The Greatest
If you grew up in northern New Jersey and loved baseball, as I did, one of the great debates of the 1950s and '60s focused on the center...
Gary Cavalli
Jun 24, 2024
Family Legacy Lives On
My granddaughter, Cameron Duran, graduated from Stanford yesterday. She's the tenth member of our family to get a Stanford degree. It was...
Gary Cavalli
Jun 17, 2024
Clark's Olympic Snub; Gamblers' Death Threats; Sir Charles Gets It Right
The geniuses who run USA basketball apparently have decided not to put Caitlin Clark on the U.S. women's Olympic team. Clark is the...
Gary Cavalli
Jun 10, 2024
NCAA House Settlement Questions; Bruins Must Pay Calimony; Tara Speaks; 34 for 45
Lots of important questions have arisen in the wake of last week's landmark "House vs. NCAA" settlement, in which the NCAA and Power Five...
Gary Cavalli
Jun 3, 2024
Basketball and Broadcasting Legend Bill Walton Dies
Just a few days after the last TV broadcast of its network and the last event in Pac-12 history, the conference's biggest cheerleader...
Gary Cavalli
May 27, 2024
NCAA Settles for Survival
Battered by a string of legal losses, bruised by its own incompetence and increasing irrelevance, and faced with the very real prospect...
Gary Cavalli
May 27, 2024
Much Ado About Butker; Paye Mines Transfer Portal
Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker ignited a firestorm last week with his commencement speech at Benedictine College, a tiny...
Gary Cavalli
May 20, 2024
Coming to Terms with 75
I turned 75 on Saturday. That sounds very old to me. In the last year or two, so many famous contemporaries of mine have passed away....
Gary Cavalli
May 13, 2024
The Athletic Industrial Complex; Group of 5 Folly; Saban Speaks
Back when I worked in the Stanford athletic department, things were pretty simple. We had a Sports Information Director, with an...
Gary Cavalli
May 6, 2024
Pac-12's Draft Dominance; First Round QB Busts; Reggie Gets His Heisman Back; Transfers Shake Stanford; New T-Shirt
The Pac-12 Conference, which expired as a football entity a few months ago, came up big in the NFL Draft last week. Six former Pac-12...
Gary Cavalli
Apr 29, 2024
