While most schools are spending wine-and-dine money on flashy Heisman campaigns for their top candidates, Stanford coach David Shaw did what any self-respecting Stanford grad would do for his quarterback: He created a PowerPoint deck that he presented at a recent press conference. Unfortunately, the video after the jump only has Shaw’s presenting of the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Stanford’
Meet Andrew Luck, former grizzly man
In November, 2009, we highlighted Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck as our weekend hot jock. We said then he was one to watch and that you’d be hearing a lot about him. Certainly his performance on the field has lived up to our hype – but the latest cover of ESPN the Magazine makes us rethink [...]
Stanford has several out gay athletes, school offers tacit support for them
Ryan Mac of Stanford University’s student newspaper, the Stanford Daily, has penned a revealing article about the state of gay athletes in the nation’s top athletic department. He spoke with a couple female athletes and was even able to talk with Dwight Slater, the former Stanford football player who came out to his team (before [...]
Stanford ends UConn’s win streak at 90
The last team the UConn women’s basketball team lost to before winning 90 straight games was the Stanford Cardinal. On Thursday night Stanford ended that UConn streak beating the Lady Huskies in convincing fashion, 70-59. The win avenged Stanford’s loss to UConn in the national championship game last April. A video recap of the game [...]
More ‘horrible to come out in sports’ chatter
This one comes from the Stanford Daily, I’m afraid. One of their writers, Tom Taylor, has no idea what he’s writing about. None. He even gets some basic statistics wrong (he says there are 100 players on each NFL team, and he says there are about 100 openly gay professional athletes in the world) before [...]
Stanford-UConn sets women’s basketball back
It was one of the most anticipated women’s basketball games in the last couple years: Connecticut trying to complete a perfect season, and Stanford, the last team to beat UConn, hoping to do it again. What we got was dreadful. The halftime score of 20-12 (and Stanford was up!) doesn’t begin to demonstrate the bad [...]
Thrilling heartbreaker ends Stanford-Xavier game
The Stanford-Xavier women’s basketball Elite 8 game yesterday was a thriller and a heart-breaker at the same time. Xaiver player Dee Dee Jernigan had two wide (and I mean WIDE) open layups in the final seconds to take a 2-point lead but failed to connect. Then, a la UCLA’s Tyus Edney in 1995, Stanford’s Jeanette [...]
What Jim Harbaugh really said
Since Jim Harbaugh didn’t clarify what he said when accused of yelling “faggot” during a game two weeks ago, and since the Stanford athletic department would not return my phone calls or emails, I wanted a professional opinion on what the coach uttered. I contacted lipreading translator Consuelo Gonzalez for his professional opinion, and here’s [...]
Did Stanford’s Jim Harbaugh yell ‘faggot’?
Got an email this morning claiming that Stanford head football coach Jim Harbaugh yelled “faggot” at an official during the Stanford-Notre Dame game on Saturday (which Stanford won). While you can’t hear the audio, it certainly looks like that’s what he’s yelling. Check out the video after the jump at about the 26-second mark. We’re [...]
Toby Gerhart should win the Heisman
Toby Gerhart is Stanford’s running back who carried a mediocre team to an 8-4 record and a bowl berth. He led the nation in touchdowns (26). He was second in rushing yards per game (144.7). He averages 200.3 yards against ranked opponents. Now, despite being the best player in the nation this year, he has [...]
College coaches channel their inner Belichick
Did New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick start a trend with questionable decisions to go for it on fourth down instead of punt? Not in the NFL, but maybe in college football if two calls from Saturday are an indication. And like Belichick’s call, these two also flopped and helped their teams lose. First up [...]
Stanford has college football’s best band
In the Bay Area for the weekend, I decided to head to my alma mater Stanford for the big game against Oregon. And what a game. Stanford held on for the big upset of the top-10 Ducks, 51-42. But there were some interesting notes after the game. It was my first time “storming the field” [...]
Weekend Hot Jock: Andrew Luck
Chances are this is the first time you’ve heard of Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck. But it won’t be the last. The 6-foot-4, 235 pound redshirt freshman has it all: Good arm, great vision, leadership, and handsome good looks. From Houston, Luck was ranked as high as the No. 4 quarterback coming out of high school [...]
NCAA’s strangest, funnest mascot and band
Yes, I am biased. I’ll admit it. But for my money, the funnest mascot in the country is the Stanford Tree. While almost every other school has some mean, vicious mascot (Wildcat, Wolverine, Bear), Stanford’s mascot is a dancing inanimate object. And each year that inanimate object changes. Some years it’s a pine tree; some [...]
Stanford swimming: Still the hottest
The men’s swimming and diving team of Leland Stanford Junior University has been a favorite of Outsports for years. From the photo, you could probably guess 33 reasons why that’s the case. They dominated men’s swimming in the 1990s, winning four titles in seven years, but they’ve played second fiddle to Auburn and Texas since; [...]