To your point:
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/27060592/ncaa-makes-eligibility-waivers-tougher-get

That, and other than the Belotti, et al., connection, I really don't care much for Oregon. They seem to have sold their soul to Nike, no score can be run up too high, etc....

Ducks' website says she can play immediately.

https://goducks.com/news/2019/6/24/softball-ducks-sign-standout-lefty-brooke-yanez.aspx

I try to find comfort in the old line that "we don't want anybody that doesn't want to play for us," and wish her the best, but don't like the idea of a mid-major conference being a feeder program for the bigger conferences.

From this morning's Sacramento Bee:

Will Lotter, UCD Hall of Fame coach, U.S. Navy aviation veteran, inspiring professor, humanitarian leader, died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Davis, California on May 20, 2019, at age 94. Will grew up in Alameda and played football and baseball for Cal Berkeley playing in the 1949 Rose Bowl and winning the 1947 College Baseball World Series. Will had a long career at UCD, coaching football, baseball, soccer, and tennis, in addition to teaching.In 1965 Will joined the Peace Corps and took the family to Malawi Africa for 2 years where he was country director. Will and his wife Jane devoted much of their last 50 years working on social justice issues, especially for victims of Central American violence. They were co-founders of the Davis Religious Community for Sanctuary. Will's awards include induction to Cal Aggie Athletic Hall of Fame, UCD King Law School Martin Luther King Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award, the City of Davis Peace and Justice Award, City of Davis Humanitarian of the Year Award, and UC Davis Educational Opportunity Program Service Award. Will was preceded in death by his wife of 70 years, Jane Baker Lotter. He is survived by four sons, Don (Pendo Malomele), Mike (Beth Ullrich), Scott (Tracy). and Rick (Tracy Walton), three grandchildren, Chelsea Black and her husband Kyle, Dustin, and Emma, and one great-grandson, Cooper Black. More at: www.facebook.com/willlotterucdavis A memorial service will be held September 15 at the UC Davis ARC Ballroom at 2pm.
Published in The Sacramento Bee on June 23, 2019
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sacbee/obituary.aspx?n=will-lotter&pid=193218122

McArthur Park
Antique Bizarre
Wooden Ships

Some "dive bar" on G, probably the same one you mentioned earlier, but I can't recall the name either.

Another bar and restaurant across the street near Davis Hardware, whose name I cannot recall which is sad because I worked there one summer....

Back when I was at Davis there were three hard liquor ABC licenses...Larry Blake's which was a college place and decent restaurant, Mr. B's which was towns people though developing a college crowd, and Honorable G's which was basically a Chinese restaurant and I have no idea if anyone ever went there for just a drink.

Before The Grad there was Jekyll & Hyde's.

Lots of good memories, which is something considering that on at least one occasion I left with significant memory impairment.

Baseball worked out so well for them.

Just where did Cal Fish & Game release that bear?

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russian-airport-alert-after-huge-16495222

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!