After Week 1 Bye, No. 5 Stanford Ready To Start
After spending the first week of the season on the sidelines, the fifth-ranked Stanford Cardinal are set to start at home against San Jose State on Saturday night.
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After spending the first week of the season on the sidelines, the fifth-ranked Stanford Cardinal are set to start at home against San Jose State on Saturday night.
Since Stanford first fielded a football team in 1892, never have the Cardinal carried so much momentum. The defending Pac-12 champions and Rose Bowl winners return almost everybody from a dominant defense, an intriguing quarterback who is still undefeated as a starter and the conference's twice reigning coach of the year.
The former Cardinal quarterback and No. 1 overall pick of the 1983 NFL draft will have his jersey retired during halftime of Stanford's home game against Oregon on Nov. 7. Elway, now the executive vice president of the Denver Broncos, will join Ernie Nevers' No. 1 and Jim Plunkett's No. 16 as the only jerseys the school has enshrined.
Dominika Cibulkova coasted past Sorana Cirstea 6-4, 6-0 on Saturday in the Bank of the West Classic to advance to her second tournament final this year.
American Jamie Hampton beat Stanford All-American Nicole Gibbs 7-5, 6-7(5), 6-3 on Thursday in the second round of the Bank of the West Classic.
Stanford University was advising students and other users of its computer system to change their passwords after the school discovered a security breach of its information technology infrastructure.
Olga Govortsova, ranked 83rd in the world, ended a frustrating streak with a convincing 6-2, 6-4 victory over No. 2 seed Samantha Stosur in the second round at the Bank of the West Classic on Tuesday night.
Daniela Hantuchova beat Yanina Wickmayer 6-2, 4-6, 6-0 in the first round of the Bank of the West Classic on Tuesday.
American teenager Madison Keys beat No. 8 seed Magalena Rybarikova 6-2, 6-2, in the first round of the $795,000 Bank of the West Classic on Monday.
The coach says she signed a new deal but did not offer specifics. She had two years remaining on her previous contract, through the 2014-15 season.
University of Oklahoma softball coach Patty Gasso said pitcher Kelsey Stevens is transferring from Stanford to OU.
The U.S. Olympic Committee has hired Stanford's Jon Denney to become chief development officer and president of its new fundraising arm.
You might be shocked to hear that a major trade went down between two famed college athletic programs on Monday. It seems the people behind Stanford's Twitter account have traded their handle to Syracuse University for some oranges.
Stanford University said a $151 million donation is the largest gift the school has ever received from a single living person.
Muthu Alagappan, a student at Stanford University, has a side project that could revolutionize the NBA in the same way Billy Beane changed baseball's landscape.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has used his platform as Stanford University's commencement speaker to lobby for an immigration reform plan that allows foreign students to remain in the U.S. after they graduate.
Nicole Gibbs of Stanford repeated as NCAA women's tennis singles champion after routing a hobbled Mary Weatherholt of Nebraska 6-2, 6-4. Rola, who is from Slovenia, became the first men's tennis champion for the Buckeyes, beating Jarmere Jenkins of Virginia 7-6 (8), 6-4.
As Mark Appel sat in the Stanford dugout and glanced out at sun-kissed Sunken Diamond this week, the star pitcher reminded himself just how much it meant to return for his final college season.
Several Pac-12 coaches admitted they'd prefer to see their league go to eight-game conference schedules (down from nine) but the reality is, the league's media contract won't allow for that. In the face of that, with the upcoming College Football Playoff on the horizon, should all the conferences have the same scheduling standards?
It says something, nearly all of it good, that on the day a male athlete in one of the major American pro sports came as out as gay, the reaction from the NBA, fellow ballplayers and fans was almost uniformly positive. But let's not break an arm patting ourselves on the back just yet. There's some heavy lifting still to be done.
NBA veteran center and Stanford graduate Jason Collins has become the first active male professional athlete in the major four American sports leagues to come out as gay.
The Philadelphia Eagles have selected Stanford tight end Zach Ertz in the second round of the NFL draft. Ertz, a 6-foot-5, 249-pound All-American, was chosen Friday night with the 35th overall pick.
Several years back, Eric Reid shunned Jim Harbaugh and Stanford to stick close to home at LSU. Fast forward to NFL draft night 2013, and Reid watched Harbaugh and the San Francisco 49ers make a big move up to make sure they got him this time.
Former Vice President Al Gore said Tuesday in Palo Alto that America's democratic system has been "hacked" and if the country wants to resolve the "climate crisis" it has to first reform its political process.
Stanford University received a record breaking 38,828 applications for undergraduate admission this year and offered admission to 2,210 high school students, university officials said Friday.
