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After a week of intense competition — which included a fog machine and dressing as Homer Simpson — a new Stanford Tree has been chosen. Unfortunately for our candidate in the video below, it wasn't him. More »
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More sexy shenanigans involving cheerleaders and the Stanford Tree have been unearthed; this time in broad daylight, on campus. What is this strange power the tree seems to have over women? More »
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Here is the Stanford Tree's email response to our post from yesterday, which included a shocking photo of the mascot involved in some apparent menage-a-tree with buxom college cheerleaders. More »
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Drunk, disruptive and often pantsless; never has there been a more disorderly college mascot than the Stanford Tree. So where's his reality show? More »
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To put Stanford's win over USC into the proper perspective this morning, you should know that the Stanford Tree woke up with a raging hangover, empty tequila bottles strewn about his apartment and a pair of panties dangling from his upper branches. OK, that just means it's Monday. For real perspective, how about this e-mail I received yesterday from a Stanford grad: More »
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It's only a matter of time before the Stanford Tree is apprehended following a high-speed vehicle chase, with a hatchet and a bottle of PineSol found in the back seat of its SUV. Until then, here are the facts as we know them: The NCAA on Friday sanctioned the Stanford mascot, and fined the university an undisclosed amount, for a series of incidents that included drunken cavorting at the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament in March (just look at the accompanying photo; that is one shit-faced tree). The Tree is banned from the tournament next year, as the university mulls its future as the Stanford Band's official mascot. More »
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Yes, because we're your trusted source for mascot news, we bring you Eight Mascots That Need To Die, from Armchair GM (via Bob Reno's BadJocks). Among the unfortunate winners are obvious choices, such as Screech the Hyperactive Fowl from the Washington Nationals, and the sad, besotted Stanford Tree. But we had never even heard of Keggy the Keg from Dartmouth (pictured), and who could spend two minutes in a room with Nebraska's Lil' Red and a nail gun and not end up puncturing it in horrible ways? Totally impossible. More »
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Fantastic. According to a story first run in the San Jose Mercury News, the Stanford University band's famous tree mascot was fired for being completely shit-faced during last week's Cal/Stanford basketball game. Erin Lashnits, who served as the rowdy tree blew a .157 BAC during the game,the story said. It's unclear how they went about finding this out—maybe she went all Shooter and ran out on to the court—but it is clear that even though it may be a dent in her social life, it won't be for her athletic elgibility as a member of Stanford's swim team, according to band spokesman Sam Urmy. Plus, Urmy added that the university had previously placed the band on "alcohol suspension," which requires a zero-tolerance policy toward drunkenness. So Lashnits had to go. And finally, to put a neat little cap on the story, Urmy said this: More »
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