We turn our focus to college football -- to the California Golden Bears, to be precise. Grant wrote a column today for ComcastSportsNet BayArea about Cal's super wide receiver Keenan Allen. Jeff Tedford's offense usually focuses on all those terrific running backs Cal has had. This year the best player [...]
I don't think Cal has a great basketball team or even a very good one. I don't think the Bears will win the Pac-10 Tournament although they may win two games. I don't think they'll be invited to the NCAA Tournament. I think they will play in the NIT. Having [...]
I'm running out to a doctor appointment so I'll make this fast. Cal just sent out a press release indicating which sports it will save and which it will dump. Baseball is getting dumped. I'm not blaming Cal. I'm just saying it's too bad. Three teams made the cut because [...]
My kid Iggy (Grant) wrote a piece for CSNBayArea about all the Cal football players in the National Football League. His blog just got posted. It's in honor of Aaron Rodgers who will play quarterback for the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl on February 6. Iggy goes on [...]
Jeff Tedford got outshined by Jim Harbaugh and Andrew Luck. OK. Fair enough. But Tedford happens to have a former Cal quarterback in the Super Bowl. I'm talking about Aaron Rodgers. Tedford discovered and developed Rodgers. This is the crown jewel of Tedford's achievement and he deserves tremendous credit for [...]
Cal lost to Washington today. Cal lost four of its final five games. Cal didn't do so well this season and will not go to a bowl game. How much do you blame Jeff Tedford? He's done well at Cal over the long haul and he lost his starting quarterback [...]
Cal and Stanford almost got into it before Big Game even started. I'm not sure why. After the game I spoke to Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh because I was writing on Andrew Luck. I did not talk to Jeff Tedford so my point of view may be skewed. From Harbaugh [...]
Cohn Zohn stalwart Gary Furness directed me to this controvery about teams possibly faking injuries on defense to slow down the ultra-fast Oregon Ducks offense. I'm not saying Cal faked injuries last Saturday but I am saying their defenders sure had a bunch of muscle pulls etc. at seemingly opportune [...]
In honor of Saturday's Big Game, I wrote my Thursday column comparing Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh and Cal's Jeff Tedford. I posed a simple question: Which is the better coach? The easy answer is Harbaugh. His team is doing much better than the Golden Bears and he is on the [...]
Cal's Jeff Tedford had tears in his eyes when he met the media after his team got beat by Oregon on Saturday. Once, he wiped his eyes. So I assume he had been crying. I don't believe he was crying for himself. He's not that kind of guy. He was [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.