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A man with a red flannel shirt.

Who are ‘The Friends of The Stanford Daily’? 

Charlie Hoffman
  •  
Feb. 23, 2023
Football
A collage of newspaper clippings and headlines falsely claiming that Stanford won the 1982 Big Game.

Inside the prank after ‘The Play’: Daily staffers print fake Cal paper

Zach Zafran
  •  
Feb. 23, 2023
The Grind
Three people in Stanford clothes at a football game.

Bowling, breakfasts and blunders: Reflections from Daily alums

The Stanford Daily Staff
  •  
Feb. 23, 2023
Culture
Actors wearing red stand on stage. The background of the stage is a screen displaying Hoover Tower and “BEAT CAL”

Gaieties ‘Cardinal Sin’: Fostering community through imperfections

Alexandra Blum, Shreya Komar and Anjali Ragupathi
  •  
Nov. 27, 2022
Football
A football player is tackled

Q&A with the Daily Cal’s football beat writer Will Cooke

Bridget Stuebner
  •  
Nov. 17, 2022
Football
A young girl stands on a track and looks at a football in the

It’s just ‘The Play’

Madeline Grabb
  •  
Nov. 17, 2022
Humor
Stanford football playing against Berkeley football game with a packed crowd in a stadium

Stanford prepares for ‘Little Game’ against obscure state school

Vol. 262 Humor Section
  •  
Nov. 16, 2022
Screen
On the left of the graphic, is a red background with the Stanford logo on top and photos of three actors on the bottom. On the right is a blue background with Berkeley's logo on top and the photo of three actors on the bottom.

Big Screen Battle: Stanford versus Berkeley actors and actresses

Anthony Martinez Rosales
  •  
Nov. 16, 2022
The Grind
The 2022 Bearial, where a student has the head and body of a bear in separate hands and walks into The Claw, a fountain.

What’s the point of a rivalry?

Sam Waddoups
  •  
Nov. 16, 2022
Football
A football player in a red uniform and white football player runs behind his teammate

Junior Justice: Stanford football upperclassmen eager for Big Game revenge

Ryan Beyer
  •  
Nov. 16, 2022
Campus Life
Stanford football players hold the Axe trophy

‘Take Back the Axe’: Stanford gears up for Big Game with decapitated teddy bear and train whistles

Callia Peterson and Rani Chor
  •  
Nov. 15, 2022
Humor
The empty Berkeley football stadium

93% of FTX crypto value, Berkeley FTX Stadium disappear

Uche Ochuba
  •  
Nov. 15, 2022
Campus Life
November 16, 2021: A banner reading “BEAT CAL” hangs on Old Union at Stanford University in the week leading up to Big Game. (Photo: NIKOLAS LIEPINS/The Stanford Daily)

‘Rivals for Life’ blood drive seeks 13th consecutive win over Berkeley

Caroline Chen
  •  
Nov. 15, 2022
The Grind
A crowd of happy students at a football game sits inside a thought bubble connected to a puzzled looking character. Text reads "My big game plan, if I were actually going."

My Big Game plan if I decide to go to Big Game

Kyla Figueroa
  •  
Nov. 15, 2022
Football
A football player rises up to catch a football

Big Game in Berkeley: The Cardinal’s time to shine

Hawe Adugna
  •  
Nov. 15, 2022
Football
Ashton Daniels holds a football

Betting on ‘Big Game’? Here’s what you need to know.

Drew Silva
  •  
Nov. 15, 2022
Screen
A black and white photo of football players clamoring over each other in a stadium. The photo is surrounded by a frame as if it was part of a film strip.

A look at the surprisingly robust documentation of the Stanford-Cal ‘Big Game’

Peyton Lee
  •  
Nov. 15, 2022
Football
The stanford band plays in the stands at a football game

A Stanford student’s guide to the 125th Big Game

Annie C. Reller
  •  
Nov. 15, 2022
Football
A football team in red jerseys and white helmets runs onto the field

View From the Booth: A chance to reclaim the Axe

Pablo Noyola
  •  
Nov. 14, 2022
Culture
Nine people sing together standing up, with their phones, laptops or scripts in their hands

‘Gaieties’ creative team gears up for ‘Cardinal Sin’ and Big Game

Greta Reich
  •  
Nov. 13, 2022
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