6 HRS AGO - Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images The Golden Bears are well represented on the prestigious list The 2020 Chuck Bednarik Award Watch List saw two of your California Golden Bears named to the list, as DB Camryn Bynum and LB Kuony Deng each represented the university. The prestigious award is given out annually to the best overall defensive player in the country and is voted upon by members of the Maxwell Football Club, NCAA football head coaches, sportswriters and sportscasters across the nation. Presenting our 2020 #BednarikAward Watch List for college football's best defensive player ... Fingers firmly crossed that we get to evaluate each and every one of you this fall... pic.twitter.com/KU5ERUr7DT— Rich Cirminiello (@RichCirminiello) July 13, 2020 Cal sports two while Stanford posted just one. USC is the other California school to be represented as they tied the defending National Champion LSU Tigers for most players represented at three. UCLA was nowhere to be Collapse

7/4/2020 - Happy Fourth of July you Golden Bears! It’s the Fourth of July and in the year 2020, the nation’s birthday takes a bit of a backseat to the nation’s goings-on of late. Whether it’s the protests for the senseless killings of so many Black citizens spurned by the murder of George Floyd, or whether it’s the entire re-emergence of the coronavirus as states started reopening, the Fourth of July 2020 will be very different. A day usually spent with loved ones, family, friends and strangers all alike, mass gatherings are (and rightfully should be) cancelled for all intents and purposes. This all comes after three California Golden Bears student-athletes have recently reported as testing positive for COVID-19 after the school started the return of student-athletes. Still, sports are on schedule for 2020, and are tentatively still a go for the fall season later this year. With that, the fourth of July also represents my lone vacation that I’ve planned for this year. It’s been a wild ride Collapse

7/1/2020 - Three of 96 student-athletes have reported positive for COVID-19 According to reports from Cal Sports Report, the California Golden Bears Athletics Department has stated that on Tuesday, three student-athletes tested positive for COVID-19. Those three athletes were part of 96 student-athletes who were tested, the majority of them being football players, as they returned to campus for voluntary activities. The testing took place at University Health Systems though Cal did not specify in those reports which athletes tested positive, and thus we are unaware of whether or not they were indeed football players. The report from Cal Sports Report also stated that one of the three athletes has returned home to his home outside the Bay Area. Though three positive tests is absolutely newsworthy, it’s nothing in comparison to the likes of other programs with widespread problems on campus. Clemson had at least 37 players test positive and elsewhere in the Pac-12, the Arizona Wildcats have halted Collapse

6/29/2020 - Cal is also reported to be on the chopping block of a renegotiated or terminated deal with their marketing company The hits keep coming for the California Golden Bears (and the UCLA Bruins). Just days after Under Armour has threatened to terminate their sponsorship deal with Cal, it appears that Learfield/IMG College is next in line with the Bears in their sights. Multiple reports have told The Mercury News that Learfield/IMG College is expected to ask the Bears (and UCLA) to revise if not completely terminate their multi-million dollar sponsorship agreements as well. Though we learned much more from the onset of the Under Armour news, with them being a publicly traded company and all, the news from Learfield/IMG College is a bit murkier. They’re a private company, and though they have had furloughs and salary cuts this year during coronavirus, little else is known about what is coming from them towards Cal. What we do know, however, are the cash figures from the Learfield/IMG Collapse

6/26/2020 - Emily Boyd, Ifeoma Onumonu, Arielle Ship and Celeste Boureille all are set to play in the NWSL Challenge Cup The NWSL Challenge Cup is set to take place and debut the return of group sports in North America since the COVID-19 shutdown of sports earlier this year. While the MLB and NBA have dominated headlines and the PGA Tour has returned to action, the NWSL will mark the return of team sports for the first time since mid-March. On those NWSL rosters are some pretty famous California Golden Bears alumni including Alex Morgan, though she will not be playing this summer since the birth of her daughter earlier this year. Set to play in the NWSL Challenge Cup are Chicago Red Stars goalkeeper Emily Boyd, Sky Blue FC attacker Ifeoma Onumonu, Utah Royals FC attacker Arielle Ship and Portland Thorns FC midfielder Celeste Boureille. Boyd played for Cal from 2014 to 2017 and capped her career as the Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Year in 2017. She was a second-team All-American and a first-team Collapse

6/24/2020 - Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports Three former Cal baseball players will take the field in a shortened MLB season this summer The Major League Baseball has reached an agreement to return to the field this summer in a shortened, 60-game season. The details are still being worked out but it looks like the players will be returning to the field on July 1. A great breakdown was written by SB Nation’s very own McCovey Chronicles, and outlined here: Major League Baseball announces 60-game regular season So, with that in mind, who are some former Bears to get excited for? Well, there are three of them currently under roster with a major league team: Marcus Semien, SS, Oakland AthleticsMark Canha, LF, Oakland AthleticsAndrew Knapp, C, Philadelphia Phillies With no minor league season this summer, we get to focus solely on the majors and solely on your former Bears here. Semien played for Cal from 2009-2011 and starred in his 142-game career. He his a career-high .328 from the plate in 2010 Collapse