Following a Legend
It’s never easy to follow a legend. Remember Gene Bartow, who followed John Wooden as the head basketball coach at UCLA? Or Phil...
Gary Cavalli
Apr 17, 2018
College Football Championship Comes to Bay Area
Bill Hancock is a wonderful human being. He’s universally regarded as one of the nicest guys in all of college sports. As director of the...
Gary Cavalli
Apr 13, 2018
Notes of Note: March Madness, MLB, NBA, Spring Ball, NFL
The end of March/beginning of April is such a great time in sports. March Madness peaking. Major League Baseball beginning. The NBA...
Gary Cavalli
Apr 10, 2018
The Trouble with SC
I’ve never been a big fan of the University of Southern California. It probably stems from my days as an undergraduate at Stanford. USC...
Gary Cavalli
Apr 2, 2018
Cinderella Loyola-Chicago Team Highlights March Madness
If you had Loyola-Chicago in your Final Four, stand up and take a bow. You might be the only person in America who did. But that’s why we...
Gary Cavalli
Mar 28, 2018
Pac-12 Disasters Continue
It may seem like beating a dead horse, but we’d be remiss not to comment on the Pac-12’s pathetic performance in the NCAA Basketball...
Gary Cavalli
Mar 16, 2018
The Throwback
Fifty years ago this month, I wrote a story for the Stanford Observer about “a man who never stops hustling.” The man’s name was Mark...
Gary Cavalli
Mar 14, 2018
The Trailblazer
Jennifer Azzi has always been a pioneer. And she’s always been a winner. She joined a nascent Stanford women’s basketball program and led...
Gary Cavalli
Mar 5, 2018
The NCAA Amateurism Sham
The news keeps getting worse. The college basketball recruiting scandal that blew up in September with the FBI indictments of several...
Gary Cavalli
Feb 26, 2018
The Swimsuit Chronicles
I must be getting old. Like most red-blooded American boys and men, I used to look forward to the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. It...
Gary Cavalli
Feb 19, 2018
