We have some sad news to report-- Bill Walsh has passed away at the age of 75. The Genius had been battling leukemia for awhile and died sometime this morning....

Here's the daily wrap up of the sports news...

-Warriors get 40 in the first quarter, then shoot the lights out in a 131-105 win at home. Mark Purdy isn't going to jump on the Warriors bandwagon just yet. -Cal men can't quite beat USC. -Stanford women beat Arizona State in OT. -Nancy Gay gets the Super Bowl hype officially started. -Art Spander loves "the lull," that one weekend between the playoffs and the Super Bowl. -The A's had their FanFest and Nick Swisher......

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. ...

-Cal just runs crazy over Texas A&M and beats them 45-10 as Marhshawn Lynch led the way with 111 yards and two TDs. Ray Ratto is impressed. But can Cal bring Lynch back? ...

-The Warriors beat up on an Allen Iverson-less 76ers last night, 116-97 as Matt Barnes led the way with seven three-pointers and twenty-five points. Monta Ellis, meanwhile, isn't as injured as everyone thought he was. And the next run of seven games looks pretty good for the Warriors. ...

-Glenn Dickey says Stanford coach Walt Harris will be fired after the Big Game. We said that months ago. Jake Curtis sums up the pros and cons of firing him and Ray Ratto says the obvious-- that Harris is under a lot of pressure. ...

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. ...