Uh, folks, can I have your attention? I am sure everyone here is aware that my name is Larry Scott, and I called this gathering of the conference ADs so we can begin the discussion about how we’re going to align the conference next year when Colorado and Utah join us for what I believe will ...
Landry Fields was the most impressive. Jeremy Lin benefited the most. Omar Samhan turned some heads. Jerome Randle should look for work in Europe. Those interested in a concise report on how local players did in the NBA summer league may digest those sentences and get on with their day. Of course, anyone interested in how ...
The Chancellor’s Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics came up with some interesting numbers regarding the fiancial woes of the Cal athletics program when it released its report the other day. Normally we don’t care much for numbers. Colleges offer classes in “How to Lie With Statistics,” and you can prove and suggest virtually anything you want if you ...
USC is sort of the Lindsay Lohan of college football. It just can’t stay out of the news, and usually it’s not the kind of publicity a marketing firm recommends. It’s easy to pile on the Trojans these days, and because we always follow the path of least resistance, we will jump on top. Besides, ...
John Wooden’s passing conjures more images than can be articulated by the countless testimonies about Wooden’s pyramid for success, pithy sayings and basketball expertise. So let’s not spend time making a value judgments about the man who won 10 NCAA titles. Let’s just pick some categories associated with Wooden, do a little arbitrary ranking and let the evidence ...
The Super 16 Football Conference. Hmmm. Creates goosebumps, doesn’t it? The news that the Pac-10 plans to invite six members of the Big 12 to join the conference did not come completely out of left field – more like left-center field, just to the right of the 385-sign. Hints that the Pac-10 would try to expand ...
The only college football question being asked in June is, “Well, how’s that recruiting going?” To which every diehard alumnus will respond, “Great, just great. I think we’re gonna get this kid from Cut Bank, Montana, who they say can throw the ball on a line through a moving tire from 150 yards away — from his knees ...
The Oregon State women’s basketball program had hit rock bottom about a week ago, establishing an unofficial record for the depths that a program can reach. Well, today we are reminded of that age-old adage first uttered, we believe, by Attila the Hun: Records are made to be broken. (Of course, our man Attila thought ...
The rule of thumb for predicting order of finish in the Pac-10 is simple: Rank the quarterbacks. Period. A team’s Pac-10 finish almost always parallels the success of its quarterback. Stanford’s unexpected gains last season were no so much a product of Toby Gerhart’s well-publicized running as it was the surprisingly efficient play of ...
Golf carts are dangerous to an athlete’s body and reputation – not for golfers, mind you, but for football and basketball players. Two incidents this spring involving late-night golf-cart carousing landed some current Pac-10 athletes in hot water, and one, Stanford guard JJ Hones, got dismissed from the women’s basketball team as a result. Perhaps ...
