Archive for November, 2009
5 – Number of unbeaten, untied major college teams there will be at the end of the regular season if Cincinnati beats Pittsburgh and Texas beats Nebraska this weekend. Not since 1950 have there been more than five, and only once since 1951 have there been as many as five. That was 2004 when there ...
Nov 30th, 2009
The Heisman Trophy race is not over for Stanford’s Toby Gerhart, even though he won’t play any more games before the Dec. 7 voting deadline. After a weekend that could not have worked out better for his Heisman chances, Gerhart must wait it out, hoping for two things to happen: 1. The pollsters must see fit to ...
Logic suggests the loss to Cal should have ended the Heisman Trophy hopes for Stanford running back Toby Gerhart. So it came as a surprise when Gerhart was still listed among the top five contenders in virtually every one of this week’s Heisman polls that websites and newspapers feel obligated to produce. Not only is ...
The national media are already heaping abuse on Pac-10 basketball, so we figured it was safe to pile on, adding the sobering note that West Coast Conference teams have a winning record against the Pac-10 so far. The sad truth is, the WCC is 3-2 against the Pac-10 this season, and the two WCC teams ...
The college football elevator does not stop at every floor because some passengers keep going up, while others are headed down as if the cable had snapped. GOING UP (fourth floor — women’s clothing, Christmas gifts, electronic equipment) – Clemson – A team coached by a guy named Dabo Swinney has to get some attention, ...
After waiting through nearly 38 minutes of Baylor domination, the 2,361 folks who attended Sunday’s women’s basketball game at Cal got to see what they came for. Well, sort of. They got to see the attempt at history, but they did not witness the making of history. Baylor’s fabulous 6-foot-8 freshman Brittney Griner will dunk ...
You will hear all about Mike Mohamed’s game-saving interception that finalized Cal’s 34-28 upset of Stanford on Saturday, and how that ruined the Cardinal’s chances to get to the Rose Bowl, so we will forgo the analysis and the emotional response and get to the cold, hard numbers worth noting: 59 – Number of years since Cal ...
After Cal was beaten decisively Thursday and Friday by two teams ranked lower than the Bears, the inevitable reaction is that Cal was overrated. Well, yes and no. The Bears should not have ranked as high as they were — No. 12 in one poll, No. 13 in the other — and that was noted ...
Several terribly significant Cal-Stanford matchups can only be found here, so take a look at how we size up these head-to-head encounters. Oh, some football stuff, in the form of noteworthy items, follows at the end of this article. THE MATCHUP CATEGORIES THAT MATTER: 1960s Counterculter whackiness – Ken Kesey (Stanford) vs. Timothy Leary (Cal) ...
Stanford lost a heart-breaker at the buzzer on Wednesday, which will hurt in the short term, but the Cardinal may have found a point guard, which should pay dividends in the long term. Six seconds after Stanford’s Landry Fields tied the game with his 28th point off a perfect inbounds pass from Jarrett Mann (more ...