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Senior Staff Writer
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Pac-10 pressures
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“I had heard that guys were sick,” Goods said of his teammates, some of whom had begun to feel the effects of some bad chicken in Thursday’s pre-game meal.
Card deserts Arizona State
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West Coast basketball fans often complain about their teams’ lack of exposure to East Coast media, but maybe it’s a good thing that Stanford’s game against Arizona State last night wasn’t televised.
Lots of Lopez
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Freshman forward Brook Lopez’s recent play has excited the kind of speculation that ends in wild projections about guaranteed NBA millions and future celebrity.
Card hold strong
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After Thursday’s sloppy game against Oregon State — in which the Cardinal matched its season high in turnovers with 22 — the team knew that it wouldn’t be able to get away with a similar performance against No. 15 Oregon on Saturday.
No luck up north
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The Cardinal entered Sunday’s game against Washington with a chance to grab third place in the Pacific-10 Conference.
Stanford upsets UCLA
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It hailed in Palo Alto yesterday, drenching members of the Sixth Man Club who waited outside Maples Pavilion for the gates to open.
Proving Ground: Men open tough three-game stretch against talented USC
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In their upcoming stretch, the Cardinal will play three home games in seven days, against No.
Ducks never an easy foe
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The last time the Cardinal traveled north to play the Oregon at MacArthur court, they brought along point guard Chris Hernandez — one of the most clutch players in the team’s recent history.
Mighty Ducks await
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It’s Big Mac versus Ricky Henderson. The Hulk against the Flash. The Earth taking on a hurtling meteor.
No place like home
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Tonight, the Huskies will try to snap Stanford’s improbable 13-game home winning streak in the series and avenge last year’s particularly sour defeat.
Youth is served
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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.
'Talladega Nights"
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Tea, anyone? Welcome to Britain
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Goods must live up to name
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It was hard to find bright spots in the men’s basketball team’s 75-54 loss to UCLA last Saturday, their worst at Maples Pavilion since 1993.
Crash: Largest home loss since ‘93, Card worse 'at every position'
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You could see it in every pass to an empty spot on the Maples Pavilion floor.
You could hear it in every groan from the full-capacity crowd of 7,334.
UPDATE: Bruins handle Card, clinch Pac-10
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You could see it in every pass to an empty spot on the Maples Pavilion floor.
You could hear it in every groan from the full-capacity crowd of 7,334.
Final Home Stand for basketball
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Some think this weekend, featuring Southern California and No. 15 UCLA, could be Stanford’s last chance to get an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament.
Adjusting to college life, basketball
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Men’s basketball head coach Trent Johnson often asserts that the transition from high school to college is more difficult academically and socially than it is on the basketball court.
Bubble Trouble
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“I don’t know how many wins we need to get into the [NCAA Tournament]; we
just need to take it game-by-game,” senior guard Chris Hernandez said as he sat down to the men’s basketball press conference on Tuesday.
"Pink Panther" doesn't pounce
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Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the bumbling detective that Steve Martin plays in the newest “Pink Panther” film, was first brought to life by Peter Sellers in the early 1960s.
Crunch Time
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After beginning the year 6-6 and dropping their first two Pac-10 games, the Cardinal found a spark and turned their season around nearly one month ago, beating Oregon and Oregon State at Maples Pavilion.
The Zen of... Ow, my bulging disc
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As a near-perpetual stress case — I bite my fingernails so much, they aren’t even long enough to open the clasp on my watch — I have been seeking enlightenment for a long time, though admittedly somewhat half-heartedly.
MAPLES MIRACLE: Cardinal vanquish No. 10 Washington in comeback
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When Stanford senior guard Chris Hernandez stepped to the free-throw line with two-tenths of a second left in regulation, his team trailing 63-60, and three shots coming to him, he knew that this was the moment he had been waiting for.
The life of a walk-on
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It is hard enough to walk on to a Division I men’s basketball team, let alone one that went 30-2 the year before. But following his admittance to Stanford, this was what Kenny Brown tried to accomplish when he contacted former head coach Mike Montgomery’s coaching staff in the spring of 2004.
Go Robber Barons!: The benefits of writing uninformed
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It’s funny what people get riled up about. That’s what I was thinking as I was riding from the Tucson airport to my hotel this weekend to cover the men’s basketball team for The Daily in a van, driven by a guy named Wayne, that smelled like someone had chain-smoked in it as recently as five minutes before I got in.
Team Effort Spurs Victory
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After Stanford’s draining overtime loss to Arizona on Thursday, the question of whether the team had anything left in the tank popped up yetagain with 11 minutes remaining in the second half and the Cardinal trailing Arizona State, 48-41, at Wells Fargo Arena on Saturday.
