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I’m not going to rant for paragraphs on end about the TV-fueled demise of rivalry weekend — it stinks, and I’d think many readers would agree, but there’s nothing to be done.
Instead of getting five rivalry games the Saturday before Thanksgiving, we get one: Big ...
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*** Intended to be a scoreboard watcher’s guide to Saturday’s results — and the basis for my column in Saturday’s Merc …
If you measure the Big Game’s significance by the bowl representatives in attendance, then the 112th edition is one of the biggest ...
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Oregon Ducks
Oregon State Beavers
If you want names, this is the wrong place (at least at this particular time). I have not started compiling a list, in part because I’m not sure there is a “list” yet over at Seventh and Alma.
I’m sure athletic director Tom Bowen has some coaches he’d like to talk ...
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San Jose State Spartans
Dick Tomey
blogs.mercurynews.com - 27 hours ago
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Up for air, if only for a few
minutes, and wanted to get my non-Pac-10 picks posted.
Look for a series of Hotline items starting tonight and running through Friday afternoon. I won’t mention my performance from last week, for fear of the jinx. ...
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College football: Picks of the week
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The Wiz of Odds
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Quick update, just to make sure Stanford fans know what to root for this weekend:
You should root like hell heck for Arizona — even consider memorizing the words to “Bear Down Arizona” (included below.)
Stanford gets into the Rose Bowl if:
1. The Cardinal beats Cal
2. ...
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Oregon State Beavers
Oregon Ducks
blogs.mercurynews.com - 3 days ago
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There are already 79 comments on the Hotline
post about Harbaugh going for two with a 48-21
lead. I’ve also received a bunch of email about it. And Harbaugh was asked about it again today at the Big Game press conference. It’s the play ...
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Harbaugh, Carroll and the two-point conversion attempt
blogs.mercurynews.com - 3 days ago
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*** Here’s the early version of a column
I wrote for Tuesday’s Mercury News. Yes, I picked
Stanford to win. No, I’m not on the Cardinal bandwagon here: I picked Stanford to win Big Game in my game-by-game predictions in early ...
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Big Game preview: It’s big (for once), but will it be close?
blogs.mercurynews.com - 3 days ago
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Here’s the ballot I sent to the Associated
Press on Sunday night. There are very, very few
changes from my preseason poll, for two reasons: 1) Only one of my ranked teams lost, Mississippi State, and 2) Nobody recorded the kind of quality ...
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My AP top-25 basketball poll: Week One
blogs.mercurynews.com - 3 days ago
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The past 48 hours have been super busy
(Stanford-UDSC, Big Game, Dick Tomey’s retirement, and a project
for the Mercury News). I did not have time to write the usual in-depth “Grading the week” items and post them individually. What ...
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Cal, SJSU and Stanford football: Grading the week
blogs.mercurynews.com - 4 days ago
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*** Here’s the early version of a story
I co-authored with Elliott Almond that’s running in Monday’s
Mercury News. The story was first reported on mercurynews.com Sunday afternoon. This is a flushed-out version … San Jose ...
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SJSU football: Tomey to retire
Just checked the opening lines from the Las Vegas Sports Consultants, who establish the initial point spread and from there the casinos adjust their number based on money flow.
Stanford is an 8-point favorite.
I pass this on not to condone gambling but because it’s useful in establishing ...
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Highlights/overview …
* A tough week — no, a brutal week.
Eight of my 25 lost, and all the Ls came from teams ranked 10th and lower — and most of the losses were not high quality. That means holding the teams in place (or moving them up) was not an option in most cases.
The... ...
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Ohio State Buckeyes
Oregon Ducks
Oregon State Beavers
Alabama Crimson Tide
Boise State Broncos
blogs.mercurynews.com - 4 days ago
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*** Just got back from Los Angeles and
wanted to get this posted ASAP. My problem at
this time of the year is that there’s a ton to blog about but little time to do it because of responsibilities for the Merc’s print product (Big Game, ...
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Pac-10 football: Updating the Rose Bowl race
*** Here’s a sidebar I wrote for Sunday’s Merc. It looked bad — it looked awful. Not that Harbaugh cares an iota about how it looks or reflects on Stanford. He’s king of the hill these days, and it’s not like Carroll hasn’t done the same kind of thing to ...
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Stanford Cardinal
Pete Carroll
Southern California Trojans
Taylor Mays
Jim Harbaugh
blogs.mercurynews.com - 4 days ago
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*** Here’s one of the stories I wrote
for Sunday’s Merc from the L.A. Coliseum. It’s the
first item in a 350-word notebook. Figured it might be of interest to a few Stanford fans, or all of them. Stanford is close to finalizing Coach ...
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Stanford football: Update on Harbaugh’s contract extension
A view from the Coliseum press box:
I was just typing the words, The only way Stanford loses this game is if the Cardinal commits multiple turnovers in the final 27 minutes — and what do you know: A Gerhart fumble, and a Trojan touchdown.
Now it’s 21-14 Stanford and we’ve ...
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The Coliseum
Quickie thoughts on developments that don’t involve Saturday’s football results …
Action: Stanford basketball loses season-opener at San Diego 77-64 (and gets outscored 17-8 down the stretch).
Reaction I: There are a lot more Ls coming, folks.
Reaction II: Looking at the ...
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Southern California Trojans
I wasn’t going to details the Rose Bowl scenarios unless Stanford beat USC. But as we’ve gotten closer to kickoff, I figured it would be worth slapping on the Hotline so Cardinal fans have an idea of what to root for this weekend.
Also wanted to include the worst-case scenario, ...
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Southern California Trojans
According to the L.A. Times, USC receiver Damian Williams has been ruled out of Saturday’s game.
Can’t overstate the significance of the injury: A struggling offense without its top playmaker — who’s also a lethal punt returner.
As Pete Carroll told reporters:...
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Southern California Trojans
Damian Williams
Pete Carroll
Stanford Cardinal
Not much time for much of an intro, other than to say: The long climb to respectability continues. Since the 1-9 start I’m 22-18 — not great, not bad.
And since I bothered to mention that, here’s comes an oh-fer …
Last week: 3-2
Season: 23-27
Five-star special: 5-5
All ...
