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January 5, 2002
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 Stanford's inside game has seemed a bit suspect so far this season, but on Friday night at Maples the Cardinal relied on a total team effort to overpower Cal in the second half, 82-62. The Bears were forced to play without senior forward Solomon Hughes, the team's second leading scorer, due to a strained right knee.
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Today's Sports Stories from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Barnes steals show
Stanford junior sinks Cal with 27 points
Jorge L. Ortiz
Julius Barnes already had shown his 3-point-shooting proficiency. He'd also demonstrated his driving ability and a knack for opportunistic defense. What he hadn't fully displayed yet in this breakout ...
Injuries limiting 49ers
Mariucci might rest players tomorrow
Playoff picture
Kevin Lynch
Playoff picture -- If Packers beat Giants, 49ers travel to NFC Central runner-up (Green Bay or Chicago; Green Bay holds tie breaker edge over Chicago). -- If 49ers beat Saints and Packers lose to Gian...
Second-half collapse foils Golden Bears
Bears' defensive effort wilts in second half
Bruce Adams
For Cal, the end was swift -- a missed shot that sparked a 4 1/2-minute Stanford offensive explosion midway through the second half. The defensive effort that had kept Cal close most of the way was fo...
Sharks stay on top with victory
Thornton, Matteau each score twice
Ross McKeon
First place is safe for at least another night. After surrendering a pair of power-play goals in the first period -- almost unheard of from San Jose's shorthanded specialists -- the Sharks turned back...
Wisniewski is preparing to call it quits
Playoff picture
David Bush
Playoff picture Raiders clinch first-round bye if they beat Jets and Patriots beat Panthers or Dolphins lose to Bills.
Steve Wisniewski will line up at guard tomorrow for the last time in a regul...
Dorsey, Harrington hit it big in bowls
Jake Curtis
DESPITE ALL the late-season reshuffling of national-title contenders, the season eventually shook out as expected. Coaches always belittle preseason rankings as worthless speculation, but of the top e...
Progress slow for black coaches
Glenn Dickey
THE TIMING is right for more black head coaches in the NFL, says Bill Walsh, but there aren't yet enough possibilities in the pipeline to see a quick change in the league's coaching structure. There's...
SOCCER NOTEBOOK
MLS considers cutting teams before season
Dwight Chapin
IT HAS caused much less furor than the speculated contraction of Major League Baseball, but Major League Soccer is also seriously looking at downsizing before the start of the 2002 season in mid-March...
SPORTS CALENDAR
. TELEVISION TODAY Boxing10:30 p.m. Junior Welterweights: Jesse James Leija vs. Micky WardChannel: HBO College Basketball Men10 a.m. Louisville at Alabama BirminghamChannel: ESPN1 p.m. Wake Forest at ...
NOTEBOOK
'Calc' overcomes aches, pains for 66
Brian Murphy
Amid a tour of peach-fuzzed faces, the grizzled mug of Mark Calcavecchia is often a welcome sight -- the 41-year-old knows how to laugh at golf, crack wise and lament his own poor physical state with ...
Toms, Perry share lead
Brian Murphy
Days don't get much better than yesterday for guys like David Toms. While most of the rest of the field at the Mercedes Championships struggled with wind-flapped golf shirts through 25 mph winds at th...
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS
Miramonte looks strong in tuneup for league play
Mitch Stephens
Miramonte High of Orinda attacked Pittsburg with pressure defense, 6-foot- 3 senior post Tori Markey and a whole lot more in a battle of Metro Area powers last night. Markey, who already has accepted ...
HIGHT SCHOOL BOYS
Loss exposes Lowell's weaknesses
Dave Ramstad
Since taking over the Lowell head coaching job one game into the season, 21-year-old Joe Matteucci has heard more than his fair share of advice. After last night's 52-44 drubbing to visiting Half Moon...
Local teams tonight
MEN -- Texas A&M-Corpus; Christi (5-7) at USF (4-8), 7 p.m. -- In the second half of a rather strange home-and-home series, the Dons will close their nonconference schedule by meeting the Islanders, wh...
NFL WEEK 17
Ira Miller
PLAYOFF PUSH -- Jets (9-6) at Raiders (10-5): December was not kind to either team, both of whom lost three of five games during the month. Now the Raiders need a victory to get a first-round bye, and...
Stanford sets sights on Riley
Mark Fainaru-Wada
Mike Riley, recently fired as coach of the San Diego Chargers and the man credited with beginning the resurrection job at once-lowly Oregon State, has emerged as a front-runner to be Stanford's next h...
Lil Sister Stich will get dirty if she has to in GGF miler today
Larry Stumes
NOT ONLY has Lil Sister Stich won four of five turf races since being sent from Southern California to trainer Armando Lage -- losing the other by just a head -- but she also has moved up dramatically...
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