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Second-year head coach David Shaw has repeatedly said he views Stanford as his destination job. After he signed what was termed a "long-term contract extension" Wednesday, perhaps more folks will believe him. Of course, Stanford didn't provide any...

Stanford's defensive performance against Oregon on Nov. 17 was a thing of beauty. In a 17-14 overtime victory, the Cardinal held the Ducks 157.6 yards below their season average, 127 yards below their season rushing average and, most important, 40...

LOS ANGELES -- Oregon turned in a singular, historic offensive performance against USC in the Ducks' 62-51 victory on Saturday in front of 93,607 fans in the Coliseum. No team has ever gained 730 yards or scored 62 points on the Trojans. That's in...

Happy Friday. This is the mailbag. If you were looking for a nice fried egg sandwich, you will not find it here. Follow the Pac-12 blog on Twitter. To the notes! Ken from Berkeley, Calif., writes: If you look back at the fifty years befor...

Happy Friday. Arizona State: Exploring the myth of the sleeping giant. Chatting with O-lineman Brice Schwab. California WR Keenan Allen feels good but is ready to get paid. Colorado news, notes and commentary. Is former Oregon RB LaMichael ...

Our theme today, as part of our "Love to hate" week at ESPN.com, is "Left in the lurch." This is about coaches who bailed out on a Pac-12 program at an unexpected or awkward time. We're not including Urban Meyer leaving Utah for Florida or Jim Harbau...

Stanford coach David Shaw is one of two first-year coaches playing in BCS bowl games. ESPN.com's Ivan Maisel points out that he and West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen join a small group of coaches who have led teams to BCS bowls: Only 31 of the 120 a...

The ninth of 12 quick updates on offseason Pac-12 goings on. USC in a sentence The Trojans won't be eligible for the postseason because of NCAA sanctions, so the big question is how consistently motivated a team that is talented enough to win ...

A quick look at the two new coaches in the Pac-12: Colorado's Jon Embree and Stanford's David Shaw. Embree and Shaw share some similarities. Both are first-time head coaches. Both played for the program they now coach. Both coached in the NFL. Bot...

Former Arizona State receiver Kerry Taylor is no fan of Sun Devils coach Dennis Erickson. Arizona State blog "House of Sparky" posted these comments from Taylor's Twitter account: Just did an interview about the problems of ASU football and wh...

He learned that the world is like an enormous spider web and if you touch it, however lightly, at any point, the vibration ripples to the remotest perimeter and the drowsy spider feels the tingle and is drowsy no more but springs out to fling the gos...

Every team has hope heading into the offseason. And every team has concerns. Ergo, we're going to run through the conference and look at the chief matters -- on the up and downside -- for each Pac-12 team. Next up: Stanford Biggest reason...

It's been a year of big stories in the Pac-12, starting with expansion and continuing with Oregon falling just short of the program's first national title. The biggest story this spring? Again, it didn't happen on the field. It happened in the boa...

The Pac-12 provided 37 players to the NFL draft over the weekend, one fewer than the SEC, which led all conferences. If the six combined picks from Colorado and Utah are taken away from the conference, the old Pac-10 provided NFL teams 3.1 draft p...

STANFORD, Calif. -- There is no one in the world who would disagree with this statement: "New Stanford coach David Shaw is very different from former Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh." Where Harbaugh was boisterous, eccentric and often moody, Shaw is meas...

STANFORD, Calif. -- The media often falls for polite and polished and humble. It doesn't require a gaggle of publicists to know that a superstar athlete doing polite, polished and humble charms reporters and therefore the public. And, of course, it's...