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Cal Gymnastics Ranked #4

Earns Highest Preseason Ranking In Program History

Golden Bears Picked To Win ACC

3 Bears Named To Watchlists

The reigning national runner-up California women's gymnastics team earned its highest preseason national ranking in program history being tabbed fourth in the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) Preseason Coaches Poll.   The Golden Bears earned 1,785 points in the poll and picked up a first-place vote for the first time. Cal is the highest-ranked ACC school and trails just three SEC schools in No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 2 LSU and No. 3 Florida. The ACC, which only began hosting women's gymnastics last year, saw five of its six programs listed in the poll with No. 15 Stanford, No. 25 NC State, No. 28 Clemson and No. 36 North Carolina all receiving an early nod.   Cal will face 14 of the 36 programs to earn a preseason ranking during the regular season, including four of the top six. Five of those matchups will occur in the first two weeks of the season as the Bears face No. 10 UCLA and No. 19 Oregon State at the Pacific Coast Challenge on Jan. 4 before heading to Oklahoma City to take on the Sooners, the reigning national champion Tigers, and No. 5 Utah in the Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad on Jan. 11.   The 2024 season saw the Bears earn their highest finish in their 51 years as a program as well as earn their first outright regular-season conference title in their final year as a Pac-12 program. Cal earned its three highest team scores in program history and broke the team vault record.

Although Cal graduated a pair of All-American seniors in Gabby Perea and Andi Li, the team returns a core group of Bears that made last year's success possible. This includes junior eMjae Frazier, who earned six All-America honors and broke the NCAA scoring record last year, and senior Mya Lauzon, who earned seven All-America honors and was named Breakout Performer of the Year by College Gym News. Seniors Maddie Williams and Ella Cesario, who competed in all 17 meets last year, also return.   The Bears also welcomed in five talented freshmen including Great Britain senior national team member Ondine Achampong, who won the 2024 British All-Around Championship and placed 13th in the all-around at the 2023 World Championships. Achampong helped Great Britain win the silver medal in the team competition at the 2022 World Championships.

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That’s what we like to see!

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Detroit Lions vs. Chicago Bears | 2024 NFL Season Week 16 | Predictions Madden NFL 25

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Golden Bears Over Fighting Irish

Close Out Season With Thrilling Win

Thomsen, Bartalo Earn Spots In Cal History Books

BERKELEY – The 2024 California volleyball team avenged its September loss to Notre Dame with a four-set thriller against the Fighting Irish at Haas Pavilion Saturday, dropping the first set 15-25 before taking the next three with scores of 25-23, 25-20 and 25-22 to cap off the year with three-straight wins. The Golden Bears finished the season at 15-17 (7-13 ACC) - a respectable first year result in a new conference with a tough schedule. Following the match, Cal celebrated the careers of Gianna Bartalo, Annalea Maeder, Ava Mehrten, Ellie Hamm and Paige Morningstar for Senior Day.   "I'm super proud of the team," head coach Jen Malcom said. "Our words this year were 'adapt and adjust'. It took every one of us to push through this season, and we made it our own."   Bartalo and Sawyer Thomsen anchored a Cal defense that held the Fighting Irish to .133 hitting, each recording program milestones. Bartalo's 17 digs – a match high – brought her to 468 on the year, crushing her previous career best for the eighth-highest total in a single season by any Cal volleyball player. Thomsen's 11 blocks (also a match high) made her just the 14th Bear in history to cross the 10-block mark and the first to do so since 2012, helping the team match a season-high 14 stops on the day.   Xuemeng (Maggie) Li led both teams with 21 kills and notched four service aces, a career high; as a team, Cal knocked down a season-high eight aces. A trio of Cal players – Bartalo, Peyton DeJardin (13) and Natalie Lau (10) – recorded double-digit digs, while Lau also added 44 kills for her 12th double-double of the season and a career-high five blocks. Ava Mehrten posted a career high of her own in her final collegiate match with seven digs as well as a season-high six blocks.   Notre Dame's offense hit .375 in the first set while only allowing Cal to score consecutive points thrice, finally ending on a 6-0 run to take the 1-0 set advantage. The Fighting Irish scored first in the second period, but the Bears gave them a run for their money, forcing eight tie scores – the last at 23-23 – and five lead changes; it took a come-from behind four-point run capped off by a block from Lau and Mikayla Hayden to seal the set in favor of Cal.   Although Notre Dame scored first once again to start off the third, the Bears responded with a 7-point run – including three aces from Li – to take a lead that held for the rest of the set. Cal scored five-straight points in the middle of the set, followed shortly by a powerful kill from Lau, to stretch that advantage to nine points (18-9), but a Notre Dame surge soon cut the gap to two; once again, a Lau block (aided this time by Thomsen) finally clinched the set for the Bears. The final set belonged to Li, who slammed down nine of her kills on .500 hitting to overcome another tightly-contested period with seven ties; after a 3-7 start, Cal scored 16 of the next 22 points before the Fighting Irish scored five straight and eventually forced the match's final draw at 21-21. The last point for the Bears finally came off the swing of DeJardin, whose ninth kill sealed the match.  

