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- Marcus Williams scored a season-high 28 points and the USF men withstood a furious New Orleans rally to beat the Privateers 85-72 on the Hilltop Monday night. By Staff and news services
- Cal reportedly will add North Texas QB Chandler Rogers, who entered the transfer portal last week, but will lose Week 1 starter Sam Jackson V. By Steve Kroner
- Stanford women’s volleyball dropped its Elite Eight match at home for the second straight season, this one 3-1 to Texas. By Marisa Ingemi
- The Stanford women’s basketball team is better when Cameron Brink is on the floor than when she’s not. That much might sound obvious. Just how much better is a bit alarming for the Cardinal, though. By Marisa Ingemi
- McKayla Williams’ memories of watching Reshanda Gray, whom she calls her sister, play in a Final Four for Cal helped sway her to transfer to the Bears. By Marisa Ingemi
- Marcus Williams scored 18 points, Ndewedo Newbury had 17 and San Francisco never trailed in its 73-60 win over Vanderbilt in Nashville on Wednesday night. By Associated Press
- Two-time Pac-12 Player of the Year Kendall Kipp is focused on leading Stanford women’s volleyball to its first national championship since her freshman season. By Marisa Ingemi
- Cal’s Cade Uluave was named the Pac-12 Freshman Defensive Player of the Year on Tuesday, and teammate Jaydn Ott and Stanford’s Joshua Karty earned first-team honors. By Steve Kroner
- For the venture capital industry to continue supporting the Bay Area economy, venture capitalists must be able to leave their existing investments. By Ilya A. Strebulaev
- In a matchup of the nation’s best offense and best defense, Florida State’s scoring bested Stanford 5-1 on Monday in the women’s College Cup championship. By Marisa Ingemi
- California’s $53 million investment in teaching its youngest and lowest-performing students to read has shown dramatic — and relatively fast — results, researchers at Stanford have found. By Carolyn Jones
- Max Casabella netted five goals, Roberto Valera scored four times and Cal won its third straight men’s water polo championship with a 13-11 victory over UCLA on Sunday. By Associated Press
- Brynna Maxwell scored a season-high 27 points and host Gonzaga handed No. 3 Stanford its worst loss in nearly four years, beating the Cardinal 96-78 on Sunday. By Associated Press
- Cal, which ended the regular season with a three-game winning streak, will play Texas Tech in the Independence Bowl on Dec. 16 in Shreveport, La. By Sporting Green Staff
- Allie Montoya and Maya Doms scored in the first four minutes of play as Stanford advanced to the Women’s College Cup final with a 2-0 win over BYU in Cary, N.C., on Friday night. By Sporting Green staff
- Chronicle readers also comment on animal rights, NIL and college sports, and tunnels under a Gaza hospital. By Chronicle readers
- Stanford volleyball is the No. 2 overall seed in the NCAA tournament, which begins Friday night. The Cardinal are looking to win their first title since 2019. By Marisa Ingemi
- San Jose State finished the regular season on a six-game winning streak, and on Tuesday three of head coach Brent Brennan’s players received first-team All-Mountain West recognition. By Steve Kroner
- Utah handled St. Mary’s 78-71 on Monday night in Moraga, dropping coach Randy Bennett’s team — which began the season ranked 23rd in the country — to 3-4. By Steve Kroner
- Two school records fell and career highs were in abundance Monday night as the San Jose State women’s basketball team obliterated winless Bethesda University 122-28. By Sporting Green Staff
- The Stanford Cardinal are in their 10th College Cup in 16 years, but face BYU — the team that eliminated them from the NCAA Tournament last season — in the women’s soccer semifinal on Friday. By Marisa Ingemi
- After Cal crushed UCLA in the last regular-season game in Pac-12 history, the conference honored the Bears’ Jaydn Ott, David Reese and Cade Uluave for their parts in the 33-7 victory. By Steve Kroner
- Jonathan Mogbo finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds, Marcus Williams scored 20 and USF cruised to a 76-58 victory over Minnesota at Chase Center on Sunday night. By Staff and news services
- The continued growth of Hannah Jump’s 3-point prowess has made the unbeaten Stanford women’s basketball team’s offense a legitimate scoring threat inside and out. By Marisa Ingemi
- The Pac-12 died quietly in the middle of the night Saturday, a depressing and preventable outcome that brought to an end the conference’s century of unrivaled athletic excellence. By Ann Killion
