We’re back for Year Two, baby. Unlike the other polls, this one controls for differences in schedule and ranks on actual strength. Teams aren’t ranked based on their win-loss records, but on whether they could beat the team ranked below them.
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USC
Is the Trojans’ D the best ever? An entire two-deep could start on Sundays soon.
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LSU
Cakewalk [...]

An unranked Stanford field hockey squad started its season this past weekend against a top-10 opponent and held its ground with a 2-1 win over No. 9 Boston College.
Hosting the season opener this past Saturday, the Stanford women were led by seniors Jess Zutz and Madison Bell in the upset. Zutz scored both Cardinal goals, [...]

The Stanford men’s soccer team begins its 2007 season tomorrow night with a match-up against the defending NCAA champions, No. 1 UC-Santa Barbara.
The Cardinal meets the Gauchos in UCSB’s first official game since defeating UCLA in the 2006 College Cup final. Stanford just barely failed to qualify for the NCAA tournament, despite beating archrival No. [...]

Incoming freshman golfer Sihwan Kim proved his mettle and made the Cardinal proud in last week’s U.S. Amateur tournament. After making his way through two tedious rounds of stroke play and two competitors in match play to make it to the tournament’s final 16, Kim fell to UNLV’s Eddie Olson.
The Stanford newcomer outlasted a couple [...]

They may be new to Stanford, but the freshmen on the No. 2 Stanford women’s volleyball team are veterans of the game. On Saturday, three rookies helped their team to a three-game sweep of No. 19 Long Beach State in the Cardinal’s season opener.
Junior outside hitter Cynthia Barboza, a Long Beach native, returned to her [...]

“There is no question in my mind that USC is the best team in the country and may be the best team in the history of college football.” — Jim Harbaugh, during the Pacific-10 Conference’s media day on July 26.
In all seriousness, though (since it’s hard to take Jim Harbaugh seriously at this [...]

Cardinal football kicks off its 2007 season on Saturday, with its third head coach since Tyrone Willingham left the program after the 2001 season. Five years is an eternity in modern college football, and in that time the program has hit a serious blight: a 16-40 record.
The pieces appear to be aligning, however, to turn [...]

In 2006, Stanford football saw its first year of action in a gorgeous new stadium, led by a veteran coach, a highly touted senior quarterback and a team that had just barely missed out on bowl-game eligibility in 2005. Largely because the Cardinal still has yet to earn a single victory in its sparkling new [...]

Kampala, Uganda – Katherine Roubos ‘07 stumbled into a storm of controversy this week more befitting a Hollywood movie than a first-time journalism internship: religious leaders and hundreds of protesters rallied in the Ugandan capitol Tuesday, calling for her deportation because of her controversial articles on gay rights.
“I knew I was taking a risk writing [...]

This report covers a selection of crimes from Aug. 6 to Aug. 28, as recorded in the Stanford Police Department Public Bulletin.
Tuesday, Aug. 7
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An intoxicated female subject was spotted walking along Galvez Street.
Wednesday, Aug. 8
n An unknown suspect or suspects climbed scaffolding to the third floor exterior of Encina Hall and vandalized a window at [...]