Anticipating the Battle of the Bay

Here are some stories and a video about the Cardinal and the Bears on the eve of the Battle of the Bay:

• Tara VanDerveer ushers flawed Stanford team into tie for 1st in Pac-12, by Tom Fitzgerald (San Francisco Chronicle)


• Stanford hosts Cal women in key Pac-12 hoops contest, from Palo Alto Online


• Gottlieb welcomes the task, by Rusty Simmons (San Francisco Chronicle)


• Stanford's Brittany McPhee traded runway glamour for hardwood of college basketball, by Lindsay Schnell (USA TODAY)


• An interview of Tara by The Bootleg
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