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Short lead-in tonight, ’cause I already wrote a column and I am getting out of here…
The Warriors played well, just like they have at home for the last few weeks, but got out-gunned in the fourth quarter by the Lakers at Oracle tonight. Short notes:
-The Lakers were on a ...
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NBA
Don Nelson
The ol’ gang is splintering up, or whatever you want to call the group of beleaguered and abandoned coaches who used to make up the Raiders’ staff.
Raiders RBs coach and former 49ers great Tom Rathman interviewed for the 49ers’ offensive coordinator job today, as reported by ...
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NFL
Oakland Raiders
San Francisco 49ers
Mike Singletary
Rex Ryan
Tom Rathman
Al Davis
Reports in Green Bay make it clear that Mike Nolan is about to land the Packers defensive coordinator job under Mike McCarthy, who, of course, was Nolan’s first off-coor with the 49ers.
All fairly logical: McCarthy is heading into his fourth season, like Nolan was before 2008, and ...
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NFL
Green Bay Packers
Mike Nolan
Mike Singletary
Mike McCarthy
Mike Martz
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I checked again with people who know Monta
Ellis, and I will repeat and now can amplify
what I’ve been saying for weeks: Ellis is working to get back healthy, but he is not happy with the Warriors, it’s getting worse, and he definitely is ...
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No, I don’t think the Warriors are tanking
this season, though I’m not ruling out the possibility
of future tankage if Robert Rowell runs out of magic tricks and convinces himself that a run for Blake Griffin or Ricky Rubio would sell ...
You could argue, and I’m quite sure it soon will be, that Al Davis is a secret, brilliant, franchise-sustaining whirlwind these days.
You could imagine that he’s currently interviewing coaches, evaluating his staff, evaluating his roster, planning great new things, rebuffing ...
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NFL
Oakland Raiders
Al Davis
It’s good, smart move by the 49ers to quickly name Ted Robinson, long assumed to be one of Jed York’s favorite broadcasters (Notre Dame!), as the team’s new radio play-by-play man.
By the way, this move–with others pending, I’m sure–has team CEO Andy...
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NFL
San Francisco 49ers
Greg Robinson
Won’t bore you with the details, though this whole entry probably will bore everybody but me…
Seems that I’m in a tie for second place in the Royce Feour Las Vegas Bowls Contest, which, as you should know, is my favorite event in sports.
It’s all about the prestige. ...
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NCAA Football
Ohio State Buckeyes
Penn State Nittany Lions
Is Manny Ramirez worth some serious tire-kicking by the Giants, even if Brian Sabean doesn’t like the idea of us discussing and analyzing the activity? HOW DARE WE TALK ABOUT THE GIANTS!
Yes, Manny’s worth the discussion, despite his admitted goofiness, his random crankiness, his... ...
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MLB
San Francisco Giants
Scott Boras
Manny Ramirez
Los Angeles Dodgers
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A whole lot of 49ers stuff happened between
Christmas and New Year’s, and then… much silence over
the last few days. A summary of the post-Christmas activity: -Jed York appointed himself team president; -Mike Singletary was hired ...
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Hey, just today I wrote a breezy column
for the paper suggesting a few things the Warriors
can do to get back to semi-decency (among them: fire Don Nelson, play Anthony Randolph–neither which happened at all today)… And a few hours later, ...
* One easy thing to presume on the Raider’s coach-hire process: Nothing major will happen during any day when there are big bowl games or NFL playoff games. AD loves those games. He will not miss a second of them and no, I don’t believe he has a DVR. No Raiders’ movement while ...
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NFL
Al Davis
Oakland Raiders
Into the playoffs we go. First I admit I screwed up the scheduling on this–my laptop went ka-blooey, we had a holiday, I didn’t get to these picks on the normal Wednesday or Thursday. My bad.
This week they go up late. But at least they’re up.
Four playoff games this weekend ...
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NFL
Arizona Cardinals
San Diego Chargers
San Francisco 49ers
Oakland Raiders
Miami Dolphins
According to my math, my picks and Wilmer’s record of our selections, my sudden and unexpected post-Dec. 28 hot streak (12-3 so far down the stretch: thank you Houston, Kansas and Nebraska!) has almost check-mated Wilmer in our Bowl Picks Spectacular.
Basically, he needs to hit each of ...
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NCAA Football
Texas Tech Red Raiders
Kentucky Wildcats
Do this quick, ’cause I am outta here…
Highlights of the Mike Singletary end-of-2008 presser:
* As mentioned in a previous post, Singletary confirmed that he has control of the 53-man roster.
That’s a pretty clear defintion and if you’ve ever talked to a coach’s ...
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NFL
Mike Singletary
San Francisco 49ers
Some bits of news from Mike Singletary’s post-season presser, and his first appearance since firing offensive coordinator Mike Martz:
* Singletary confirmed that he has control of the team’s 53-man roster, which basically places him parallel to GM Scot McCloughan in the team...
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NFL
Mike Singletary
Mike Singletary will be talking in about 18 minutes, so I’d better do this fast. But I JUST GOT UP AND LIVE AGAIN! (Thank you, Ed.)
So I’ve gotta do something. I think Singletary has a slight dilemma with his offensive coordinator vacancy after firing Mike Martz:
-Singletary would ...
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NFL
San Francisco 49ers
Oakland Raiders
Mike Singletary
Maurice Carthon
Dan Henning
Major computer hiccups today. Actually have had them for a while and put them off until after the NFL season, ’cause I didn’t want to be without a computer for that Ultimate NFL Merc Party.
So I’m planning to take the laptop into the shop in a bit. Cross my fingers. I’m ...
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NBA
Golden State Warriors
Al Harrington
Scot McCloughan isn’t talking today (at least to me), so the big-picture questions I have about the technical construct of this new-age 49ers hierarchy will go left unasked (at least to him)…
Next-best option: Just throw my questions up on this blog, then head over to Tom ...
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NFL
San Francisco 49ers
Mike Singletary
Oakland Raiders
Mike Nolan
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My goodness: I’ve been all stuck with Mike
Singletary fun at Candlestick, want to unwind, then I
see this beauty from MT-2 from LA: Stephen Jackson says Baron Davis wants to come back to the Warriors. OK, there are a million things I could say ...
Ellis, Randolph and the further, future discontent of ...