Like many other freshmen, Jackson “JJ” Garton and Beau Stockstill might feel that disconcerting sensation of shifting from being a big fish in a small pond to a small fish in a big pond. And since they are water polo players, it’s not just because that “pond” is bigger than it was in high school.
Garton, [...]

It was another wild weekend in the West.
Arizona’s John Mackovic coached his best game of the year — and then got fired.
Coming off the biggest upset in the country last week, Oregon gave up 55 points at home.
The conference’s top team, No. 3 Southern California, suffered an embarrassing upset to a nondescript California squad in [...]

It’s gotta be the shoes. If Barry Zito has taught me anything about sports psychology, it’s that you don’t mess with the shoes. Zito, shown in an ubiquitous Boys and Girls Club commercial, is shown teaching the basics of sports superstitions to a group of 8-year-olds, explaining that he points his cleats directly south when [...]

In the past few years, the Internet has become a major thread in the fabric of academic life at Stanford. Professors require students to keep in touch via e-mail, to download articles off the Web and to stay abreast of current events on-line. For that reason, 97 percent of Stanford students decide to set up [...]

Last week, 24 punctured bike tires were found at Arrillaga Sports Center and students discovered that several of their bikes had been damaged in Escondido Village. Inter-dorm rivalry caused damage in Branner. Even a lime became a weapon when pitched through a window of the French House, resulting in broken glass and hundreds of dollars [...]

On Oct. 7, Nathan Whitecloud Walton will find himself in a hotly contested race alongside a bodybuilder, a busty porn star and a former child actor.
Up against these candidates, most people would be shaking in their boots. Not Walton. The strikingly tall Graduate School of Business student, who used to captain the Princeton basketball team [...]

Stanford has created a new program and professorship in Islamic studies this year after receiving a $9 million endowment to promote the understanding of Muslim culture. The funds will be used to support lectures, language instruction, and faculty and student research, among other activities.
The Islamic studies program has been designed to provide “additional faculty strength, [...]

Construction of the Lorry I. Lokey Laboratory Building and renovation of Jordan Hall, slated to be completed by the beginning of the school year, are behind schedule and will not be finished until later in the quarter.
The Lokey Laboratory, a $62.3 million research facility for the chemistry and biological sciences departments, will house research laboratories, [...]

The Stanford Hospital and the Palo Alto Medical Clinic were ordered last week to pay $70 million to a 9-year-old boy, after a San Francisco Superior Court jury ruled he had been improperly detected for a metabolic disorder after his birth, which led to permanent mental retardation.
The $70 million will be spread over the lifetime [...]

In the 32nd minute of the Cardinal’s 4-1 victory over UC-Irvine (3-6) on Sunday, Anteater junior Davis Yemane fired a goal into the net unassisted, past Stanford’s goalkeeper, freshman Andrew Kartunen, who was struggling to regain his footing from a save he made only seconds earlier.
With the scoreboard reading 1-0 in UCI’s favor, Stanford regrouped [...]