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This report comed to you live from The Rose Bowl in Pasadena,CA. Old Ben is cheering for the fiesty Bruins. Who at half time trail by amere six points to number ten ranked Cal. Sent via hanheld wireless. GO BRUINS!

Top 7 Stories of 2005 These are the stories that really mattered to the life of our nation and our world. If you're wondering where the Valerie Plame scandal is ranked on here, its not. Here, they are in order of least importance: 7. The rise of the Minuteman: Jim Gilchrist and his minutemen forced the issue onto the national agenda. Gilchrist, himself lost a bid as an Independent Candidate for Congress, but his strong showing sent a message to Washington, and they'll ignore it at their peril.

Linked to the ESPN College Football Scoreboard. Should be a great day today for football! There is a nip in the air, the leaves have turned colors (mine are on the ground), and the sun is out and bright!!

NOTE: The Source URL goes to the ESPN scoreboard. Should be a fun day today. VT-Miami FSU-NCT Cal-Oregon in the rain (Oregon's QB is out for today) USC-Stanford

A 19-year-old Dartmouth College student shot and killed near UC Berkeley had been arguing with members of Cal's nationally ranked football team, and one of the players was grazed on the wrist by a bullet in the incident, sources familiar with the case told the Chronicle on Monday. Police believe the woman slain on July 17, Meleia Willis-Starbuck, called a close friend on a cell phone during the argument to ask for help. That friend, 22-year-old Christopher Hollis, allegedly arrived with a gun and opened fire from a half-block away - inadvertently striking Willis-Starbuck in the chest. Hollis was arrested...

HUNT VALLEY, Md. -- Calling steroid use "cheating" and a "black cloud" hanging over Major League Baseball, former Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken said he was dismayed Rafael Palmeiro tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance and was suspended. Speaking Tuesday at a media event for next month's Constellation Energy Classic, the Champions Tour golf event for which he is honorary chairman, Ripken said he was "shocked, surprised, just like everyone else. I hope there's a reason or an explanation." Ripken, who played with Palmeiro from 1994 to 1998, said he was in the Bahamas when he learned his former teammate...

The argument over what's to be done to break up the filibuster barricade in the Senate continues to heat up, with rallies and counter-charges. Two groups were working in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to try to end the Democratic filibusters which have blocked several of the president's top judicial picks from even receiving up-or-down Senate votes. The Coalition for a Fair Judiciary (CFJ) took to Capitol Hill to lobby for an end to filibusters, while the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration convened a conference to call for an end to what they see as a judicial assault on faith. The...

Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor who provoked a national tempest by referring to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as "little Eichmanns," has been invited to speak at UC Berkeley on Monday. Churchill will be featured speaker at a noon public forum on academic freedom and the furor ignited by his views. "I am pleased to invite Professor Churchill to the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement in higher education," said panel organizer Ling-chi Wang, an associate professor of ethnic studies at Cal. "He will present his case for the first time to the Berkeley community." Churchill,...

har har. the Cal crybabies sure are showing how they got "shafted" by not being picked for the Rose Bowl. chumps

Texas Coach Mack Brown, arguably the biggest choke artist in organized sports, got his team into the Rose Bowl by publicly begging to be put in the game and lobbying his friends in the coaches' poll. For the third time in 4 years, the NCAA has burned the PAC-10 in favor of the BIG-12. Last year, USC was ranked #1 in BOTH polls, yet did not play in the national championship game. Two years before that, #2 Oregon did not go to the national chamionship game when NEBRASKA was picked to go despite that fact that Nebraska didn't even QUALIFY...

just heard a preview that John Thune would be on Cal Thomas 's show tonite.

BOSTONThe Democratic National Convention tried to steal Ronald Reagan's optimism. Behind the party's smiling masks, though, was the traditional Democratic cynicism that says people can't do much for themselves without the help of government.The "no Bush bashing" and the ban on talk about "gay marriage" messages went out early and are being (almost) enforced. There are references to President Bush's "dishonesty" and laments about the federal deficit, which never seemed to bother big-spending Democrats when they controlled the checkbook.But these are not your "San Francisco Democrats" now served up for the TV audience from this East Coast liberal city. These...

Bill may let UC consider race By Richard Clough DAILY BRUIN REPORTER rclough@media.ucla.edu In a move likely to re-ignite a recurring debate, the state Assembly passed a bill Wednesday which would allow public universities in California to consider race in their admissions processes. Assembly Bill 2387, which will be sent to the state Senate Education Committee by June 9, would allow the University of California and California State University to consider factors such as race and gender in undergraduate and graduate admissions as long as no preference is given based on those factors. The bill passed the state Assembly by...

TAOYUAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - A probe into last year's crash of a China Airlines jet, which plunged into the sea killing all 225 people aboard, found metal fatigue cracks that penetrated the skin of the aircraft, Taiwan investigators said Tuesday. The cracks -- as well as signs of metal corrosion -- had been covered by a patch called a "repair doubler," which was added as reinforcement to the plane after its tail struck a runway over 20 years earlier. The Boeing 747-200 disintegrated in mid-flight near Taiwan's Penghu islands while on its way to Hong Kong on May 25 last...

Friday, May 10, 2002 UC Berkeley administrators are reviewing how an English course focusing on the plight of Palestinians received approval for next fall even though it discourages conservative students from enrolling. The English R1A reading and comprehension course, titled "The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian Resistance," states in its course description that "conservative thinkers are encouraged to seek other sections"—a violation of the university's Faculty Code of Conduct. According to the course description, the class "takes as its starting point the right of Palestinians to fight for their own self-determination." "The brutal Israeli military occupation of Palestine, an occupation...