

Notes of Note: Klay's Departure; Warriors' Outlook; Caitlin; Blake; Too Much Relief; Stanford FB; Aiyuk; Stones Tickets
Klay Thompson's departure from the Warriors may have been the best thing for both him and the team. Thompson wouldn't have started for...
Gary Cavalli
Jul 15, 2024


"Uncle Bill"
My best friend died Saturday. I'm still in a state of shock, as his passing was sudden and unexpected. His wife found him sitting on his...
Gary Cavalli
Jul 8, 2024


Sports Gambling Then and Now; Utah's Old Men; NovaKnicks; Quotes of Note
As we've written in this blog many times, since sports betting was legalized by the Supreme Court in 2018, the industry that was once...
Gary Cavalli
Jul 1, 2024


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