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What Facebook can learn from Reddit
In this digital age, social media platform companies are increasingly pressured to take stands on what content is allowed on their platform, in turn capturing the public’s interest on how content moderation policies are formed and enforced. Content moderation plays a pivotal role in encouraging effective discussion, as well as balancing free expression and toxicity, in online communities built on these platforms.
Reagan the environmentalist
Once upon a time, Republicans could win statewide elections in California. In 2018, as the Republican Party becomes increasingly irrelevant in a state that once produced many of its most important leaders, it is worth reflecting on milestones set by California Republicans and their specific contributions to state governance and environmental policy. There is a pressing and indeed vital need to reexamine the past to find examples of productive environmental governance in California.
Ziperski: Team owners matter
When fans try to pinpoint the reasons behind a team’s success or failure, they most often look to players or coaches. The New England Patriots have been dominant for nearly two decades because of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. The Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs have soared to the top of the league because of Sean McVay’s play-calling brilliance and Patrick Mahomes’ phenomenal play.
Ziperski: What to make of Coach K’s legacy
It’s finally college basketball season, something that might not excite many here in the Bay Area but which certainly sends people in my home state of North Carolina into a frenzy. Raleigh, where I’m from, is ACC country: Duke, UNC and NC State are all within 40 minutes of each other, with Wake Forest less than two hours away. Growing up, my family never quite understood the bitter rivalry between the Blue Devils and the Tar Heels (Wolfpack athletics were mostly irrelevant).
Stanford in the NFL: McCaffrey runs over the Buccaneers
After losing four of their last five games, Stanford football has thoroughly dashed all hopes and dreams for another dominant season. The only solace left for Cardinal fans now resides on Sundays. Unfortunately, Week 9 in the NFL was a rollercoaster for Stanford alumni as impressive offensive performances were dampened by injuries on the other side of the ball.
Golub: The wasp and the cockroach
Despite a LeBron-less path to the top of the Eastern Conference, the Charlotte Hornets continue to buzz unnoticed. They sit firmly in the playoff race at 5-5, having lost a few close games and having stomped some unworthy opponents. Cardi B’s favorite baller, Kemba Walker, has picked up where he left off last season. He currently averages a cool 28.0 points per game on 46 percent shooting to go with nearly six assists per game. However, for all his accomplishments, Kemba has never gotten his due.
Ziperski: I feel bad for Aaron Rodgers
The Green Bay Packers have dominated the NFL news cycle these past few days following their close defeat to the undefeated Los Angeles Rams, a loss for which much of the blame lies at the feet of Stanford alum Ty Montgomery. Zach Naidu wrote a good column yesterday here in The Daily discussing the outrage amongst the sports pundits directed at Montgomery: I’d suggest giving it a read if you hadn’t already.
Athletes and Greek organization members attend anti-hazing session
In an effort to address hazing, all Stanford athletes and new members of campus Greek organizations were required to attend an information session in CEMEX Auditorium on either Sunday or Monday. The event sought to educate attendees on the dangers of hazing and encourage them to instead focus initiation practices on positive team building.
Golub: “Let’s make a Black baseball team.”
“Let’s make a black baseball team.” William C. Rhoden, author of Forty Million Dollar Slaves, shared this idea, speaking on behalf of former MLB manager Jerry Manuel. It would reinvigorate interest in the game from black players, he said. It would make baseball more exciting. Most importantly, it would connect the game to black culture and bring along more all-time greats like Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. It’s a fun idea. It made me think of W. E. B. Du Bois’ Talented Tenth plan.
Ziperski: Jon Gruden is the wrong choice for Oakland
The days when Derek Carr was considered a dark horse MVP candidate and the Oakland Raiders a viable Super Bowl contender are now a distant memory, with Oakland having returned to the bottom of the league, a place where they’ve spent much of the last two decades. The team is in total disarray, and given that Khalil Mack and Amari Cooper are gone (perhaps to be joined by Derek Carr), it’s become clear that management has committed to a full rebuild. It didn’t need to be this way.
Stanford in the NFL: Baldwin returns, DeCastro paves the way
This week six in the NFL saw former Cardinal Doug Baldwin return to the starting lineup for a depleted Seattle Seahawks wide receiver corps that desperately missed him last week. Baldwin picked up right where he left off, reeling in six catches for 91 yards, including a 42-yard bomb right over top of Oakland Raiders cornerback Darryl Worley.
Football Round Table: Arizona State
The Stanford Cardinal football team now sits unranked in the AP poll, following a blowout loss against now No. 4 Notre Dame and their unfortunate home upset at the hands of Utah. Following a week off to rest and reflect, the Cardinal charge back into the fray, taking on unranked Arizona State and head coach Herm Edwards in a Thursday night showdown.
Golub: Controlling the NBA media
Jimmy Butler, the workhouse, the self-made star, doesn’t want to be in Minnesota. It’s hard to blame him. Appearing to have all the ingredients for sustained success, this iteration of the Timberwolves has failed to come close to reaching its potential.