Cardinal erase big deficit but fall in OT
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Arizona's first possession in last night's game between the Wildcats and the Cardinal ended with Arizona guard Hassan Adams, the Pacific-10 Conference's leading scorer, hanging from the rim without the ball after an errant pass on an attempted alley-oop.
Go Robber Barons!: Longhorns and Trojans not so different
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@normalcopy:
The only thing that I hate more than USC's "Victory" hand signal is Texas' "Hook 'Em Horns." One applies Winston Churchill's call for victory over the Nazis to entities like Fresno State.
Go Robber Barons!: One concussion won’t make me wear a helmet
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I hope this will make you wear a bike helmet,” my father told me, an hour or so after I had regained consciousness following a nasty spill in front of Tressidder around this time last year.
Cardinal blow second-half lead in loss to UC-Davis
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After falling to Montana by 19 points two days earlier, Stanford (2-3) stalled yet again on Sunday against an underdog opponent.
Cardinal size up Grizzlies
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A Stanford men's team that has looked tentative at times against smaller squads this season gets a chance to size itself up against players of comparable height when Cardinal basketball travel to Missoula, Mont.
Men trounce Cal Poly
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During the first half of last night’s game against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo at Maples Pavilion, the Cardinal looked like the team that lost to UC-Irvine in its season opener.
Downsizing football's woes
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As I watched the Stanford quarterbacks get knocked around the past two Saturdays, looking as if they had stepped into the video game "NFL Blitz," I tried to figure out what the football team needs, other than the ability to leap halfway across the field.
looking to rebound
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Redshirt sophomore Tim Morris is one of the quickest and most explosive players on the Stanford basketball team. For evidence, look no further than the second half of Saturday’s exhibition against Cal Poly Pomona, during which he blazed past the defense and laid in a cross-court pass from junior Fred Washington.
Cardinal dump Cal Poly in final tuneup
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If the Sixth Man Club hadn’t been in full attendance in a half-empty and suddenly small-seeming Maples Pavilion, the Cardinal’s exhibition game against Division III Cal Poly Pomona on Saturday would have felt more like a practice.
Rugby: It’ll have you in stitches
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The referee yelled “Scrum!
Go Robber Barons!: Ali G sits down for an interview with Monty
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HBO personality Ali G, a white British man who claims to be of African-American and Jamaican descent, sat down with former Stanford basketball coach Mike Montgomery last weekend to discuss, among other things, the NBA’s new dress code and the challenges of coaching animals on the Farm.
Go Robber Barons!: The White Sox take out their dirty laundry
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In a year when baseball was wracked with scandal, it is fitting that the Chicago White Sox — a team with no superstars and with an average payroll — restored a bit of confidence in fair play by winning the World Series.
At least the world will end before your iPod battery does, right?
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Worst-Case Scenario: The world is ending in 45 minutes. That gives you 16 songs to listen to before the Earth opens up and you are sucked down into the fiery depths.
'Kiss, Kiss' give you a 'Bang' for your buck.
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In the opening scene of “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.) and his partner are caught robbing a toy store to get a present for Harry’s niece.
“A History of Violence” . . . in sports
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Yo, I thought I killed Joey in the desert,” Viggo Mortensen told his wife in A History of Violence, referring to his true identity — the Philadelphia mobster, not the Indiana farmer his wife thought she had married — as my friends and I choked back laughter.
Full Moon Survival Guide
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Full Moon on the Quad is here again, and you're probably asking yourself if you really want to participate in something so immature, so jejune, so trite.
'Domino' falls far short
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In the opening frame of “Domino,” director Tony Scott (“True Romance,” “Man on Fire”) informs us that “This is based on a true story.
Respect due for mascot ‘Prince Lightfoot’
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I always saw the issue of Native American mascots in pretty much cut-and-dried terms: that they are racist representations and sports teams should do away with them.
Yankee hats and pinstripes are the new black
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It’s amazing, the range of reactions you get when you wear a New York Yankees hat around town for a couple of weeks.
But first, as I have had to explain to nearly everyone who has seen me wearing this damned thing: No, I am not a Yankees fan.
With these classics, the VHS bin will never let you down.
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Folks, it’s time to dust off those VCR’s and brush up on that 80’s and 90’s pop culture, because boy, have we got some movies for you.
How the Card got its color
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Freshmen, I know what you’re thinking. We were all thinking it too at one point. Our mascot is ... a color?
Dissecting the Diesel’s “G-Funk”
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I work at a movie studio, so I didn’t think it was that odd when I asked a co-worker what his favorite movies were. His answer, though, struck me as strange.
