The Warriors Take Two Steps Forward, Then Two Steps Back, Toward the Playoffs It's felt like the Dubs have turned a corner several different times this season, only to turn three more to arrive right back at the same this-is-where-we-finally-turn-things-around point yet again.
Bay Area Sports Steph Curry Suffers Leg Injury, Is Expected to Miss a Few Weeks According to Golden State Warriors' tweet, Steph had an MRI last night which showed that he partially tore his superior tibiofibular ligaments and interosseous membrane, in addition to incurring a lower leg contusion.
Bay Area Sports 49ers' Dream Run Comes to an End with Injury to Purdy and a Blowout by Philadelphia It felt like a game of exceptionally bad luck for the Niners, with mere inches separating glory from disaster early on. San Francisco lost 31-7 to the Eagles and were denied a trip to the Super Bowl, but also denied what would have been one of the great storylines in sports history.
Bay Area Sports Niners Best Cowboys In a Defensive Grind, Move On to NFC Championship Game vs. Philadelphia When the Dallas Cowboys' huge, lightning fast defensive lineman smothered Brock Purdy on a 2nd and 10 less than one minute into Sunday's Divisional game at Levi's Stadium, it was clear that the San Francisco 49ers were going to have their hands full.
Bay Area Sports After an Average Start, the 49ers Go On to Trounce the Seahawks In Wild Card Game The Niners handily beat the Seattle Seahawks 41-23 and advanced to the divisional round in Saturday's wild-card game.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Win 10th Game In a Row to End Regular Season, Face the Seahawks In Wildcard Game Next Week With one of the best records in the league, it's kind of a bummer that the 49ers have to play in the wild-card round. But that is what's happening on Saturday.
Bay Area Sports A Tale of Two Teams (But Not): A Mid-Season Golden State Warriors Check-In As long as they don't ever have to play on the road again, and so long as players don't get injured, the Golden State Warriors will be the best team in basketball.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Win a Nail Biter Against the Raiders and Are Still In the Hunt For the No. 1 Playoff Seed How about that backup quarterback? No one knew his name before he took the field yesterday, but he played with poise and swagger, passing for 365 yards and three touchdowns. Will he be the new face of the franchise? Will he lead his team to glory?
Bay Area Sports The Brock Purdy Cinderella Story Continues as 49ers Beat Commanders There's only so much pixie dust to go around. In a game where analysts were talking about parallels between yesterday's two unlikely starting quarterbacks, Brock Purdy wrestled the glass slipper from Taylor Heinicke and led the 49ers to a 37-20 win.
Bay Area Sports Meet the Local Food Entrepreneurs Behind the Delicious Food at Warriors' Games In the Bay Area, there's growing support, both among developers and consumers, for a new generation of mom-and-pop eateries as opposed to ubiquitous corporate chains. Chase Center might exemplify this trend.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Beat Seahawks, Clinch Playoff Berth and Keep Rolling With Brock Purdy Would it be premature to go get a Brock Purdy tattoo?
Bay Area Sports It Looks Like Steph Curry Will Be Out for a Few Weeks With a Shoulder Injury The actual moment that led to Steph's injury was completely innocent looking. The Pacers' Jalen Smith was driving to the basket when Curry reached out with his left hand and got all ball — Steph immediately winced and grabbed his shoulder.
Bay Area Sports Brock Purdy Is Magnificent in 49ers' Blowout of Tom Brady and the Bucs Starting in his first-ever NFL game on Sunday, Brock Purdy wrote the next page in his young career, playing with the swagger and polished poise of a veteran. The San Francisco 49ers destroyed Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 35-7, and inched one step closer toward improbability.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Beat the Dolphins With Solid Performance From Their Backup QB, Following Garoppolo Injury The 49ers have rebooted, yet again, to version 3.0. Final score yesterday: 33-17 San Francisco for their fifth-straight win and an 8-5, division-leading record on the shoulders of a backup quarterback.
Bay Area Sports After Shutting Out the Saints, It's Time for the 49ers to Define Themselves The true test of who this San Francisco team really is will come next week, when the 8-3 Miami Dolphins, who have won five in a row, come to Levi's Stadium.
Bay Area Sports The 49ers Cruise Past the Cardinals On Monday Night Football In Mexico In the high-altitude and drizzly conditions of Estadio Azteca in Mexico City on Monday Night, the 49ers looked fabulous, winning a game they should have won.
Bay Area Sports The 49ers Pound Their Way Past the Chargers for a Primetime Win The Niners have won two in a row, and their prospects for the rest of the season are anyone's guess.
Bay Area Sports Patience or Panic? A Golden Warriors Early Season Check-in Is it time to panic, Warriors fans? The narrative out there is that we might be witnessing the unraveling of a dynasty and the inevitable, age-induced "decline" of great players.
Bay Area Sports The 49ers Cannot Stop Beating the LA Rams Are the Niners a slightly unpredictable team who lose games that they should win, and win games that they should lose?
Bay Area Sports In Super Bowl Rematch, 49ers Hang In There With the Chiefs, Until They Don't Even though the San Francisco 49ers had taken an early 10-point lead on Sunday, memories of Super Bowl LIV in 2020 were no doubt still fresh.
Bay Area Sports A 2022-23 Warriors Season Preview: After the Contracts and the Punch, It's Finally Time to Seize the Moment But now that game one of the 2022-23 season is finally here, now that the ink is dry and at least a few questions about what will happen tomorrow have been answered — I am relieved beyond words.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fall to Atlanta In a Game They Were Expected to Win When the 2-3 Atlanta Falcons marched straight down the field on their first, seven-ish-minute drive on Sunday for the eventual touchdown, it was clear that the game — which on paper favored the San Francisco 49ers — was going to be tougher than expected.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Cruise Past Carolina for 37-15 Win, But Rack Up a Slew of Injuries The win was convincing, but so is the injury list. Even though the San Francisco 49ers went into Charlotte, North Carolina, and handled the Panthers with relative ease, they left with a chunk of their roster banged up.
Bay Area Sports After Aaron Judge Breaks AL Home-Run Record, the Debate About *Barry Bonds and the Pursuit of Purity Is Resurrected The tiny asterisk that has been attached, even if only by implication, to Barry Bonds' name was suddenly thrust under a microscope again this week. In the search for baseball "purity," however, no one's hands are clean.
Bay Area Sports The 2022 San Francisco Giants' Postmortem: A Season that Began with Promise and Ended at .500 The milestone in mediocrity perfectly exemplifies the overall blah-ness of the Giants' year. Sure, back in early May, San Francisco was actually leading the NL West, and seemed as if they might once again defy expectations and make a run at the postseason. But that inertia quickly faded.
