Crunch time as Women’s Gymnastics heads to NCAAs
This weekend, the Stanford women’s gymnastics team will head to the NCAA Championships in Los Angeles as the No. 9 seed. Last season the Cardinal turned a No. 10 seeding into a top-four finish.
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Turnovers costly as men’s basketball’s season ends with NIT loss at Alabama
In a game that fans have been itching for on the football field and not the basketball court, Alabama used its physicality to outmuscle Stanford… Continue Reading »
Rose Bowl win still reverberates on the Farm
Although many college football programs have recently incurred heavy financial losses due to bowl game participation, the Stanford athletics department has seen both an increase in season-ticket renewals and national profile in the aftermath of the 2013 Rose Bowl.
Football: Alabama a unanimous national champion, Stanford finishes seventh in final AP poll
Alabama cruised past an overmatched Notre Dame squad 42-14 to win the BCS National Championship, then wrapped up its ninth Associated Press championship on Monday night with all 59 first-place votes. Stanford finished seventh in the AP final poll and sixth in the final coaches’ poll.
Taylor: Long live the mess that is the BCS
I’m not going to pretend I’m happy that Stanford couldn’t even sell out its 50,000-seater stadium for the Pac-12 Championship Game on Friday, but there is something deliciously anti-establishment in the fact that, on merit alone, a school that wouldn’t normally get picked for even one BCS bowl is going to be heading to its third in three years.
Blanchat: Chill out a bit, Stanford BCS haters
It’s that time of year again: the last few weeks of the college football regular season, when the daily whining and moaning about the BCS’s inequities reaches a fever pitch.
Blanchat: Oddsmaking for the undefeateds
I’ve decided to play a version of “Pardon the Interruption’s” oddsmakers with the teams left standing. I’ve listed off the 13 teams and placed their chance of going undefeated next to them.
Sawhney: SEC needs to put up or shut up
Instead, it’s time for the anti-BCS rant that has been stuck in my head for the past couple of weeks. A lot of these types of arguments have been bandied about, including how the BCS is a cartel and how it stiffs the little guy and makes college football unfair. While I have a lot of contentions with the BCS itself, the organization with which I really have a bone to pick is the esteemed Southeastern Conference, or ..