Is this article filed under "News" or "Opinion"? Seems like it starts out in the News category and then shifts gears into Opinion at the end -- a pattern that I find both annoying and manipulative. Pick a side, Mr Eymer.

I think you will find that baseball at UCB dates from 1892, not 1982.

Do you suppose Cal considered not paying its football coach $2.5 million?

The two highest paid employees of the state of California are Tedford and Montgomery (Cal football and mens basketball coaches) with total salaries of about $4,000,000. What a cruel coincidence Cal elects to save that much by completely eliminating 5 sports, 13 other coaches and 180 athletes.
Coincidental factoid: the highest paid employee of the United States of America is the football coach at West Point.

All college sports should be club sports. All tenure should abolished, and professors be forced to compete for their jobs each year. All parents should be able to pick the classes that they want to pay for (for their immature kids). Educational vouchers should be the law of the land for k-12.

Here is a story written by Palo Alto High School's VIking magazine about Cal dropping five sports, including baseball, from their varsity line up.

Check it out.

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