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Bayou bound
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After four years on the Farm, Trent Johnson has agreed in principle to an offer to become the next head basketball coach at LSU, according to multiple sources close to the situation. An official announcement could come as early as Thursday.
Reports: Trent Johnson bolts for LSU
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Men's basketball coach Trent Johnson has accepted an offer to become the next head basketball coach at LSU, according to multiple reports. However, Athletic Director Bob Bowlsby told the Daily in a Wednesday afternoon email that Johnson had not yet informed him that he had taken the LSU job.
Hooked by the 'Horns
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Stanford gave it its all. But in the end, that wasn’t enough.
Texas’ 20-3 run late in the second half broke Stanford’s will and ended its season, 82-62, in Saturday’s Sweet 16 match-up at Houston’s Reliant Stadium.
Longhorns end Cardinal's season
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Texas’ 20-3 run in the late second half broke Stanford’s will and ended its season, 82-62, in the Sweet 16 in Reliant Stadium.
Last-second shot launches Brook Lopez, Cardinal into Sweet 16
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Brook Lopez threw up a right-handed fadeaway hook with 1.3 seconds left in overtime. And though Lopez’s shot took just a moment, Stanford fans will remember it for far longer.
UPDATE: Stanford trounces Cornell 77-53 in NCAA first round
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Stanford claimed its first NCAA Tournament win in four years, downing Cornell 77-53 Thursday to advance to the second round, where the Cardinal will face off against the sixth-seeded Marquette Golden Eagles Saturday.
Card falls to USC
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The Galen Center was going crazy for their Trojans, 77-64 victors over Stanford in what might well have been the final home game for O.J.
Close Fall
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In the end, Stanford played its best game of the season. But it wasn’t enough against one of the best teams in the country.
Sixth Man Shortage
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Eighteen of the 28 people in line ninety minutes before last Thursday’s Washington game were seniors. Two were freshman.
Comeback win
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Stanford started off slow before finishing strong in Saturday’s 60-53 victory over No. 22 Washington State, setting up a de facto Pac-10 title game this Thursday at UCLA.
Sharp Shot
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“This is the third game in a row where we’ve been out-physicaled and our rebounding took a step back,” said coach Trent Johnson, whose team has won 10 of its last 11 games.
Huskies Lurking
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Stanford basketball enjoys its last weekend at home and the lowest-profile game left on its regular season schedule when struggling Washington visits tonight.
Cardinal Rule
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Give Cal basketball credit for clawing tooth and nail with Stanford the past few seasons.
Turning up the heat
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This weekend, Stanford looks to keep that momentum in its corner while it runs its win streak to nine with visits to Arizona State at 7:30 p.m. tonight and Arizona Saturday at 12:30 p.m.
Leading the Pac
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The Cardinal’s 20th victory earned it a tie with UCLA atop the Pac-10, but there were few style points in the process, save for a 15-0 run to close the first half.
Can't stop the Cardinal
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Behind a ruthless, smothering defense, Stanford clobbered Oregon 72-43 last night at Maples Pavilion. It was the fewest points Oregon (13-9, 4-6 Pac-10) has scored in a game since 1991, and as few as Stanford (19-3, 8-2 Pac-10) has allowed all season.
Measuring milestones
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No, those aren’t your fortune cookie’s lucky lotto numbers, and sorry ladies, that’s not my phone number either.
Dawg Daze
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Even the 2003-04 team, the one that simply could not lose with Mike Montgomery at the helm, was stymied in Seattle.
Bear down
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Oil and vinegar. Drinking and driving. Cats and dogs. Stanford and Cal. Some things just don’t mix.
Overlooked duo steps up
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Stanford basketball's two captains this season - junior point guard Mitch Johnson and senior forward Taj Finger - have been two of the Cardinal's most consistent performers thus far.
Basketball hits the road
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At 6 p.m. tonight, Stanford men’s basketball visits, on paper, the least threatening opponent it will face for the rest of the season: Oregon State.
Card bests Buffs 67-43
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Junior forward Lawrence Hill recorded his second career double-double (15 points, 10 rebounds), and first since November 2006, while junior guard Anthony Goods added 15 points on five-of-six three-point shooting to help defeat Colorado last Sunday in Boulder.
UPDATE: Basketball too tall for Colorado, 67-43
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Junior forward Lawrence Hill recorded his second career double-double (15 points, 10 rebounds), and first since November 2006, and junior guard Anthony Goods added 15 points in Boulder, Colo.
Basketball braces for Buffs
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Stanford basketball hopes for a festive outcome in its visit to one of the nation’s top party schools, Colorado, this Sunday at 1 p.m.
Basketball stomps Sacramento State, 84-58
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Led by a 14 point effort from junior guard Anthony Goods and 13 points from sophomore center Robin Lopez, Stanford clobbered lowly Sacramento State 84-58 last night
Hornet hoopla
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Stanford basketball will look to get back to its opening-weekend dominance - when it trounced Harvard, Northwestern State and UC-Santa Barbara by an average of 34 points - when Sacramento State visits Maples Pavilion tonight at 7 p.m.
