The real gamblers – not the amateurs who claim they win every bet – say it’s foolhardy to wager on the men’s Pac-10 tournament. The conference has been unpredictable all season long, and there’s no reason to believe it will start making sense now.
Well, I am willing to offer anyone a wager: You pick a ...
If we at JakesTakeOnSports had any influence over Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer – and it may come as a surprise that we don’t – we would use our best debating skills to try to persuade her not to play Jayne Appel in the Pac-10 tournament.
The crux of the debate, of course, is Appel’s ankle, which ...
OK, let’s cut to the chase about what Cal’s 71-61 victory over Stanford on Saturday means.
– One, Cal coach Mike Montgomery said without equivocation the Pac-10 should get three teams into the NCAA Tournament – Cal, Arizona State and Washington – and he fully expects that to be the case. “But,” he said, “if someone ...
It’s Stanford’s Landry Fields versus Cal’s Jerome Randle on Saturday.
They won’t be going head-to-head when Cal plays at Stanford in both teams’ final regular-season game, but they will be competing against each other in the minds of many viewers.
One of the many things riding on the 3 p.m. game between the two Bay Area rivals ...
Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer saw the replay of the punch thrown by Baylor’s 6-8 freshman star Brittney Griner that landed on the face of a Texas Tech player on Wednesday, rocking women’s basketball.
(See video of punch here: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/news/story?id=4963605).
VanDerveer has always been willing to share her opinion on things, and here is what she said about ...
Here’s a question out of left field: Should Cal coach Mike Montgomery be in the basketball Hall of Fame?
The immediate reaction goes something like: Guffaw, chuckle, chortle, chortle, giggle.
Maybe if it were the Sarcasm Hall of Fame, because no one is better at disarming an acquaintance or media member with a well placed sarcastic jab ...
Arizona State center Eric Boateng made 110 percent of his shots against Stanford last Thursday, leading directly to our one question on Rhetorical Tuesday:
Does this mean it really is possible to give 110 percent?
It seems Boateng has given a speck of truth to that trite comment made by athletes who don’t know what to say ...
Coaching mantra No. 1 — “Never look beyond the next game” — may cultivate the focus needed for success, but it’s no fun at all. And it is trumped by sports journalism mantra No. 1 – “Be accurate but don’t be boring.”
So here at JakesTakeOnSports, where we play them two at a time and always ...
Let’s face it, nobody other than the NFL people knows what to make of the numbers generated by the NFL combine. And we’re not even sure about the NFL people sometimes.
Everybody else just nods in agreement with the person who seems to know that this 40 time lifted a player from the seventh to the ...
When Stanford begins spring football practice on Monday it will lack a quarterback controversy, typically the only thing that can make spring practice interesting.
The intrigue for the Cardinal lies in the fact that everything around quarterback Andrew Luck seems uncertain.
– It’s unclear from the outside exactly who will be coordinating the offense Luck will run.
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