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Murph: On the Giants’ three foundations of hope, and now, more?
Or, as I like to call them: Three Fountains of Hope. Or, the Trilogy of Belief. Or, the Trinity of Optimism.
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Murph: Protest in Marin City an exercise in learning how much I did not know
And now we are all grappling with ghosts of America’s Original Sin: slavery, and the systemic racism that has taken root in our culture ever since.
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Murph’s Reading List: Best new Bay Area sports books for quarantine
As an old sportswriter, I keep a keen eye on my ink-stained colleagues. I still love to read them. When the Murphy family hard-copy newspaper hits our driveway every morning, it’s the sound of loyalty.
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Murph: Is it reasonable to ask MLB players take pay cut during pandemic?
As if 2020 wasn’t surreal enough, we’ve now found ourselves somehow reliving the 1994 baseball strike in the middle of a global pandemic.
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Murph: Like a bolt from the heavens, baseball is back
Could it be true? South Korea was not only starting a 144-game season, but ESPN would broadcast the games? Live ball?
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Murph: Reflecting on the Little League World Series, the latest sports casualty
We’ve all been bobbing and weaving, trying to survive the stoppage of life that is the CoronaVirus pandemic, but then came the news that may require a standing-eight count in my corner.
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Murph: The NFL pulled off the CoronaDraft, and it was sort of amazing
Only the all-conquering, all-powerful NFL could pull off the the COVID-19 draft, or as Roger Goodell might have wanted to call it ‘Pandemic Pandemonium’.
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Murph: Is baseball’s potential return worth not being able to attend?
To be a sports fan in 2020, means we have to embrace being unable to be a fan.
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Murph: This weekend’s 1-2 punch is enough to put me on the canvas
Incredibly, it might be missing Tiger Woods in April that hurts most of all.
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