Stanford coach and former quarterback Jim Harbaugh isnt afraid to stir things up on the field. He’ll probably go down in history for coaching the team that took down USC in that historic blowout.

But he’s more than just a coach. This summer, he showed the world that he is also a humanitarian. Harbaugh spent a week in Peru helping to buil shelters for the poor. He also helped fellow humanitarians buil a new roof for an orphanage and packed food bags that will be distributed to families who really need them. Each bag should feed a family for a month.

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Of course, it wasn’t all hard work. Harbaugh also played football with the locals, and he says that the game turned into what he calls “Peru Ball.” He plans to return next year with the whole family.

You can read more about his trip from Mercury News.

Stanford is going back to the Women’s Final Four … and this time, they mean business.

Without former Player of the Year Candice Wiggins, Stanford needed one of its players to step up big time. Jayne Appel did more than “step up.” She dropped 46 points on Iowa St., to propel her team to St. Louis for another go at an NCAA Championship.

Jayne Appel dominated Iowa St. in the post on Monday night, scoring 46 points.

There was no stopping the 6-foot-4 junior, who is 20 pounds lighter than she was last season. Almost every time the ball came to Appel down in the  post, she made a basket. I can honestly say that she put on a post-player clinic that coaches around the country should study.

With her 46 points, Appel broke Wiggins’s NCAA Tournament single-game scoring record of 44 points. With a little over a minute left to play, Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer replaced the starters to finish out the game.

Had she kept playing, Appel might have broken the all time NCAA Tournament single-game scoring record.

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