Results of the test weren’t immediately available, but Montgomery said, “At first blush, it was pretty positive.”

Robertson, who averaged 18.0 ppg in Cal’s first two games, injured the foot sometime last week and missed the Bears’ two games at Madison Square Garden. Senior forward Harper Kamp will miss his fifth straight game while still recovering from knee surgery last spring.

RANKINGS: Cal’s losses to Syracuse and Ohio State dropped the Bears from No. 13 to No. 29 in the Association Press national rankings and from No. 12 to No. 23 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll.

So I interviewed Daily Cal alum and current Yahoo! Sports writer Michael Silver to say "Fuck Stanfurd!" for me.

(Note: Silver replaced the "o" in every Stanfurd with a "u." The Daily Californian does not regret this error).

Joseph Cannon: What are your feelings toward Stanfurd?

Michael Silver: I feel that Stanfurd is a reasonably respectable academic institution that, through clever branding and a complete disassociation from reality, has deluded its alums, students and dorky fans into believing that it is somehow a sanctuary for The Chosen Ones.

And that's kind of sad, given that it fosters entitlement, cookie-cutter passivity and a complete lack of willingness to grind that ultimately does not serve its graduates -- or society -- well.

Gee, what crew would you want to be around, and who would you trust on a sinking submarine to solve the problem? The kids who "got in" and spent the rest of their life bragging about it?

Or the ones who fought their way through the most challenging academic institution on earth, set the world ablaze along the way and lived to tell about it?

JC: What bothers you most about the Cardinal: The half-assed collection of slobs they call a band? The Farm? The mascot? The color red? Palo Alto?

MS: Those homely cheerleaders are harmless. As for the rest of it -- the things you've listed and the millions of others you haven't, like that stubby Stanfurd penis they call Hoover Tower (naturally, ours is bigger) -- it all bothers me ...

Oh, and have I mentioned that The Tree is a serial killer?

JC: "Do you find it odd that the Stanfurd Daily prints on paper, when their mascot is a source of paper? Or does it just embody the true Stanfurd spirit of 'being a total waste?'"

MS: I see that you are continuing the Daily Cal's long and decorated tradition of ass-kicking maturity and intelligence, and I know this because you did not stoop to calling this "ironic." And yet, you could have, which makes it even more awesome.

THIS would be an actual example of irony, as opposed to the faux examples cited by moronic journalists across the land, many of whom either went to Stanfurd or actually buy into the myth that it's a superior school.

These people would say or write something like, "You know, Oski is a bear, and ironically hundreds of Cal tailgaters in Palo Alto on Saturday will shit in the woods ... "

It's deplorable.

JC: Why is Cal far superior to Stanfurd?

MS: That's kind of like answering why I'm turned on by lesbian love scenes, or why the warm sun feels good on my salty face at the end of a killer beach day while I'm drinking a Dos Equis Amber and grinding up against my wife. The first answer: It just is.

And that's what I think is lost upon some people who aren't true Golden Bears and think we have some sort of inferiority complex because, they surmise, some of us didn't get in to Stanfurd.

Seriously, even if you WANTED to go to Stanford when you applied, how many minutes on the Cal campus did it take before you felt like getting down on your knees and thanking your individual chosen supreme beings (or lack thereof) that you ended up where you did?

We have a more challenging school, a better campus, a better campus community, better athletes, better coaches, hotter chicks, better fight songs, a better drinking song, better student journalists, better former student journalists and a better grip on reality.

Most important of all, we enter the world equipped to kick everyone's ass and not whine about it when we face obstacles, and that's worth a hell of a lot more than $40,000 a year and easy access to a golf course.

It's important to remember that, when we face a stiff athletic challenge (as we will Saturday), we are not risking anything when we throw ourselves out there for our team.

We are superior. We know it. We're comfortable with it. Nothing can change that, ever. When we achieve athletic success, as we must on Saturday, it's not an illustration of our excellence.

Rather, it's a validation -- a confirmation -- of all we know to be true and absolute.

JC: Favorite Cal-Stanfurd moment.

MS: Well, I was at The Play, so I'm going to go with the obvious and take you all back to the fall of 1982. I was a high school senior in L.A., and my dad was up north on business and, at the last minute, scored two Big Game tickets and flew me up to meet him.

I loved Cal but wasn't totally positive I would go to school there, and I saw-even before The Play-one of the greatest college football games I've ever seen, with driven, passionate seniors rising up to try to do one last momentous thing in their careers while battling John Elway, one of the best players ever to put on cleats.

And they had an equally passionate, hell-bent crowd urging them on, and yet in the end -- or what I thought was the end -- it wasn't enough.

Mark Harmon kicked a field goal with four seconds to go to put Stanfurd up 20-19, and I felt like I'd been punched in the gut.

We were on the alumni side, and I'll never forget what I saw next, because I swear I would have remembered it forever even if The Play had never occurred: The entire Cal student section stood up as one and began clapping and doing their pre-kickoff cheer in what I can only describe as a total and uniform act of defiance.

What I saw in that moment was a large group of people saying, "Fuck it -- we have come too far and worked too hard for this, and we do not accept this outcome. We are NOT FUCKING LOSING THIS GAME."

In other words, they were clinically insane. And that, honestly, was the moment I knew I'd go to Cal if I were admitted. Those were MY people, or at least I wanted them to be.

And then, to see that insane perspective validated in magical and unfathomable fashion and live the long, long celebration that followed -- I can't even tell you how that has impacted my life, from who I married to the threshold at which I give up (basically, there is none).

Again, people on the outside don't get it. They think The Play was zany and wacky and flukish and something unique to the rivalry. And it was, but it could only have happened one way.

Which of the two universities would field players who, given an unsolvable situation, would make up an unprecedented and brazen solution and have the audacity to pull it off?

I think you know the answer. I know you know. The Bear does not quit. The Bear will not die.

A defeat on Saturday won't change that. But a victory will be soooooo much better than a blowjob.

Cal running back Shane Vereen, despite his 193 yards and three touchdowns, was not named the winner for offense. That honor went to Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli, who threw for 284 yards and three touchdowns and rushed for three other scores in the Ducks’ 44-41 double-overtime win over Arizona.