Back to school: Ron Rivera to help Cal football Former Panthers and Commanders head coach Ron Rivera is returning to the University of California, his alma mater, to help the football program.

QB recruit back to Cal after portal flip from Ducks QB Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele, who first committed to Cal in July before his Dec. 4 flip to Oregon, has signed with Golden Bears after entering the transfer portal.

Ott will return to Cal after injury-plagued season Cal running back Jaydn Ott announced he will return to school for his senior season.

Sources: Cal transfer QB Mendoza picks Indiana Cal transfer quarterback Fernando Mendoza has committed to Indiana, sources told ESPN.

Cal hires former WSU coach Rolovich as analyst Former Washington State and Hawai’i coach Nick Rolovich has been hired by California as a senior offensive assistant.

Here’s how Cal, Stanford and SMU changed everything to prepare for the ACC To get ready for their move to a bicoastal conference, the programs had to revamp their travel schedules and much more.

Dental office told me Medi-Cal/Denti-Cal won’t pay for service So my dental insurance covers 70% and the dental office told me Denti-Cal (state insurance for dental) would not pay the remainder so I paid cause I needed the work & of course they did not call me beforehand. Well when I got home, I called Denti-Cal and they told me I only had to pay if they denied the claim for the 30%, that the dental office …

Sources: ACC votes to invite Stanford, Cal, SMU The ACC presidents and chancellors met on Friday morning and voted to add three new schools — Stanford, Cal and SMU, sources told ESPN. It will bring the league to 18 members, 17 of which will play football full time in the league.

Sources: ACC ramps up Cal, Stanford, SMU talks The ACC will hold a series of meetings this week to discuss the potential additions of Stanford, California and SMU, including how additional money from the schools would be distributed among ACC members, sources told ESPN..

Source: 4 ACC schools opposed to Cal, Stanford Florida State, North Carolina, Clemson and NC State are opposed to adding Cal and Stanford to the ACC, a source confirmed to ESPN, but expansion discussions are not completely over as of Friday evening.

Sources: Cal, Stanford to ACC hits ‘roadblocks’ The ACC presidents met Wednesday night, and the pursuit of Stanford and Cal for conference membership has “hit significant roadblocks,” sources told ESPN.

Sources: ACC plans calls to discuss Cal, Stanford ACC leaders are set to begin exploratory discussions on the potential additions of California and Stanford to the conference, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Monday, but the scheduled calls are in the embryonic stages at the point.

Cal’s Wilcox: Pac-12 exits ‘sad,’ likely preventable Cal football coach Justin Wilcox, who played in the Pac-10 and has spent much of his career in the Pac-12, called the recent departures of five teams to other conferences “shocking, “sad” and likely preventable.

Buying a ‘house’ in So Cal doesn’t make sense I’d like to move back to LA/OC as I grew up there. For work and personal needs, I need to live reasonably close to an airport. I make about $150k/yr (I make more counting some investing benefits). I’m single and have no kids, but having a second bedroom as an office (I work from home) is a nice luxury. I can rent a fairly nice two-bedroom for le…