GUESTS:
@gregcosell 315
-49ERS: Jimmy, Garnett, S Thomas, Morris anything elft
Raiders: Carr, Chris Warren
Others: Rookie QBs Allen, Darnold, Mayfield
| Kevin Seifert (@SeifertESPN) | |
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There have been nearly 5,000 plays in the @NFL offseason. 51 of them have had a helmet rule foul. Patience, young Jedis. Here is the reality, and the hysteria, of the rule: es.pn/2Nb1hSr
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BREAKING: @Raiders waive former second-round pick Obi Melifonwu https://bit.ly/2w9Mroz
Pat Burrell 4 PM
-2010 reunion this weekend
https://www.sfchronicle.com/giants/article/Giants-Brian-Sabean-Total-rebuild-13178152.php
| Dan Wetzel (@DanWetzel) | |
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As for Meyer's comments at Big Ten media day: "While those denials were plainly not accurate, Coach Meyer did not in our view deliberately lie.
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-Buster Posey
-Cutch
-Never got that "run"
-Cueto
@CalFootball HC Justin Wilcox 6 PM
TOPICS:
-GIANTS:
| Tim Flannery (@TimFlannery2) | |
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I’ve been accused of having too much fun, joking, teasing on tv while the Giants struggle. So though I don’t coach anymore I wear makeup and the team is 3000 miles away I’m going to do a blood letting ceremony and sacrifice my hamster to show my disgust. NBC Bay Area Sports. pic.twitter.com/KyAMLJJrng
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-BUSTER ---WHY NOT DO SURGERY NOW? \
| KNBR (@KNBR) | |
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Baggarly speculates on Bruce Bochy's future with #SFGiants
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URBAN --TALENT --TOLERNACE
| Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) | |
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OSU investigation shows “members of football staff” were aware Zach Smith "was engaged in sexual relationship w/football secretary; took sexually explicit photographs of himself in offices & at White House in April 2015 & had sex-related toys delivered to him at OSU office"
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-URBAN MEYER "SUSPENSION" - CAN COACH JUST NOT ON GAME DAY --- 3 GAME SUSPNSION.... - ANYONE SURPRSED? BIG MONEY BUSINESS. HE AND SABAN BEST 2 COACHES IN AMERICA.
-WHAT FAN WOULDN'T WANT HIM?
Urban Meyer was “not complete and accurate” at media day. Wow. That’s some rhetorical gymnastics. I’m not sure one can do a limbo dance low enough to see Ohio State’s “high standards.”
NFL:
-9 PLAYERS LEFT FROM 49ERS ORGINAL ROSTER
-REPLAY FOR THE HELMET RULE? (LYNCH SAID POINT OF EMPHASIS TO NOT TALK ABOUT RULE IN MEDIA)
-ASK MIDDLEKAUFF ANYTHING?
49ERS:
GARNETT, - THOMAS, AMSTEAD , MALCOM LIKELY PLAYING
Players from pre-Lynch/Shanahan #49ers drafts who are on the team:
2016-DeForest Buckner, Joshua Garnett, Ronald Blair, Aaron Burbridge
2015-Arik Armstead, Jaquiski Tartt, Bradley Pinion
2014-Jimmie Ward
2011-Mike Person (*-signed this year as free agent)
2007-Joe Staley
RAIDERS:
-OBI MENAFONWU CUT
OTHER:
-ANYTHING WORSE THAN BEING SPIT ON --NON VILENT CRIME:
t least there was some redemption to be had after that altercation. Crawford couldn’t say the same for an ugly incident he experienced at a Warriors game.
“Once I was spit on. That was the worst,” said Crawford, who retired in 2014 having worked 2,561 NBA games, second only to Dick Bavetta. “It was in Golden State, in the mid-’90s. I was working with Billy Spooner, and he made a big call in the last minute. I don’t remember the specifics. I just remember as we were walking out, a guy spit at me. He hit me right on the side of my face. If I could have gotten to him, I would have killed him. The cops were escorting us out of the arena, so they kept me from having that chance.”
Because I have that kind of time (and an idiosyncratic curiosity) I embarked on a little fact-finding mission. I discovered that the game Crawford referenced was played Jan. 10, 1995. The Warriors lost by 10 to Seattle in overtime. Spooner called a loose ball foul on the Warriors’ Victor Alexander late in regulation.
“We had the win, and a bad call kept us from getting it,” then-Warriors coach Don Nelson said. “It was an awful call. I’m sure he’ll be embarrassed when he watches (the replay), because he is a pretty good referee.”
The account of the game included the kerfuffle with a couple disgruntled fans:
“One fan went after Spooner after the game and was taken away in handcuffs by security guards, who also had to break up an altercation between a fan and referee Joey Crawford.”
Obviously there is no excuse for that kind of spectator conduct. But here is some context that might explain the toxic milieu in and around the Warriors at that point:
In 1993-94 the Warriors, energized by rookie Chris Webber, won 50 games and went to the playoffs. The feel-good evaporated in a hurry the following fall when Webber forced a trade. The overtime loss to Seattle dropped the Warriors’ record to 10-20. Fifteen games later Nelson resigned.
Crawford? He refereed until knee surgery sidelined him in late 2014. He clearly hasn’t forgotten that night in Oakland 23 years ago, nor the mob mentality at games.
“I’ve been retired a while, but I’m still stunned by the insanity of (how people treat officials),” Crawford said. “I’m involved with women’s AAU basketball in Philadelphia these days, and we go to tournaments, and we see these crazy parents. Everyone is acting out of control over a game between 10-year-olds. We tell our parents, ‘Don’t holler at referees,’ but clearly not everyone else is getting the message.”
This might not lighten Crawford’s heart, but I’m reminded of something Bill King, the Warriors’ brilliant broadcaster, said one night during a riotous scene in which fans were throwing debris onto the court. (This was at a time when NBA games were staffed by two-man referee crews.)
“There’s no call for throwing things on the court,” King said. “Besides, your odds of hitting a referee is 5-to-1.”
-KOBE IS 40 -NEVER LIKED HIM - COVERED HIM
| A's on NBCS (@NBCSAthletics) | |
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Which @Athletics pitcher should start potential AL Wild Card Game? (via @BenRossSports)
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