No. 23 Washington State is playing its best ball in years, winning seven straight games and coming off a blowout of Arizona.Cal is coming off a blowout, too, except it was on the receiving end.The Cougars and Bears are seemingly headed in opposite directions, but Saturdays matchup will feature similar Air Raid-style passing attacks that could provide an entertaining nightcap to the days college football action, kicking off at 10:30 p.m. ET.Cal, with its Bear Raid attack, is second nationally, behind Texas Tech, with 463 pass attempts (51.4 per game). Washington State is third at 455.Mike does what Mike is going to do, and he does it well, said Cal coach Sonny Dykes, a former assistant to WSU coach Mike Leach at Texas Tech. And hes done it well for a long time. Hes always moved the ball, hes always scored points.The Cougars (7-2, 6-0 Pac-12) have won their first six conference games for the first time since 2002, which is also the last time they won seven consecutive games overall. They beat visiting Arizona 69-7 on Saturday.Even when we were 0-2, we didnt lose any self-belief in ourselves, wide receiver Gabe Marks said at a press conference Monday. We lost belief in you guys because you guys lost belief in us. ... We all knew that we were going to be good. Its just that a lot of people jumped off the wagon real quick, which is OK. (We were) 0-2; fans will be fans.Cal (4-5, 2-4) has lost three of its past four games, including a 66-27 loss to Washington on Saturday night, when it allowed 704 total yards.The Bears defense is reeling, ranking last nationally in rushing defense (286.7 yards per game), second-to-last in points allowed (44.4 per game) and 125th out of 128 teams in total defense (527.9 yards per game).Washington State, on the other hand, has been more stout than usual on defense, especially up front. The Cougars are 21st nationally in rushing defense, yielding 118.8 yards per game. Defensive end Nnamdi Oguayo recorded three sacks last week, and free safety Shalom Luani picked off his fourth pass of the season.Theyre playing with a lot of confidence on both sides of the ball, Dykes said of Washington State. Much-improved defensively. They are playing aggressive and theyre really trying to force the action.Washington State quarterback Luke Falk threw for 311 yards in three quarters against Arizona last week, at one point completing 22 consecutive passes. The Cougars were 47 of 52 passing against the Wildcats.Falk is No. 2 in the nation with 359.7 passing yards per game. His two top receivers -- seniors Marks and River Cracraft -- are in the top five in the conference in receptions per game and receiving yards per game. Marks has 10 touchdown receptions.Cal will counter with quarterback Davis Webb, who is third nationally with 352.9 passing yards per game. Wide receiver Chad Hansen, the most prolific receiver in the country early this season, is back from an ankle injury and seems to be regaining his form.Hansen delivered five catches for 70 yards and a touchdown against Washington; he is up to 64 catches for 840 yards and nine scores this season.Two years ago, the matchup of Bear Raid vs. Air Raid produced an FBS-record 1,261 passing yards in Cals 60-59 victory. The game was decided when Washington State missed a chip-shot field goal as time expired.Last season was dramatic too, as Cal rallied from 14 down to win 34-28, the victory preserved by a late interception of Falk at the Bears 10-yard line.Whenever us and Cal get together, its always going to be a hell of a deal, Marks said. Its a heavyweight showdown.Cal is 0-4 on the road this season, although three of those losses have come by 10 points or less.Washington States true heavyweight showdown might not come until the Apple Cup against rival Washington to end the regular season. 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When the law was implemented, boxing promoters were left without any available insurance policy to buy to cover the events, leaving the sport dead in New York since the last card took place on Coney Island in Brooklyn on Aug. 21.Promoters canceled several cards through the end of the year, but after months of wrangling and negotiation, a policy will soon be available to promoters enabling them to put on boxing events, albeit at a dramatically higher cost.New Yorks Department of Financial Services, the state agency that worked with the insurance industry, has approved a policy that the United States Fire Insurance Co. is getting set to make available to promoters. It is expected to be in place in time for the first card on the commissions schedule to take place. That is the card co-promoted by DiBella Entertainment and Mayweather Promotions and headlined by the Badou Jack-James DeGale super middleweight title unification bout on Jan. 14 (Showtime) at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.It is our understanding that a combat sports insurance policy has been approved with an insurance carrier [United States Fire Insurance Co.] and will soon be made available to promoters, NYSAC spokesman Laz Benitez told ESPN on Tuesday.When the law legalizing MMA in New York went into effect, it raised the minimum coverage for a boxing card from $10,000 to $50,000 for general medical coverage per fighter on the card, a change most promoters had no issue with and one that conforms to the norm in many other states. But the law also required a new and unprecedented $1 million minimum requirement for each fighter in the event the fighter suffers a life-threatening brain injury, a very rare occurrence.It was difficult to get even one insurance company to enter the market to offer the policy that United States Fire Insurance Co. is about to roll out. Even when the policy becomes available, it is still likely to dramatically reduce the number of boxing cards in New York because of the cost.A source with direct knowledge of the pricing being discussed for the policy told ESPN that a 10-bout card in New York would likely cost in excess of $16,000 but possibly substanttially more to meet the minimum standards of the new law.dddddddddddd.UFC has put on two cards since MMA was legalized in the state, but they were covered by an MMA-only policy issued by AIG.Lou DiBella, founder and owner of DiBella Entertainment, said he was not clear yet on the precise cost of the new policy. He also stated that while he is pleased there will be a policy available to cover major cards in the state, such as the ones that take place at Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center, he is still very upset and concerned about the future of the club cards that are the life blood of the sport in the state.There will be insurance for the Jan. 14 card at Barclays Center, but this is not solving the long-term problem, DiBella said. Its potentially phenomenally expensive. I dont have all the final details, but my understanding of the insurance is that it would be available for the Jan. 14 card and will allow the highest-level fights to take place, but it does nothing to help the club shows or any grassroots New York boxing to take place. This is a temporary fix. Im looking for a permanent fix.DiBella also has March 4 at Barclays Center on hold for the much-anticipated welterweight world title unification fight between Keith Thurman and Danny Garcia.According to the New York commission, there are two other dates on hold for cards in New York so far in 2017: March 17, for a Top Rank card at The Theater at Madison Square Garden that will feature the professional debut of Irish Olympic star Michael Conlan; and March 18, at Madison Square Garden, that K2 Promotions has slotted for the possible Gennady Golovkin-Daniel Jacobs middleweight world title fight.DiBella said those are all big enough shows to absorb the additional cost of the new insurance policy, but his Broadway Boxing club cards in Manhattan and Star Boxing promoter Joe DeGuardias club cards on Long Island at the Paramount in Huntington remain impossible to do at such an inflated cost.This policy will allow the biggest fights to take place, but it does nothing to address the more serious problem of club shows or small regional television cards, DiBella said. Youre not going to see a ShoBox card in New York with this insurance policy. Id say 90 percent of the shows that normally happen in New York wont be possible to take place under this policy because of the cost.Why would a promoter come to New York for that cost when they can go elsewhere for a lot less money? ' ' '