- Cal forced four turnovers, got an electrifying kickoff-return touchdown from Jaydn Ott and became bowl eligible with a 33-7 win over UCLA in the Bears’ final Pac-12 game Saturday. By Steve Kroner
- The Stanford women’s soccer team is headed back to the College Cup. Maya Doms’ overtime goal secured the Cardinal’s 2-1 victory over Nebraska on Friday at Cagan Stadium. By Jon Schultz
- When San Jose State visits UNLV on Saturday, it will be a meeting of teams with compelling turnaround stories with a spot in the MWC championship game on the line. By Steve Kroner
- Cal and UCLA play the Pac-12’s last regular-season football game in the Rose Bowl on Saturday. As the conference’s history comes to an end, the Bears could earn their first bowl appearance since 2019. By Steve Kroner
- Unless the Cardinal can upset No. 17 Notre Dame on Saturday, Stanford’s first season under Troy Taylor will end the way its last two seasons under David Shaw did: with a 3-9 record. By Steve Kroner
- The Stanford Cardinal have torn through the NCAA women’s soccer tournament and face Nebraska on Friday with a chance to get to their first College Cup since 2019. By Marisa Ingemi
- Cal men’s basketball coach Mark Madsen on Wednesday issued a statement on an incident Monday night in which Bears center Fardaws Aimaq went into the stands to confront a man. By Mike Lerseth
- Cameron Brink scored 27 points and grabbed 16 rebounds to help lead No. 4 Stanford to a 74-55 victory over Belmont on Wednesday in the opening round of the Ball Dawgs Classic. By Associated Press
- Stanford is undefeated through four games and ranked No. 4 in the latest AP poll — 11 spots higher than where it began the season. Here are four takeaways from the opening slate. By Marisa Ingemi
- The Bay Area’s six D-I men’s basketball teams — Cal, Santa Clara, San Francisco, St. Mary’s, Stanford and San Jose State — span the spectrum of NIL’s haves and have-nots. By Connor Letourneau
- Also, Carlos Marshall Jr. scored 14 points and grabbed 12 rebounds as Santa Clara cruised past Mississippi Valley State 81-39 on Monday night. By Associated Press
- The Stanford women were sternly tested by Duke on Sunday afternoon at Maples Pavilion, but they rode a combined 56 points from Cameron Brink and Kiki Iriafen to win 82-79 in overtime. By Marisa Ingemi
- Barrett Miller, an offensive lineman who played four Big Games with Stanford, became a fan favorite of Cal fans on Saturday after he and the Bears beat the Cardinal 27-15. By Steve Kroner
- For a third straight year, Cal fans stormed the field after the Big Game, a 27-15 victory that gave them them three in a row over Stanford. By Steve Kroner
- Stanford forward Kiki Iriafen appears to have changed the dynamic of the women’s basketball team with a renewed self-belief. She leads the Cardinal in scoring through three games. By Marisa Ingemi
- Cal and Stanford play their final Big Game as members of the Pac-12 on Saturday. Can the Cardinal reclaim the Axe after the Bears have kept it in Berkeley with wins the past two years? By Steve Kroner
- Stanford wide receiver Elic Ayomanor had big dreams growing up in Canada. He’s chasing those dreams with the Cardinal, and he has blossomed into a marquee pass catcher. By Ron Kroichick
- SJSU not only will become bowl eligible if it wins one of its final two games, it could reach the Mountain West championship game by beating San Diego State this week and at UNLV next Saturday. By Steve Kroner
- The Stanford women were not challenged by Cal Poly in an 86-32 romp. Meanwhile, the Cal men missed two 3-point tries in the final seconds Thursday in losing 63-60 to Montana State. By Associated Press
- An effort by pro-Palestinian activists to “shut down” the UC Berkeley campus drew hundreds of protesters Thursday in the latest show of passion across Bay Area universities over the violence in Gaza. By Nanette Asimov, Jill Tucker
- Stanford coach Troy Taylor, a former Cal quarterback, and Bears lineman Barrett Miller, a four-year Cardinal starter, know what it’s like on the other side of the Big Game. By Steve Kroner
- Fernando Mendoza had no FBS offers until Cal coach Justin Wilcox gave him a chance. Now Mendoza is the Bears’ starting quarterback and could wind up saving Wilcox’s job. By Connor Letourneau
- The Santa Clara and St. Mary's women's basketball teams had little difficulty in rolling to victories against overmatched opponents Tuesday night. By Sporting Green Staff
- Santa Clara trailed Stanford by a dozen in the first half at Maples Pavilion on Tuesday night, but Herb Sendek’s team rallied impressively to win 89-77 and improve to 3-0. By Steve Kroner
- When four-star defensive end Benedict Umeh first learned he had cancer, he was concerned Stanford would pull his offer. Instead, head coach Troy Taylor leaned in. By Connor Letourneau