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After all that mocking, the NFL gets around to beginning its real, live draft tonight at 8 p.m. ET (ESPN, NFL Network). As usual, the Pac-12 should be well-represented in the first round and throughout. As Kevin pointed out this week, as many as n...

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...

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...

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...

The Pac-12 Networks announced Wednesday the hiring of Ronnie Lott, Rick Neuheisel and Summer Sanders as on-air personalities and the "faces" of the network, which is schedule to start broadcasting in August. A couple of quick notes: The networ...

It didn't take long for California to find a new receivers coach after Eric Kiesau bolted for Washington, as coach Jeff Tedford tapped Wes Chandler, who played 11 years in the NFL with four Pro Bowls to his credit. In total, Chandler, 55, has spen...

Washington State coach Mike Leach announced Friday that he has completed his coaching staff, reuniting with several coaches and players who have worked with or played for him in past years. Leach didn't retain any from former coach Paul Wulff's st...

First reported weeks ago, it's now official: Noel Mazzone will be UCLA's new offensive coordinator after serving in the same post at Arizona State the previous two years. The Bruins also announced the hiring of Jeff Ulbrich as special teams coordi...

ESPN.com NFC West blogger Mike Sando -- an old Seattle collegue with yours truly -- has some interesting observations about new UCLA coach Jim Mora. Here are a couple of highlights: I've long thought Mora might be well suited for the college ...

Black Monday continues with Arizona State firing Dennis Erickson. On a day that the Pac-12 wanted it's first Pac-12 championship game to lead the news, two firings do instead, including UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel, who will coach in said championshi...

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...

We are taking a look at FBS programs located in major cities alongside NFL franchises. School: Stanford Location: Stanford, Calif. Enrollment: 15,000 Bowl appearances: 15 NFL first-round picks: 13 Losing seasons: 33 10-win seasons: 3 Source...

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...

Jim Harbaugh led Stanford football out of the Pac-10 basement into the nation's elite. Now it's David Shaw's job to maintain that growth. Stanford announced Thursday that Shaw, the Cardinal's offensive coordinator since 2007, will replace Harbaugh...

Jim Harbaugh led Stanford to its best season in the modern era. Now he's off to a new challenge. Harbaugh has agreed to a five-year, $25 million contract to become the San Francisco 49ers' head coach, according to reports. It appears Stanford f...

Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck will return for his junior season and skip the 2010 NFL draft, the school announced on Thursday.