I know how it feels to be Raffy — really
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Dear Mr. Palmeiro,
When I heard the news about your positive test for the powerful steroid Stanozolol, I was crushed.
At first.
Lance’s legacy lives strong in us already
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Last Sunday, after Lance Armstrong’s seventh Tour de France victory, a reporter asked him what he thought his legacy would be.
Summer’s anything but slow for athletes
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Summer is a time to kick back and relax. A time to learn a new hobby, to chill out in a pool, to fire up the grill for a backyard barbecue and to fight tooth-and-nail for that job or internship you’ve always wanted (if you’re a student, that is).
Cardinal earn No. 3 seed in Baylor Regional, prepare to face hard-hitting Texas Christian club on Friday
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For the first time in 10 years, Sunken Diamond will not be a regional site in the NCAA playoffs. But the Cardinal (32-23) secured a postseason bid for the 12th consecutive year as a No.
Card’s two aces from different decks
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At the start of their first practice as Stanford baseball players, juniors Jeff Gilmore and Mark Romanczuk picked up their gloves and a ball and began to play catch together.
Reynolds’ talent shows on mound
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Sophomore pitcher Greg Reynolds has heard a lot about his potential over the last few years. Scouts have been salivating over the 6-foot-7, 230-pound righthander since his prep school days at nearby Terra Nova High in Pacifica.
No. 21 Cardinal take two of three
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Baseball to meet weak UCLA team
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When John Savage took the UCLA head coaching job this year to replace Gary Adams, who had coached the Bruins for 30 years, Savage knew it was going to be an uphill battle in the Pacific-10 Conference.
Baseball a family affair for Stanford’s closer
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For Cardinal hurler Matt Manship, pitching has always been a family affair. His father, John, pitched for the Arizona Wildcats in his college days, as did his uncle, Jim, who would go on to play in the Brewers’ organization.
OF Lewis makes smooth transition
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In his freshman campaign during the spring of 2003, junior Chris Lewis, a highly touted prospect out of Santa Margarita, Calif.
Card romp, 8-2
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Freshman Michael Taylor stepped to the plate with one out in the bottom of the eighth inning last night at Sunken Diamond knowing that he needed only a single to complete a cycle.
Cardinal head to desert to face Sun Devils
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The No. 14 Stanford baseball team (19-11, 4-2 Pacific-10 Conference) will find itself in unfamiliar territory when it travels to Tempe, Ariz.
No. 10 Stanford blows two leads to drop series
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The Cardinal knew they would be in for a long day after the team’s Friday night game against Oregon State was canceled due to rain, setting up a Saturday doubleheader.
Even under pressure, Taylor lives up to hype
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Coming into the season, Michael Taylor knew that he would face a high-pressure situation. Not only would the freshman have to adjust to the college game and show that he belonged on one of the best baseball teams in the country, but he would also be thrown right into the starting lineup, taking Brian Hall’s spot in right field.
At the starting line
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From the beginning of the season, baseball head coach Mark Marquess has said that his team would rely on pitching and defense, not offense, to win games this year.
Men face hot Cal team
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After a gloomy February, No. 11 Stanford (9-6) will be happy to turn the page on the calendar when it hosts California (10-4) this weekend.
Cougars defense smothers Cardinal
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Heading into last night’s rematch against Washington State, it seemed unlikely that the Cardinal would score fewer than 16 points — what the team did in its 60-51 loss to the Cougars at Pullman, Wash.
Men host Cougars, UW
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Before Saturday’s game against Washington, the Cardinal (16-10, 10-6 Pacific-10 Conference) will take a moment to honor seniors Rob Little and Nick Robinson, both of whom will play their final game on the Maples Pavilion floor.
Stanford takes two of three from Trojans
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Stanford first baseman John Mayberry, Jr. is exactly who No. 22 Southern California (5-2) didn’t want at the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning during Saturday’s game.
Stanford’s Mr. Versatility
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Stanford head coach Trent Johnson often uses the word “underappreciated” to describe senior swingman Nick Robinson.
“People don’t realize it, but Nick is the glue of this team,” Johnson said.
Baseball faces test at No. 4 UT
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Junior shortstop Chris Minaker and sophomore third baseman Adam Sorgi take a good deal of pride in their defense. Exhibit A: Sorgi walks over to Minaker after practice on Wednesday and grins when he overhears Minaker talking about the job they have done on the left side of the infield.
Washington leads Card against USC
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As the Cardinal prepared for life without Dan Grunfeld, they knew they would need something special from sophomore forward Fred Washington, who started in Grunfeld’s place.
