The Stanford football team waited eight years to play in a bowl game, but it will have to wait longer to achieve its first bowl win since 1996. The Cardinal (8-5, 6-3 Pac-10) fell to the Oklahoma Sooners (8-5, 5-3 Big 12) 31-27 on New Year’s Eve at the Sun Bowl, which happens to be the site of Stanford’s last bowl win…

It’s safe to say that most college football fans didn’t expect to see Stanford and Oklahoma face each other in a bowl game this season…

The Office of Undergraduate Admission announced Monday that 753 restrictive early action applicants, or 13.5 percent of the 5,566 early applicants, were accepted to Stanford. Almost as many early applicants were deferred to the regular decision cycle as accepted via early action.
“We deferred just over 700 students to regular decision,” Director of Undergraduate Admission Shawn [...]

There are a number of random tidbits from the Heisman ceremony that warrant discussion. Inside is everything from the atmosphere to stats to academics to regional biases…

In the closest Heisman race ever, Toby Gerhart came up just 28 points short. Alabama’s Mark Ingram won college football’s most prestigious award Saturday night—he grabbed 1,304 points, while Gerhart placed second with 1,276. The difference was a mere 1.2 percent…

Coach Jim Harbaugh has signed a contract extension to remain at Stanford through the 2014 season…

Redshirt freshman quarterback Andrew Luck has had surgery on a hurt right finger and will not start in the Sun Bowl, The Daily learned Sunday. Luck will be replaced by senior Tavita Pritchard, who has made 19 starts in his Cardinal career but has attempted just three passes this season…

The Stanford women’s soccer team’s dream season came up one win short of a perfect season and a national championship today, falling 1-0 to defending champions North Carolina in College Station, Texas…

Four recent Stanford alumni—Andrew Ehrich ‘09, Anne Kalt ‘07, Emily Warren ‘08 and Michael Wilkerson ‘09—have earned the prestigious Marshall scholarship for study in England.

The No. 1 Stanford women’s soccer team is moving on to its first ever national final after defeating conference rival UCLA, 2-1, in extra time of the semifinals Friday in College Station, Texas…