Why I love the Stanford Band

Hail New Mexico
Our Band cheers "2x + 4
Where X is your score!"

(original article: http://www.yardbarker.com/wnba/articles/why_i_love_the_stanford_band/387320)

Big Game Week

No haiku on blog
Where are my contributors?
Afraid Cal will win?
--Cynthia Gentry

October 11, 2008: Stanford: 24, Arizona: 23

A Homecoming win
They called it "improbable"
We call it Loukas.

Our third-string winner
Can beat your first-string loser.
Cardinal glory.
--Nima

Homecoming weekend
A last-minute victory
Good for Stanford Fund.

It's mid-October
Three-and-one: Stanford controls
R*se Bowl destiny.
--Gary

August 28, 2008: Stanford 36, Oregon State 28

Bring back the haiku
It is football season now
Where is Gary T.?
--Cliff Speed

Defeat of Beavers
Plus transitive property:
Better than 'SC.
--Gary Tyrrell

To tide you over until August.

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator.
--@brianshaler, via Twitter

Stanford's Trent Johnson moves to LSU.

Trent to LSU
after Monty, Tennessee
Next up--Marquess quits.
--Jeff

Stanford women lose 64-48 to Tennesse in NCAA Final.

Grieving Stanford's loss.
No, didn't watch game.
Son: "Teletubbies!"
--Cynthia

Future of players:
Tennessee - WNBA
Stanford - Med/Law School.
--Richey

Nooooooo: Ex-Stanford coach Montgomery headed to rival Cal.

What was the name that
Kal fans once called him? Oh yeah,
"Mike Mont-thuggery."

Monty goes to Kal.
I know how James Carville would
address him: Judas!

Like Ken Margerum
under Holmoe: dismantle
the bears from within?
--Gary

Monty at Berkeley
Lower GPA, you say?
Goin' to the Dance!

Benedict Arnold.
Tokyo Rose. Rosenbergs.
Welcome to the list.
--Richey

Stanford Women's Basketball Team in the Final Four.

Gino Auriemma
"Dope," "smart-ass" the polite names
Summit calls him.

Women's Final Four
Long time since ninety-seven
Beat UConn like drum.
--Jeff Suto

Live or TV?

Watch game on tv

Or brave the Grove with Gary?

Decision postponed.
--Cami

Prepping for the 2008 season.

Stanford today announced the launch of 2008 Football season ticket renewals.

We face decision:
Stay and boil? Move to shade means
Red polyester.
--Cynthia Gentry

Football tix -- online
renewal application
by 3/12: fee waived.
--Gary Tyrrell

Online renewal
somehow saves environment.
Explain that to me?
--Cynthia Gentry

Oprah Winfrey to deliver 2008 Stanford commencement address.

Stanford President John Hennessy announced on February 21 that Oprah Winfrey, "the global media leader and philanthropist," will be the university's 2008 Commencement speaker. While not strictly a football-related announcement, it was deemed worth of comment by members of the 5-7-5 Club.

Nineteen Eighty-Three
SecState George Schultz was speaker
Youth today are soft.
--Jeff Suto

Commencement speaker:
The Queen of All Media
Obama rally?
--Gary Tyrrell