Men start home stretch against USC
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The Cardinal will begin life without their leading scorer, junior guard Dan Grunfeld, against Southern California tonight.
Late-inning heroics bail out Stanford
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It didn't look like the No. 6 Cardinal were going to need any late-inning heroics to complete a sweep of Kansas (6-3) on Sunday afternoon.
Haryasz hits stride in season’s home stretch
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It’s a familiar sight on the floor of Maples Pavilion: junior forward Matt Haryasz shouting and raising his arms, gesturing for the Sixth Man Club to turn up the volume.
Card take on defending champion CSU-Fullerton
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Rumor has it that California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will throw out the first pitch tonight to open the No. 6 Cardinal’s three-game set against No.
Desert Bound
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When the men’s basketball team travels to face Arizona State tonight and Arizona on Saturday, it will be looking for a ticket to second place in the Pacific-10 Conference standings.
Card cruise past Ducks
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The only uncertainties that kept Cardinal fans on their toes in the second half of Stanford's 88-69 win over Oregon (11-7, 3-6 Pacific-10 Conference) at Maples Pavilion on Saturday were whether junior forward Matt Haryasz would break Rich Kelley's Cardinal rebounding record of 27 and whether the fans would be treated to Wendy's hamburgers after the game in the event that the team broke the 100-point barrier.
Stanford’s Sixth Man: Haas steps up for Card
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When Chris Hernandez’s name was not in the starting lineup against Arizona State on Jan. 6, the initial reaction among many in attendance was one of surprise, of fear, maybe even of panic.
Stanford baseball's field general
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Not many clubs on thefacebook.com have three times as many groupies as members, but if you read the vague, Navy SEAL-esque description of Rappy’s Crew — “an elite group of individuals capable of performing any task” — they would seem to be deserving of the recognition.
Upstart card head south
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Coaches will tell you that basketball is a game of streaks. The key, they say, is building your own and limiting the other teams’.
Men's basketball never trails in win over Cal
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The men’s basketball team expected to walk into a bear’s lair against California (8-7, 1-4 Pacific-10 Conference) at Haas Pavilion on Saturday. What they found looked more like a cub’s den.
Little’s work inside lifts Card offense
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In their 87-76 win over No. 13 Arizona on Saturday, the Cardinal found something they haven’t seen very often this season: open shots.
Diogu hurts depleted squad
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The Stanford men’s basketball team played Arizona State (12-2, 1-1 Pacific-10 Conference) tough at Maples Pavilion last night, but in the end, it was just too much Ike.
Card shoot for first Pac-10 win
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The men’s basketball team can either climb out of the hole it has dug itself in the Pacific-10 Conference or dig it deeper when it hosts Arizona State tonight at Maples Pavilion.
Men's bball starts Pac-10 season with back-to-back losses
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In a weekend that was indicative of its inconsistent season so far, the men’s basketball team took a step backward and a small step forward in Washington.
Broncos expose Card’s weaknesses
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Santa Clara and Stanford are only separated by a 20-minute drive down Highway 101, but the schools were not close on the basketball court on Sunday.
Stanford takes on No. 14 Cardinals in final game of Invitational
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Stanford will get a crack at No. 12 Louisville in the final game of the Maui Invitational, but it won’t be the way the Cardinal had originally envisioned it.
Around the nation: Five storylines to watch out for this season
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1. The stacked ACC
A Final Four with every team from the same conference?
Frosh bring East Coast flair
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To Stanford basketball fans still lamenting the loss of Josh Childress, Justin Davis and Joe Kirchofer, three talented and popular frontcourt players: Help is on the way.
Golf heads to Regional
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Despite finishing 10th in the Pacific-10 Conference, the men’s golf team was one of seven Pac-10 teams selected to play in the NCAA West Regional in Sunriver, Ore.
No. 1 Card downs Spartans
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Stanford head coach Mark Marquess employed the familiar tactic of using as many pitchers as possible during a non-conference Tuesday game and, as usual, the Cardinal staff showed off its depth.
Men’s golf last at Pacs
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The men’s golf team wrapped up a sub-par season by placing 10th yesterday at the Pacific-10 Championships at The Gallery at Dove Mountain in Tucson, Ariz.
No. 1 Card completes Cal Poly sweep
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When your pitchers hardly need any run support but your hitters give them all that any team could ask for, you know that things are going well.
Water polo defeats ASU, 13-3
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The No. 2 Stanford women’s water polo team handed No. 17 Arizona State its fifth straight loss, 13-3, on a sunny afternoon at Avery Aquatics Center last Saturday to run its record to 11-2 (4-0 in Mountain Pacific Sports Federation play).
