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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 26/09/2026

/Jordan Somerville calls a play “AND HERE COME THE BRACELETS! . . . this is a black day for Cal football”

Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 26/09/2026

I wonder when the wider college football world realizes that the Lupoi administration has broken JKS. Might happen tonight

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 19/09/2026

Getting a sense for why Tech was willing to debase themselves for Sorsby

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 17/09/2026

“Wait you’ve spent how many years writing about Cal football teams that have never done better than 7-5?”

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Joe Jam @brandley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Made a gif

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 05/09/2026

Dan Lanning nothing without Will Stein confirmed

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 05/09/2026

Dan Lanning nothing without Tosh confirmed

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 05/09/2026

What little I’m seeing hasn’t made me think even once about watching Gameday this year . . . or ever again probably

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 05/09/2026

It says something about my relative expectations of both Stanford and Miami that in many ways Stanford has actually played *better* in this game than I expected

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 05/09/2026

Five quarters in and I already have to issue a mea culpa, Davis Warren has been VASTLY better than anticipated, dammit

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Michael Ray Surber of Killer Antz with a zed + Church Rat @surber.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Just listen to the roar of that crowd! Yessir, they love their Cardinal here!

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 30/08/2026

The Stanford commercial where they brag about “coding ethical AI” really pisses me off since the leaders of various deeply UNethical AI companies are all furdies

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 29/08/2026

Man TCU’s offense really sucks after losing their QB to Indiana. Why didn’t they just recruit a 5star QB replacement?

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 29/08/2026

UNC looking like a standard 7-5 ACC team. Shame, meme UNC was way more fun

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Good for Cal Matters in filing this lawsuit and getting some actual hard and fast player compensation data: calmatters.org/education/hi...

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 18/08/2026

Finally found the time to listen to this typically excellent episode of the @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social and: 1. The parallels with college football are just so disturbingly stark 2. What is wrong with me that college football and international soccer are my favorite sports?

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 13/08/2026

In my experience, libertarianism means I get to do whatever I want but you don’t

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 13/08/2026

Oregon winning the national championship for “advertising” is a little too on the nose, don’t you think?

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 08/08/2026

Pulling a guy with 14 Ks though 6 on just 84 pitches in a blowout is probably the right call for long term health but it’s just so antithetical to what is ostensibly supposed to be about entertaining your viewers.

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 19/07/2026

What is this game going to do to the @michaelcaley.bsky.social PADDLIN’ dead rubber metrics?

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 18/07/2026

The soccer is so much (aesthetically) better when the players are freed from the weight of the soccer

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Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Our long, national nightmare is nearly over: the “World Cup”* ends on Sunday. Then we’ll get our country back (finally). * Latest Fad @theonion.com

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 12/07/2026

Generally the best case scenario is an airhead with 7 brain cells all entirely devoted to soccer, like Messi

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 12/07/2026

I assume this is all window dressing until the Messi goal contribution at 118”

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 12/07/2026

On one hand, I am sympathetic to anti-VAR arguments because it halts game momentum and refs are clearly swallowing their whistles because they think VAR will catch their errors. On the other hand, it fixes bad decisions like that one. 🤷‍♂️

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 11/07/2026

I don’t think soccer is improved by allowing players to just shove over the opponent

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 10/07/2026

I cannot recommend subscribing to Expected Goals more highly:

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 10/07/2026

Every goal that isn't caused by a massive defensive error is a tiny, precious miracle that should be treasured for all time, and few goals illustrate that idea better than this goal, from this camera angle

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 07/07/2026

I hate this shit, pitting the men against the women when most people are (and should be!) fans of both

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 07/07/2026

Can we take out all of our frustration over this performance on this guy specifically?

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 07/07/2026

The tactics guys are probably going to have a lot to say but man when you just lose every duel, every take on, every pass is loose, it’s not some kind of complicated question of tactics, it just means you didn’t show up. 45 minutes left to show up

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 06/07/2026

It does crack me up that people are moralizing about the red card situation when this guy says like 50 things a day about actual crimes that actually matter

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 06/07/2026

It’s a real shame, you can’t derive happiness from anything as an American because Donald Trump, but those are the rules!

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 05/07/2026

The defining feature of this World Cup has been (presumable the world’s best?) refs waiving away super obvious penalties that always get called in league football

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 04/07/2026

ANY goal would’ve brought down the house but scoring THAT goal?!?!?!?!

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 03/07/2026

This is the best thing I've read about the USMNT this Cup

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 01/07/2026

Something you can entirely count on is World Cup home teams playing with their hair on fire, and also teams of lesser talent absolutely wilting under the pressure of the home crowd

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 30/06/2026

That was my be if the most incredible saves I’ve ever seen. Had to have the outstretched leg AND hand to keep that out

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 28/06/2026

My timeline is full of casual soccer fans celebrating a nice goal and obsessive soccer fans celebrating this game ending in 90

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 28/06/2026

The whole tournament, we’ve seen on field refs not call penalties, perhaps because they think VAR will identify any they miss, but VAR is terrified to actually intervene, and I GUESS this is ok if it’s consistent all the way through but I bet it won’t stay this way

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 28/06/2026

Austria atoning for Gijón 44 years later by trying hard when they don't need to, and Algeria being the team to suffer in both instances . . . that's just messed up.

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 28/06/2026

Man, this section of the bracket is BRUTAL, some of the brightest teams in the tournament are going to go out early

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 27/06/2026

“A cooling break, not that either side have particularly exerted themselves”

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 27/06/2026

Sigh. Iran deserve to move on, but there's no fun in rooting against Congo either.

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 26/06/2026

My body doesn't know how to react to a US world cup loss that doesn't matter. Every instinct I have is to be devastated even though my mind knows it's inconsequential.

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Nick Kranz @nick.writeforcal.com · 23/06/2026

How soft your fields so green Can whisper tales of gore Of how we calmed the tides of war We are your overlords

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