SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers Swing Blockbuster Trade for Pro Bowl Defensive Lineman A one-alarm electrical fire caused some trouble in the Castro, SFPD is seeking the public’s help in the case of a missing 11-year-old, and the 49ers have traded for 2020 Pro Bowl defensive lineman Chase Young.
SF Politics Pro-49ers Santa Clara Councilmembers File Ethics Charges Against Mayor and 49ers Critic Lisa Gillmor The mud is flying both ways between Jed York’s critics and allies at Santa Clara City Hall, as York’s supporters just lodged a series of ethics complaints at Mayor Lisa Gillmor, whom Jed spent $2.5 million unsuccessfully trying to defeat.
Bay Area Sports Nick Bosa End 49ers Holdout, Signs $170 Million Contract, Becomes Highest-Paid NFL Defensive Player Ever 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa just signed the richest contract in the team’s history, ending his holdout with a five-year, $170 million deal that keeps the reigning Defensive Players of the Year in red and gold.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Nick Bosa Still Holding Out, Just Five Days From 49ers Opener Gunshots forced a lockdown at Oakland’s Skyline High School, invasive fruit flies have caused a quarantine in parts of Santa Clara County, and Nick Bosa’s holdout worrisomely continues with the 49ers’ opener looming on Sunday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Brock Purdy Successfully Throws Football Again, Fans Go Berserk Senator Dianne Feinstein had another embarrassing memory loss episode, the city of Hayward says they’ve restored their hacked computer network, and Brock Purdy was seen throwing a football for the first time since tearing an elbow ligament in the playoffs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers Open Training Camp, Nick Bosa Holding Out Supervisor Dorsey wants to require that local pharmacies carry Narcan, the SF supervisors just softened affordable housing rules in hopes of enticing developers, and 49ers training camp opened Tuesday but Nick Bosa’s holding out for a new contract.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers Announce 2023 Schedule, Will Play Monday Night Football on Christmas Day Six cars were torched this afternoon at the Antioch BART station, Banko Brown's mother has given her first interview, and the 49ers’ 2023 schedule has been released.
Bay Area Sports Jimmy Garoppolo Headed to the Raiders; Artist ‘Drawing Jimmy G Every Day’ Will Stop Drawing Jimmy G The Jimmy Garoppolo era is officially over in San Francisco, and a cult-hit fan artist “Drawing Jimmy G every day until he gets traded” has also declared her project is drawing to a close.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Defensive Lineman Charles Omenihu Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges It’s a bad time for a bad distraction, but the 49ers now have one as defensive end Charles Omenihu was arrested in San Jose late Monday afternoon for misdemeanor domestic violence.
SF News Sunday’s 49ers Traffic In Santa Clara ‘Worse Than Any Time In Levi’s History’ Eight and a half years into the Levi’s Stadium era, Santa Clara and the 49ers seemingly still have not figured out the traffic situation near the stadium, and fans and sports media alike care calling Sunday’s game-day mess the “worst traffic jam in Levi’s Stadium history.”
Bay Area Sports Brock Purdy Jerseys Selling So Fast That 49ers Can’t Keep Up The 259th pick of the 2022 NFL Draft is now “the miracle worker” phenom Brock Purdy, and as such, the 49ers team shop is fresh out of his No. 13 jersey for which the team did not anticipate such overwhelming demand.
Bay Area Sports Jimmy Garoppolo Is Out For the Rest Of the Season With a Broken Foot The 49ers’ Super Bowl hopes got stepped on hard Sunday, as quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo suffered a broken foot that will sideline him the rest of the season, and the Niners’ hopes are now in the hands of (sigh) a young rookie named Brock Purdy.
Bay Area Sports Jimmy GQ Looks Gorgeous In Glorious (But Unexpected) Return, as 49ers Spank Seahawks 27-7 We are officially back in the Jimmy Garoppolo era, as quarterback of the future Trey Lance is done for the year with a broken ankle, and Jimmy G was in playoff form as the Niners beat Seattle by 20 points.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Look All Wet In Soggy 19-10 Loss to Bears, Trey Lance Already in Hot Water The Chicago Bears were crowing that Trey Lance “ain’t do sh*t” in his first game as the full-time starter, and the 49ers managed to look even worse than the underdog Bears in a bad-weather Chicago game.
SF News 49ers Forced to Notify Nearly 21,000 People That They Had Their Personal Data Obtained by Hackers The names and Social Security Numbers of nearly 21,000 people got into the wrong hands, as the 49ers quietly acknowledged in notifications to those folks that their information was breached in a February ransomware attack against the team.
Bay Area Sports Jimmy Garoppolo Will Not Be Traded, Staying With 49ers One More Year Instead of being traded, 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo will be the highest-paid backup QB in the NFL, albeit with a nearly $18 million pay cut.
Bay Area Sports Rams Fan Accused of Battery of Moraga 49ers Fan That Left Him In a Coma Was Arraigned Today, Pleaded Not Guilty The alleged January NFC Championship Game attack at SoFi Stadium saw its arraignment of defendant Bryan Cifuentes in an Inglewood courtroom Wednesday morning, and he pleaded not guilty to the one count of battery.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Hit With Ransomware Attack, Team Financial Data Exposed The 49ers would prefer to call it a "network security incident," but team documents are now posted on the dark web, and the hackers may have plenty more breached data to expose if the 49ers don’t pay up.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Chef and 49ers Fan Suffered Horrific Beatdown at Rams’ Stadium, Now in Medically Induced Coma A 49ers fan made the trip to L.A. only to be assaulted in the parking lot, and we now know that it was Daniel Luna, who owns a Peruvian restaurant in Oakland and is currently in a medically induced coma.
Bay Area Sports Jimmy Garoppolo Taking All the Blame, Likely Done Here After 20-17 Loss to Rams Jimmy G doesn’t look so handsome anymore after an atrocious interception ended the 49ers’ season in heartbreak Sunday, and it is a foregone conclusion that he will be shipped elsewhere in the offseason.
Bay Area Sports Reminder: 49ers Pass Rusher Nick Bosa’s Great-Grandfather Was Al Capone’s Bodyguard, Eventually Became Mob Boss The 49ers’ playoff run resurfaces a genealogical quirk — that defensive end Nick Bosa’s great-granddad was the former chauffeur and bodyguard for Al Capone, and eventually took over the Chicago Outfit.
Bay Area Sports L.A. Rams Refused to Sell Playoff Tickets to Bay Area, Fearing Visiting Fans Would Take Over Stadium Again The Rams fear another red-shirt “49er takeover” in their stands for Sunday's NFC title game, and refused to sell tickets to Bay Area fans, but then did a red-faced 180 after nationwide mockery.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Stiff-Arm Cowboys for 23-17 Playoff Win, Face Packers Saturday Night Mission Street revelry returned to SF Sunday night, after the 49ers survived a bizarre ending to upset the Dallas Cowboys and position themselves for another possible Super Bowl run.
Bay Area Sports After Back-to-Back Wins Over Rams and Jaguars, 49ers Find Themselves Back in Playoff Hunt The 49ers toppled the Trevor-Lawrence-led Jaguars in Jacksonville 30-10 Sunday, climbing to 5-5 on the season and rekindling playoff hopes.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Drop Home Opener to Packers 30-28 In Final Seconds On an evening that saw the NFL record for longest field goal broken in Detroit as time expired, the San Francisco 49ers lost their own matchup to the Green Bay Packers on a game-winning, 51-yard field goal by Mason Crosby as the clock ran out in Levi’s Stadium Sunday night.