#Cal Sports Report

Scottie Scheffler and Jon Rahm are the betting favorites for this week's PGA Championship, but former Cal golfers Collin Morikawa and Max Homa are not too far down the list of favorites for this event, which is the second major of the year. The betting odds for each golfer vary depending on the betting site you choose. At the end of this story we…

We address four issues in today's Pac-12 notebook. We are stating at the start that we believe USC will be one of the four teams in the College Football Playoff if it beats Notre Dame on Saturday (no sure thing) and wins the Pac-12 championship game (no sure thing). That would be an impressive double, because the Irish are up to No. 15 this week…

As the regular season comes to a close, we can get our best look at who has proven themselves and who has fallen in a short after a very entertaining season. USC and Utah will be kicking off this Friday in the Pac-12 Championship in a rematch that gave USC their only loss of the season when they traveled to Salt Lake City. Here's the rundown of…

Eight Pac-12 questions to address this week with just one game left: . Is there any way that USC would NOT make the College Football Playoff if it beats Utah in Friday's 5 p.m. Pac-12 championship game in Las Vegas? Simply put, Ohio State is the only possible fly in USC's ointment if the Trojans finish 12-1. Let's run down the…

Saturday's Cal-Stanford contest will be the 125 Big Game and the 40 anniversary of The Play, the five-lateral kickoff return that won the 1982 Big Game for Cal. Cal coach Justin Wilcox fired offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave and offensive line coach Angus McClure this week, but Wilcox did not reveal which coach will be calling the offensive plays…

It's out of the frying pan and into the fire for Cal, which faces No. 9 USC and quarterback Caleb Williams on Saturday night one week after losing to No. 8 Oregon and quarterback Bo Nix last week. The facts for Saturday's game CAL (3-5, 1-4 Pac-12) vs. NO. 9 USC (7-1, 5-1 Pac-12) SITE: L.A. Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles WHEN: Saturday, 7:30…

The Pac-12 made a significant change recently when it announced that the division winners would not necessarily be the two participants in its conference football championship game. Instead the two teams with the best conference winning percentage would meet in the title game even if they were from the same division. Whether that affects gamblers'…

Experience is the difference, or so say the oddsmakers of The Match, the televised charity golf competition featuring former Cal star Aaron Rodgers that will take place Wednesday, June 1. This is the sixth iteration of The Match, and for the first time it will not feature any pro golfers. Instead it will be a contest of four all-star quarterbacks.…

We address three Pac-12 football questions this week: It's kind of eerie what going on in Los Angeles with UCLA and USC with regard to the parallels with 1988. Both teams have started this season 6-0, just as they did in 1988. Both teams have a Heisman Trophy candidate quarterback leading the way, as they did in 1988. One team's quarterback is a…

Cal opens Pac-12 play with a Saturday afternoon home game against Arizona, which recorded its only win of 2021 by beating the Bears in Tucson. In that 10-3 loss to the Wildcats last year, the Bears played without quarterback Chase Garbers and several other starters and assistant coaches because of COVID protocols. Saturday's game is Homecoming for…

Cal faces its first significant test of the season when it travels to South Bend, Indiana, for its first road contest -- a Saturday afternoon game against Notre Dame. The Bears are 2-0, and the Irish are 0-2 under first-year head coach Marcus Freeman, and Notre Dame quarterback Drew Pyne will be making his first career start Saturday. But Notre…