For a week, Cardinal rule in Pac-10.Byline: Bob Clark For the 19th century baseball player, see Bob Clark (baseball) Benjamin "Bob" Clark (August 5 1939[] – April 4 2007) was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing and writing the script with Jean Shepherd to the The Register-Guard All hail all hail interj. Used to express acclamation, a welcome, or a greeting. Stanford, suddenly the toast of college football. "USC's loss to Stanford biggest of year," headlined the Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Daily newspaper published in Chicago. The Tribune is one of the leading U.S. newspapers and long has been the dominant voice of the Midwest. Founded in 1847, it was bought in 1855 by six partners, including Joseph Medill (1823–99), who made the paper . "Cardinal relevant again in the Bay," read the banner in Monday's San Jose Mercury News The San Jose Mercury News is the major daily newspaper in San Jose, California and Silicon Valley. The paper is owned by MediaNews Group. Its headquarters and printing plant are located in North San Jose next to the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880). , which devoted most of its front page on Sunday to a picture and story of Stanford's startling star·tle v. star·tled, star·tling, star·tles v.tr. 1. To cause to make a quick involuntary movement or start. 2. To alarm, frighten, or surprise suddenly. See Synonyms at frighten. victory over USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. . "This is the start," Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh James Joseph "Jim" Harbaugh (born December 23, 1963 in Toledo, Ohio) is a former American football quarterback who played for the Chicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens, San Diego Chargers and finally the Carolina Panthers of the NFL. said. "We haven't written the finish yet. We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how the finish is going to turn out, but this is a heck of a start for that." Yes, it is. In terms of dramatic upsets, this one overtakes OSU's 21-20 victory over Washington in the 1985 season, when the Beavers were underdogs by either 36 or 37 points. Stanford, on most betting lines, was a 41-point underdog to USC. And that UW team in 1985 had already lost twice, while this USC team was ranked second in the country. Stanford, in fact, was the biggest underdog in a Pac-10 game since a third-ranked Washington was favored by 42 points against a winless OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005. team in 1991. The Huskies, as they say, covered in a 58-6 romp. What about the Appalachian State win over Michigan this season? The Chicago Tribune quoted oddsmakers as saying the betting spread would have been about 24 points in that game, if it had been placed on the betting line. Typically, games between teams from different levels don't have an official point spread. Ah, what a night for Stanford. There were about 2,000 students gathered on campus when the team buses pulled up at midnight, after transporting the players from the airport. "I had no idea that the people around here cared so much about the football team," Stanford receiver Mark Bradford Mark Bradford (born Los Angeles, California, 1961) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts, located at Valencia, California, U.S., earning an MFA in 1997 and a BFA in 1995. said. "I just felt the love from all the fans and everybody on campus." What a story Bradford is by himself. Two weeks earlier, Bradford's father Mark Sr. had been in Stanford Stadium History Built partly in competition with the University of California, Berkeley to see who could build a football stadium first, Stanford Stadium was built in four months and opened its gates on November 19, 1921. watching the Cardinal play Oregon, but a few days later he died of a heart attack. The Stanford senior returned to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , spent the week at home and then rejoined the Cardinal and played sparingly against Arizona State before a starring role in the upset of USC. Wait, there's more. Bradford is hopeful his Stanford degree, if not pro football, can provide for not only himself but three sisters and two brothers. Their mother died a few years ago. Bradford grew up in a neighborhood near the USC campus, and that's where his father wanted him to attend college. The Trojans were interested and offered a scholarship, but on signing day Bradford held USC at bay, waiting to hear if he would be granted admission to Stanford. When that word came, he signed with the Cardinal. Bradford dedicated the game at USC to his father, and said to do that, "you've got to win it. I think about him all the time ... I miss him so much." He then caught the winning TD pass, giving him five receptions for 87 yards. "This feels like a movie," Bradford said. "This really happened to us." Notice the quarterback Stanford had to call on sophomore quarterback Tavita Pritchard Tavita Pritchard (born February 20 1987 in Tacoma, Washington) is the quarterback of the Stanford Cardinal football team. High school career Pritchard graduated from