In all honesty, we didn't care who won or lost last night, but towards the end of the game, we found ourselves rooting for the Bears mainly because we started feeling bad for Rex Grossman. He was playing such an awful game that we took pity on him. You know how in all the sports movies, there's always that dorky, unathletic kid who that nobody wants on their team but they always wind up being the hero? That was Rex. He was like Lupus in the Bad News Bears. How could you not root for him? But sadly, he didn't wind up being the hero....

-The Warriors lost to the Charlotte Bobcats last night, 98-90. You can't really get too upset about the game as the Warriors are on the longest road trip of the season and played a game in Philly the night before. Most teams in that situation would lose. Not so good is that they are 1-3 on this road trip. -Sharks beat up on the Blackhawks 4-2. They're still having problems with their power play (0-6)......

R.I.P Barbaro. -Sharks lose to the Vancouver Canucks 3-1. Their penalty killing fu, however, has gotten really good. -Marvelous Norv Turner really wants to go to Dallas. -The Warriors 2.0 are built for Nellie Ball. Also really good at stealing. -Ann Killion thinks New Orleans should host the Super Bowl every other year. -Ira Miller lurves Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith. -Should the Monday after the Super Bowl be a day off so everyone can......

So the Raiders hired somebody, baby-faced Lane Kiffin, a 31-year old coach with no head coaching experience. Nice. When we were 31, we could barely hold down a job, let alone coach a professional football team. Football Chris will give the analysis in a bit, but we heard Al was so into the idea of hiring somebody young that he posted a job listing in the local college paper. Have fun, Raiders fans. -The new......

We told you, Colts vs. Bears in the Super Bowl. Man, we knew we should have gone to Vegas. Anyways, we're happy with the game, not necessarily because it'll be a good game, but because it's two of the original NFL teams with great traditions and great, traditional uniforms. How could you not love a game that harkens back to the 50's and 60's? ...

You heard it hear first-- it'll be an old school, Colts/Bears Superbowl -The analysis of Mully's big trade is still going on but the new guys are ready to roll. We have to say one thing for this trade-- it's one of the few times the Warriors have ever made all the ESPN gabfests....

-Jeff Tedford gets a contract extension, Ray Ratto is already thinking he's gone. -Golden State is hoping to finally win a game in LA. -Nancy Gay isn't very impressed with the QB play this playoff season. Ira Miller, however, is loving the Brady/Manning matchup but not loving his Baltimore/Philly Superbowl prediction. And David Schoen dreads the thought of Peyton Manning winning. -The Giants have a new scoreboard. -Is James Lofton your new Raiders coach? Does......

-So we've already had our say about Art's canning, but what does everyone else say? Ray Ratto wishes whomever the next coach is good luck and Gwen Knapp thinks it should be the Mulleted One (as does Don Banks on CNNSI). Raiders Fan House runs down a list of candidates as does Inside Bay Area. In the national sites, Deadspin wonders if Al and Art are the new Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner and ESPN's Mark Kreidler thinks Al needs to get over himself and hire some big name guy. Over in San Jose, Mark Purdy picks Bill Cowher out of his ass as a potential replacement. ...

-Barry Bonds? Still not signed by the Giants. Barry Zito? Just signed....

-And Stanford hires...Jim Harbaugh. Harbaugh was an NFL QB, most famously with the Bears and the Colts. and was the coach of the University of San Diego, not exactly a DIvision 1A team. His record there, though, was 29-6 with 27 wins in his last 29 games which isn’t too shabby. But is it a reach? Or a gamble? And is it the right gamble? ...

Bonds signing, Day 2... While the players are psyched and according to the Chron, Giant's fans are too, Bruce Jenkins is not. He, in fact, drops in to rip the deal, calling the front office "gutless," says the season is already over, wishes the team were more like the Dodgers, and thinks the Giants are basically nothing but a freak show right now. Jenkins must have powered the energy haterade as he cranks out two columns and makes Eve's day by posting on the blog too. The Betting Fool, however, gets all misty when comparing Bonds to the late Jose Uribe and let's his readers rip the deal. Meanwhile, Tim Liotta of the Ex sees gray people. ...

A couple of days ago, the Niners announced that they finally had their front office football guy and hired him. The new honcho: Lal Heneghan. Heneghan, 42, worked for seven years with the NFL and was vice president of football operations for the Cleveland Browns 2.0 from 1999-2004. Heneghan is supposedly a whiz at contract negotiations and the whacky world of the NFL salary cap, a job that has become one of the most important in the NFL. He will work directly under head coach Mike Nolan and VP of Player Personnel Scot McCloughan....

Yesterday, the Chron bid adieu to football columnist Ira Miller as he wrote his last column. Miller, who has been covering football for the Sporting Green for twenty-nine years, is retiring (bought out in a cost-cutting move). He plans on playing a lot of golf and writing the occasional column on AOL. ...

The Prairie War raging in baseball between the Statheads and the Seamheads leaped into the world of football over the weekend as the Chron's Ira Miller and Ray Ratto tag-teamed the SF Weekly over it’s cover suck up on the Niners' Billy Beane Wannabe, Paraag Marathe. Marathe is the Niners' Director of Football Operations and would be Public Enemy #1 to Niner fans if it weren't for the fact John York got that well-deserved assignment years ago. ...

Face it, Niners fans, you were torn last weekend. On the one hand, they had a pretty solid win over the Lambs and Alex Smith finally showed he's got a bit of game. On the other hand, they screwed up this weekend's Bush Bowl in winning. Now that they are no longer tied with the Texans for the worst record in the league, their chances of getting the man so hyped a bootleg video of......

Ever since Deadspin started running their "Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks" feature we've been eagerly awaiting to see if one of our hometown sports columnists is indeed deemed as sucking. Not just because we were curious as to see who Deadspin Will would pick but also because we like our sports columnists. In fact, we love us some Ray Ratto and Bruce Jenkins and think Ira Miller is as good as anyone. So, then, if Deadspin picked a San Francisco columnist, who would it be? Would you believe C.W. Nevius? ...

Jackson is out this week, face-down on the floor somewhere after drinking too much egg nog. The final football weekend of 2004 pretty much ended just like every other football weekend in 2004 for the Raiders & Niners- with losses. The fun started this Saturday as the Silver & Black played what we were told was a fun-filled and exciting game against one of the Raiders’ long-time rivals- the Kansas City Chiefs. And when......