Decision On Imperiled Cal Sports Delayed
A decision on whether California's baseball team and four other programs will be reinstated has been delayed.
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A decision on whether California's baseball team and four other programs will be reinstated has been delayed.
Bay Area college baseball players are adjusting to new, safer metal bats following a number of head injuries involving batted balls.
New Stanford coach David Shaw maintained continuity in his first recruiting class and is doing the same on his coaching staff.
California followed up its first losing season under coach Jeff Tedford with a surprisingly strong recruiting class.
California athletic director Sandy Barbour has said that the university will have a decision within the next 10 days about whether baseball and four other programs will be saved.
Mickey McConnell has come a long way from the freshman who struggled even to get on the court while playing behind future NBA guard and Aussie sensation Patty Mills
Jeremy Green scored 11 of his 15 points in the second half before leaving with an injury, helping Stanford beat Yale 60-44 Tuesday night.
The Penn State volleyball team might not have been as dominant from start to finish as the previous three editions, but that didn't matter in the end.
No team is playing better volleyball than California and no team could be more motivated to bring down the dynasty of three-time defending national champion Penn State.
Penn State will play for a fourth straight NCAA volleyball championship against first-time finalist California.
Thanks to a tough nonconference schedule and a tightly packed bunch of similarly talented teams, the Pac-10 is struggling to fill its bowl allotment and more than half the conference could finish with losing records.
Opposing teams have tried just about everything to stop top-ranked Oregon's high-speed offense without much success.
Clint Steindl scored a career-high 22 points, Matthew Delavedova added 15 points and nine assists, and St. Mary's beat St. John's 76-71 late Monday night.
Just a year ago when California played Oregon, it was the Golden Bears who had the title hopes while the Ducks were trying to find their way. Boy, how things have changed.
By now, Chiney Ogwumike is well accustomed to being bossed around by her big sister. It's been going on for years.
Except for Oregon at the top and Washington State at the bottom, the Pac-10 has played out just like its coaches predicted, a win-one, lose-one trade off by teams unable distinguish themselves from one another.
When Andrew Luck arrived at Stanford in the fall of 2008, it had been years since either the Cardinal or Arizona had been to a bowl game.
Even though the connection was made by NFL draft gurus over a year ago, Stanford's Andrew Luck and Washington's Jake Locker didn't get to know each other until this summer, when the Pac-10's stable of quarterbacks were being promoted on the East Coast.
The Pac-10 will hold a combined men's and women's basketball tournament in 2011.
Having navigated through the toughest portion of its schedule leading into a week off, Stanford opens the second half of the season with a far easier test.
The California schools will be divided when the Pac-12 conference splits into football divisions next year following its recent expansion.
The Spartans (1-5, 0-1 WAC) have already played four teams ranked in the top 20 of the AP poll, losing at No. 8 Alabama, No. 11 Utah, No. 18 Wisconsin and No. 19 Nevada going into their showdown with Boise State (5-0, 1-0).
Tara VanDerveer's Stanford team is short-handed heading into its first practice Friday.
The Pasadena City Council on Monday approved a $152-million renovation plan for the 88-year-old stadium.
Leave it to a Stanford coach to quote Ralph Waldo Emerson when asked about his team's dominance.