What drives the wildly successful training philosophy of Shannon Turley? Here is an example: It’s a beautiful spring day on the Farm, and instead of being totally dumbstruck by Shannon Turley, I am now positively terrified by the freshman year version of Alex Debniak.
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.
Oyekunle Olukotun, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and director of the Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory, has received a $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Ticket sales for this year’s Fiesta Bowl far exceeded those from last year’s Orange Bowl, echoing the desire of Stanford fans to see Andrew Luck play his last college game, as he led the No. 4 Cardinal against No. 3 Oklahoma State.
Thursday evening, Colin Goddard spoke with Stanford students after a screening of “Living for 32” hosted by Stanford Film Society in the Roble Theatre. For the Q&A session, he was accompanied by another victim of gun violence, Mindy Finkelstein, who was injured in the 1999 Jewish Community Center shooting, and by Linda Platt, representative for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
The Cardinal capped its historic run with a 40-12 dismantling of No. 13 Virginia Tech (11-3, 8-0 ACC) in last night’s Discover Orange Bowl in Miami Gardens, Fla. No. 4 Stanford (12-1, 8-1 Pac-10) will finish the season with the most wins in program history, a far cry from its 1-11 record in 2006.
The Daily’s Michael Liu and Simon Warby were in Miami on Monday night to capture Stanford’s Orange Bowl win in photos.
The best season in Stanford football history will come to its conclusion tonight, as the Cardinal takes the field in its first BCS bowl game in over a decade, the Discover Orange Bowl in Miami Gardens, Fla.