Sherwood wins 'Heisman trophy of squash'
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Four years ago, Richard Sherwood, then a freshman, decided to go out for Stanford’s club squash team with his friend Sam Gellman.
Baseball takes on struggling USC
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Historically, there are not many college baseball teams that have the upper hand over Stanford, but Southern California is one of them; it holds a 198-150-3 all-time advantage over the Cardinal.
Holler back, young’un
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On a baseball team that includes four All-Americans, lefthanded pitcher Blake Holler is the quintessential All-American boy.
Track wins MPSF
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The Stanford women’s track and field team finished 1-2-3 in the 400 meters – with freshman Ashley Freeman winning in 54.
No. 1 baseball takes on Cal
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The No. 1 Stanford baseball team (10-2) will kick off the Pacific-10 Conference season when it travels across the Bay to face arch-rival California (7-6) this weekend.
Baseball wins, Fuld reaches 300
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All told, it wasn’t a bad day for senior centerfielder Sam Fuld.
Fuld became only the fifth Stanford player to reach 300 hits yesterday when he led off the seventh inning with a single up the middle, his second hit of the day.
Craig, Dobson qualify at Pac’s
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Junior Alicia Craig and senior Ian Dobson won their respective 5,000-meter races at the Pacific-10 Indoor Invitational on Saturday to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships.
Cal swims by Cardinal women
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The No. 3 Stanford women’s swimming team (5-2, 3-2 Pacific-10 Conference) fell to No. 5 California (9-0, 6-0), 151-149, in a dramatic short-course meters dual meet at the Avery Aquatic Center on Saturday in the regular season finale for both teams.
There's no place like home: Card faces Kansas
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There’s no place like home for the No. 4 Cardinal baseball team (5-1), which will try to add to its impressive 12-game home winning streak when it plays Kansas (7-4-1) at cozy Sunken Diamond this weekend.
Card wins series 2-1 over Fresno St.
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After piling up 28 runs in the Fullerton series last weekend, the Stanford offense looked like they would keep on rumbling Friday when they faced soft-serving Fresno State lefty David Griffin, whose fastball tops out around 80 mph.
Track impressive indoors
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A pair of victories by redshirt freshman Jakki Bailey highlighted a strong showing by the track and field team at the Husky Indoor Invitational in Seattle on Saturday.
Baseball opens season against Cal Fullerton
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As the Stanford baseball team ran into the locker room after yesterday’s practice while darkness enveloped Sunken Diamond, Cal State Fullerton took the field to get in some extra batting practice under the stadium lights.
Manship looks to move from stern to bow
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In the last two decades or so, a number of Major League starters have found success after becoming closers. Some of these players are household names: Dennis Eckersley, whose credentials as a closer recently won him a spot in the Hall of Fame despite a decade of mediocrity as a starter; John Smoltz, who returned from career-threatening elbow surgery and thrived after setting up shop in the Braves’ bullpen; and Eric Gagne, a bust as a starter who won the Cy Young award last year after becoming a closer in 2002.
Twin Wins
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After a season of sweat and preparation, the top-ranked men’s cross country team cemented its status as one of the greatest ever assembled, and the No.
Cross country teams gear up for NCAAs
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The No. 1 men’s cross country team will be looking for more than just another shiny National Championship trophy come Monday at NCAA Finals in Waterloo, Iowa; it has a chance to go down as the greatest cross country team in Stanford history.
Cross country advances to NCAAs
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The top-ranked men’s and women’s cross country teams won their respective races at the West Regionals in Portland, Ore.
Runners prepare for Regional
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At the Pacific 10 Conference Championships, the No. 1 Stanford men’s cross country team’s most recent race, senior Grant Robison narrowly missed capturing his third consecutive individual Pac-10 title, finishing second to senior teammate Ian Dobson.
Robison, team head to Pac-10 Championship
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On Saturday, senior Grant Robison will have a chance to accomplish a feat no one has pulled off since Washington State’s Henry Rono in 1979 and Oregon’s legendary Steve Prefontaine in 1973.
Card cruises in Pre-NCAA meet
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The women’s cross country team grabbed the No. 1 national ranking in the latest poll with a victory on Saturday at the Pre-NCAA meet in Waterloo, Ind.
twin runners are double trouble
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By SEAN HOWELL
Identical twins Amanda and Katy Trotter, freshmen phenoms on the women’s cross country team, are not identical in every way.
Cardinal off and running
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The men’s cross country team pulled off a dazzling feat before they had competed in even one race this season: They all came back.