Gary Cavalli | Insidetrack | United States

GOAT? Plus "Coach O", NFL Playoffs, Redbox, Rocky Long

Tuesday morning musings after the NFL Divisional playoffs and CFP Championship Game... Burrow’s Legacy: Many pundits are proposing this...

Gary Cavalli

Jan 14, 2020

Mississippi Madness

Coaching success is very hard to predict. The guy who kills the interview may be a bust in the locker room. The guy with the great resume...

Gary Cavalli

Jan 10, 2020

Fantastic Finishes, Burrow Blowout, Coaching/Officiating Blunders, Stanford Basketball

One of the great weekends of the sports year was marked by two fantastic finishes, one incredible blowout, some questionable officiating...

Gary Cavalli

Dec 30, 2019

Our Annual Bowl Viewing Guide: The Games to Watch

Today marks the start of Bowl season, always an exciting time for fans who like to gorge on college football. But no matter how big a fan...

Gary Cavalli

Dec 20, 2019

Unhappy Endings

Yesterday was a very bleak day for Bay Area sports teams…a day marked by several unhappy endings. Both NFL teams lost in the final...

Gary Cavalli

Dec 16, 2019

49ers-Saints Classic; Playoffs Set; Year of the Transfer

You may never see a better football game than yesterday's thriller between the 49ers and Saints. Two of the best teams in the NFL, with...

Gary Cavalli

Dec 9, 2019

Pac-12 Coaching Surprises; Conference Championship Games on Tap This Weekend

No one expected Chris Petersen to resign as head coach at Washington on Monday. Perhaps even fewer—including this writer—anticipated that...

Gary Cavalli

Dec 5, 2019

"Sanctimonious Trolls" and Other Strange Behavior

Last weekend’s college football games, to put it mildly, featured a number of bizarre incidents. As the late John Lennon might say,...

Gary Cavalli

Dec 2, 2019

Big Game Postmortem and Other College Football Musings

After nine straight losses in the iconic series, Cal finally got over the hump and beat Stanford 24-20 in the Big Game. To make the...

Gary Cavalli

Nov 26, 2019

Big Game Critical for Slumping Bears, Cardinal; Tua’s Tough Break; Kate Starbird Speaks

Stanford and Cal limp into Saturday's Big Game after suffering a pair of debilitating losses last weekend. The two Bay Area teams allowed...

Gary Cavalli

Nov 18, 2019

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Gary Cavalli - league and bowl co-founder, author, speaker

Gary Cavalli, the former Sports Information Director and Associate Athletic Director at Stanford University, was the co-founder and Executive Director of the college football bowl game played in the Bay Area, and previously was co-founder and President of the American Basketball League.

Analysis, opinion and perspective on the major sports headlines of the day

The Inside Track

GOAT? Plus "Coach O", NFL Playoffs, Redbox, Rocky Long

Mississippi Madness

Fantastic Finishes, Burrow Blowout, Coaching/Officiating Blunders, Stanford Basketball

Our Annual Bowl Viewing Guide: The Games to Watch

Unhappy Endings

49ers-Saints Classic; Playoffs Set; Year of the Transfer

Pac-12 Coaching Surprises; Conference Championship Games on Tap This Weekend

"Sanctimonious Trolls" and Other Strange Behavior

Big Game Postmortem and Other College Football Musings

Big Game Critical for Slumping Bears, Cardinal; Tua’s Tough Break; Kate Starbird Speaks

Gary Cavalli - league and bowl co-founder, author, speaker

The Inside Track

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