Jake Curtis

Jake Curtis

Joined: Mar 21, 2023

Jake Curtis worked in the San Francisco Chronicle sports department for 27 years, covering virtually every sport, including numerous Final Fours, several college football national championship games, an NBA Finals, world championship boxing matches and a World Cup. He was a Cal beat writer for many of those years, and won awards for his feature stories.

Cal football

Tosh Lupooi

Lee Dort will be the only returning starter from Cal's 2025-26 team

Cal following the win over UCLA

Cal opens against UCLA under the lights

Football

Starting times for Cal’s first five games are set, and two home games in that span are at night

Sakima Walker

Best Of

We rank the mid-career arrivals in Berkeley who have had the greatest impact on the Golden Bears

Cal women's basketball

Basketball

The Cal uniform is one of 15 nominated by a digital platform that keeps up with sports apparel trends

Xavier Carlton

Best Of

We rank the mid-career arrivals in Berkeley who have had the greatest impact on the Golden Bears

Fernando Mendoza

Football

The No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft showed up in Berkeley in a robe and mortarboard for special event

Kayla Williams

Best Of

We rank the mid-career arrivals in Berkeley who have had the greatest impact on the Golden Bears

Cal quarterback Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele

Football

Can Cal’s rising star be one of the top 10 quarterbacks in the country as one site suggests?

Hideki Prather

Other Sports

Cal's bid to reach the NCAA tournament squashed in a lopsided, first-round loss in ACC tournament

Tyson Alualu while with the Jaguars in 2015

Tyson Alualu, who spent 14 seasons in the NFL, got his Cal diploma this past weekend

Cal shortstop Jett Kenady was named to the ACC all-freshman team

Cal opens against Stanford on Tuesday, and probably needs to beat the Cardinal and Miami to have a chance at an NCAA tournament berth

Cal varsity eight

Cal's varsity eight men will have one more shot at the Huskies in the IRA national championship at the same venue

Gavin Eddy

Cal takes two of three from Stanford in the final regular-season series to keep postseason hopes alive