Here's a followup to yesterday's post asking who is a better coach, Singletary or Cable. Many Zohnists made a good case for Cable who has won some big games and Singletary hasn't. I want to advance the conversation so please consider this. In the Bay Area we are in a [...]
Today I covered Cal's football opener against Davis. Mismatch. Cal murdered the Aggies. But you expected that. I went to the game trying to get a read on the Bears this season -- not easy to do against this level of competition -- and to see quarterback Kevin Riley, not [...]
I'm in the press box at Memorial Stadium watching Cal manhandle Davis -- no surprise there. The surprise is Cal freshman wide receiver Keenan Allen in his first game ever as a Golden Bear. Zohners, believe me you rarely see a debut like this one. He has three TDs and [...]
Just before Cal started playing Davis a few minutes ago, the Cal marching band did its thing -- lovely blue uniforms, traditional marching and music. The pomp and ceremony is terrific, everything a college band should be. As Zohn readers know, I spent 6 years at Stanford as a grad [...]
If you've been reading the Zohn today you know I posted a two-parter giving the transcript of my long and, from my point of view, fascinating interview with Cal football coach Jeff Tedford. It all started a few weeks earlier when I wrote that Tedford appears complacent. He disagreed with [...]
Here is Part II of my interview with Jeff Tedford: Cohn: Criticisms I’ve heard of you: there are two. 1) He’s terrific. He used to seem more creative offensively. 2) He’s terrific. Has he reached a ceiling at Cal? Tedford: No, I don’t wonder if we’ve reached a ceiling here. [...]
I interviewed Jeff Tedford a few days ago in his office. He had phoned me at home several weeks earlier expressing concern about a column I wrote about him. I had interviewed him at the Bay Area College Football Media Day and asked if he has anything to prove and [...]
Does Jeff Tedford have something to prove? At a news conference on Monday he said, no, he has nothing to prove. I believe he has stuff to prove. Like can he go to the Rose Bowl? I wrote my Tuesday column on what I believe Tedford, as good as he is, has [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.