Money Matters, Blowhards, and Transfer Madness
In the dog days of summer, with no NFL, NBA or college football games being played, and baseball's interminable season only half over,...
Gary Cavalli
Jul 25, 2022
College Football Notes: Pac-12 Silence; Chasing the Bag; Stanford Salaries; Harbaugh; Zoom Call
All has been quiet on the Western front, otherwise known as the Pac-12 Conference, the past several days. When USC and UCLA announced...
Gary Cavalli
Jul 18, 2022
Uncertainty Reigns in Wake of USC/UCLA Shocker
It's been 10 days since USC and UCLA stunned the sports world and blew up the college football landscape by announcing their decision to...
Gary Cavalli
Jul 11, 2022
USC & UCLA Prove All That Matters is Money; Time for An Academic League?
If there were any true believers out there who held that values like loyalty, tradition, rivalries, and academics still matter in college...
Gary Cavalli
Jul 4, 2022
Bombshell! USC and UCLA Are Reportedly Heading to the Big Ten
All the rave reviews of Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff's first year in office may have been somewhat premature. Word leaked...
Gary Cavalli
Jun 30, 2022
Baseball Dreams; Stanford's Collapse; Mississippi's Miracle
When I was a kid growing up in New Jersey I was a huge Yankee fan. My heroes were Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford. I watched every Yankee...
Gary Cavalli
Jun 27, 2022
Holy Cannoli! Warriors' Unlikely Win; My Father's Day Memories
The Golden State Warriors proved a lot of skeptics wrong by winning their fourth NBA championship in eight years, beating the league’s...
Gary Cavalli
Jun 20, 2022
Bowl on the Brink; Warriors Bounce Back in Game 2; Lasorda Memories
Has the Bay Area's college football bowl game reached the end of the line? The bowl, which has been on hiatus for the past two years, did...
Gary Cavalli
Jun 6, 2022
Stanford Baseball Soars; Hoops Hopes Rise; Warriors' Winning Formula
One sport that often falls under the radar, especially in a market like the Bay Area where several successful pro teams dominate the...
Gary Cavalli
May 30, 2022
What's It Going to Take?
Only nine days ago, after a mass murder in Buffalo, we posted a blog that began with the words, “It happens everywhere…there is no escape...
Gary Cavalli
May 25, 2022
