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M. Tennis: Rocking the Rainbow Warriors
After suffering defeats to USC and UCLA this past weekend, the No. 9 Stanford men's tennis team came back to decisively defeat Hawaii on Tuesday. (NICK SALAZAR/The Stanford Daily) After a long weekend...
View ArticleBlanchat: Jacobs needs to practice what he preached
So here we are in mid-February, the most awful time of the sports year. Football season is over, the eternity that is the NBA season is only half-over and we’re still a few weeks away from March...
View ArticleM. Tennis: Cardinal looks to continue dominance over BYU
After grabbing a big rebound win against Hawaii on Tuesday, the Stanford men’s tennis team looks to continue its win streak this Friday against BYU. The No. 9 Cardinal (5-1) dropped its two biggest...
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M. Basketball: Regular season title hopes likely dashed against UCLA
Freshman guard Chasson Randle scored 16 points on the night, but Stanford committed 22 turnovers as a whole and fell short against UCLA 72-61 (MIKE KHEIR/The Stanford Daily). On a Thursday night in Los...
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Baseball: Talking shop with Stewart and Kauppila
Sophomore Lonnie Kauppila, who played second base last year, will be making the transition back to shortstop, where he has played for his entire life. Kauppila and the No. 2 baseball team will kick off...
View ArticleBlanchat: Is Billy Beane a genius or a madman?
Billy Beane is a genius. Or he’s a madman. I’m just not sure which one. Every single day, the Oakland Athletics’ general manager continues to defy all logic. In their most recent mind-boggling...
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Baseball: Piscotty powers Card past Pacific
Tyler Gaffney (above) had three hits on Tuesday, but fellow junior Stephen Piscotty was the hero of the night, clobbering a two-run homer to give the Card a 9-7 victory over Pacific. (SIMON WARBY/The...
View ArticleBlanchat: Time has come for Dawkins to go
Five weeks ago today, I wrote a column profusely praising the Stanford men’s basketball team. But oh, how things have changed since then. Five weeks ago, the Cardinal was 15-3, and it looked like...
View ArticleFootball: Shaw discusses major coaching staff changes
With the Stanford football team opening its first spring practice session on Monday afternoon, head coach David Shaw sat down with the media on Thursday to discuss some of the major changes for the...
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Football moves into spring practice with wide-open QB race, without...
For the first time in over three years, the Stanford football team will take the field without Andrew Luck on the roster — but when the Cardinal’s spring practice opens on Monday afternoon, the QB...
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Football: Fleener’s draft stock rising fast
Redshirt senior Coby Fleener has seen his draft stock rise rapidly over the course of the season, as he was one of the Cardinal’s most prolific threats this year with 10 of his 34 catches going for...
View ArticleBlanchat: The perks of working in sports
If you’re a sports fan, there’s a good chance you thought about all the changes you would make to a team if you were in charge. You definitely would not have signed Barry Zito to a seven-year, $126...
View ArticleBrief: Track and field readies for NCAA Indoor Championships
On Tuesday, the Stanford track and field teams had nine athletes announced as qualifiers for this weekend’s NCAA Indoor Championships in Boise, Idaho. The Cardinal men will have five athletes competing...
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Brief: Softball sweeps through DeMarini Invitational in Fullerton
For the second weekend in a row, the Stanford softball team bashed its way past all comers, finishing with a 5-0 record in the past weekend’s Demarini Invitational. In the three-day round robin...
View ArticleBlanchat: Colts’ decision a no-brainer
By now, you’ve probably heard that the great Peyton Manning’s time is over in Indianapolis. Cue the Andrew Luck era for the Colts. But if you’re aware that Peyton’s days in blue and white are over,...
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Football: Quarterback race narrowing after first spring session
After the Stanford football team’s first week of spring practice — the first week without Andrew Luck in over three years — redshirt junior outside linebacker Chase Thomas only had one word to describe...
View ArticleM. Basketball: Cardinal defeats Cleveland State, stays alive in NIT
With a dominant second-half performance on Tuesday, the Stanford men’s basketball team captured its first postseason win in three years with a 76-65 victory over Cleveland State in the first round of...
View ArticleM. Basketball: Stanford clobbers Minnesota to take home NIT championship
Even though the Stanford basketball team wasn’t dancing on the postseason stage it wanted to be on this March, it still played like champions on Thursday night, crushing Minnesota 75-51 to capture the...
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Football: Luck, Fleener impress at pro day on the Farm
In his last chance to impress scouts and media members before April’s NFL draft, redshirt junior quarterback Andrew Luck didn’t disappoint, putting together a dazzling performance at the Stanford...
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M. Volleyball: Tigers tamed
The No. 5 Stanford men's volleyball team swept No. 13 Pacific at home on Tuesday night, keeping its hopes for both the regular-season MPSF title and the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament alive....