Card faces Crimson in opener
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Harvard, Northwestern State and UC-Santa Barbara. Not exactly a murderer’s row, but after months of buildup leading to tonight’s opener, the Cardinal are happy to open up against anyone.
Card nets win
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No. 21 Stanford men’s basketball gave its fans several reasons for optimism with the season opener against Harvard just three days away.
Tip-off time
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After a long offseason, Stanford men’s basketball unofficially kicks off the 2007-2008 season tonight with a 7 p.m. exhibition scrimmage against Concordia University.
Desert showdown
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Stanford football — and whoever lines up at tailback — visits the Arizona Wildcats tomorrow at 4 p.m.
Brook Lopez ruled ineligible
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Sophomore center Brook Lopez is academically ineligible and will miss Stanford basketball’s first nine games, coach Trent Johnson announced on Friday.
Sound bytes
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“They left before they even shook our hands. I mean there was nothing else to do.”
— Wide receiver Richard Sherman
Win revives campus
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One play, one game, one team gave this campus more life than any student here can remember.
UPDATE: Brook Lopez academically ineligible for fall quarter
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Lopez will practice with the team, but cannot play until Santa Clara visits on Dec. 19, assuming he regains eligiblity after fall quarter. Stanford rising sophomores need to have completed 36 units with a 1.8 GPA to be eligible.
Card burned in loss to ASU
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Plenty happened in the Cardinal’s 41-3 loss to Arizona State Saturday night.
Sparking Hope
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Stanford (1-2, 0-2 Pac-10) faces its third straight ranked Pac-10 opponent in No. 23 Arizona State (4-0, 1-0 Pac-10) tomorrow at 7 p.m. Unfortunately for the Cardinal, there’s not much reason to think the third time will be a charm.
Quack attack: Card falls 55-31
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Superior speed is as absolute as gravity in today’s college football.
UPDATE: Football fights, but Oregon runs away, 55-31
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Superior speed is as absolute as gravity in today’s college football. The slower team can soar for awhile, but they always crash back to Earth.
UCLA pounds Cardinal in opener
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The Jim Harbaugh era started much the same way the Walt Harris era ended — in lopsided defeat. Still, even in a 45-17 UCLA rout, Stanford showed flashes of respectability missing from the Farm since Tyrone Willingham patrolled the sidelines here six years ago.
Oregon to provide tough test
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It may still be summer, but don’t be fooled — Saturday’s visit from Oregon might just be Stanford’s most important game of the season. Saturday night, under the glare of the stadium lights and the eyes of thousands of new students, Jim Harbaugh will find out whether he has made any progress in his nine months here.
Card tramples SJSU
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The lowly San Jose State Spartans (0-3) were just what the doctor ordered: Stanford (1-1) claimed its first win in 308 days — its first in the new stadium and its first under rookie Coach Jim Harbaugh on Saturday night. The 37-0 thrashing was the first shutout win for the Cardinal since 1996.
UPDATE: For football, now or never versus Oregon
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Saturday’s visit from Oregon might just be Stanford’s most important game of the season.
UPDATE: Defense, Gerhart lead football to first win in 308 days
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Stanford (1-1) claimed its first win in 308 days, its first in the new stadium and its first under rookie Coach Jim Harbaugh.
UPDATE: UCLA runs away with opener, 45-17
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The Jim Harbaugh era started much the same way the Walt Harris era ended – in lopsided defeat.
Daniel's Top 25
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We’re back for Year Two, baby.
Imposter caught
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Azia Kim, an 18-year-old from Orange County who graduated from Fullerton's Troy High School, lived in Kimball throughout fall and winter quarter. She lived in Okada, the Asian-American theme dorm, until late May, when University staff finally caught onto her ruse.
Men make NCAAs on youth talent
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A young Stanford men’s basketball squad exceeded its relatively low expectations for the 2006-07 season and looks poised for a breakout campaign next year.
Harbaugh touts Stanford’s fall potential
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The Daily caught new Stanford football coach Jim Harbaugh on the phone yesterday afternoon. He spoke candidly about the academic challenges Stanford faces — and how those differ from California’s — and gave a detailed run-through of his roster and suggested that rebuilding the program might be a multi-year project.
Physics lab squatter banned from campus
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The University plans to inform Elizabeth Okazaki, the apparent imposter who has sporadically lived in the Varian Physics Lab for four years, that she is no longer welcome on Stanford’s campus.
Azia used Stanford to get ROTC spot
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To her friends in Kimball and Okada, she was Stanford student Azia Kim. But to her comrades in Santa Clara University’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) detachment, she was a Private Cadet affectionately nicknamed AK.
Imposter II? Four years in Varian
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For the last four years, Elizabeth Okazaki has attended graduate physics seminars, used the offices reserved for doctoral and post-doctoral physics students and — for all intents and purposes made the Varian Physics Lab her home. The only problem is that Okazaki appears to have no affiliation with Stanford.
