Here is a link to my Sunday column about the academic-sports scandal at Cal Berkeley. The full text appears below. Stanford is better than Cal. Stanford may not be a better university than Cal — then again it may be better. But when it comes to dealing with its football [...]
Here is the opening to my Sunday column about Cal's 37-30 victory over Portland State: BERKELEY — Three things you noticed about Cal from its 37-30 victory over Portland State on Saturday. FIRST NOTICEABLE THING: Quarterback Jared Goff is very good. He's not good because just he's a freshman playing [...]
Here is the opening to my Friday column previewing the season of the Cal Bears: Cal's new football coach Sonny Dykes and his young players are clear about one thing. This isn't a rebuilding season — or whatever they call seasons like this one in college sports. The Golden Bears, [...]
Here is the opening to my Tuesday column about Cal football coach Sonny Dykes: SAN FRANCISCO On Monday, they held the Bay Area College Football Media Day in San Francisco. Sonny Dykes was there. He's the new coach at Cal. In the Cal handout introducing Dykes you could read, “The [...]
Here is the opening to my column about Mike Montgomery shoving Allan Crabbe: Mike Montgomery, University of California men’s basketball coach, shoved Allan Crabbe, his star player, during a timeout Sunday night in a game against University of Southern California. You can see the shove, a two-handed, hard push to [...]
Sandy Barbour said one of the reasons she fired Jeff Tedford is his low graduation rate of football players. Really? If Cal had won the Pac-12 North do you think she would have cared about the graduation rate? It's debatable.
I am late posting my Tuesday column to the Cohn Zohn blog -- I fell asleep early last night before it went up on the Santa Rosa Press Democrat website. It's about Cal's head football coach, Jeff Tedford and it's not complimentary and I feel bad about that. I like [...]
Here is my column on Saturday's Big Game which will be played at Stanford at the late hour of 7:15 pm, too late for many newspapers to cover it comfortably. I attended Monday's Big Game media luncheon in San Francisco, spoke to Cal coach Jeff Tedford and Stanford's coach David [...]
Cal stunk out the joint against USC at AT&T Park Thursday night. Well, that's not exactly true. The Cal defense played OK, but the offense is among the wretched of the Earth. I initially thought quarterback Zach Maynard was good. I don't think that anymore. He threw three picks. Ugh! [...]
It's been a while since Cal had a good quarterback or even a serviceable quarterback. On Saturday night Zach Maynard made his Bears debut in the season opener against Fresno State. On the basis of one look -- this one game -- he is bringing quarterbacking at Cal to a [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.