Stanford Football: No. 6 Cardinal Defeats No. 2 Oregon 26-20 Amazing, Stanford with its high academic standards fields a team that beats the Nike funded Oregon Ducks! The UW admissions policies for athletes have very low standards. Stanford goes after bright kids who can lay football. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Stanford’
December 20th, 2012 - 11:40 am § in Misc.
UW in top 25 … for academic standing of atheletic program!
Go Huskeys? The UW Athletic Program ranked # 11 in academic success of our athletes …. Pretty good! … Harvard only ranked 114! Stanford, UNC, Georgetown,Notre Dame, Penn State, UCLA, Michigan, Oregon, and Princeton* beat us. We easily beat the Air Force Academy and USC at 73 and 23[...]
April 20th, 2012 - 4:17 am § in Misc.
If Husky Stadium is such a good idea, why not go all the way and create Husky University?
Defenders of the UW’s new 1/4 billion dollar football stadium (added to the 1 billion Seattle spent for Seahawks Stadium) claim that this public money is well spent because it creates construction jobs. I do not see how this can be true. There is a huge difference between spending public dolla[...]
A CPA Looks at the UW Athletic Department
I attended last Saturday’s Republican caucus to support Rick Santorum. As a follower of Jefferson, I believe wer need two real parties. It time the Republican Party run an hoest candidate. I will write more about this later …now I want to discuss the Huskies. At that SaturdayR[...]
January 12th, 2012 - 12:19 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
The Huskies are heroes to the community … %$$# the students!
Last month Bloomberg Businessweek ran a longform report on Husky Stadium. I have copied the text with added comments and links it below but here are some highlights: “We were cutting billions of dollars out of our budget, and we are going to build a stadium. Really?” says Hunter, 51, a D[...]
March 10th, 2011 - 1:15 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Stanford Athletes Had Access To List Of ‘Easy’ Classes: California Watch Report
CLICK “9” for full story at Huff Post[...]
June 11th, 2010 - 8:40 am § in Misc.
Stanford Gets Harvard Cast Off?
A Harvard student, Adam Wheeler, who fabricated his academic history, was accepted at Stanford for the 2010-2011 academic year.[...]
College Athletics … Wealthy Private, Rockefeller Univeristy Competes Toe to Toe With Big Time NCAA Conference School
Down a goal to No. 2/3 Minnesota (13-2-0, 8-2-0 WCHA) with 2:22 to play in the third period, the No. 9/9 Rockefeller women’s hockey team, The Ladies, (5-3-0, 5-2-0 ECAC) earned a power play opportunity after a checking call landed the Gophers’ senior defenseman Anne Schleper in the pena[...]