Entries from SFist tagged with 'niners'
February 6, 2008
As we enter Day 10 of the Lance Kiffin hostage situation. ...
Continue Reading "Around the Sports Dial"
January 9, 2008
So after all that, the Niners hired Mike Martz as offensive coordinator anyways. After just one interview and after not really talking to anybody else. ...
Continue Reading "It's Got to be the Morning After"January 8, 2008
December 31, 2007
December 24, 2007
December 15, 2007
Reporting from the snow-dappled streets of Chicago, it's your American Football Spectacular preview for this Saturday night's battle at The Stick as The Queen City's feline football franchise comes to town....
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: A Level Of Sadness Akin To Elliott Smith"December 12, 2007
Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start: when Alex Smith got injured, there was some back-and-forth about whether or not he was healthy. While this was going on, Nolan made the occasional subtle and not-so-subtle dig at Smith for not being sufficiently tough. Cue speculation and rumormongering approaching Brangelina levels. The Merc apparently had heard some other Niners joining in on the Smith dog pile and asked Alex about it. Alex went a wee bit on the ballistic side and accused Nolan of trying to turn the team against him, making him play when he wasn't healthy, and for generally being a big poopy-head. This all hit the press sometime yesterday and, well, hello hullabaloo. Naturally, the two parties met and issued statements talking about how their relationship is all :) and not :( ...
Continue Reading "It's Got to be the Morning After the Dustup"December 10, 2007
December 3, 2007
December 2, 2007
Joe Frazier was once quoted as sayin' "Kill the body and the head will die." For an NFL offensive unit, the opposite is the case. And here comes the context: it's your American Football Spectacular preview for lucky Week 13 of the 2007 NFL season....
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: Kill The Head And The Body Will Die"November 26, 2007
November 25, 2007
Reporting from spa-side in Santa Ana, it's your American Football Spectacular preview of the next rung of pain on the agony ladder that is the 49ers' '07 season....
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: One Up, One Down"November 21, 2007
-With tonight's 108-82 win against the running joke that is the New York Knicks (seriously, what does it take to get fired in that organization?), the Warriors have now won three in a row and are one game from totaling the amount of wins our local football teams have. The Beard led the way with 31 points, seven assists and six rebounds and Stephen Jackson got 23 points. For the Knicks, Starbury played his first game of the season showing that blackmail does work ...
Continue Reading "It's Got to be the Morning After"November 19, 2007
We'd like to thank the Golden State Warriors for winning twice this weekend and thus ending the month and a half long losing streak by the local teams. And now, onto the carnage... ...
Continue Reading "It's Got to be the Morning After"November 14, 2007
If there's anybody in the city taking more heat than Mike Nolan, it's his quarterback, Alex Smith. Smith stands accused by the Faithful of not very being good. The evidence? Overthrowing Receivers. Underthrowing Receivers. Not seeing open Receivers. The numbers back up the evidence-- he has a preposterously low QB rating (57.2) and completion percentage (48.7). He is also 11-19 as a starting QB. In the games we've watched, Smith looked like the same QB he was when he first started-- skittish and inaccurate-- so much so, the Faithful are muttering that Smith, as a #1 draft pick, has been a bust of Lucy Pinder-like proportions (sort of NSFW-y). ...
Continue Reading "A Tale of Two Quarterbacks"November 13, 2007
November 9, 2007
With the Niners sinking like John McCain's Presidential campaign, the inevitable finger pointing has begun. After all, the team has not gotten better, but actually regressed from last year and you could argue that the team has regressed even farther to 2004-2005 levels of suckitude. So the question being asked is who the heck is to blame. The inevitable target? Mike Nolan. ...
Continue Reading "Nobody's Really Crazy About a Sharp Dressed Man"November 5, 2007
November 3, 2007
Continuing the tour of pain through the ex-members of the NFC West, this week the 49ers visit the the wreckage that once was the Atlanta Falcons....
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: At The Bottom And Still Falling"October 28, 2007
-- Girls soccer coach suspended after mooning (i.e.., "exposing his buttocks to" [hee]) his opponents. [SFGate] -- Niners' Nolan stands by his QB, Alex Smith. Aw. Also, "at least the Niners didn't get shutout." (Dude. Ouch.) [Examiner, SJ Merc] -- Increasing lack of loyalty over at Yahoo. [ValleyWag] -- Neither heavy nor metal, Metallica went acoustic/funk at the Bridge School Benefit. [SJ Merc] -- 1 dead, 2 hospitalized after shootings in the city of......
Continue Reading "Day Around the Bay"October 27, 2007
For both the New Orleans Saints and the 49ers, this season has suuucked. There's no worse feeling in fandom than unmet expectations. And both of the NFL's gold-helmeted teams have seen the bottom drop out of their dreams for the 2007 season....
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: All That Glimmers"October 22, 2007
October 19, 2007
The 49ers venture into the wilds of Jersey this Sunday to war with the New York American football Giants....
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: All My Ghosts"October 11, 2007
The Niners' attempt to build themselves some spiffy new digs took quite a twist recently as the plans were temporarily kiboshed when the neighbors of the purposed new stadium, the Great America theme park, said they weren't quite cool with the idea of a football stadium being next door. Too many loud parties on Sunday and all the guests tend to be loud, drunk and wear dorky jerseys. So rumors started up that the owners of Great America, Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. of Sandusky, Ohio, might be down for the stadium if and only if the Niners buy the amusement park. Well, it turns out that it's true-- Cedar Fair is willing to sell the park to the Yorks. ...
Continue Reading "It's Thursday -- Do You Know Where Your Amusement Park Is?"October 8, 2007
October 1, 2007
September 30, 2007
" it comes as no surprise / we're destabilized " * Seattle vs. San Francisco Sunday, September 30, 2007. 1:00 PM, PST. Week 04 The Surpriseless Battle This is it, the game that will tell whether the 49ers can seize the lead in the NFC West by taking down the Seahawks. * Photo of Frank Gore breaking away via the Chron. SF swept the series last year, even as SEA won the division, so you......
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: No Surprise"
