[Translate] Jordan WilliamsonAwful. Disappointing. Deflating. Some of the adjectives you could use to describe what has to be the biggest choke in sports history. Tied 38-all with just 3 seconds left, Stanford’s kicker, the redshirt freshman Jordan Williamson, hooked a sure-fire 35-yard field goal wide left. If he hit it, Stanford would have won the 2012 Fiesta...
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[Translate] Chester McGlocktonThe news that Oakland Raiders Legend Chester McGlockton passed away this Wednesday morning at the age of 42 of a heart attack reached this blogger via Facebook just a moment ago. The first memory was of meeting Mr. McGlockton when he came to the Oakland Mayor’s Office in 1997, and then Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris invited me to join...
[Translate] Congratulations to the Stanford Cardinal Women’s Soccer Team, which beat the Oklahoma State Women’s Soccer Team (called the Cowgirls) 2-1 in Elite Eight play at Stanford’s Cagan Stadium Friday night. Show’s you what happens when players have to skip the traditional home-cooked Thanksgiving meal and stick around for a big game....
[Translate] Today, starting at 4PM PDT, we have Cal vs UCLA, then Stanford at USC at 5 PM and both are key Pac-12 battles of teams that really do have “storied histories” to mock that overused term for a moment. Cal comes to LA to play a rather injury-riddled UCLA team, with its coach Rick Neuheisel on a seat so hot, it would take an ice-cold screw driver...
[Translate] The college football rankings as reported in the Associated Press Top 25 are out, and contains some interesting news. First, Stanford, previously ranked number 7, moves up to number 6, and joins Boise State and Florida in rising by one spot. Alabama moved from two to three, Oklahoma remained at one, and Oregon divided ten spots to 13 from 3, after being...
