Gary Cavalli
Mar 14, 2018
The Throwback
Fifty years ago this month, I wrote a story for the Stanford Observer about “a man who never stops hustling.” The man’s name was Mark...
Gary Cavalli
Mar 5, 2018
The Trailblazer
Jennifer Azzi has always been a pioneer. And she’s always been a winner. She joined a nascent Stanford women’s basketball program and led...
Gary Cavalli
Feb 26, 2018
The NCAA Amateurism Sham
The news keeps getting worse. The college basketball recruiting scandal that blew up in September with the FBI indictments of several...
Gary Cavalli
Feb 19, 2018
The Swimsuit Chronicles
I must be getting old. Like most red-blooded American boys and men, I used to look forward to the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. It...
Gary Cavalli
Feb 16, 2018
Parkland
Another week. Another school shooting. Another bunch of flags flown at half mast. Another bunch of lawmakers in the pocket of the NRA...
Gary Cavalli
Feb 13, 2018
Appreciating Mike Montgomery
He came from a small, under-the-radar school. He took a job everyone believed was impossible. He inherited a program that had posted two...
Gary Cavalli
Feb 9, 2018
The Signing Day Circus
Wednesday was “National Signing Day” in college football, the day when hundreds of high school recruits make their choice of colleges...
Gary Cavalli
Feb 5, 2018
Super Bowl Postmortem, Women's Hoops
The best thing about Super Bowls involving the New England Patriots is that they’re always great games. New England has played in eight...
Gary Cavalli
Feb 2, 2018
Worthy of the Hall
The story is very familiar by now. He grew up in a home in San Jose where his mother was blind, his father was legally blind, and his...
Gary Cavalli
Jan 29, 2018
Warriors-Celtics, Pac-12 Network, Nassar Horror, XFL
Sometimes the real thing is better than watching on TV. Saturday my wife, Christy, and I attended our first Warriors' game in several...