Clover Park High School in Lakewood, Washington, where he threw for 5,323 yards and 55 touchdowns in his to make his first collegiate start at USC because T.C. Ostrander was declared out after suffering a seizure the previous Sunday. What's Pritchard even doing at Stanford? He's from Tacoma, and his uncle is Jack Thompson, the "Throwin' Samoan" of Washington State fame. Why not the Cougars? "I would have gone there in a second had they recruited me," Pritchard said Monday morning on KNBR. Thompson told the Seattle Times it wasn't only the Cougars, but the other three Northwest schools that showed no interest in Pritchard, much to Thompson's frustration. "He's got a gun for an arm ... has great feet. Check out how deep he gets on his drop and how fast he gets back," Thompson said. If the numbers weren't overwhelming, it was Pritchard's first start, and he had only thrown three passes in a college game before Saturday. But, oh, he did come through in the end. Ostrander wants to return to playing when the Cardinal hosts TCU (Transmission Control Unit) A communications control unit controlled by the computer that does not execute internally stored programs. Contrast with front end processor, which executes its own instructions. on Saturday. He said he believes that his seizure was caused by a combination of dehydration, lack of sleep and the pain pills he'd been given by team doctors. The latter, he said, "has a great disposition for risk of seizures." So who starts now? "We'll cross that bridge when we get to it," Harbaugh said. The vanquished USC also has a quarterback issue, because starter John David Booty John David Booty (born January 3, 1985, in Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.) is the starting quarterback of the University of Southern California (USC) football team. He is called "John David", and sometimes referred to as J.D., because his father's name is John. has a cracked bone in the middle finger of his passing hand, suffered in the second quarter against Stanford. "He fought through it the best he could," USC coach Pete Carroll Peter C. Carroll (born September 15, 1951, in San Francisco, California) is the current head coach of the University of Southern California Trojans football team, having held that position since 2001. said. "We could have made a change but we went with our guy." And this week, against Arizona? "If he can't throw, I won't force him," Carroll said. Backup Mark Sanchez Mark Sanchez (born November 11, 1986 in Long Beach, CA) is a college football quarterback attending the University of Southern California (USC). High school career has only thrown three passes all season, and "hasn't had a chance to play much," Carroll said. Uh, isn't that by the choice of the coach? There were a couple of relatively easy wins earlier, when backups might have been tried out, so one could wonder if USC doesn't think much of Sanchez. Could it be USC has been heading for an upset for a while? Injuries have mounted, the receivers don't catch the football and there doesn't seem to be a breakaway threat at running back, with two of them sidelined and a freshman phenom struggling. "We've had growing pains grow·ing pains pl.n. Pains in the limbs and joints of children or adolescents, frequently occurring at night and often attributed to rapid growth but arising from various unrelated causes. ," Carroll said. "At three weeks, we were fine, and then something hit the fan. It's obvious we haven't recovered since all our guys got hurt." That continued Saturday. Will Collins, the snapper snapper, name for members of the Lutianidae, a family of spiny-finned food and game fishes found chiefly in tropical coastal waters. Snappers are carnivorous, active, and voracious, with large mouths and sharp teeth. Most species travel in dense schools. on placekicks, pulled a hamstring in warmups, but the Trojans had to use him anyway. Because he couldn't block normally, the assignments were off on an extra point attempt that was blocked, and that one point became crucial later. What was that? Were those boos that the Trojans heard in their own Coliseum? "That's football, especially here, because the expectations are so high," Booty said. "Not just the fans but all of us. Inside, I was booing, too." Right across town Imagine the mood in the Rose Bowl, where UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX lost to Notre Dame. It marked the first time since 1997 that the Bruins and Trojans had lost home games on the same day. UCLA went the final three quarters with a non-scholarship freshman, McLeod Bethel-Thompson, at quarterback, due to knee injuries to Patrick Cowan two weeks earlier and Ben Olson against the Irish. "What happened in the game is something you don't anticipate happening, and it did," UCLA coach Karl Dorrell said. Well why, wondered his detractors, did the Bruins leave redshirt freshman Osaar Raashan at receiver after Cowan went down? Raashan was moved from QB to receiver in the summer because UCLA wanted the talented freshman on the field, but he's played little at receiver. Another option would be true freshman Chris Forcier, at least more of a passer than Bethel-Thompson, who was intercepted four times by the Irish and lost one of his three fumbles. With the Bruins in a bye week, the practices coincidentally were switched to 6 a.m. this week, and not simply to keep the media away. Dorrell said he'd be looking at his quarterback options. Berserk ber·serk adj. 1. Destructively or frenetically violent: a berserk worker who started smashing all the windows. 