Thank You Andrew Luck
Dear Mr. Andrew Luck, Thank you very much for your excellent play at the quarterback position and your upstanding citizenship for the Stanford Cardinal over the last three years. It’s been a true pleasure watching you turn our football program from a laughingstock into a national powerhouse, as well as watching your maturation from a...
Past history suggests Duke could upset Stanford
As #6 Stanford gets ready to head to Durham to take on ACC weakling Duke, you can be sure that the Cardinal will not take the Blue Devils lightly. The last two times the Cardinal have played an away game against an ACC team (excluding the Orange Bowl) they have lost and have won only...
College football season gets off to an electric start
Despite hour after hour of weather delaysin places like Iowa, Tennessee, Indiana, and West Virginia, the first week of the college football season did not disappoint. Although week one did mean a handful of top 25 teams ravaging FCS cupcakes, it also brought us back to why college football is so incredible with dramatic finishes and...
49ers disappoint, college football and Tiger
From top: Tiger Woods with his wife, Elin, and daughter at a Stanford football game before news of his affair. Alabama running back Mark Ingram on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Kurt Warner during his game against the Minnesota Vikings. This is a slightly different type of blog post than I have done before. Instead...
Stanford and Gerhart Take Down #8 Oregon
Toby Gerhart runs over an Oregon defender. Both Stanford players and fans celebrate after the upset. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) Go here to watch highlights of the Stanford victory. Nov. 7, 2009 The Stanford Cardinal pulled of a huge upset Saturday with a 51-42 win over the #8 ranked Oregon Ducks. Toby Gerhart led a...
Both Stanford and the Niners Get Pasted
The Pac-10 Conference Offensive Player of the Week Jacquizz Rodgers rushes for 1 of his 4 TDs and Roddy White outruns 49ers defenders. 10/13/09 The Stanford Cardinal went into Corvallis, Oregon leading the Pac-10 Conference and sporting a 4-1 overall record. The San Francisco 49ers hosted the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday also flying high with...
Stanford and 49ers wrap-ups
Clockwise from top left: Coach Jim Harbaugh, Stanford players coming out of the tunnel, no need for another Singletary tirade in the Seahawks game again and Gore busting off a big TD run 9/21/09 Weekend football recap: This was a great weekend in terms of football for myself. The Menlo JV football team got its...
Stanford football, giants baseball
9/2/09 I read in the San Jose Mercury News that Toby Gerhart plans on rushing for 2,000 yards this year. Toby, you’re sick because the name Toby is cool, you’re good at both football and baseball and you run guys over. But sorry, your logic of 25 carries / game + 6 yards / carry...
