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Texas quarterback Colt McCoy emerged last week as the favorite, but veteran voters have deemed this one of the most wide-open races in the award’s 75-year history. The field of finalists will be known two days earlier than usual; the...

After presiding over a winning coin toss for Stanford, where she is a political science professor, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice walked gleefully with the Cardinal captains toward the home sideline. Too bad visiting Notre Dame was in need...

Calif. — Forget any rumors about the next Notre Dame football coach. According to Irish athletic director Jack Swarbrick, there's no truth to any of the speculation swirling around the situation. Before Saturday night's game at Stanford, Swarbrick addressed the...

Caltrain is jammed due to two fatalities. It is starting to becomea habit of taking a cab back from San Francisco. :)

Retailers big and small have beefed up their presence on Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networks well in advance of this week's traditional start to the annual holiday shopping season. Images More Business This is the first holiday season...

Stanford football never had that sort of reputation 'til tough guy Jim Harbaugh took over. A program takes on the personality of its leader. A three-year (1984-86) starter for Bo Schembechler at Michigan. Fifteen years (1987-2001) as an NFL quarterback...

A scrappy upstart called "Google" surpassed them with a minimalist interface ...Progress! Tech bloggers are in a tizzy over the prospect of tech giants Google or Microsoft getting real-time access to the thoughts of Twitterers, but Valleywag has learned that...

Mr. Shah and two other Snapture co-founders graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 2007 and moved to Silicon Valley shortly after. They work on their iPhone business in their free time from one of their apartments, but said...