2. in Berkeley They couldn't have enjoyed the results in L.A. anywhere better than at California, where the Bears watched with joy but couldn't quite get LSU LSU Louisiana State University LSU Large Subunit LSU La Salle University (Philadelphia, PA) LSU La Sierra University LSU Link State Update (OSPF) LSU Learning Support Unit beaten or they might have been atop the polls. "We're competitors and we're fighting to be No. 1," Cal linebacker Worrell Williams said. "Being No. 1 has to cross your mind. There aren't too many chances to be No. 1 in college football ever, so whether it's for a week or for a whole season, you want to be there." Cal was last ranked No. 1 on Oct. 16, 1951 after a victory at Washington. The next week, they lost at home 21-14 to USC. Weekend got worse If losing at Oregon State wasn't enough of a setback, the news continued to be bad for Arizona back on the home front. First, recruit Dion Jordan suffered severe burns Saturday in a gas-siphoning accident. He's expected to be hospitalized for a month. Then on Sunday, Gerrell Robinson, UA's top commitment for the 2008 signing class as the No. 1 recruit in the state, announced that he had changed his mind and would make official visits to at least Oregon and Georgia Tech, and he alo has offers from Florida, USC, Tennessee, Nebraska and Arizona State. While Arizona wanted the 6-foot-4 Robinson as a quarterback, he's decided his future is at receiver. Arizona's struggles were "not a big enough factor to make me change my mind," Robinson told the Arizona Daily Star The Arizona Daily Star is the major morning daily newspaper that serves Tucson, Arizona, and Southern Arizona. It is currently owned by Lee Enterprises. The Star is in a joint operating agreement with the Tucson Citizen , and he does plan an official visit to Tucson. Gains for Huskies The bye week brought Washington a lift, too, with past recruits Anthony Boyles and Devin Aguilar receiving word they'd gotten test scores high enough to allow them to enroll in January. Boyles, one of Washington's highest-rated recruits as a receiver, said he'd been "stressing over this so much" he'd lost 10 pounds. Do it again? Or not? While WSU WSU Washington State University WSU Wayne State University WSU Wichita State University WSU Wright State University WSU Weber State University WSU Western State University College of Law WSU Winona State University WSU Walter Sisulu University had great success by blitzing ASU ASU Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ) ASU Appalachian State University ASU Arkansas State University ASU Angelo State University ASU Alabama State University ASU Australian Services Union quarterback Rudy Carpenter with seven sacks, don't expect the same kind of defensive plan when the Cougars play at Autzen Stadium on Saturday. The Cougar cougar: see puma. cougar or puma or mountain lion or panther Species (Puma concolor) of large, graceful cat that lives in a wide variety of habitats in the Americas, from southern Alaska to Patagonia. coaches felt Carpenter wasn't very mobile, no matter how he looked against OSU, and fear exposing those first-year cornerbacks with single coverage, a necessity if linebackers are rushing the quarterback. "Kids always want to blitz," WSU safeties coach Leon Burtnett said. "It takes some of the thinking out of it, but you rob Peter to pay Paul. `You better get there (to sack the quarterback) or there's gonna be a fight song playing and it might not be yours." RATING THE PAC-10 Football California: Last beat Beavs in Berkeley in 1997; 0-3 since Oregon: WSU defense ninth vs. pass and overall in Pac-10 ASU: Frosh Webber makes 11th FG in row; punts for 41.5 Stanford: Best win since coach named Willingham left in `01 USC: Hmmm ... four wins over teams that are combined 9-14 OSU: Say this for Serna: one punt returned, for one yard Washington: Handed Erickson team it's only loss in 2000 Arizona: Outscored 59-6 in first quarters of three road games WSU: Allowed 137 points in three previous road games UCLA: Utes, Irish both winless until they thumped Bruins RATING THE PAC-10 Football California: Last beat Beavs in Berkeley in 1997; 0-3 since Oregon: WSU defense ninth vs. pass and overall in Pac-10 ASU: Frosh Webber makes 11th FG in row; punts for 41.5 Stanford: Best win since coach named Willingham left in `01 USC: Hmmm ... four wins over teams that are combined 9-14 OSU: Say this for Serna: one punt returned, for one yard Washington: Handed Erickson team it's only loss in 2000 Arizona: Outscored 59-6 in first quarters of three road games WSU: Allowed 137 points in three previous road games UCLA: Utes, Irish both winless until they thumped Bruins |
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