Imposter Caught
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Azia Kim was like any other Stanford freshman. She graduated from one of California’s most competitive high schools last June, moved into the dorms during New Student Orientation, talked about upcoming tests and spent her free time with friends.
The only problem is that Azia Kim was never a Stanford student.
Sarah Silverman: charmingly offensive
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Star comedian Sarah Silverman once again demonstrated she — and she alone — need not follow the rules of a politically-correct universe.
Softball makes it rain
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First the skies rained on the Cardinal.
On seven goals, Hewko Player of Week
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With seven goals in just two games this past weekend, the senior from Orange County claimed Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Player of the Week honors.
Logar snags Pac-10 honors, avenges losses
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The senior from Michigan claimed Pacific-10 Conference Player of the Week honors, announced yesterday by the conference.
Comedian Silverman plans May stand-up
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It’s no joke: Sarah Silverman is coming to Stanford.
Freshman living the dream
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Three freshmen: One breathes fire, another is a seven-foot basketball sensation.
Men find fountain of youth
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This team’s adventure began about a year ago.
Men's hoops trounced by Louisville
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Stanford played lethargically all afternoon, getting beat to seemingly every rebound and loose ball, and Louisville hardly broke a sweat, using a 22-3 run to build a 46-20 halftime lead and cruise to a 78-58 victory.
UPDATE: Men crushed in Big Dance
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The Cardinal saved their worst game of the season for their most important game of the season.
It's Card vs. Card
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Stanford’s dancing — by the skin of its teeth!
The Cardinal, an 11-seed in the NCAA Tournament, will play six-seed Louisville tomorrow in Lexington, Ky. With a victory, Stanford would face the winner of the game between three-seed Texas A&M and 14-seed Pennsylvania on Saturday for a chance to make its first Sweet 16 since 2001.
Men's Basketball: Top Five to Watch
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1. Root, root, root for the Cardinal(s)
Ivan goes wild: Wildcats narrowly escape Card comeback
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Casey Jacobson. Josh Childress. Ike Diogu. Chris Hernandez. And now, Ivan Radenovic.
Flu-afflicted Card bounces back
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BREAKING NEWS: Washington, Johnson, four others food poisoned
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Most felt better as of Friday night, according to a source on the team, and all are expected to be ready for Saturday’s 12:30 p.m.
Wanting much more
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You might think Trent Johnson would be pretty happy right about now.
Analysis: Some mixed blessing
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LOS ANGELES — Watching Stanford basketball is very much like dating the girl next door.
Singin' the Bruin blues
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“[UCLA] got a little momentum after getting those fast-break points,” sophomore forward Lawrence Hill said.
Trojan war takes its toll on Card
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Stuck in L.A. traffic, the Cardinal's team bus pulled into the new Galen Center just 40 minutes before the opening tip.
Prowitt, Finger make room for for Lopez breakthrough
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Just a couple seasons back, it didn’t look like it would be like this for Peter Prowitt and Taj Finger.
Theorizing Stanford’s Problems
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What the hell?
Slipping away
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Last night, the Cougars held Stanford to a season-low 45 points on 28 percent shooting to earn their 20th win of the season, 58-45.
Card could be better
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The tendency for Stanford men’s basketball to blow leads has been driving me nuts.
Cardinal Basketball:Outplayed in Overtime
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Call it karma. Call it regression to the mean. Call it what you will, but Stanford men’s basketball finally lost a close one, 90-86, in a double-overtime nailbiter to Gonzaga.
Right said Fred
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Anthony Goods always appears confident. The Lopez twins, always humble. Lawrence Hill, always composed.
Those are all great qualities, but none hold a candle to Fred Washington — he always speaks his mind.
Card ready for Zags
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Coming off a home sweep of No.
Analysis: Breaking down the Pac-10
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With the Pac-10 season nearly halfway over, what better time to take a quick look around the league and hand out some superlatives:
Hill the hero once again
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Stanford men’s basketball used an 18-1 second-half run to overcome sloppy, listless play Saturday night, downing pesky Oregon State, 67-56.
Cry Fowl
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Sure enough, at McArthur Court last night, Oregon penetrated to draw foul after foul against Stanford — 28 in total.
Another one of these and I'll need a cardiologist
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A Dream lives on
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Stanford University’s Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute released many of King’s earliest sermons yesterday, on the first Martin Luther King Jr. Day after the death of the preacher’s widow, Coretta Scott King.
In the Clutch: Heroics in final minute come up big for Card
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If Stanford men’s basketball keeps this up any longer, Bay Area cardiologists might never get a game night off.
Raining on the Parade
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I hope I’m wrong, but I have serious doubts about whether Jim Harbaugh is the man for the Stanford football job.
Antidepressant patch could be next for quitting smokers
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Researchers at the Stanford Prevention Research Center have unveiled an antidepressant skin patch that they hope will improve upon the current 20 percent success rate of smokers trying to quit.
