The 49ers kick off the season Sunday against the Green Bay Packers. After months slumming it with baseball, basketball and even golf, our one true love has returned and things feel whole again. For 49ers fans the start of the season ... (Continue reading)
2013 won’t be a renaissance season for the 49ers receiving position, which means Jim Harbaugh and Greg Roman need to go back to the drawing board to fix the passing game. I was among the faithful who had hoped the San ... (Continue reading)
2013 won’t be a renaissance season for the 49ers receiving position, which means Jim Harbaugh and Greg Roman need to go back to the drawing board to fix the passing game. I was among the faithful who had hoped the San ... (Continue reading)
The Warriors are in the playoffs and I am a liar—two unexpected developments from this week in basketball. See I’ve always maintained that one of the biggest travesties in Bay Area sports history was the premature and misguided disbandment of ... (Continue reading)
The NBA All-Star break was supposed to be a chance to sit back, bask in the glow of the franchise renaissance and root for the first Warrior All-Star since the Clinton administration. Instead, a five-game losing streak has left Dub ... (Continue reading)
Win or lose, the most exciting 49ers season in my lifetime will come to a close next Sunday, and that makes me preemptively sad. “Exciting” is clearly a subjective measure, but I’d argue it is largely defined by the unexpected. ... (Continue reading)
In his first start, Colin Kaepernick showed he could be explosive. In his second start, Kaepernick proved he could be an NFL quarterback and just may have vaulted the 49ers back into the top spot as Super Bowl favorites. Despite ... (Continue reading)
49ers fans looking to have their hopes for the 2012 season dashed by a compilation of crushing statistics need look no further than the latest post by Grantland NFL expert Bill Barnwell. Barnwell—who oddly enough sparked a rush of optimism ... (Continue reading)
49ers training camp starts on Friday. In a related story, the sun is shining; birds are chirping; the world is right again. Even in the darkest days of the aughts, the start of camp was a time for boundless optimism ... (Continue reading)
The most tantalizing question facing the 49ers this offseason is this: What do they do with Randy Moss? On one hand, Moss represents the perfect answer to the problem that plagued San Francisco last year: a lack of big play ... (Continue reading)