Marshawn Lynch in the Media
January 3, 2007, San Francisco Chronicle
Cal's Marshawn Lynch declares for NFL draft
For the better part of the last year, Marshawn Lynch has escaped the questions as well as he has avoided linebackers. The Cal junior tailback, however, finally gave in Tuesday, announcing that he has declared himself eligible for the NFL draft and ending the rampant speculation about the decision...
January 3, 2007, Contra Costa Times
Lynch leaves Cal to pursue 'dream'
The Marshawn Lynch era at Cal has come to an end. The junior tailback out of Oakland Tech High School announced Tuesday that he won't be back for his senior season. Instead, he will enter the NFL draft...
December 29, 2006, Oakland Tribune
It's too much to ask Marshawn to return
AS A proud Cal alum hell-bent on reaching the Rose Bowl before global warming necessitates the game's relocation to Vancouver, British Columbia, I would love to be able to make a case that Marshawn Lynch should stay for his senior season. Then again, I'd also like to convince Stanford to rehire Buddy Teevens and Roger Waters and David Gilmour to reunite, among other things. Sadly, trying to persuade Lynch to wait another year before entering the NFL draft is a similarly lost cause...
December 19, 2006, Oakland Tribune
Bowl last Cal game for Lynch?
JEFF TEDFORD said Monday he hasn't yet had his summit sitdown with Marshawn Lynch about the star tailback's plans for next year. Maybe that's because the coach already knows what he's going to hear, even though he publicly professes that he doesn't. That would be that the Dec.28 Holiday Bowl against Texas A&M will be Lynch's last game as a collegian at Cal, because the lure of the NFL is simply too strong to pass up for the junior from Oakland...
December 3, 2006, San Jose Mercury News
It's unclear which way Lynch will go
If Saturday was Cal tailback Marshawn Lynch's final home game, it was memorable only from a team standpoint. Lynch did not play well. In fact, he fumbled, dropped a pass and got benched. What did Lynch have to say about his performance? About his future? About the factors that will determine whether he turns pro or returns to school?...
December 1, 2006, San Francisco Chronicle
Lynch's ankles get 'doctor's' clearance
As Cal junior tailback Marshawn Lynch darted away from defenders at Sunday's practice, he appeared to be healthier than he has all season. The theory grew stronger a day later, when, on his way back to the huddle he performed two running cartwheels-into-back flips...
November 20, 2006, San Francisco Chronicle
Lynch's choice of words might reveal his plans
Junior tailback Marshawn Lynch has shuddered at the slightest allusion to his supposed plan to enter the NFL draft at season's end, but he finally might have finally tipped his hand after Cal's 23-9 loss to USC on Saturday night...
November 2, 2006, Yahoo! Sports (Rivals.com)
Lynch still carries title hopes
Marshawn Lynch is scoring game-winning touchdowns, is among the nation's leading rushers, is helping California to a seven-game winning streak and is getting mentioned in Heisman Trophy discussions. What could he do if he had two good ankles?...
October 28, 2006, Associated Press
Cal's Lynch takes lead in the locker room, on Pac-10 rushing list
The hotel ballroom was silent that Friday night, with every California player immersed in final game preparations and his own thoughts. That's when Marshawn Lynch roared at the top of his lungs: "Roll call, defense!" His teammates were stunned, but they instinctively replied, "Get the ball back!" -- just as they do in practice every day...
October 26, 2006, SI.com
Rollin' With Cal's star running back Marshawn Lynch
He is the Man With the Golden Grill, and when Cal halfback Marshawn Lynch flashes his Fort Knox smile, there is a zero percent chance that I will fail to do the same (sans grill). Given that my wife and I are both proud Cal alums, and our three kids have been properly propagandized, Lynch is certainly the most popular man in our household, and his approval rating got even higher last Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium...
October 22, 2006, San Francisco Chronicle
Carrying Cal with a pair of tender ankles
For the next five weeks, the most closely watched joints in Berkeley will not be Telegraph Avenue's pubs, but Marshawn Lynch's ankles. They have been a problem all season, and it's a good bet they will be nagging at Lynch the rest of the season...
October 22, 2006, Oakland Tribune
Lynch driving force behind Golden Bears
The tears shed on the field Saturday afternoon were expressions of relief at barely surviving. Or final bursts of joy in the wake of triumph. The rivers of sweat rolling down Tightwad Hill, through Memorial Stadium and westward toward the Bay came from the True Blues, whose emotions thrashed about, rising and falling and rising like the tide. The blood? That belonged to Cal tailback Marshawn Lynch, who never fails to spill a bit when following the lead of his heart...
