College football: Winners and losers from the bowl season
Picking the biggest winner is almost as easy as identifying the biggest loser from the month-long, 35-game bowl season. Biggest winner: The SEC, which not only captured its sixth consecutive national...
View ArticleCal, Stanford and San Jose State football: NFL Scouting Combine preview
The NFL Scouting Combine starts Wednesday with the first wave of arrivals and runs through next Tuesday. (Why not just make it a month-long event? ESPN and the NFL Network would be happy to...
View ArticleNFL Scouting Combine: Andrew Luck heads to Indianapolis, where there’s...
*** Here’s an early version of a story I wrote for Wednesday’s paper previewing Andrew Luck’s combine experience. It’s hard to imagine him venturing into a more chaotic place in time. Luck has always...
View ArticleStanford football: Practice report (and other notes)
I was at Stanford on Monday evening for the first practice of the second spring session. Frankly, there isn’t much in the way of news — the Cardinal had been off for three weeks and we’re months away...
View ArticleAndrew Luck: From Stanford to the Colts: The making of a No. 1 pick
I’ll cut right to the chase here with a little self promotion: I’ve written an e-book on Andrew Luck. The title: “Andrew Luck: Inside the Making of a No. 1 Pick.” It’s available on Amazon for $2.99 —...
View ArticlePac-12 football: Where Stanford’s haul of first-round NFL Draft picks would rank
We know where Andrew Luck is going. Guard David DeCastro is probably off the board in the first 12-15 picks, and offensive tackle Jonathan Martin, despite some questions about his strength, is almost...
View ArticleAndrew Luck as the No. 1 pick: The Colts love him for his brain (and other...
*** Below is an early version of my story for Thursday’s Merc and other Bay Area News Group publications. But first: * Here’s Daniel Brown’s report from Luck’s press conference Wednesday in NYC. * The...
View ArticleCal, Stanford and San Jose State football: Previewing the NFL Draft
From a Bay Area standpoint, Stanford will be the story on Thursday — the Cardinal may even be a national story — while Cal figures to be the newsmaker on Friday and possibly Saturday, as well. Despite...
View ArticleStanford football: Andrew Luck becomes the school’s fourth No. 1 overall pick
*** Below is the Mercury News’ story on Luck officially being selected No. 1 by the Colts, courtesy of Daniel Brown, who’s on the scene in New York. But first, a few draft factoids: * Luck is the first...
View ArticleHeisman Watch: USC’s Matt Barkley struggles, Oregon’s De’Anthony Thomas sizzles
*** My Heisman ballot will be published here after it’s submitted in early December. Until then, I’ll take a weekly look at the top contenders … The week’s biggest development was the substandard play...
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