Best sports movies, ever!

By Faris Mohiuddin
INTERMISSION| Sports movies that are probably elaborate metaphors for Neo Marxism “The Mighty Ducks” (1992): In fulfilling his community service, hotshot lawyer Gordon Bombay teaches a ragtag group of Minnesotans to “fly” on the ice and to play as a team.

Madagascar: Unleaded at best

By Chris Lee
INTERMISSION| You’ve got to hand it to those poor computer animation studios at companies not named Pixar; if Apple is the small upstart in the battle for personal computers, Steve Jobs’s other “little company that could” has easily become the Microsoft of computer-animated films.

Hello Sports Dept., (later, Intermission)

By Scott Allen
INTERMISSION| Throughout the year, I’ve come to admire the hard work that Betsy, Brendan, Caley, Sam, Tam and Victor have put in to Intermission.

IM athletes: Gods among ants

By Dan McCarthy
INTERMISSION| Granted, I am probably not the most unbiased person to write this feature — given the opportunity, I would play Chicago-style softball six hours a day, every day, and then spend my evenings playing dodgeball in Ford Center until my elbow swelled up like a ripe grapefruit.

Time to shine: Roll on with the right music

By Spencer Porter
INTERMISSION| At every sports event, an athlete is introduced with his or her choice of entrance music. But if it were up to us, here is what some of our favorites would walk up to: Jason Giambi (OF, New York Yankees): “Juicy” by the Notorious B.

What kinda wuss are you?

By Spencer Porter
INTERMISSION| Ah, Thefacebook.com. Aside from the endless debate on whether the group “Perfect 10” has hotter girls than “Hottest Stanford Girls (and yes, there actually are some)” it really does provide the easiest way to do any sort of “journalistic” research.

Sex and sports

By Roxy Sass
INTERMISSION| Roxy might not be the biggest sports fan, but she’s definitely a big fan of athletes. Sure, she might not always understand what they’re doing on the field, but she certainly knows it pays off when the night goes into “extra innings.

Best and worst sports logos

By Scott Allen
INTERMISSION| ALBERTA GOLDEN BEARS AND PANDAS The women's teams at the University of Alberta are the Pandas. The men's teams are the Golden Bears.

Sports history at Stanford

By Daniel Novinson
INTERMISSION| November 20, 1982 - The Play If only the Daily staff were 25 years older and played the tuba. No way Cal's Kevin Moen's plowing us over.