Thursday, August 31, 2006

AP: Cal plots title run

 

By GREG BEACHAM

BERKELEY, Calif. -- The banners hang from lampposts above the aromas of curry and patchouli on famed Telegraph Avenue. Just blocks from Memorial Stadium, the oversized portraits celebrate the university's beloved heroes. If Marshawn Lynch, DeSean Jackson, Brandon Mebane and Desmond Bishop played football in most any other town, their faces would be on those banners. After all, they're the star players who have turned No. 9 California into a powerhouse with its highest preseason ranking in 54 years. But this is funky, free-spirited Berkeley, the renowned home of culture, education and all things tie-dyed. Those big banners on Telegraph? They're portraits of Cal's long list of Nobel laureates in economics, physics and literature.

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