Bear Tracks: July 13 - Lucky Monday

July 13, 2:11 PMCal Bears ExaminerRob Calonge

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There isn't a ton of newsworthy items to present on the Cal Bears only a couple of weeks before the start of summer camps.  In the meantime, expect to see more speculative journalism until things start happening on the field.

I'll be here working on a few items that I hope to publish this week, but for now, I'll try and satisfy you with a few articles from around the web.

Cal Bears site

Alexis Gray-Lawson and her USA teammates took the gold at the World University Games.  Gray-Lawson averaged 7.9 ppg and 4.3 rpg while averaging a little over 20 minutes a game.

Cal Swimming's, Dana Vollmer, is getting more and more accolades at the 2009 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships.  She earned three separate berths on the U.S. team for the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome.

Four Golden Bears were named to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic team.  To qualify, you have to have a G.P.A. of at least 3.25 as well as meeting NCAA standards for performance in their event.

The Daily Cal

If you're a tennis fan, Katie Dowd has a good story on Cal's women's tennis coach, Amanda Augustus.

Joseph Cannon describes his take on soccer-crazed Spain, and offers up a little perspective on Cal Bears fandom.

Chris Haugh does a good job of covering the San Francisco Bay Area Pro-Am Summer Basketball League with participants, Jerome Randle and D.J. Seeley.

Local News

Jon Wilner of Mercury News details the recruiting issues for Mike Montgomery in the coming year.  It's a good breakdown of the program needs and where it's at this year in comparison to Montgomery's first.  There's also this quote from Montgomery about sophomore center Max Zhang:

I really like the kid.  He works hard, does whatever you ask. Our job is to find something he can do that allows him to contribute. Maybe that means playing zone and letting him protect the basket.

Joe Kapp will be on hand at McNab Ridge Winery to sign bottles of "The Play" wine on Saturday the 18th from 10 am to 5 pm.  Carole Brodsky of the Ukiah Daily Journal writes:

...That event, known historically as "The Play" has been memorialized in a 100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon bearing the name of that fateful event. The harvest date was October 25, 2006. The Napa Valley appellation was aged for 18 months in French Oak and was bottled in March of this year.

Sounds like a great gift for any Stanford alum.

National Sites

ESPN's Ted Miller has the Pac-10's five scariest nonconference games.  Cal has one of them, and I bet you already know which one that is.

It's official.  Austin Hinder is an Elite 11 QB.  It again shows that it's a big-time plus to be considered a "QB Guru" at the college level.

Blogs

California Golden Blogs, as usual, does a great job of breaking something down -- this time it's the men's hoops schedule.  This is just one of the reasons they are one of our 'Best of Cal Bears websites' from last year.