New drug could help relieve chronic fatigue syndrome
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Medical School researchers have identified a promising drug that may prove useful in relieving chronic fatigue syndrome.
Errant tee shots? Blame evolution
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Good news for those who can’t hit picture-perfect drives on the golf course: Stanford researchers claim the problem is a natural byproduct of evolution.
Cardinal keep composed
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Down by one with ten seconds to go, senior forward Fred Washington drove the lane, drew in the defense and kicked to sophomore forward Lawrence Hill on the left elbow.
Novinson: Courage under fire
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Well, Walt Harris got what Stanford football’s wanted for five years: the Axe.
Lopez twins deny Knight
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SAN JOSE — Stanford dominated in the paint Sunday afternoon at the Pete Newell Challenge to beat Texas Tech, 70-56.
Against all odds
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We believe in Stanford football. So says this year’s slogan to fire up support for Big Game.
An ugly win is still a win
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Off a textbook kickout, UC-Davis’ Ari Westerbrook launched a wide-open three-pointer, down 21 to Stanford with seven minutes left last night.
Cardinal ready for revenge on underdog Aggies
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New faces will look to help Stanford men’s basketball settle an old score tonight at Maples Pavilion.
Football: No home advantage
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A week ago Saturday, Oregon State thoroughly beat Stanford in the air, on the ground and on the scoreboard, 30-7. The Cardinal finished their 2006 home season with a humbling loss on Senior Day — winless in the new, largely empty, Stanford Stadium.
UPDATE: Men claw to victory over Northwestern
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Stanford sports went one-for-two in last-second thrillers Friday night.
Men’s hoops tries to get back to winning ways against Northwestern
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After their most lopsided home loss since 1982, Stanford basketball will look to get back to its winning ways at 7 p.m.
Hennessy touts University’s past, future
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President John Hennessy sat down with The Daily yesterday to talk about The Stanford Challenge, early admission and the football team’s struggles.
'Old-fashioned tail-whooping'
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Apparently the football team’s woes are contagious.
President gives Hoover medal at White House
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President George W. Bush awarded the National Humanities Medal, the country’s highest humanities award, to the Hoover Institution in an Oval Office ceremony Thursday.
In a quadrillionth blink of an eye, history captured
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At the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, researchers climbed into uncharted territory — into the quadrillions — to achieve a historic first.
Trent Johnson Exclusive Spotlight: Young, but not restless
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Last week, The Daily caught up with men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson before the Cardinal’s 92-72 season-opening win over Siena.
Stanford wins first game of season at Washington
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Novinson: Hearing the worst of them
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Men's Pac-10 Preview
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The men’s basketball team is banking on the fact that its latest big-man acquisitions, 7-foot twins Brook and Robin Lopez, will intimidate the largest of their opponents.
Dawg Fight
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The fact that the Cardinal (0-9, 0-6 Pacific-10 Conference) enter the contest 19-point underdogs speaks volumes about the distance between them and Washington (4-6, 2-5 Pac-10), the league’s next-worst team and losers of five straight.
Second half salvages opener
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After an ugly first half of just 33 percent (10-of-30) shooting, the Cardinal finally found their range to pull away from the undermanned Thunderbirds (4-0) in the second.
Palo Alto nation's most expensive town
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To the surprise of no one, Stanford is located in the most expensive city of all 119 Division I-A universities.
Absentee or simply absent?
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At Stanford, where half of the student body hails from outside California, students wishing to vote must conquer not only their apathy, but also ignorance of local issues and absentee registration for elections thousands of miles from home.
The experts weigh in
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What are specific, concrete steps that Stanford can take to improve its football program?
USC shows who's boss
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In front of a Stanford Stadium crowd packed with USC’s cardinal and gold, the Trojans thrashed Stanford 42-0 on the strength of three second-quarter touchdown passes from John David Booty.
The Trojan War
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If the old adage holds true, USC football and the USC marching band might compete to see who can most dominate their Stanford counterpart tomorrow at 4 p.m.
Guster to be Big Game Show artist
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The folk-rock band Guster will visit Memorial Auditorium to perform in the annual Big Game Show Sun., Dec. 3, the day after Big Game.
Novinson: Beavers are no push-overs
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The major headline from this weekend in college football was Oregon State’s dramatic 33-31 victory over Southern California.
OneVoice speaks, but do Mideast leaders listen?
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Two young activists from OneVoice argued for political moderation on both sides of the Gaza Strip.
Novinson: Sifting through the “coach-speak”
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While football coaches (and by extension, their players) are notorious for “coach-speak” — attempting to convey as little information as possible in as many words as possible — it doesn’t exactly take a psychologist to parse the meaning out of the quotes out of Tempe this past weekend.
The same old story
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Difficult? Yes. Surprising? No, at least not anymore.
Third-year law student to fight environmental case
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Baseball players dream of suiting up for the World Series.
All wrong now: the voice of a frusturated football fan
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What happened Saturday afternoon was an organizational failure.
