Anybody seen Dior Lowhorn lately?    He must have stepped away for a minute . . . or a week . . . or a season.     Oh, wait a minute, there he is.   Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s him.   Do you see him?   Number 33 over there?   But can that be him?  That guy wearing No. ...

We here at JakesTakeOnSports were right about Cal’s women’s basketball team, but for the wrong reason.   But since whys and hows don’t matter in sports – or at least that’s what coaches tell us – we will just take credit for being right. You see, we figured the Bears, despite their disappointing start, would be ...

At around 10 p.m. Thursday night, when Santa Clara led No. 8 Gonzaga by 14 points with 15 minutes left in a nationally televised game, one of the biggest upsets of the college season seemed to be taking place right here in the Bay Area. When folks on the East Coast read their morning paper ...

There are signs when things are getting desperate, and when a quarterback who has not played organized basketball for five years is added to a college basketball roster on a Tuesday and is uniform for a game on Thursday . . . well, you can see where this is leading. Because Stanford men’s basketball team is ...

The days leading up to college football’s signing day (which is Feb. 3 this year) are some of the weirdest in sports, with players changing commitments and internet recruiting services disagreeing on why they did it or whether it’s a big deal.   All reports are made to seem like earth-shattering news because nobody really knows how ...

What to look for in Thursday’s games involving Bay Area basketball teams: –  Cal (13-6) at Arizona State (14-6) – Cal center Markhuri Sanders-Frison will not play because of a back problem, and Jerome Randle will play despite a sore knee, but Jorge Gutierrez is back and running around at near full speed.    ASU (4-3 ...

Today is Rhetorical Tuesday, where we ask five rhetorical questions involving West Coast college basketball.    And away we go, knowing no answer is required or requested:     How have we reached the point where the Ivy League might get more teams in the NCAA Tournament than the Pac-10? Bashing the Pac-10 is getting old, but the fact ...

Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli, formerly a standout at City College of San Francisco and a onetime star at Serra High School in San Mateo, is the subject of a disturbing report in today’s Oregonian.  According to the paper, police in Eugene, Oregon, are investigating an alleged theft at a University of Oregon fraternity house, and ...

By October, 24 high school players had verbally committed to play football at Stanford next year, earning the Cardinal a high ranking by all the internet recruiting services and earning Jim Harbaugh praise for his recruiting skills. The Cardinal has added 10 commitments for next year since then, and so now the total number of ...

Green-Fields sound like an environmental group (Green Fields called for a halt to off-shore oil-drilling) or a retirement home (enjoy your golden years at Green Fields) or a cemetery plot (spend eternity at peaceful Green Fields), but for Stanford basketball, Green-Fields has been an unexpected means to unexpected  success. After Stanford’s Landry Fields and Jeremy ...