Shi: NBA or college ball?
I don’t know why everybody likes to complain about the NBA. College basketball is fun. I will grant the college fans that. Standing in the cheering section has been a revelation; Lakers games are...
View ArticleBeyda: Beginning of baseball season lacks pizzazz
Thirteen months ago, I set a timer on my phone. It wasn’t reminding me to move my laundry over to the dryer and it wasn’t telling me that my time was up for that CS 107 practice final. It was a...
View ArticleShi: Patience makes perfect
The United States men’s national soccer team is treading water, for the most part, and if I were a talk show host I would be freaking out. I can hear Skip Bayless now: “How does the United States, the...
View ArticleWesthem: Lakers full of question marks moving forward
As a die-hard Lakers fan and fourth-generation Los Angeles native this is really painful for me to admit, but it seems that a new era of Los Angeles dominance in the NBA might be about to peak — and...
View ArticleWesthem: Women’s sports deserve more coverage
With baseball season in full swing, the NFL preseason right around the corner and the newly renewed anticipation and excitement for college football on campus (recharged by the release of “Rags to...
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Jason Collins reflects on time on the Farm
When Jason Collins ’01 announced that he was gay in a Sports Illustrated cover story earlier this year, there was an immediate positive response from the Stanford community. Athletic Director Bernard...
View ArticleVenkataraman: One-and-done rule should be eliminated
Last night was one for the ages in men’s college basketball. No. 1 Kentucky squared off against No. 2 Michigan State, the earliest one-versus-two pairing in the history of college basketball, while...
View ArticleVenkataraman: Anarchy in practice with TwitchPlaysPokémon
The Internet probably best exemplifies the phrase “agree to disagree.” It is a modern day cyber-wild-wild-west, with scammers, thieves and scumbags strolling across its networked glory. Consensus on...
View ArticleRadoff: Bedlam reigns in overshadowed NBA Playoffs
There’s bedlam in the NBA — absolute chaos. It is heartening to see the solidarity, the compassion and the desire to create positive change that has come about as a direct consequence to Clippers owner...
View ArticleVenkataraman: Circumstances, numbers suggest rigged NBA Draft Lottery
The Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Draft Lottery for the third time in four years on Tuesday night. Conspiracy theorists, you may start your engines…now. The probability of the Cavaliers winning the...
View ArticleTeo: An issue with tanking?
The strategy of “tanking” ― to purposely do poorly for a year in order to receive a high draft pick ― is found everywhere in professional sports. One could call it cheating, a dirty trick and...
View ArticlePeterson: Surveying a most unpredictable MLB postseason
The MLB postseason has finished its first round, and already just about every follower, including myself and nearly every MLB analyst out there, has thrown his predictions out the window. Seriously,...
View ArticleLakshman: The (quiet) evolution of the Spurs’ Kawhi Leonard
On June 23, 2011, the Indiana Pacers selected a 19-year-old college sophomore, who had put up solid, but unspectacular numbers while in college. Several NBA draft pundits questioned the move, wondering...
View ArticleChen: Big Game is the biggest game of this lost season
Forget the double-overtime loss on Saturday. Forget the blowouts in Eugene and Tempe. Forget the heartbreaking loss to Notre Dame and the let’s-not-score-in-the-red-zone debacle against USC. Forget...
View ArticleVenkatamaran: The New York Burning Tire Fires
It seems anyone with a computer and an internet connection has one way or another written about the Golden State Warriors this week, and why wouldn’t they? Owners of the best record in basketball and...
View ArticleLakshman: The Atlanta Hawks and the evolution of the NBA
As the San Antonio Spurs dominated the Miami Heat in last year’s NBA Finals, much of the narrative naturally focused on LeBron James and the sudden collapse of the South Beach Empire. But largely...
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Stanford in the NBA: A crossroads season for Brook Lopez
This has been a rebound season for Brook Lopez, the 10th overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft. Brook Lopez, who played for Stanford basketball from 2006-08, has been on the Brooklyn Nets’ trading block...
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver visits Stanford to assess potential of virtual...
It is hard to imagine what it must be like to be on the court during an emotional moment in a basketball game. With thousands of yells drowning out any semblance of a coherent thought and potentially...
View ArticleShi: Four ways to make the All-Star Game watchable
Not many people paid attention to NBA All-Star Weekend. Players tried to duck out of it; fans took it as a welcome break from basketball itself. And while it’s unfair to compare network television...
View ArticleShi: LeBron James’ impenetrable facade
LeBron James just passed Allen Iverson on the all-time NBA scoring chart. For people like me, that’s another reminder of how rapidly time flies in basketball – Iverson was the first player I ever saw...
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