Gary Cavalli
- Feb 13, 2020
Pac-12 Takes Another Hit; Positive MLB Rule Changes
The folks who run the Pacific-12 Conference fail to understand one basic fundamental fact: the amount of money that the conference...
Gary Cavalli
- Sep 23, 2019
Bears on the Rise; Harbaugh's Hot Seat; Reggie's Return
Four weeks into the 2019 football season, the Pac-12 is down to one unbeaten team. No, not Oregon. The Ducks blew a 21-6 lead and lost to...
Gary Cavalli
- Sep 18, 2019
Stanford Slumps; Trojan Turnover
Stanford could be looking at its first losing football season in 11 years. It’s still early, but the Cardinal’s streak of 10 straight...
Gary Cavalli
- Sep 2, 2019
Week 1 Highlights and Lowlights
The opening weekend of the college football season produced its usual assortment of surprises, heroes, dramatic finishes, officiating...
Gary Cavalli
- Aug 12, 2019
Baseball Blues; Little Support for 9am Kicks
A friend of mine asked recently if I thought America’s pastime might be past its time. It’s a fair question. It wasn’t that long ago that...
Gary Cavalli
- Jul 29, 2019
Pac-12 Wakes Up
For the past several years, the Pac-12 Conference has been in denial about its significant problems both on and off the field. Embattled...
Gary Cavalli
- Mar 18, 2019
Pac-12 Plumbs Depths, Raiders Score with Two Browns
Yesterday the brackets for the 2019 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament were announced. The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) had three of the...
Gary Cavalli
- Feb 4, 2019
Boring Game, Horrible Halftime; Recruiting Updates
The only thing worse than the game was the halftime show. Yesterday the New England Patriots beat the Los Angeles Rams 13-3 in Super Bowl...
Gary Cavalli
- Dec 18, 2018
Mailbag: Why So Many Bowl Games? Pac-12 TV and Scheduling Notes
We normally don’t do “mailbag” columns, but after last week’s bowl viewing guide, we received a number of questions about the...
Gary Cavalli
- Dec 3, 2018
Big Game Notes, Pac-12 Championship, Playoff Redundancy, Heisman, NFL Hypocrisy
Notes of note from around the world of college and pro football. Big Game: Stanford beat Cal 23-13 in a game that was closer than the...