Ziperski: Moving on in New York
Moving on from aging franchise quarterbacks can be tough. Green Bay struggled with the decision to let Brett Favre walk in favor of Aaron Rodgers back in 2008. Denver had to let Brock Osweiler take over for Peyton Manning at times en route to the Super Bowl back in 2015. I anticipate that fairly soon, New England will be forced to finally make a change at the quarterback position when Tom Brady hangs it up.
Golub: An expectation of consent
Today is Christopher Columbus Day, a symbolic celebration of our country’s lifelong commitment to the erasure of Native Americans without their consent. Two days ago was Stanford football’s Set The Expectation game, a symbolic celebration of football’s commitment to present itself as an upstanding, positive institution while it exploits players’ bodies and in many cases severely derails or takes their lives, without their consent.
Ziperski: Writing about sports is fun, even when you’re dead wrong!
I joined The Daily in the fall of 2016 as a freshman, originally slated to write a bi-weekly column for the Opinions section. Given the political environment at the time, I thought I’d steer clear of election commentary and focus on what I loved talking about most: sports.
Ziperski: LeBron’s greatest achievement
Prior to this season, LeBron James had won three NBA titles, three Finals MVP awards, four season MVP awards and two Olympic gold medals. He’s a fourteen-time All-Star and has been named to the All-NBA first team 12 times. Considered by many to be the greatest player of all time, he has accomplished truly unbelievable things over the course of a 15-year career. Yet what LeBron has done in this NBA Finals has been more impressive than any of that.
Ziperski: NFL’s Oprah moment
During this NFL offseason, we’ve witnessed some massive new contracts for quarterbacks, first with Kirk Cousins’ deal in Minnesota and then with Matt Ryan’s record-breaking, $94.5 million extension with the Atlanta Falcons. Following these deals, ESPN published an article predicting which players around the league might top Ryan’s contract over the next five years.
Ziperski: Simmons for ROY
The debate around who deserves to win NBA Rookie of the Year is hotter than it has been in many years, with Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell and Philadelphia 76ers forward Ben Simmons in a dead heat for the honor. Both had outstanding seasons, not only leading their teams to the postseason but also propelling them into the second round. After Mitchell’s incredible performance in the first round to help lift the Jazz over the Thunder in six games, many fans called for him to win rookie of the year.
Ziperski: Kawhi Leonard should be on the trade block
Now that the Spurs’ season is finally over — uncharacteristically early, of course, after their recent first round exit at the hands of the Warriors — conversations around the team will now center around their offseason plans and what they should do with Kawhi Leonard. It was a weird season for Leonard.
Ziperski: Philly, the best sports city in America
For over a century now, American sports have, for the most part, brought people from different races, classes, genders and political affiliations together. In today’s polarized environment, the simple act of following or rooting for the same team can bring two very different people together, allowing them to bridge partisan or racial or ethnic divides that might otherwise keep them apart. Sports, then, are something special: They unite people in an otherwise divided society.
Ziperski: No trust in this process
On the first day of the Green Bay Packers’ offseason workout program earlier this week, quarterback Aaron Rodgers channeled his inner Sam Hinkie and told reporters that “you’ve got to trust the process” when asked about some of the team’s controversial decisions.
Ziperski: The great state of golf in America
Last week’s The Masters at Augusta National — arguably the greatest weekend in sports each and every year — came and went too quickly, but in a short four days, it crowned a first-time major champion in Patrick Reed and proved that American golf is absolutely fantastic right now. For one, Tiger is back. Though he was never really in contention, it was nice to see him competing once again, especially for those of us who grew up watching Tiger dominate the rest of the field through the 2000s.
Ziperski: Abolish NBA age rule
Last week’s bombshell news that several top college basketball programs are the target of an FBI corruption investigation has renewed the debate around the NBA’s age rule and the practicality of the “one-and-done” phenomenon that has plagued the NCAA in recent years. Powerhouse programs Duke, UNC, Michigan State, Arizona, Kentucky and Kansas have all been implicated in some way.
Ziperski: Kirk’s crazy deal
It was reported recently that the New York Jets were contemplating making Kirk Cousins an offer than included $60 million in guarantees in the first year alone. No, not $60 million over the life of the contract. Cousins would make it all in year one before getting paid a more modest $20 million or so each year after that. Reckless? Ill-conceived? Just another example of how absolutely nuts contracts have gotten in the last few years in the NFL and NBA? Well, maybe that last part.
Ziperski: Cavs did enough to keep LeBron
Last Thursday’s trade deadline was one of the most memorable in recent history, headlined by the Cleveland Cavaliers completely overhauling their roster and several other teams making important roster moves. If you cut through all the noise—the Isaiah Thomas drama, Dwayne Wade going home to Miami and so on—these moves all boil down to one thing: A desperate attempt by the Cavaliers and their rookie general manager Koby Altman to prevent LeBron James from bolting to greener pastures.
