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Starters in, starters out. That's college football. Players' eligibility expires, and they leave for the rest of their lives, whether that includes the NFL or not. And they leave behind shoes of various sizes that need to be filled. Our concern...

Happy Friday. Former Arizona QB Matt Scott puts on a show at pro day. Arizona's "Stop it," girl on her newfound fame. Reviews on the new Sparky are mixed from Arizona State folks. DB Alden Darby is ready to lead. California is opening up to i...

It appears some players have stepped up during Stanford's first of two spring sessions, at least according to reports from the Stanford Daily -- here and here. First, Evan Crower, a 6-foot-5, junior quarterback, is taking advantage of the injury a...

If you missed my stepping in for Kevin on the Wednesday chat -- he's on today at noon PT, 3 p.m. ET -- well, don't despair. You can read the entire text here. Billy (Denver) How does Stanford do next year? Ted Miller (2:02 PM) May need to wa...

Our assignment is to pose a best-case and a worst-case scenario for every Pac-12 bowl team. So here goes. Arizona Gildan New Mexico Bowl, Albuquerque, N.M., Dec. 15: Arizona (7-5) vs. Nevada (7-5), 1 p.m. ET, ESPN Best case: Arizona rolls...

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- It didn't matter to Stanford that everyone was handing the Pac-12 to either USC or Oregon in the preseason. But, of course, it did. It didn't matter to Stanford that many expected the Cardinal to take a significant step back afte...

Toby Gerhart preceded him at Stanford. Then came Oregon's LaMichael James, casting a big shadow for two seasons. While 2012 seemed like it set up well for Stanford running back Stepfan Taylor to finally see his name on the college football marquee, h...

You can see our Pac-12 media day page here. Here are some more notes and quotes from Pac-12 media day. And part I is here. USC coach Lane Kiffin on Matt Barkley's decision not to enter the NFL draft: As we went through the process after the sea...

You can see our Pac-12 media day page here. Here are some more notes and quotes from Pac-12 media day. Commissioner Larry Scott on new four-team playoff that will begin in 2014: The four-team playoff set to start in the 2004 team season is a po...

Today we ranked the Pac-12 coaching jobs -- an inexact science to say the least. ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach took another angle: Underrated coaching jobs. And he tapped two from the Pac-12: Stanford and Washington. Here's what he had to say: S...

PHOENIX -- The first reaction was shock: Junior Seau dead at just 43, his death ruled a suicide. Quickly came grief: An all-time USC and NFL great, a good guy known for his accessibility and philanthropy away from the field who didn't want to live an...

Which college football programs develop the best, pro-ready quarterbacks? That's Brock Huard's question here. To answer it, he enlisted the help of former Oregon coach Mike Bellotti, ESPN Recruiting's Tom Luginbill and a former NFL passer Jesse P...

Billy, this is Chad Bradford. He's a relief pitcher. He is one of the most undervalued players in baseball. His defect is that he throws funny. Nobody in the big leagues cares about him because he looks funny. This guy could be not just the best pitc...

Happy Friday. Here's where you go if you've been wondering, "I wonder what it would be like to follow that Pac-12 blogger dude on Twitter?" To the notes! SBrooks from Portland writes: I'd like to read your take on Chip's history of "coaching...

ESPN.com senior national columnist Gene Wojciechowski asks a question many athletic directors -- and fans -- have been asking themselves over the past few weeks: What is a perfect coach? Woj tries to come up with some ideas, and what he found is t...

Is it the "Stanford Andrew Lucks"? Or is it more accurate to call the nation's No. 7 team the "Andrew Lucks of Palo Alto"? Or perhaps just "Andrew Luck!!!!" Everyone knows who Andrew Luck is: the 2010 Heisman Trophy runner-up who would have been t...