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Announcement just posted re: revamping of third largest college athletics program, dropping from 38 to 29 varsity sports (with two club sports elevated). Though statement says not related to COVID-19, hard to believe pressure on finances wasn't a factor.  https://athletics-excellence.brown.edu/  Will be interesting to see if other colleges make similar changes.

Quote:"Twenty percent of Americans anticipate that a COVID-19 vaccine will be available to the public before the end of the year, while 61% expect it during 2021 and only 17% think it will take longer than that.

If a vaccine against coronavirus becomes available to the public, 49% say they plan to get vaccinated, and 20% say they will not. Another 31% are not sure."

I stumbled across a YouTube channel that has old SportsCenter college basketball highlights. For the heck of it, I looked up January 9, 1997 and found a few highlights for a game that became known among Bruins fans as the Maples Massacre.

https://youtu.be/VhAHLng9qDU?t=160

I was living in West L.A. at the time, and I drove to a friend's apartment in Pasadena to watch the game. Thanks to traffic on the 101, I arrived a few minutes late and Stanford was already up 17-1 at the first TV timeout. This Stanford team featured senior Brevin Knight and made it to the Sweet Sixteen, where they lost a heartbreaker to Utah. UCLA was two years removed from a national championship and actually ending up winning the Pac-10 (and beat Stanford by 19 at Pauley Pavilion) and made it all the way to the Elite Eight and a final #7 ranking.

Here's the LA Times recap, written by Tim Kawakami.

I know that this win was not as shocking or meaningful as the 1975 win over #2 UCLA, but, in my opinion, it doesn't get discussed nearly enough. So if you were there, I'd love to hear your memories.

A letter from the President:

(planning for up to a 10-15% cut next year)

https://healthalerts.stanford.edu/covid-...al-future/

Quote:"The CDC, like many similar disease control agencies around the world, presents seasonal influenza morbidity and mortality not as raw counts but as calculated estimates based on submitted International Classification of Diseases codes.

Between 2013-2014 and 2018-2019, the reported yearly estimated influenza deaths ranged from 23,000 to 61,000.

Over that same time period, however, the number of counted influenza deaths was between 3,448 and 15,620 yearly.

On average, the CDC estimates of deaths attributed to influenza were nearly 6 times greater than its reported counted numbers.

Conversely, COVID-19 fatalities are at present being counted and reported directly, not estimated. As a result, the more valid comparison would be to compare weekly counts of COVID-19 deaths to weekly counts of seasonal influenza deaths."

The draft is coming up June 10-11.  Just 5 rounds after that only free agents with a max $20K bonus

The Giants draft 13, 49, 67, 68 plus 3 more

Doubtful any Stanford players get drafted given just 5 rounds. 

However Baseball America projects 3 incoming recruits as possible draftees
Bowser late 2nd round
Bruno 5th round
Troy what would have been 6th round

Maybe first round material.

https://www.si.com/nfl/2020/05/27/nfl-ma...k-prescott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gIZCID0...e=youtu.be

with Russ Davis their Club coach. Transition from h.s to college to pros (19min)

I found this article interesting.    Hopefully as time marches on we continue to gain incremental knowledge that adds up meaningfully in parallel with vaccine development.    
https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/21/coro...d9M-Na8fus

Shots on goal!

We've had many discussions about the value flattening the curve and saving lives versus opening the economy. Well, a team of researchers have tackled that from a purely economic perspective.

Quote:Economists at the University of Wyoming estimated the economic benefits from lives saved by efforts to “flatten the curve” outweighed the projected massive hit to the nation’s economy by a staggering $5.2 trillion. Another study by two University of Chicago economists estimated the savings from social distancing could be so of immense proportions, “it is difficult to think of any intervention with such large potential benefits to American citizens.”