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Oversleeping and waking up to see the Bears beating the Raiders is nice.

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Tomoko Konoike, Moon Bear, Hunter Gatherer Tableau (2018). Plywood, water-based stain, carving, 900 x 900.

[atalana]

but seriously i do find it so funny that ford was like OH GOD MY PRECIOUS REPUTATION after bill possessed him around other people for all of one night

and then he gets back to this dimension after thirty years and this is now the photo the press associates with his name

[prettybearbutch]

butches/studs/mascs of Tumblr planning Halloween costumes: we can't possibly all be werewolves,it's not mathematically possible

[trashy-greyjoy]

sometimes, it's not so much about the romance as it is about the devotion. the adoration.

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Vintage wind-up toy bear (USSR, 1920s-30s)

[sincerelystesichorus]

i have spent so long trying to place who astarion reminds me of

his dry little sarcastic bits gets me every time and like it's automatically funny but it felt so familiar...

this bastard.

and some more similar comparisons i think

thank you for coming to my ted talk

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Chicago Bears vs. Minnesota Vikings | 2024 NFL Season Week 15 | Predictions Madden NFL 25

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Brown bear and ravens By: Antti Leinonen From: Realms of the Russian Bear 1992

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Bears Take Down USC on the Road

Cal Gives Trojans First Loss, 71-66

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Andrej Stojakovic tied a career high with 20 points, Jovan Blacksher Jr. added 19 and Joshua Ola-Joseph made several key plays down the stretch Sunday night to help California beat USC 71-66 at the Galen Center.   Cal (3-1) earned its first road win against USC since the two schools left the Pac-12 in the first matchup as nonconference opponents since 1921. The Golden Bears have now won two in a row against USC this calendar year.   Desmond Claude hit a jumper before Saint Thomas made back-to-back baskets in the paint to give USC (3-1) a 64-63 lead with 6:30 to play but the Trojans made 1 of 10 from the field thereon as Cal scored eight of the final 10 points.   BJ Omot made a 3-pointer with 4:54 left and Ola-Joseph scored in the lane to give the Bears a four-point lead with 1:51 remaining. Ola-Joseph grabbed an offensive rebound before Stojakovic made two free throws with 21 seconds left and then blocked a shot by Claude. Blacksher made 1 of 2 from the free-throw line to cap the scoring just before the buzzer.

Ola-Joseph finished with six points, seven rebounds and a steal – all in the final 12 minutes.   Claude scored 13 of his 20 points in the first half and Thomas finished with 15 for USC. Wesley Yates III scored all his 10 points before halftime.   The first half featured nine ties and 10 lead changes before Blacksher hit a 3-pointer with 2 seconds left that cut Cal's deficit to 43-42.   Blacksher made 4 of 5 from 3-point range and matched his previous season high with 18 first-half points on 7-of-8 shooting.   DJ Campbell hit a jumper and Stojakovic scored six consecutive Cal points before Campbell knocked down a 3-pointer to cap an 11-2 run that gave the Bears a six-point lead with 15:37 to play.   SUPPORT THE BEARS Tickets for the 2024-25 campaign can be purchased by visiting CalBears.com/Tickets, calling 800-GO-BEARS (462-3277) or emailing goldstandard@berkeley.edu. Fans can support the Golden Bears through the Cal Men's Basketball Excellence Initiative or the California Legends Collective.