I'm at Stanford Stadium to cover Stanford vs. Oregon State, a game which may or may not have lots of bowl implications for the Cardinal. I just read a terrific article online by the Merc's Jon Wilner about Stanford having a tough time selling out the stadium which was redone [...]
Cal and Stanford almost got into it before Big Game even started. I'm not sure why. After the game I spoke to Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh because I was writing on Andrew Luck. I did not talk to Jeff Tedford so my point of view may be skewed. From Harbaugh [...]
Just got home from Big Game. Ate dinner. Went online. The Press Democrat had posted my Sunday column on Stanford's Andrew Luck. Very good player. In the column I rate him against all practicing quarterbacks currently playing in the Bay Area. I rate him against Aaron Rodgers and John Elway [...]
In honor of Saturday's Big Game, I wrote my Thursday column comparing Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh and Cal's Jeff Tedford. I posed a simple question: Which is the better coach? The easy answer is Harbaugh. His team is doing much better than the Golden Bears and he is on the [...]
Here's a followup to yesterday's post asking who is a better coach, Singletary or Cable. Many Zohnists made a good case for Cable who has won some big games and Singletary hasn't. I want to advance the conversation so please consider this. In the Bay Area we are in a [...]
Just before Cal started playing Davis a few minutes ago, the Cal marching band did its thing -- lovely blue uniforms, traditional marching and music. The pomp and ceremony is terrific, everything a college band should be. As Zohn readers know, I spent 6 years at Stanford as a grad [...]
Tiger Woods should have been banished. I am not talking about getting banished from golf. I am talking about banishment from Stanford's 2010 football media guide. Some background: Stanford produces lovely media guides. They look good. They even smell good. Toward the back of the guides, Stanford lists what it [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.