View ArticleBlanchat: How women’s basketball fell short five straight years
When the confetti fell on the 40-0 Baylor women’s basketball team on Tuesday night, it wasn’t that surprising. After all, the Bears were untouchable this season, and had relatively little trouble...
View ArticleBlanchat: Tiger’s dominance is gone for good
The story of this past weekend’s Masters was, of course, Big Bubba Watson bashing his way to his first major championship victory at Augusta. But even though Bubba took home his first green jacket,...
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Football: Cardinal-white spring game to preview the post-Andrew Luck era
In its final performance before the 2012 season, the Stanford football team takes to the field at San Francisco’s historic Kezar Stadium on Saturday in its annual Cardinal-White Spring Game. While the...
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Football: 2012 Stanford squad showcased in annual Cardinal-White Spring Game
On a bright, warm Saturday in San Francisco, Andrew Luck patrolled the Stanford sideline wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, jeans and dark sunglasses, overlooking the proceedings that many hoped would...
View ArticleBlanchat: When should top coaches hang it up?
When I saw that the 59-year-old Pat Summitt, the legendary coach of the Tennessee Volunteers, had officially retired yesterday after 38 years of leading the Vols, I initially was sad that such a legend...
View ArticleBlanchat: Ready for all the RG3 draft talk to end
Tonight, 32 players will walk across the stage at Radio City Music Hall, jam awful-looking hats on their heads and finally begin their NFL careers in earnest after months of waiting and preparing. More...
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Football: Colts select Luck with first overall pick, more success for...
Luck and a horseshoe. Some things just go together perfectly. After months of waiting, the Indianapolis Colts finally made Andrew Luck’s NFL dream official on Thursday night, selecting Luck with the...
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Football: Twelve former Cardinal players taken by NFL teams, as Fleener and...
While Andrew Luck and David DeCastro might have stolen the headlines as the first two Stanford players selected in the NFL draft, ten other Cardinal players officially made the leap from the Farm to...
View ArticleBlanchat: Grading Stanford’s NFL draft fits
Now that the 2012 NFL draft is enshrined in history and every team has had its pick of the undrafted free agents, we in the sports media get to do our favorite thing: make predictions for the future...
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Football: A look back at Stanford’s other No. 1 picks
When the Indianapolis Colts picked Cardinal quarterback Andrew Luck first overall in the NFL draft on Thursday night, it marked the fourth time a Stanford signal-caller has been taken first overall....
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M. Tennis: A day in the life of Bradley Klahn
It’s 9:30 a.m. on a cool Thursday morning, and Bradley Klahn is setting out traffic cones on a tennis court. “My serve’s been such a rollercoaster lately,” he says, placing 10 cones from left to right...
View ArticleAthletic Director Bowlsby officially heading to Big 12 in mid-June
On Friday, Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby was introduced as the new commissioner of the Big 12 Conference, officially making his move away from the Farm after six years at Stanford. Bowlsby’s...
View ArticleBlanchat: Athletic director job search too important to rush
Nobody ever says, “Go east, young man.” Everybody knows that you have to go west to make a name for yourself. But (now former) Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby, didn’t get the message when he was...
View ArticleBlanchat: Dissecting Stanford’s woes at receiver
Since the NFL draft, I’ve been spending a lot of time sifting through the Internet in order to learn about the situations that the former Stanford football players are now in. After all, football...
View ArticleBlanchat: In support of the Andrew Luck Directorship
On Tuesday afternoon, the Stanford football program officially jumped the shark. How exactly did the Cardinal leap from the land of the normal to the realm of the ridiculous? Because on Tuesday, an...
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Blanchat: Stanford stars struggle to break through in MLB
As the MLB draft approaches and the NCAA tournament opens up this Friday, it’s easy to spend a lot of time checking out the top prospects who are hoping to spur their teams on to victory in Omaha this...
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Baseball: Looking back at Stanford’s back-to-back titles
With the 2012 NCAA baseball tournament opening up on Friday, it’s the season to remember when, 25 years ago, the Stanford baseball team was the king of college baseball. In a back-and-forth affair, the...
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Baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates select Mark Appel with eighth overall pick
With the eighth pick in Monday’s MLB first-year player draft, the Pittsburgh Pirates selected Stanford righthanded pitcher Mark Appel. Appel, a Pac-12 All-first team selection and Collegiate Baseball...
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Baseball: Seven Stanford players selected in MLB draft
In the midst of a run to the Super Regionals of the College World Series, seven Stanford baseball players were selected in the MLB’s first-year player draft this Monday through Wednesday. The bevy of...
View ArticleBlanchat: Fathers and sons and sports
It’s almost over. It’s the fourth quarter. It’s the bottom of the ninth. We’re halfway up the 18th hole. In reality though, it’s the end of spring quarter, and I’ve got a little more than one week left...
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