Former U.S. Olympian Richard Thornton was one of the founders and a swim coach at San Ramon Valley Aquatics. He died while entering the water to surf in Santa Cruz on Thursday. Courtesy of San Ramon Valley Aquatics San Francisco Bay Area swim coach and former U.S. Olympic team member Richard Thornton died Thursday while … Read more
Protester Atma Das (right) presses his body on a police barricade as a line of CHP Police stand behind a barricade to keep protesters away from People’s Park at the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Dwight Way in Berkeley, Calif., on Jan. 4, 2024. Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE Protesters gathered on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley on Wednesday … Read more
People’s Park in Berkeley, Calif., is readied for construction Jan. 4, 2024. Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE In a major overnight action, University of California police took control of People’s Park and secured the perimeter with walls of shipping containers despite efforts by dozens of protesters to stop the takeover. UC Berkeley said in a public statement that … Read more
Stanford and Cal last faced off on Nov. 18, 2023, as members of the Pac-12, but at least one member of their new conference doesn’t want them in the ACC. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Florida State University sued the ACC on Friday morning, with the apparent intention of getting a court to give it a cheaper … Read more
Filmmaker Greta Gerwig attends the 2023 SFFILM Awards Night to receive the Irving M. Levin Award for Film Direction at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Dec. 4, 2023, in San Francisco. Steve Jennings/Getty Images Barbie has had many faces over the years — from Malibu Barbie to Surgeon Barbie — but there’s never been … Read more
The California Golden Bears men’s basketball team lines up for the national anthem prior to a game at Arizona on March 5, 2022, at McKale Center in Tucson, Ariz. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A Cal men’s basketball player went into the stands after a game on Monday to confront and threaten a fan. A … Read more
California Golden Bears’ Jaydn Ott goes up in the air to score a touchdown against UNLV Rebels in Berkeley, Calif. MediaNews Group/The Mercury News/MediaNews Group via Getty Images Cal football enters its much-anticipated matchup against SEC mainstay Auburn as 6.5-point underdogs, but don’t bother mentioning that to star running back Jaydn Ott. In his media availability Wednesday, … Read more
The pain of the Pac-12 breakup started to fade for Stanford women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer as soon as Stanford and Cal announced Friday that they would be joining the ACC next summer. VanDerveer has been leading the prestigious Stanford women’s basketball program since 1985, coaching in the Final Four 15 times since then, and … Read more