OMAHA, June 23 – Two teams played for the national title last night, and only one showed up.
The Rice Owls crushed Stanford 14-2 in the Cardinal’s second blowout loss in a championship game in three years.
Stanford lost 12-1 to Miami in the national title game in 2001. That 11-run loss tied the largest margin of [...]

OMAHA, June 22 – The Cardinal fought tooth and nail to get to the championship series against Rice and wasn’t about to go home quietly after a first-game loss. Stanford defeated the Owls yesterday 8-3 to force a third and final game for the national title.
Head coach Mark Marquess elected to go with his ace, [...]

OMAHA, June 22 – John Hudgins is the ironman in Omaha. The silent silencer. The cool, calm, collected curtailer.
And if Stanford pulls this miracle of a national championship out of its worn, torn and beaten Cardinal red cap tonight, Hudgins will be the one to thank.
On Sunday afternoon, working on just three days of rest [...]

OMAHA, June 21 – A freshman mistake cost “the veterans” of the College World Series — Stanford –the game on Saturday night.
Cardinal freshman pitcher Kodiak Quick fielded a groundball by Austin Davis in the 10th inning and overthrew first baseman Brian Hall, allowing the Owls’ Chris Kolkhorst to score the winning run from second base. [...]

OMAHA, June 21 – Baseball players are notoriously superstitious, but fans are probably more so.
I attend Stanford University in the 21st century and major in mechanical engineering. I’m trained to think analytically and solve problems with math and logic. So please tell me I don’t actually believe that the writing utensil I use during a [...]

OMAHA, June 19 – What started as a fiasco for the Cardinal turned into its most suspenseful and spectacular victory of the season. Stanford defeated Cal State Fullerton 7-5 in 10 innings to send the Titans home and advance to the championship series against Rice.
And two unlikely heroes were largely responsible.
Stanford struck first with back-to-back-to-back [...]

OMAHA, June 19 – The Stanford Cardinal will win the NCAA baseball championship this year. There is no doubt about it.
It doesn’t matter that the Cardinal currently sits with a depleted pitching staff. It means nothing that Stanford will be facing the best starting pitchers in the nation. On Sunday afternoon or Monday night, after [...]

OMAHA – Stanford’s Carlos Quentin might have been responsible for the run that got away against Cal State-Fullerton on Sunday night, but on Wednesday he gave three runs back to make sure that another game against the Titans wouldn’t slip out of the Cardinal’s reach.
Quentin’s two home runs, combined with a gritty pitching performance by [...]

OMAHA, June 18 – “I mean no disrespect to the other teams, but the four teams that I thought would be left standing are the ones still standing,” said Cal State Fullerton coach George Horton.
Two from California and two from Texas. Stanford, Fullerton, Rice and Texas have firmly established themselves as the four best teams [...]

OMAHA, June 17 – Elimination Tuesday in Omaha means go big or go home – literally. The two losing teams have to hit the barbecue and then the road, and the Cardinal was determined to not be one of them.
Having suffered a bitterly close defeat to Cal State Fullerton on Monday and with their season [...]