October 22, 2006, San Jose Mercury News
After Hail Mary, Lynch answers Cal's prayers
Marshawn Lynch is not Superman, but on Saturday, Cal needed, and received, the closest approximation possible without violating NCAA and Kryptonic rules. The Cal junior tailback was everywhere, did everything, shouted to everybody, danced with everyone, and saved Cal's season along way. And when the Bears screwed up royally by giving up a stunning tying Hail Mary touchdown on the final play of regulation, Lynch shrugged and went out and saved them again in overtime...
September 29, 2006, The Oregonian
Dr. Tailback and Mr. Hide
Marshawn Lynch might be the most bashful Heisman Trophy candidate in the history of the award. California's junior tailback has tackle-breaking power at the point of attack and breakaway speed when he reaches the secondary. But he enjoys an interview about as much as a trip to the dentist...
August 28, 2006, CBS Sportsline
Oakland native Lynch a pillar of Cal's Berkeley campus
There is a point where Oakland and Berkeley cozy up next to each other, though hardly holding hands. The California campus -- bastion of free thought, home of Nobel laureates -- shoulder-to-shoulder with gritty, urban Oaktown...
August 25, 2006, SI.com
Postcard from camp - Cal's modest star
I wanted to embarrass Marshawn Lynch. Not because I don't like the guy. On the contrary, he's easily one of the most likable players in the country. But getting Cal's star tailback to talk about himself is harder than getting Paris Hilton to stay home on a Saturday night. It's just not happening...
August 23, 2006, ABC7news.com - KGO-TV
Interview With College Star Marshawn Lynch
Cal Bears' junior runningback Marshawn Lynch from Oakland Tech is one of the leading Heisman Trophy candidates. His 1,246 yards rushing last season is third best in Cal history. He averages a stunning seven yards per carry. The Oakland native feels winning the Heisman would be more than a personal or Cal football achievement. He talks to ABC7's Mike Shumann about that and much more in this complete and unedited one-on-one interview. Click on the video to your right to watch the entire interview...
August 20, 2006, San Francisco Chronicle
This season, Cal might qualify to be called Tailback U -- North
Ask junior tailback Marshawn Lynch who the best back in the nation is, and he says his backup Justin Forsett. Ask Lynch what third-stringer Marcus O'Keith would do in Cal's offense, and he says, "He'd put up the same numbers I do"...
August 18, 2006, ESPN.com
Perfect players: Marshawn Lynch
In its 2006 college football preview, Sporting News talks to a group of outstanding players. Here is a Q&A with Lynch, running back from California...
August 18, 2006, The Sporting News
Lynch lets his production speak for itself
If Marshawn Lynch gained yards with as much flash as he talks, he'd be playing flag football in an Oakland park. You've heard of three yards and a cloud of dust? With Lynch, it's five yards and a cone of silence...
August 3, 2006, Oakland Tribune
Cal's 'Mama's Boy'
There's no doubting how Marshawn Lynch feels about his mother. Just look at his broad, muscular back. Tattooed there, shoulder blade to shoulder blade, is the acknowledgment, "Mama's Boy." The biggest influence on Lynch the son isn't his becoming an All-America or Cal's first Heisman Trophy winner, or even his own new Web site. It's his mom, Delisa Lynch, the stabilizing force in his life...
July 24, 2006, The Daily Californian
Promoting Lynch is Right Idea for Bears
It is only 40 days and 40 nights, folks. In a little under six weeks, the Cal football team will take the field in front of over 100,000 fans at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, orange checkerboard end zone and all.
That image alone is enough to put me on the edge of my seat and wake me up from a slow summer headlined by head-butts and threatened indictments. But just the other day I came across www.marshawn10.com, Cal's new promotional web site for Heisman Trophy candidate Marshawn Lynch...
July 22, 2006 - San Jose Mercury News
Bears begin to hype for Heisman
Marshawn Lynch, who has always been more comfortable dealing with linebackers than the media, is about to become the face and voice of Cal football. Friday, the Bears launched a Heisman Trophy campaign featuring Lynch, a junior tailback who has been named to numerous preseason All-America teams. It's rarefied air for both team and player. The Bears haven't had a Heisman contender since Chuck Muncie in 1975 -- he finished second to Archie Griffin -- and Lynch rarely seemed at ease with the media during his first two seasons at Cal...
July 21, 2006 - CSTV.com
Cal May Be Golden Behind Its Heisman Candidate Running Back
As another Pac-10 football season approaches, there is a growing sense of optimism in Berkeley for this season about the Cal Bears, whom some point to as the team that can knock off four-time Pac-10 champion USC this year. And the reason for such optimism clearly centers on its junior tailback and Heisman Trophy candidate Marshawn Lynch...
