SF News American Football Spectacular: Hitler, Gore, And Attacking The Police This week, our 49ers finally got some production from running back Kevan Barlow. What we got was a fourth round draft pick in a trade with the New York Jets, and a bunch
SF News American Football Spectacular: Meet Your Oakland Raiders 2006 Draft Picks, "The One, The Two, and The Three." First, a recap: * Picked round 7, pick 47; 455 overall / Kevin McMahan / WR / Maine / 6'2" / 196 / "Mr. Irrelevant" * Picked round 7, pick 6; 214 overall / Chris Morris / C / Michigan State / 6'4" / 305 / "The
SF News American Football Spectacular: Meet Your Oakland Raiders 2006 Draft Picks, "The Ivy League Hotelier and The Match-up Solution" * Picked round 7, pick 47; 455 overall / Kevin McMahan / WR / Maine / 6'2" / 196 / "Mr. Irrelevant" * Picked round 7, pick 6; 214 overall / Chris Morris / C / Michigan State / 6'4" / 305 / "The Heady Snapper" * Picked
SF News American Football Spectacular: Meet Your Oakland Raiders 2006 Draft Picks, "The Heady Snapper" * Picked round 7, pick 47; 455 overall / Kevin McMahan / WR / Maine / 6'2" / 196 * Picked round 7, pick 6; 214 overall / Chris Morris / C / Michigan State / 6'4" / 305 Story: Chris Morris is big guy
SF News American Football Spectacular: Meet Your Oakland Raiders 2006 Draft Picks, "Mr. Irrelevant" With training camp opened and the whir of footballs in the air, SFist is going to take a look at some of the people who'll be hitting tackling sleds in ninety degree weather.
SF News American Football Spectacular: The First Mutinous Rumblings Of 2006. Ahh, signs of Summer in the Bay Area: Blackberries ripening at creekside. Long lines of cars headed to Stinson Beach. Warm evenings as the sun lingers above the Pacific. And fresh dissent rising
SF News Le Tour de France: Au Revoir There's a void in our lives right now. An aching chasm of inconsolable emptiness. Le Tour is over for another year. After three weeks of daily exposure, we had just started to accept
SF News Raiders Rumors Running Rampant The story isn't online because you have to subscribe to the magazine, but since we do, we can detail what the what is. Basically, the story says that Eddie D and Carmen P
SF News Hate is Such a Strong Word Now that our long, national nightmare is over and Brett Favre has announced that he's both playing this season and maybe next season, it's time to check in with our Bay Area teams
SF News Waiting for Tagliabue: The 2006 NFL Draft As much as we said we were going to avoid the NFL Draft, we found ourselves on a lazy Saturday morning tuning in and getting hooked. In its way, its got that same
SF News The Mandatory NFL Draft Posting Being part of the Award Winning SFist news desk, we suppose we should say something about the NFL draft tomorrow. So we started up with the researching and decided we were so sick
SF News The Niners Get A Head Now here is where things get interesting because that was the job supposedly manned by Stat Head Paraag Marathe. You know, the guy who was supposed to turn the Niners into the NFL's
SF News QB Kerry Cut Remember how we said the Rai-duhs weren't going to release Kerry Collins? Oops. Yesterday they officially released Collins in an attempt to save the Raiders 9.1 million against the salary cap. We
SF News Kerry Eleison This year we find the Bay Area teams at opposite sides of the salary cap spectrum. The Niners got rid of some deadweight (like Ahmed Plummer) and are rolling in dough. That sounds
SF News The Raiders Are Kickin' It Old School. Again. Walsh was a long-time assistant with the team, from 1982 to 1994. After being fired along with Shell by the Al-ster in 1994, Walsh was a head coach at Idaho State (where he
SF News Joe Montana Under Siege: Day 5 To recap, the NFL did this thingy before the game where they brought out all the MVPs from all the previous thirty-nine Super Bowls. Noticeably absent were two-time Super Bowl MVP Terry Bradshaw
SF News Who Should Coach the Raiders? So with that in mind, we thought we'd take a look at the potential candidates and a few of our own.
SF News American Football Spectacular: Super Bowl 2006, "The Big Show, Detroit Style" Pittsburgh vs. Seattle (in Detroit) Sunday, February 5, 2006 The Battle For Proof The Pittsburgh Steelers have undergone the most dramatic testing of any NFL team ever, after squeaking into the playoffs as
SF News Political Junkie: Doing The Super Bowl Shuffle Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval's in a Monster Park of his own making, after his proposal before the Board of Supes to support the Seahawks was greeted with a cry of "Offsides!" from the red-and-gold
SF News Wanted: New Coordinator While we profess agnosticism towards the Stathead approach to sports, this is another one that makes us think they're onto something. NFL ESPN guru Len Pasquarelli describes McCarthy thusly: "regarded league-wide as a
SF News American Football Spectacular: We've Been Used. Our 49ers won over the Houston Texans. Yet we write this with a sneer, for the fix was in. Houston had but to lose this game to garner the top pick in the
SF News Goodbye Marvelous Norv Turner SFist wasn't around when Marvelous Norv Turner was hired, but if we were, we would have said he was an uninspired pick that pretty much summed up the word "retread." Which turned out
SF News Those Moneyball 49ers What makes Marathe the center of the debate is because he is a big rectangular box in the Niners organizational flow-chart and he is most definitely not a football guy. What he is
SF News American Football Spectacular: Bowl-tastic LIBERTY BOWL Fresno St vs. Tulsa Saturday, December 31, 2005 Fresno has been all slumpy since nearly upsetting USC in a monstrous toe-to-toe battle. Tulsa used to be in the same conference with
SF News American Football Spectacular: There Are Wins, And Then There Are Wins That Don't Help. This is the bear time of American Football, where the NFL's regular season gasps its last, college teams compete through the institutional irregularities of the bowl games, and high schoolers are home for
