Stanford Men Win Season Opener Over San Diego
Andrew Zimmerman matched his career high with 14 points, Gabriel Harris added 12 and Stanford scored 18 unanswered points in the first half on the way to a 64-48 win over San Diego on Monday night.
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Andrew Zimmerman matched his career high with 14 points, Gabriel Harris added 12 and Stanford scored 18 unanswered points in the first half on the way to a 64-48 win over San Diego on Monday night.
Jeremy Green scored 26 minutes and Josh Owens added 16 points and 11 rebounds to lead Stanford to an 87-56 victory over Cal State Monterey Bay in an exhibition game Wednesday night.
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.
Stanford has revived a program aimed at increasing the number of minority students seeking admission to its medical school. That number had essentially fallen flat over the last 20 years.
Andrew Luck threw for 293 yards and two touchdowns, leading No. 10 Stanford to a 42-17 victory in its highly anticipated showdown with 13th-ranked Arizona on Saturday night.
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.
Andrew Luck ran for one score and threw for another, and No. 13 Stanford scored touchdowns on its first four possessions in an impressive 41-0 rout of Washington on Saturday.
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.
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In a sign of how far Stanford has come since coach Jim Harbaugh arrived four years ago, a conference win that made the Cardinal bowl eligible was viewed with more disappointment than elation.
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.
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After getting blown out in the second half against the Ducks and losing their first game of the season, the 16th-ranked Cardinal look to regroup this week with a home game Saturday night against Southern California.
Darron Thomas threw for 238 yards and three touchdowns and ran for another 117 yards and a score to lead No. 4 Oregon to a 52-31 victory over No. 9 Stanford.
Leave it to a Stanford coach to quote Ralph Waldo Emerson when asked about his team's dominance.
Next up for No. 9 Stanford is the biggest game in the program's recent history, a see-where-we-stand showdown with No. 4 Oregon and a chance to reach 5-0 for the first time since 1951.
Owen Marecic scored on a run and interception return 13 seconds apart and Nate Whitaker kicked a career-high five field goals Saturday, leading No. 16 Stanford to a 37-14 victory over Notre Dame that made the Cardinal 4-0 for the first time since 1986.
The way Andrew Luck has been playing, Notre Dame might prefer seeing Toby Gerhart again.
The Pac-10 has five teams in the Top 25 and enough talent throughout to make the schedule feel like a gauntlet of big games. The only separation appears to be at the top, where three teams have emerged as front-runners: Oregon, Arizona and Stanford.
Andrew Luck threw four touchdown passes, ran 52 yards for another score and led No. 19 Stanford to the end zone on all eight drives that he played in a a 68-24 victory over Wake Forest on Saturday night.
One of new Pac-10 Commissioner Larry Scott's top priorities has been to raise the profile of the conference, to regain some of the respect that's been lagging the past few years. He even took the league's coaches on a look-at-us trip to New York.
Andrew Luck threw two touchdown passes and safety Michael Thomas led a hard-hitting defensive effort with a 21-yard fumble return for a TD to lead the No. 25 Stanford Cardinal to a 35-0 win over the bumbling UCLA Bruins on Saturday night in the first game of the Pac-10 schedule.
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A man was being sought as the suspect in a double shooting in Bay Point that left one person dead and another injured early Friday morning.
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A father from Central California who was convicted in a DUI crash that paralyzed his son has been sentenced to state prison, prosecutors said.
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Anticipating large turnout and security concerns, San Jose officials moved watch parties for Sunday's World Cup matches from San Pedro Square to two larger venues.
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Folarin Balogun got the scoring going with a goal in the 45th minute, but was sent off with a controversial red card in the 64th minute.
Whatever the outcome on the field, fans said the day was about more than soccer. It was about reunions, strangers, friends, and families coming together for the World Cup experience.
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