Ziperski: Foles can’t cash in just yet
Prior to Sunday’s game, few NFL fans and bettors expected the Philadelphia Eagles to spoil Tom Brady’s quest for a sixth Super Bowl title. If you go back even further, most people didn’t even expect the Eagles to make the championship game in a stacked NFC conference, after franchise quarterback Carson Wentz went down with a season-ending ACL tear in the midst of an MVP-level campaign. After struggling with journeyman backup Nick Foles in the final three games of 2017, things didn’t look bright.
Ziperski: Stan Van Gundy thinks it’s 2011
NBA fans were in for a big surprise Monday afternoon when it was announced that Los Angeles Clippers star power forward Blake Griffin (along with two minor role-players) had been traded to the Detroit Pistons in exchange for Tobias Harris, Avery Bradley, Boban Marjanovic and two draft picks, one of which is a first-round selection. As is the case with many blockbuster deals, we won’t know for some time who won and who lost.
Ziperski: John Calipari, King of Salt
This past Saturday, five-star recruit Zion Williamson stunned many when he verbally committed to continuing his academic and basketball career at Duke University rather than sticking with his hometown Clemson Tigers, whom many had thought was the favorite to land him. Also in the mix were North Carolina, South Carolina, Kansas and Kentucky.
Ziperski: Mike Tomlin’s time is up
The Pittsburgh Steelers just wrapped up a 13-win season in which they won the AFC North and secured a first-round bye in the playoffs. Over the last four seasons, they’ve been a perennial contender, racking up 45 wins. In the last decade, they’ve won a Super Bowl and been the runner-up in another.
Ziperski: Alex Smith isn’t going anywhere
When the Chiefs selected Texas Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes in the first round of last year’s NFL draft, many assumed that the 2017 season would be Alex Smith’s final one as the starter in Kansas City. After all, the Chiefs had traded up to trade Mahomes, sending their own 2017 first-rounder, a third-round pick, and their 2018 first-round selection to Buffalo.
Ziperski: Eli didn’t deserve this
Two-time Super Bowl champion and MVP. Seventh on the all-time passing yards list. The greatest quarterback in Giants history. Eli didn’t deserve this. The Giants’ season, though certainly disappointing, isn’t his fault — he has no line to protect him, no weapons to throw to. Eli hasn’t played great, that’s for sure. But pinning this season’s woes on him, and doing so in such embarrassing, heart-wrenching fashion, is a weak, sad move by a head coach desperate to save his own job.
Ziperski: Jerry Jones needs to stand down
Over the course of the NFL’s Ezekiel Elliot domestic violence saga, which finally wrapped up last week when Elliot’s appeal for an injunction was denied (again), another controversy has unfolded in parallel: Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ war against Roger Goodell. The contempt that Jones holds for the commissioner is no secret, though I and many others were still shocked when we learned that Jones has been gunning to have Goodell removed from power.
Ziperski: Belichick finally makes mistake
Bill Belichick has enjoyed one of the most successful tenures ever as a head football coach, having succeeded year after year in crafting a contender with top-notch talent on offense, defense and special teams. I have no doubt that he will go down as one of the greatest of all time, and deservedly so. Last week, however, he finally slipped up: The Jimmy Garoppolo trade to San Francisco is one that, I believe, he will come to regret.
Ziperski: Stanford reunion in Indianapolis
At the beginning of the 2017 college football season, a few media outlets — Fox Sports in particular — published pieces suggesting that Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh might leave Ann Arbor and head to Indianapolis to replace the Colts’ Chuck Pagano. Skeptical at first, I’ve become more optimistic as the Colts have struggled.
Ziperski: Why I’m rooting for my team to lose
It’s hard to root for your team to lose, especially when they have a winning record halfway through the season – and particularly when they’re not in rebuilding mode. But starting this week, I’ll be rooting against my favorite team – the Green Bay Packers – to lose. Call me a terrible fan, go ahead. But with Aaron Rodgers out for the rest of the season, this team isn’t going anywhere.
Ziperski: Could we see the end of Lob City?
The Los Angeles Clippers’ acquisition of Chris Paul in December 2011 marked a turning point for the franchise, launching them into relevancy in the loaded Western Conference. For over five seasons since, the Clippers have been a perennial playoff contender, never the conference’s best team but consistently one capable of putting up at least 50 wins; Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan combined to form the “Lob City” that has terrorized opposing defenses.
In Syria, we have no good options
President Trump’s missile strike against a Syrian airfield achieved something that no other action from the young administration has done so far: it received widespread support from not only the general public, but also from both sides of the political aisle.
Why Christian McCaffrey could win a Super Bowl as a rookie
A 4.48 time in the 40-yard dash, a 37.5-inch vertical leap and a 6.57 time in the three-cone drill, the second fastest score in the event in the last fourteen years. Christian McCaffrey absolutely dominated the NFL Combine. After his performance in Indianapolis, many scouts believe that he’s edged his way into the first round of next month’s NFL Draft.
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