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By Yoni Cohen on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 10:26:00 AM EST

The San Francisco Chronicle, Sporting News, Fox Sports and ESPN all wrote up the academic ineligibility of Stanford forward Brook Lopez without putting his nine-game absence in the proper perspective.

For context, we go to Stanford's student newspaper.

Stanford will be heavily favored in nearly all of its first nine games - Harvard, Northwestern State, UC-Santa Barbara, at Northwestern, at Siena, Yale, Colorado State, Sacramento State and at Colorado - so Lopez's loss will have less of an effect than if he were to miss conference games.

Lopez should return in time for the Cardinal's first test (at least by 2006 standards), a mid-December game against Santa Clara.

His absence will therefore have less of an impact than the larger media outlets would lead you to believe (though, to be fair, Fox Sports' Goodman argued Brook's absence is no huge loss, because the Cardinal will go only as far their guards take them).

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