage because of the unwieldy 13-team conference."

"This year it's Eastern Washington, which avoids playing both Weber State and UC Davis as well as the fourth Big Sky team in the playoffs in 2018, Montana State."

Parenthetically, similar things happen in the Big (14) Ten where teams play the other six teams in their division but only three teams in the other division. (It used to be just two...) As a result you can play in the Western division and while you play Nebraska, Wisconsin, Iowa and Northwestern, anyone of which may be having a good year, you might avoid Eastern division teams like Michigan, Michigan State, An Ohio State University and Penn State and only play Maryland, Rutgers and Indiana.

Of course the athletic directors like getting a piece of the gate receipts when you play at Michigan, An Ohio State, or Penn State. Indiana, not so much.

Street & Smith's has UCD 7th, third in the Big Sky behind Eastern Washington and Weber State. Maier is the QB on their All America team (and is pictured on the FCS Preview page).

"UC Davis (10-3, 7-2) reached new heights last year under Dan Hawkins, the former Boise State and Colorado head coach who led the Aggies to their first FCS quarterfinal berth in history in just his second season. Reigning Big Sky Offensive Player of the Year Jake Maier returns at quarterback after passing for 302.4 yards per game (fourth in the FCS). He'll direct an offense that also includes sophomore running back Ulonzo Gilliam, who rushed for 976 yards and caught 57 passes as a freshman. Also back is all-conference tight end Wes Preece and Freshman All-America linebacker Montell Bland, who was second on the team in tackles last year."

On a couple of recent occasions we have taken the dog to run at Slack but had to cut the visit short when 1. a coyote, and 2. a skunk, meandered across the rec/IM field near the Slack soccer pitch. Didn't wait around to see why the skunk was lifting its tail.

To no real surprise, Stanford won, 12-3, eliminating Sac. Still closer than Friday's 11-0 Stanford victory.

And the hits just keep on coming. Band suspended.....

https://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/article230956528.html

I also don't get the "S" logo that Slack has adopted. What are those little triangles to the side of the "S"? Is that some kind of martial arts weapon? Something out of a Tolkien book or "Game of Thrones"? Speaking of Tolkien, it sort of reminds me of the illustrations of the dragon in "The Hobbit" - large reptile with very small wings.

But I digress.

Not a fan of the Slack State font:

http://www.hornetsports.com/landing/index

I don't flat out hate the double font, but it looks like something under construction, just waiting for a graphic artist, or some university committee, to decide what to do to complete the block "Davis." Why not just continue the UC letters in the same font. (It would be copying the UCSB logo above, but you could ag-ify it by adding a stem of wheat underneath it, like the current Milwaukee Brewers logo.)

I am neutral on the "invader" font. Looks like someone took a nail clipper to the upper left corners of most of the letters.

I like the lemon, or comet, or Cleveland Indigenous Persons "CA."

I don't have a problem with the horsehead logo that the University launched with such hooplah a few years ago other than it is too busy. As Dr. Mike noted, it does not shrink well. Too much going on to put on shirt sleeves or ball caps.

Probably a better name than "The 49ers." Who nicknames their mascot after the year the school was founded? Particularly given the history (good or bad) of the California gold rush, which had nothing to do with Long Beach or Southern California.

Will the baseball team still call itself the Dirt Bags?

We also had that guy from Washington, D.C. [Robin Ficker] who sat behind the Wizards' (perhaps the Bullets at the time) bench and unloaded insult after insult. Made national news. His son wrestled for Davis. [Flynn Ficker, HW, early 2000s] He flew out from D.C. to watch UCD wrestling!! I went to one wrestling match, against Iowa.....He blurted out something about "Let's see some of that Iowa corn!" Kind of ironic from a fan of a team called the Aggies.

Goags 20172...sorry to see you go. I enjoyed your insight and obvious love of the game, at least as displayed on this website.

Softball's victory over Hawai'i in the regular season finale assures at least a tie for third. A Long Beach loss to CSUN today would give the Aggies sole possession of third. From the article on the sports website there is still some hope for an at-large bid to the NCAA's.

Go Ags!

Agree

(That's good because the one on the "twitter" pages has the 2023 schedule on both the 2020 and 2023 pages, and no 2020 schedule....not the correct dates for Saturday in 2020.)

- I'd say we should look it up in the rule book, but I am not so certain that there are rules in lacrosse.

With Fullerton's victory the Ags are eliminated from any conference title, but they trail second place Hawai'i by two games with a three game stand at Hawai'i this weekend. A sweep would put the Ags in second, two wins would put them in a second place tie. Tall order in any event, but this has been a good year for the softball team!

Go Ags!

PS Edit: Obviously my math failed me and I only counted on my fingers, not my toes. No way the Ags and Wahine were going to tie for second place. With the split on Thursday the Ags remain two games behind Hawai'i with one to go. I THINK that with a win the Ags lock up third, but what do I know?

PPS: They locked up a tie for third, pending the results of Long Beach's game against CSUN on Saturday. A Long Beach loss would help the Aggie's cause.

....with only 4 games to go, including three on the road, er, over the sea, at second place Hawai'i.

Long Beach defeated Hawai'i, 3-1 (25-23, 25-22, 25-22, 25-23), to repeat as NCAA champion.

"My bad!" I thought Berkeley was in Contra Costa County...swore I'd even looked it up. Alameda it is. Will have to change my commentary, when appropriate, to "not even the best in the East Bay...."

This year they were the best in the East Bay. Beat St. Mary's in the regular season and in the playoffs, though both games were close. (One game in Berkeley, one in Moraga, so technically they were the best college team IN Contra Costa County...and in Alameda County....)

Thanks

Final championship result....Life University 29, Cal 26