Sports Briefs
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According to Lusty Lady employee Dee Timmons, a visibly intoxicated Purtz entered a video pornography booth at the club while his friend asked for prostitutes for the two men, as was first reported by the Daily Californian yesterday.
Analysis: Running out of chances
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With the extracurriculars out of the way, let’s get to some thoughts after reaching the midpoint of Stanford’s football season.
Offense flounders again in 31-10 loss
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In one of college football’s most storied venues, Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn threw for 232 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Irish to an easy 31-10 victory over Stanford.
Yahoo! donation to Knight draws fire
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Some journalists are calling Yahoo’s $1 million donation to the University’s John S.
Endowment jumps $3 billion last year
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At least someone benefited from the spike in gas prices.
The University’s endowment increased from $12.2 billion to $15.2 billion, nearly a 20% jump, for the year ending in June, as first reported in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle,
John Powers, the new chief executive officer of the Stanford Management Co., said the gains came in international markets and real estate and, alas, gas and oil.
Stanford’s endowment is third-largest of any American university, trailing only Harvard and Yale.
Football analysis: Score masks solid defensive effort
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Sure, Stanford football may be on the road to its first winless season since 1960. But don’t tell that to the players, who hung with a far more talented UCLA team for three quarters.
Daniel's Power 25
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Unlike other polls, this one ranks the teams purely on talent, not where they will end up January 5.
Tough football questions answered
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Cougars Roar to big win
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In the first game of the season with the student body on campus and in attendance, Washington State “manhandled” the Cardinal on both sides of the ball to win easily, 36-10.
RUN OVER
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“Obviously we all feel terrible that [this is how we opened the stadium].”
Stanford clinches 12th straight Director’s Cup
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As recently as a week ago, Stanford’s 11-year grasp on the Directors’ Cup appeared to be slipping. But as Stanford closed the spring season with a bang — and second-place UCLA closed with a whimper — the annual award given to the nation’s top athletic program looks to return to the Farm yet again.
Re-direct the cup?
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The Directors’ Cup might be headed to Westwood.
Morris signs with Washington
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For Stanford men’s basketball, the madness came two months late. After missing March Madness — the NCAA Tournament — for the first time since 1994, three major developments have made this May one of the craziest months of the offseason.
Draw Gone Wild: Assignments surprise students
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Every year, Stanford students warily approach the housing Draw and its unsavory combination of potential conflict with roommates and looming uncertainty over numbers and assignments.
Women's Tennis: Thrilling threepeat
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As Theresa Logar’s forehand volley caught the outside edge of the backhand sideline, the junior spiked her racquet to the ground and leapt in the air, both fists pumped in celebration.
Rugby wins national title
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For Stanford women’s rugby, the nightmare was coming true. Just seconds separated the Cardinal from a heartbreaking 12-10 national title loss to archrival Penn State, and the Lions were running those final ticks off the clock.
Bowlsby introduced as new AD
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Stanford’s Athletics Department prides itself on striking the delicate balance between athletic and academic excellence better than any other school in the country; eleven straight Director’s Cups speak even more loudly when coupled the nation’s toughest athletic admission standards.
Going pro: Four former Cardinal selected in NFL Draft
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This weekend’s NFL Draft will be long remembered for the Houston Texans using their top pick on defensive end Mario Williams of North Carolina State — and not human highlight running back Reggie Bush of Southern California.
Football: Spring game showcases potent offensive unit
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Spring football practice culminated this past weekend with Saturday’s spring game and the official release of the post-spring depth chart.
Walt pulls no punches
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The Stanford Daily figured who better to preview Saturday’s spring game than head football coach Walt Harris?
WALT: Offense will be competitive, but defense shakier
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On the eve of Saturday’s spring game, the Daily had the chance to sit down with head football coach Walt Harris. Here’s part one of the interview.
Baseball: Strikeout
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1964: the Beatles were huge, President Lyndon Johnson had just begun to fight for Civil Rights legislation and man was still five years away from stepping on the moon.
Bush visits Hoover
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In his first trip to Stanford as president, George W. Bush will arrive on campus this afternoon to meet privately with economic and foreign policy fellows at the Hoover Institution, the conservative-leaning think tank headquartered in Hoover Tower.
Trent Johnson Part II: recruits and Hernandez
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The Daily interviewed men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson for more than an hour last Thursday. And, for the most part, Coach J was incredibly revealing.
Trent Johnson opens up
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The Daily sat down with men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson for more than an hour last Thursday. With nearly six months until next season tips off, Coach Johnson seemed a lot more relaxed — and candid — than during the regular season, and gave us so much material that we can’t fit it all in one article.
Morris moves on
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These past few months have already been plenty disappointing for Stanford men’s basketball. This past season, the Cardinal lost to UC-Davis, UC-Irvine and Montana, suffered their worst home loss since 1993 (in the regular-season finale to UCLA), and missed the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 12 years.
Missouri St. ends Card NIT run in second round
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Trailing by five with one minute to go, Chris Hernandez tried once again to put the men’s basketball team on his shoulders.
