It does not take long for things to become obsolete in sports, which is why revising lists and records is a never-ending process. (Check out digital camera repair.) May (and June for that matter) offers some time for reflection regarding the Stanford men’s and women’s basketball seasons, and it’s obvious some revisions need to be ...
We can only hope San Francisco made its choice of its women’s basketball head coach based on her coaching expertise and not merely as a means to gain attention. Hiring former Stanford All-American Jennifer Azzi as its coach will certainly give the Dons some needed publicity, but she has no significant coaching experience. Her chief experience has ...
Stanford could be playing a historic game next Dec. 30 when it hosts Connecticut, which is the highlight of the Cardinal’s tentative 2010-2011 women’s basketball schedule. Two teams expected to be ranked in next fall’s preseason top five — UConn and Tennessee — are among the nonconference foes Stanford is tentatively scheduled to face, and potential top-25 teams Texas, DePaul, ...
Connecticut will be ranked No. 1 in virtually every preseason poll next fall, and for good reason. The Huskies have won 78 in row and return a two-time national player of the year in Maya Moore. So the safe — and perhaps judicious — choice would be to pick UConn for next season too. But ...
The disappointment of the loss to Connecticut in the NCAA championship game is beginning to fade — although it will never disappear — so it is time to find the proper place for the 2009-2010 Cardinal team in Stanford women’s basketball history. We at JakesTakeOnSports love these kind of historical comparisons because we can never be proven ...
It turns out Stanford senior center Jayne Appel not only had a sprained ankle but had a stress fracture in her right foot, and played with that injury for nearly a month. Ever since Appel’s injury during practice on March 2, Stanford has maintained that Appel’s injury was a sprained ankle. In fact, the injury ...
There is a certain agony attached to what the Stanford women accomplished on Tuesday – they came close enough to beating Connecticut that it could ask itself the “What if?” questions. Typically, UConn dominates so thoroughly that no amount of second-guessing or consternation about a play or two is worth the effort, and while that ...
Any outcome, no matter how unlikely, can be presented as plausible with the appropriate supporting argument. The trick is choose the right evidence. You can make a case that Stanford’s football team could beat the New England Patriots if you choose the right facts, claiming perhaps that the Cardinal’s Andrew Luck is already a pro-caliber quarterback and if ...
Sometimes questions answer themselves. You know, like, “What am I doing with my life?” If you’re asking, then the answer has to be ”a big fat nothing.” And that segues – rather awkwardly, we admit — into a Wall Street Journal article about Connecticut women’s basketball, with several sidebars, that essentially asks two questions: Is Connecticut’s dominance bad for women’s ...
Luck played a major role in Stanford’s 55-53 victory over Xavier on Monday that got the Cardinal into the Final Four. But is good fortune enough to explain the last few seconds of the game? The world never sleeps. Was there something else at work here? Did some supernatural force decide the Cardinal should win ...
