Gary Cavalli
- Jun 24
The Greatest
If you grew up in northern New Jersey and loved baseball, as I did, one of the great debates of the 1950s and '60s focused on the center...
Gary Cavalli
- Jun 17
Family Legacy Lives On
My granddaughter, Cameron Duran, graduated from Stanford yesterday. She's the tenth member of our family to get a Stanford degree. It was...
Gary Cavalli
- Jun 10
Clark's Olympic Snub; Gamblers' Death Threats; Sir Charles Gets It Right
The geniuses who run USA basketball apparently have decided not to put Caitlin Clark on the U.S. women's Olympic team. Clark is the...
Gary Cavalli
- Jun 3
NCAA House Settlement Questions; Bruins Must Pay Calimony; Tara Speaks; 34 for 45
Lots of important questions have arisen in the wake of last week's landmark "House vs. NCAA" settlement, in which the NCAA and Power Five...
Gary Cavalli
- May 27
Basketball and Broadcasting Legend Bill Walton Dies
Just a few days after the last TV broadcast of its network and the last event in Pac-12 history, the conference's biggest cheerleader...
Gary Cavalli
- May 27
NCAA Settles for Survival
Battered by a string of legal losses, bruised by its own incompetence and increasing irrelevance, and faced with the very real prospect...
Gary Cavalli
- May 20
Much Ado About Butker; Paye Mines Transfer Portal
Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker ignited a firestorm last week with his commencement speech at Benedictine College, a tiny...
Gary Cavalli
- May 13
Coming to Terms with 75
I turned 75 on Saturday. That sounds very old to me. In the last year or two, so many famous contemporaries of mine have passed away....
Gary Cavalli
- May 6
The Athletic Industrial Complex; Group of 5 Folly; Saban Speaks
Back when I worked in the Stanford athletic department, things were pretty simple. We had a Sports Information Director, with an...
Gary Cavalli
- Apr 29
Pac-12's Draft Dominance; First Round QB Busts; Reggie Gets His Heisman Back; Transfers Shake Stanford; New T-Shirt
The Pac-12 Conference, which expired as a football entity a few months ago, came up big in the NFL Draft last week. Six former Pac-12...
