It came down to the wire, but the Cardinal managed to preserve its first victory of the season at home against Oregon State, as a key turnover in the red zone gave Stanford a 36-28 victory in its season opener.
Sophomore safety Taylor Skaufel forced the deciding [...]

After two weeks of the Olympics, it’s time to let the glamour and spectacle die down and move on to more important things: what actually happened in Beijing. So take a seat and break open the 2008 Abridged Olympic Dictionary: a comprehensive guide to (almost) everything Olympic.
Heartbreak: Lolo Jones. It only took a few centimeters [...]

With the Olympics concluded, it is now safe to say that the Cardinal had quite a time at the Beijing Games, racking up medals left and right in an effort that left all previous Stanford Olympic contingents in the dust.
Athletes currently or formerly associated with Stanford brought home 25 medals total from the 2008 Olympics [...]

By all accounts, the 2007 season was hugely successful for the Stanford women’s soccer team. The Cardinal lost just three games the entire season, made the Sweet Sixteen at the NCAA tournament for the second year in a row and even held the nation’s number one ranking for [...]

With the Olympics over, swimmer Tara Kirk ‘04 continues to vie for a spot on the US Olympic Swim Team roster, if only for the pride that would accompany being named among the nation’s swimming elite.
Kirk, a 2004 Athens Olympic silver medalist in the 400-meter medley relay, finished [...]

It’s always tough to lose the championship game. That feeling of coming so far but not quite far enough has been all too familiar lately for the Stanford women’s volleyball team. In 2006, the Cardinal fell to Nebraska in the NCAA final. Last year Stanford fought its way back to the championship game, where the [...]

When Stanford takes on Oregon State tonight, it will mark the start of what looks to be a second season of rebuilding under head coach Jim Harbaugh. After a 4-8 record last year — a three-win improvement from 2006 — the Cardinal finds itself at a critical juncture. [...]

This report covers a selection of crimes reported from Aug. 16 to 26 as recorded in the Stanford Police Department Public Bulletin.
A series of bike thefts occurred during this time.
Aug. 15
At 3:20 p.m., a company contracted to remove wire from the Serra buildings reported that the wire was missing, passing on the opportunity for an [...]

A new childcare center opening in Escondido village next Tuesday will enroll 100 children, becoming the fourth center on campus to provide full time child care. The center will be managed by a non-profit, Children’s Creative Learning Centers (CCLC).
Stanford’s Board of Trustees approved plans last April for a second phase of child-care center development, which [...]

Stanford Research Park, once home to technology legends including Hewlett-Packard, General Electric and Lockheed, will now play host to Facebook. The prominent social networking company is seeking to consolidate its various Palo Alto locations while it looks for a long-term real estate solution.
Facebook is leaving behind several downtown Palo Alto locations in favor of [...]