UPDATE: A fitting end to men's basketball's season
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Trailing by five with one minute to go, Chris Hernandez tried to once again to put the men’s basketball team on his shoulders.
UPDATE: Basketball hosts Virginia Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. to kick off NIT
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Stanford kicks off its first National Invite Tournament since 1994 when Virginia (15-14) comes visiting this Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
Last Chance to Dance
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On the eve of today’s Pac-10 Tournament quarterfinal against Arizona at 12:20 p.m., coach Trent Johnson was realistic about where his team stands.
Adams out, duo All-Pac-10
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Arizona’s Adams suspended from Pac-10 Tourney for DUI arrest
Haryasz, Hernandez All-Pac-10
Whistle and you win
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Stanford men's basketball has seen just about everything this season: injuries to nearly every starter, shocking losses to bottom feeders UC-Davis and UC-Irvine, thrilling last-second victories over Oregon and nationally-ranked Washington, and a 39-point effort — and victory — in the cagers’ last contest against Washington State.
Don’t panic
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After watching his squad drop three of their last four heading into this weekend’s visits to Washington and Washington State, men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson repeatedly emphasized one message: remain calm.
Grunfeld bags 31 in ugly win
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Dan Grunfeld scored a career-high 31 on just 11 field goal attempts, and Matt Haryasz added 22 as Stanford knocked off Arizona State 82-69 at home last night.
Men's basketball drops crucial game to Arizona
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Senior guard Chris Hernandez hit three consecutive three-pointers to open the men's basketball game versus Arizona on Sunday afternoon.
Band picks five dollies for 06-07
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The Band announced Sunday morning the selection of five new Dollies. The five Dollies, all freshmen, prepare to train for the next 10 weeks before kicking off their year-long run with Dollie Splash in early May.
UPDATE: Arizona overpowers men
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Senior guard Chris Hernandez hit three consecutive three-pointers to open the men’s basketball game versus Arizona Sunday afternoon.
But for Stanford, it was all downhill from there.
Mascot Mayhem: Tree Suspended, Alcohol Cited
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Erin Lashnits, a coterminal student in biological sciences, has been suspended for the remainder of her tenure as the Stanford Tree.
ALL ABOUT ADAM
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Stanford men’s basketball team knew No. 5 Gonzaga, led by the outside-inside punch of forward Adam Morrison and center J.
UPDATE: Men fight hard, fall short
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Stanford played very well, easily the best it had all season, but Gonzaga (20-3), led by its two stars, was simply excellent.
In the second half, Adam Morrison scored 19 of his 32 - including all but one of Gonzaga’s 14 points in the final four minutes - and J.P. Batista added 12 of his 24 as Gonzaga pulled away for an 80-76 victory, its 11th straight win.
Free throws, a season defined
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It’s already been 11 days, but Stanford basketball fans remember “The Foul” as if it were five minutes ago.
Talking with the stars: Chris Hernandez
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Through 11 games of Pac-10 play, senior guard Chris Hernandez is shooting over 50 percent — on three-pointers. He's also 96 percent in the league from the free-throw line, where he's made 21 straight.
Eyes Wide Shut
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Senior guard Chris Hernandez made clutch, last-second shots in Stanford’s last two contests — heart-stopping victories over Washington and Oregon.
UPDATE: Haryasz's bruised left eye mars Oregon State victory
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On the strength of a 20-4 first half run, and a season-high 28 points from Hernandez – including 11 straight Stanford points in the game’s final minutes – Stanford withstood the loss of senior forward Matt Haryasz to a bruised left eye, and hung on for a 71-64 victory.
Deja True: Hernandez Does It Again
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Thursday at Oregon, Chris Hernandez might just have outdone his heroics of just four days earlier. Down 56-54 with 11.3 seconds remaining, the preseason All-America candidate swished an NBA-length three-pointer over the outstretched arms of Oregon guard Brandon Lincoln, and Stanford survived a wild finish to eke out the 57-56 victory.
A welcome from the new Managing Editor
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Hello readers!
Dan Grunfeld: Destined for hardwood success
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If senior guard Dan Grunfeld needs any advice or inspiration before battling Arizona and Arizona State this weekend, he needs to look no further than to his own father.
CARDINAL DUNK CAL
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As it headed into Friday night’s visit from California, the Stanford men’s basketball’s season was in dire straits. The team stood only .
Edwards, Jenkins and Schimmelmann earn team honors
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Junior quarterback Trent Edwards, senior linebacker Kevin Schimmelmann and senior defensive end Julian Jenkins took home the biggest hardware at the football team’s annual postseason banquet on Sunday.
Facts emerge in AD lawsuit
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Sheryl Kanzaki, a former Stanford Athletic Department accountant, is suing the University and Senior Associate Athletic Director Debra Gore-Mann for wrongdoings she claims occurred while employed at the University from 2001 to 2005.
Cal: just another opponent?
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Any other season, the notion that men's basketball views the California contest like any other game would be considered laughable, if not downright heresy.
