Outer strength
Here is the football notebook from today's paper, which looks ahead to Cal and also re-visits the Stanford win.
And here is a basketball notebook, focusing on freshman center J'mison Morgan.
As a side note, I spoke to Morgan about possible pitfalls of playing against more experienced guys in the Pacific-10 conference.
"It's more of a strength factor. I don't think it's an age factor," Morgan said. "Young players are wise nowadays, too. It's more of a strength thing. We have to get in the weight room more and get stronger so we can compete with the bigger, older guys."
Wow Brian, has it been almost a year already. I can't wait to see Bobo play alonside Holiday, Gordon and company. Have you been to the practices??? What is your take on Bobo? I know he is not a kevin Love but what do you see him doing this year? Thanks, Your friend stuck in Tucson Ted
I'm glad he's confident, but let's be honest here - if this was last season, he'd be up against some SERIOUS talent at center in the PAC-10. Even Kevin Love had his struggles.
This season, I only really see Baynes as someone who should give him trouble with both size and experience.
But really - PAC-10 ball is a whole other level from high school...