Any word on the men’s scrimmage vs BYU?

Benedict Umeh has been through an incredible fight and it's not over. I'm so glad he was able to speak about his inspiring journey.

Read and watch that here.

Read that here.

Since I no longer live in the Bay Area and apluscelli was tired of me ragging on him, we reached a compromise and he sent me a gift certificate to PGA Super Store. Thank you Aplus, great to see you man up.

Michigan has rescinded Harbaugh Contract re-negotiation/offer. Jimbo in Limbo?

Didn't realize he was a director. Seems like a positive sign this is even being talked about publicly.

Stanford fought toe to toe with the number five team in the country tonight. ESPN gave us less than a five percent chance of winning. A few bad calls by the Pac-12 refs and a drop/underthrow at the end and we might have actually won it.

Yet the knives are out. TT called a bad game, especially down the stretch. A scholarship receiver has to make that catch. Why is Tiger throwing the ball and not Daniels? And on and on and on.

Good lord, we almost beat the number five team in the country. We came close to out gaining them.

Celebrate the great performance on D. Celebrate the great performance on O.

Sure I was pissed for a few minutes, but calmed down. We are a lot better than anyone expected. Love the trajectory. Nothing but support for the team and the coaching staff. TRUST.

I have looked over the internet and here - from Wikipedia - is the entirety of Title IX :

No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

Notice it says nothing about athletics. So this whole spiel that "Title IX requires such and such" is horse pocky.

But let's drill down.

Take , for example, the Stanford women's squash team.

This board has the most ardent supporters of Stanford athletics to be found. I don't recall a single post here about the Stanford women's squash team.

How many schools give out scholarships for women's squash??? Give me a guess.

I'm betting your guess is wrong. According to this link, there are 3. https://www.athleticsrecruiting.com/squashscholarships.html

Stanford and those 2 powerhouses Drexel and George Washington.

Who did the Stanford women's squash play last year? Only teams in the eastern time
zone. https://gostanford.com/sports/womens-squash/schedule/2022-23.

What about the men's squash team? Well, it is a club sport. Zero scholarships. Darn sure not flying cross country to play UVA or Colby or Harvard. But, golly, there are Bay Area squash teams that we could play. Apparently the athletic department was unaware of this.

What do we conclude from all this data? There is only one conclusion to be drawn from the facts : Stanford is illegally discriminating against male squash players in violation of Title IX.

I will go light on where this can go further. But just let me say that a female squash player getting any admission preference over my grandson is both ill considered and troubling.

That's particularly true when you think about who the women's squash team recruits are. They are not the current students of the school I went to in the Deep South. They aren't students from the inner city in Oakland or Detroit. They are at least mostly and probably entirely from parents with income in the top 10%.

Read that here.

Read that here.

Womens' squash https://csasquash.com/rankings/

Proud to bring the news about women's squash to this board.

Ben has been negligent. I'm forced to backstop him.

Seriously -

As best I noticed, all of these schools are private and at least 2000 miles away from Stanford.

Was not close... Stanford outplayed in all 3 sets. Total ASU dominance throughout.
now 18-3 on the year. This loss will likely knock Stanford out of top 4.
Just one of those days when Stanford out of synch.
And WAY too many service errors without Aces to compensate.

Intriguing prospect to keep an eye on

These helmets are simply awful. Who the hell thought putting the wide stripe on them was a good idea?

They look OK in a vacuum, but doesn't look like Stanford at all.

up 28-17 with 2 min left in the half. considering we were completely uncompetitive vs USC, it's looking grim for the Big Game so far..

2024 3-star PG Elijah Crawford as expected has committed to Stanford. Announced on Instagram moments ago.

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Since my primary window into college football is this board and Stanford games, I’m curious if anyone has any thoughts or quick hits what to look for today? Seen a lot of talk about how good Washington is, and I know they have a good quarterback inPenix, possibly a good defense. Any Matchups or keys that might make the game more interesting for me to watch? Since it’s likely to be a big loss, I’m hoping to find some nuance to make the game interesting.

Stanford has emerged as one of the big frontrunners for him especially after Notre Dame took Deuce Knight:

Going live. Watch that here.

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I wasn’t sure if I should add this to the thread that @MITGrad started or not, but figured I would make this a separate thread just to get more eyeballs on it. Open practice for women’s hoops at Maples on Saturday at 9:30 AM. Free admission. I’ll be there, hoping to get a couple more interviews in.

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Read and watch that here.

Daniels, Gilman and Raines