Roberts court likely to uphold Solomon Amendment
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The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Dec. 6 tackling whether law schools must allow military recruiters the same access as other potential employers in light of the military’s discrimination of openly gay students.
Cardinal left singing the Rocky Mountain Blues in Montana
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Missoula, MT — “Our team’s smarter,” chanted Montana students with four minutes to go in Stanford’s visit to Missoula last Friday.
AD Leland set to leave post for UOP
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When outgoing Athletic Director Ted Leland departs the Farm on Jan. 1, he knows what will stand out in his mind from his 15 years at the position.
Cal wins fourth straight Big Game
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Entering the 108th Big Game on Nov. 19, Stanford's seniors had never beaten California or advanced to a bowl - the Cardinal last accomplished those feats in 2001.
Harris set for first Big Game
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By DANIEL NOVINSON
DESK EDITOR
Often forgotten amid the passion of the players and fans eagerly awaiting this year’s Big Game is the tale of Stanford head coach Walt Harris.
Coach J: The Interview
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The Daily recently sat down with men’s basketball head coach Trent Johnson as he and the Cardinal ready themselves for this weekend’s season opener.
Ranking the Pac-10
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The college basketball landscape changes every year, and the Pacific-10 Conference is no exception. Gone are Pac-10 Player of the Year Ike Diogu, Arizona sharpshooter Salim Stoudamire and big man Channing Frye and Washington’s magnificent trio.
Al Gore speaks to business students
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The Net Impact Conference’s keynote speaker introduced himself at Memorial Auditorium Friday morning far better than any reporter could.
Football in a must-win situation
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When Stanford visits Oregon State tomorrow in a must-win game for both programs, the Cardinal will need to overcome location, weather and several recent trends for the victory.
The Cardinal faithful
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For many students this winter, attending a Stanford men’s basketball game will entail more than merely walking to Maples Pavilion minutes before the tip.
The Roundup
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Arizona scored touchdowns on its first four possessions to spoil UCLA’s perfect season. In between ground touchdowns from Wildcat rushers Michael Bell and Gilbert Harris, freshman quarterback Willie Tuitama threw for two early strikes, and Arizona led 28-0 less than five minutes into the second quarter.
Return to the court results in big victory
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With the starters watching most of the contest from the bench, the role players and true freshman of Stanford men’s basketball weathered a shaky first half before pulling away in the second half against Sonoma State in the first exhibition game this season.
Cardinal travel to Los Angeles to take on USC
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Stanford better bring its slingshot to Los Angeles tomorrow because the Cardinal look to be the David battling the 21st century’s Goliath in No.
Card nearly pull off upset
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As awful as Stanford felt after blowing a three-possession lead to UC-Davis September 17, the Cardinal took solace at the time, knowing that such a catastrophic collapse was unlikely to occur again. After Saturday’s heart-wrenching 30-27 overtime loss to UCLA, even that small comfort is gone.
Cardinal face uphill battle in No. 8 UCLA
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When undefeated No. 8 UCLA visits Stanford (7-0, 4-0 Pacific 10 Conference) tomorrow, the contest could mark the largest game of head coach Walt Harris’ nine-month tenure on the Farm and could arguably represent the Cardinal’s most important football game since former head coach Tyrone Willingham’s departure three-plus seasons ago.
Barboza Out for Season
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Freshman outside hitter Cynthia Barboza will miss the rest of the 2005 volleyball season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
Pac-10 Names Oshinowo Defensive Player of Week
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The Pac-10 named fifth-year senior nose tackle Babatunde Oshinowo the Pac-10 Defensive Football Player of the Week yesterday.
Cardinal go for three in a row against ASU
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Stanford (3-2, 2-1 Pacific-10 Conference) looks to avenge last season’s heartbreaking 31-34 defeat and claim its first home win of the season when a dangerous Arizona State squad (3-3, 1-2) visits the Farm at 2 p.
Bradford answers critics
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Before this year’s football season kicked off, naysayers claimed Stanford lacked explosive playmakers at skill positions and predicted the Cardinal would finish dead last in the conference.
Cardinal prevail on the field
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Pullman, Wash. — Stanford football (2-2, 1-1 Pacific-10 Conference) faced tall odds at Washington State (3-2, 0-2 Pac-10).
Leland leaves the Farm after 15 years
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Stanford Athletic Director Ted Leland announced his resignation yesterday, after holding the position for nearly 15 years.
Cardinal fall again at home
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The optimism that the hiring of Walt Harris brought to the football program this past offseason is becoming a distant memory.
Young tandem leads Cardinal rush attack
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Last season, running backs Anthony Kimble and Jason Evans watched their teammates suffer through a rushing game that could make one cringe.
Dorm Crazy
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One aspect of this Orientation Week will profoundly affect the incoming freshmen for the next four years and beyond, and no, it’s not any of the countless talks or plays about life at Stanford.
A solitary figure
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A solitary figure paced outside the Stanford locker room late last Saturday night. His hands firmly grasped his hips and the scowl on his face never once wavered, but most gripping were his wandering eyes.
