Alums Enthused about $225,000 Seats for Cal Football
As promised, the Clog is giving you the low-down on a preview of the kick-off for massive fund raising effort for Cal football. Cal dreams of expanding the school’s $50 million sports endowment to a...
View ArticleFirst the Trees, Now the Fees
If you thought the drama over at Memorial Stadium ended when the last oak fell, then get this: Stadium seats are now going for as much as $225,000 a piece. And we don’t mean you actually get to take...
View ArticleMemorial Stadium Puts the Retro in Retrofit
Are you tired of looking at the construction mess that is Dwinelle? Do you walk by feeling that its state of perpetual disarray is in some way a metaphor for your college experience? Unfortunately,...
View ArticleSports Center Case Hits Court of Appeal on the Morrow
Surely y’all remember the tree-sitters (with celebs like Tristan Anderson, the memory isn’t likely to fade that fast)—but maybe some of you have forgotten what all the hullabaloo was about in the first...
View ArticleNews in Our Shorts: Three Strikes, Yoo’re Out Edition
This is a little old, but with the Giants-Phillies series tied at 1-1, it might be, uh, even more relevant (?!) now: Our good ol’ buddy John Yoo thinks that Phillies baseball is more worthy of the...
View ArticleEarthquake Prevention Affects 2011 Football Season
Sorry, football fans, but it looks as if this Saturday’s game against Washington will be the last in Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium until 2012 football season. The culprit is, unsurprisingly, earthquake...
View ArticleEat on a piece of Old Memorial Stadium
While Memorial Stadium is getting ready to debut its sparkly new self this fall, some people are polishing up the bits it shed along the way to sell to the public. According to Today’s THV, Eric...
View ArticleWe Spy: Cal football billboard nonsense
Not everyone who attends Cal lives on campus. Some of us are actually commuters to this lovely school of ours. Now it’s true that students who live on campus do get access to a variety of interesting...
View ArticleShould The ‘Teddy’ Bear Stay?
Unless you’ve been stuck in the basement of Etcheverry for a matter of months, you know that the brand-spanking-new Memorial Stadium is playing host to our football team from here on out. The presumed...
View ArticleDykes Comes To Berkeley
For a supposedly poor public school, Cal does tend to throw a lot of money around at athletics. Over $300 million went into the anticlimactic opening of the Memorial Stadium – an opening that featured...
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