Mychal Kendricks

The All-Conference awards were announced today and some of your favorite Bears earn some much-deserved honors. The big headline is senior linebacker Mychal Kendricks winning the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year award. Here's what the press-release had to say: "Kendricks, a senior from Fresno, Calif., leads the Golden Bears and ranks fourth in the Pac-12 with 8.0 tackles per game (96 total). He is also tied for third in the Conference with 13 tackles for loss. Kendricks has played a key...Read Full Story

Mychal Kendricks will chat live with the Contra Costa Times’ Bear Talk blog on Thursday, Aug. 4. The chat with the 2011 preseason All-American and member of watch lists for several national awards will be moderated by Cal football beat writer Jonathan Okanes of the Contra Costa Times and begins at 2 p.m. PT. Kendricks, who appeared Monday at the 2011 Bay Area College Football Media Day in San Francisco, received his preseason All-American nod as an honorable mention choice of GoDaddy.com...Read Full Story

I saw this brought up in the message boards, and reader Oliver pointed this out in the comments section of my UCLA recap, but I thought this was worth its own post. In a revolutionary new defensive scheme, the coaching staff decided to test its new 3-2-3 defense, jogging on just 10 defensive players in the waning moments of their game against UCLA. You can clearly see just 10 Bears on the field at the 0:02 mark, and again at the 0:35 mark. With about 5:23 remaining, the Bears rushed 3 linemen...Read Full Story

We finish (and I say finish even though I didn't have a chance to get to the Special Teams portion. Check out Okanes' blog for some of the most recent developments on that. ) our look at the Depth Chart going into Saturday's game and who we can expect to step out onto the field first. Linebackers Starters: Zack Follet, Worrell Williams, Anthony Felder, Eddie Young Backups: Devin Bishop, DJ Holt, Mike Mohammed, Mychal Kendricks, Charles Johnson Follett, Williams, and Felder come as a surprise...Read Full Story

(Getty Images) Fall Camp kicks off today as the Bears formally begin their journey to live up to high preseason expectations and earn the elusive bid for the Rose Bowl. Some have even slotted the Bears as darkhorse candidates for a national championship, but there is no doubt that the team’s focus headed into the season is to win the Pac-10 conference outright. While the Bears are led by a veteran defense and Heisman candidate Jahvid Best, there are a number of questions that will need to be...Read Full Story