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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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