{"id":317566,"date":"2026-05-15T18:17:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/317566\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:17:28","slug":"cal-cornerback-ricky-fletcher-on-playing-with-an-edge-finding-the-best-soul-food-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/317566\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Cornerback Ricky Fletcher on Playing With an Edge, Finding the Best Soul Food in Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writeforcalifornia.com\/p\/cal-football-transfer-ricky-fletcher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ricky Fletcher\u2019s decision to come to Cal came together<\/a> quickly once he hit the portal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce I hit the portal, I just had a good relationship with<a href=\"https:\/\/writeforcalifornia.com\/p\/cal-defensive-coordinator-michael-hutchings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Coach Hutchings, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/writeforcalifornia.com\/p\/cal-adds-davon-brown-as-defensive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coach Brown<\/a> and Coach Tosh, and just knowing the pedigree of Cal defensive backs, it was a no-brainer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if that tradition is a lot to live up to, Fletcher didn\u2019t blink.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be that good. Yes sir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coming from Mississippi, Berkeley has been a different world, and he\u2019s embraced it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been very different because I\u2019m a Mississippi boy. The life down here is very much faster, but I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s made good use of his time off the field too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been doing a lot of eating. There\u2019s a lot of good food spots down here. More variety than at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And one spot in particular has already become a regular stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as food I didn\u2019t think was going to be as good, y\u2019all have some good soul food down here. Y\u2019s Choice. That\u2019s my favorite spot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the field, Fletcher knows exactly what he is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a press man corner. I bring a lot of physicality and I play with an edge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricky Fletcher\u2019s decision to come to Cal came together quickly once he hit the portal. \u201cOnce I hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-317566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}