Fall sports preview
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While The Daily takes a break until Wednesday, Sept. 21, several Stanford sports teams will play key early-season contests in the upcoming weeks.
Fanton becomes Card’s sideline hero
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While the game-winning quarterback may receive the lion’s share of the credit, countless others contribute to a team’s success on the field.
Sports history at Stanford
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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.
Law students win libel suit
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“All in all, it was the most miserable, sleazy, cheap operation I have ever worked for,” former Ampex employee Scott Cargle wrote on a Yahoo!
Bechtel hosts int’l festival
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An annual tradition for more than 40 years, Stanford’s International Festival regularly attracts students and community members interested in the sights, sounds and tastes of cultures across the world.
Lax wins MPSF tourney, misses NCAAs
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The season hung in the balance for the women’s lacrosse team last night. This time, though, there were no shots to block, no cuts to make, no opponents to guard.
Lacrosse heads to MPSF tournament
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After a heartbreaking 11-10 loss to California in the finals of last year’s Mountain Pacific Sports Federation tournament, the Stanford women’s lacrosse squad will look for payback this weekend at the conference championship in Moraga, Calif.
Lacrosse downs OSU
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If the mark of a well-coached team is improvement throughout the course of a season, the 2005 women’s lacrosse squad is making head coach Michelle Uhlfelder look like the reincarnation of John Wooden.
Bach leads Card’s offensive charge
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With the women’s lacrosse squad just a day away from its regular-season finale at Ohio State (5-8), junior attacker Sarah Bach knows her performance will go a long way toward determining the Cardinal’s fate.
Offense powers lacrosse to win over Loyola
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Coming off two dramatic, high-scoring victories — 9-8 over Yale and 17-14 over Denver — the women’s lacrosse team probably wasn’t expecting an even more thrilling match last Saturday against the Loyola Greyhounds.
Panelists link technology with tsunami-relief efforts
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The tsunamis that rocked Southeast Asia in December have posed major technological challenges to scientists and innovators worldwide.
Lacrosse heads east to face Greyhounds
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Nearly 2,500 miles will separate the women’s lacrosse team and the Stanford campus this Saturday, as Stanford (9-5) ventures to Baltimore, Md.
Women's lacrosse picks up two key wins
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Spectacular individual performances propelled the women’s lacrosse squad to two hard-fought victories in its last two home contests of the season.
Students dress up for QSA drag ball
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Several hundred women in suits, men in dresses and students in every imaginable costume converged in Tresidder’s Oak Room Saturday night for Genderfuk, Stanford’s annual drag ball.
Cardinal lacrosse bids two seniors farewell
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Four years ago, the Stanford lacrosse team was made up of mostly walk-ons — a low-profile program in an East Coast dominated sport.
Young experts speak out on environment
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Empty chairs were few and far between on Monday night as more than 100 Stanford students and community members participated in a 90-minute round-table discussion with environmentalists Adam Werbach and Michael Shellenberger.
Lacrosse splits at N'western, ND
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The Stanford women’s lacrosse team (7-5, 4-0 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) split their weekend trip in two drastically different contests over the weekend, getting stomped by No.
Organ registry debuts
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More than 87,000 Americans — about 18,000 of whom are Californians — are waiting for an organ transplant, and 17 patients on the waitlist die every day.
Cardinal lacrosse able to hold off Cal
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The Stanford women’s lacrosse team gave its fans all they could have asked for Friday night at Maloney Field, winning an 11-10 thriller over rival California.
Young players learn from break's mixed results
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By DANIEL NOVINSON
The emotional pendulum swung in full force for the women’s lacrosse team over the past two weeks, as the squad experienced the joy of victory and the agony of defeat on successive weekends.
Lacrosse loses home opener
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Stanford’s next games can’t come soon enough for the women’s lacrosse team, which would like to forget this past weekend with a win as quickly as possible.
Lax welcomes East Coast foes
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After not playing a game for nearly two weeks, the women’s lacrosse team will hit the field twice this weekend, looking to improve on its 3-0 overall record.
Women’s lacrosse shoots past Davis
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Heading into last weekend’s matchups against Saint Mary’s and UC-Davis, Stanford women’s lacrosse head coach Michelle Uhlfelder identified many areas in which her young squad could improve.
Women’s lacrosse set for road swing
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d The record of the women’s lacrosse team is 1-0. One win on the season, one win in the conference. The Cardinal will look to give some companionship to their lone victory as they visit Saint Mary’s on Friday and UC-Davis on Sunday.
Oregon’s D-I debut spoiled by Cardinal
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In the days before its season-opener at Oregon, the Stanford women’s lacrosse team set lofty goals.
“We are looking to set our own standard of play in our first game against Oregon,” senior co-captain and midfielder Kelsey Twist said prior to the Saturday matchup.
Women’s lacrosse starts fresh
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As any athlete or sports fan has experienced first-hand, the start of a new season brings a sense of optimism and endless possibility.