No. 21 USC Beats Cal 77-65 in Berkeley as Alijah Arenas Scores 19
Rodney Rice added 18 points as the Trojans improved to 3-0. Sammie Yeanay scored 14 and Nojus Indrusaitis 13 for the Bears, who fell to 2-2 at Haas Pavilion.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge at night. Photo: Daniel L. Lu / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
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Cal women's soccer lost 2-1 to NC State at Edwards Stadium on Senior Day. Soleil Dimry tied the game on a penalty kick early in the second half, but Daisy Duda scored the winner five minutes later. It was NC State's first win over Cal since 1989 and its first in Berkeley.
Young L, born Lloyd Omadhebo, the Berkeley rapper and producer behind The Pack's hit "Vans," has died at 39, Berkeleyside and Billboard reported. Too Short announced the news; a cause of death has not been disclosed.
Julie Elie, an ethologist at UC Berkeley, won the 2026 Coller Dolittle Challenge for Two-Way Interspecies Communication for more than a decade of work decoding zebra finch vocalizations, she told Live Science.
UC Berkeley physicists proposed a superfluid helium-4 sensor that, if built, could measure Earth's frame-dragging as precisely as the best satellite tests, but in minutes rather than years, Live Science reported.
NASA said its two ESCAPADE spacecraft completed the first powered Earth flybys used to send a mission to Mars and are on course to arrive in September 2027. Principal investigator Rob Lillis of UC Berkeley said it will be the first science mission to choreograph two orbiters around Mars at once.