No. 2-ranked Stanford was on its way to another dominating win over Cal in the semifinals of the Pac-10 tournament on Saturday, when Cal’s all-conference guard Alexis Gray-Lawson landed awkwardly on her head with about five minutes left.
The fifth-year senior lay motionless for about 15 minutes, before being removed on a stretcher and taken to ...
While Cal was advancing to the Pac-10 tournament championship game with its win on Friday, Jerome Randle became the school’s alltime leading scorer. Randle had 24 points while helping the Bears to an 85-72 victory over UCLA in the semifinals at the Staples Center, and that enabled Randle to move past Sean Lampley, who had ...
Cal and Stanford will meet in the semifinals of the Pac-10 tournament on Saturday, and each team has a signficiant issue.
For Cal, it’s the drive for an NCAA Tournament berth. The Bears’ 70-60 victory over Arizona State on Friday at the Galen Center in Los Angeles strengthened Cal’s chances of landing an at-large berth, but ...
The Strange Case of Emmanuel Igbinosa cannot quite rival the Benjamin Button story for sheer freakiness, but it’s from the same genre. And it’s one that probably could only happen at Stanford.
As you may or may not know, Igbinosa was as responsible as anyone for Stanford 70-61 upset of Arizona State in the Pac-10 tournament on Thursday. ...
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 ...
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 ...
