With the football team commanding the athletic spotlight on Stanford's campus, it's easy to forget that the basketball program was not long ago the perennial powerhouse in Palo Alto, Calif.
Now, it is Bayern who embody Guardiola's style, with the German team commanding a greater share of possession than any other team in the Champions League - including Barcelona.
But the first nodded to the reason this team command so much respect and generate such awe.
Sheehan remembered a moment in the fall of 1965 when Mohr rushed to Plei Me in the Central Highlands to visit a Special Forces team commanded by Maj.
Eddie Jones is expected to endorse the Northampton hooker despite Hartley having spent more than a year of his career serving suspensions but Haskell says the player he has known since they were in the same England Under-19s team commands the respect of his international team-mates.
Mark McGhee, having watched his team command long periods of the game, at the final whistle reserved an embrace for Keane - a player to whom he had given a debut at the age of 16 when the pair were employed by Wolves.
With the rich prices professional football teams command these days, owners often have to do their own two-minute drill: Quickly increase revenue and pay down a lot of debt.
In 2003 the teams collectively commanded an estimated 27% of the profits that Formula One derived from its three main businesses (hosting fees from governments, selling television rights, and advertising and sponsorship).
Now, as associate head coach, recruiting coordinator and co-architect of four national championship teams, she commands a base salary of $113,000 and is frequently wooed by other schools looking for a head coach.
Conference names that once signified regional dominance — the Big East, the Atlantic Coast, the Pacific-12 — could instead become labels for a collection of dispersed institutions whose one unifying characteristic is that together their football teams can command large amounts of TV money.
