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Cal eager to prove itself -- again

By Ted Miller
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, October 6, 2004

Is it Berkeley or California? Depends. Berkeley is a philosophy class with John Searle, an economics seminar with George Akerlof or a protest march led by students with Noam Chomsky readers tucked in their hemp backpack. California, on the other hand, is a burgeoning Pac-10 powerhouse, the No. 7 ranked football team in the land and the best purveyor of butt whippings in Division I-A. That is not a flowery bit of hyperbole; it's a measurable fact. The Golden Bears lead the nation with a 37- ...

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