Sac and Stanford tied at 23 with 2:23 left in the game.

Silly me, I forgot that I actually knew someone way back when whose last name was Irvine. Cute, too.

Some CSU schools have adopted regional designations rather than specific cities...."East Bay," "Monterey Bay," "Channel Islands," "Dominguez Hills," "Stanislaus."

And particularly with UCD since Davis sounds more like a surname than other UC locations. Speaking of which I don't recall anyone ever referring to other campuses except for Davis or Berkeley as "Cal [INSERT NAME HERE.]" Cal Los Angeles? Cal Santa Cruz?

A friend who graduated from the mother campus referred to this story as a "solution in search of a problem." Is anyone really having trouble identifying the school without having to tack Berkeley onto the name? Sounds like a committee in a bureacracy trying to justify its existence with busy work.

"Go see Cal! Go see Cal! Go see Cal!"
"Cal Worthington and his dog, Spot!" Whatever Spot was, it was never a dog.

To me Cal - anything always sounds like a car dealer.

I'm fine with calling the mother campus Cal, or "U.C."

As for the others, "U.C.L.A.," "U.C.S.F.," and U.C.- [Insert name here] for the other seven.

Aggies defeated Sac State 3-1 (25-18, 25-19, 15-25, 25-21) in volleyball at Sacramento tonight.

Cup Score is UCD 10, CSUS 0.

Next event is men's soccer on October 28 in Davis.

Aggies defeated Sac State 3-1 (25-18, 25-19, 15-25, 25-21) in volleyball at Sacramento tonight. Nice time to get it together.

Hard to prepare for the No. 1 team in the nation, (who just defeated No.2 USC, 12-5, at USC) by defeating a junior college and an NAIA team in only its second season ever.

#5 Ags upset by #16 San Jose State this morning, 8-7, in the first game of the Aggie Round-Up.

Hopefully they can do better this afternoon against West Valley College, a community college, and NAIA UC Merced in their second year as a team.

I'm getting on this late, but don't think this has been mentioned - The trickle down will affect two UC Davis teams. Currently we, along with San Diego State, were supposed to become associate members of the Pac-12 in women's lacrosse in the 2023-24 season. We are also members of the America East Conference for field hockey. The ACC sponsors both of those sports and I imagine Cal and Stanford will be expected to join the ACC for those. What does that do to those sports at Davis?

Meanwhile Sac is on a tear. Swept their second of two invitationals this past weekend.

Volleyball is a streaky game.

Purdue paid Fresno State a LOT ($1.35 million??) to play in West Lafayette. Bulldogs came home with the money and a 39-35 victory.

Collegiate water polo has gone through a significant conference re-alignment this year without the fanfare and TV contracts that have accompanied the realignment of the major college conferences.

For the first time the Big West and the West Coast Conference will each sponsor men's water polo. Davis joins UCSB, UCI, UCSD, CSU Fullerton and Long Beach State in the Big West. This will be a tougher conference top to bottom than the Western Water Polo Association. As of now Davis is ranked #5 in the country, behind of course the Big 4 - Cal, Stanford, USC and UCLA.

Chargers re-sign Doss to practice squad:

https://www.chargers.com/news/los-angeles-chargers-sign-12-players-to-practice-squad

https://boltbeat.com/posts/chargers-plans-jalen-guyton-keelan-doss-roster

This article thinks he may end up back on the practice squad. I’d rather see him in a regular roster than back on a practice squad. Maybe he needs to develop a taste for poutine and head north. CFL, USFL, XFL, get some regular playing time. And I’m sure he and his people are looking at everything. Good luck to him!

Chargers waived Doss:
https://www.chargers.com/news/los-angeles-chargers-reduce-roster-to-53-players-2023

Spent too much of the weeked at Sac in a hopeless effort to support the Iowa Hawkeyes volleyball team....but let's face it, volleyball at Iowa is like wrestling at USC. However the big surprise of the tournament was on the last day when Cal Poly swept host Sac, 3-0. I am not sure that Sac was at full strength, and may have even given some players a breather on the final day of the event, but nice to see a BW team sweep Sac.

Looks like Whelan will be the Green Bay Packers punter!

https://packerswire.usatoday.com/2023/08/28/packers-release-veteran-punter-pat-odonnell-daniel-whelan-wins-punting-job/

A glimmer of hope for Keelan:
https://boltbeat.com/posts/chargers-roster-earned-spot-preseason-49ers/2

If they aren't going to keep him, I hope they cut him early and give him a better chance to find another team.

I thought the same thing....reminded me of Davis. Also reminded me of my hometown, Iowa City, IA....College towns in a rural setting, not much else going on other than the college.