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49ers Finally Win One, More Pac-12 TV Follies

Bill Walsh started 0-7 and finished his first season at 2-14. Two years later, the 49ers won the Super Bowl. We’re not suggesting that...

Gary Cavalli

Nov 13, 2017

Huge College FB Weekend Ahead; Football is Dangerous, II

With three weeks remaining in the regular season, followed by league championship games December 1st and 2nd, things are starting to take...

Gary Cavalli

Nov 10, 2017

Ratings, Attendance Declines Cause Concern

Football is the No. 1 sport in America by any measure—attendance, television ratings and overall revenues, to name a few. But...

Gary Cavalli

Nov 6, 2017

Quick Takes: Playoff, Heisman, Pac-12 Net, Shaw/Chryst, World Series

Playoff rankings: The College Football Playoff Selection Committee released its first set of rankings yesterday, which means that playoff...

Gary Cavalli

Nov 1, 2017

Football Under Fire

The signs are becoming more ominous. Multiple studies have confirmed football’s relationship to the degenerative brain injury known as...

Gary Cavalli

Oct 26, 2017

News of Note: Tedford, Arizonas, ESPN, Rabbits, Luck, McCaffrey, Cal $, Pac-12 Network, Basketball S

Notes from around the sports world: Tedford Returns: One of the feel-good stories of the 2017 college football season that has largely...

Gary Cavalli

Oct 23, 2017

This Day in History: The ABL Tips Off

Twenty-one years ago today, history was made in San Jose. A group of folks on the West Coast started a professional women’s basketball...

Gary Cavalli

Oct 18, 2017

College Football Roundup: Bay Area Beat Downs

No one—and I mean no one—could have predicted what happened in the Bay Area last weekend. A Cal team coming off three straight losses...

Gary Cavalli

Oct 16, 2017

The TV Monster

Television has been referred to as the monster of the sports world. And with good reason. TV has dramatically changed sports in...

Gary Cavalli

Oct 9, 2017

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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

More Problems for Pac-12, College Basketball

49ers Finally Win One, More Pac-12 TV Follies

Huge College FB Weekend Ahead; Football is Dangerous, II

Ratings, Attendance Declines Cause Concern

Quick Takes: Playoff, Heisman, Pac-12 Net, Shaw/Chryst, World Series

Football Under Fire

News of Note: Tedford, Arizonas, ESPN, Rabbits, Luck, McCaffrey, Cal $, Pac-12 Network, Basketball S

This Day in History: The ABL Tips Off

College Football Roundup: Bay Area Beat Downs

The TV Monster

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

The Inside Track

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