Category Archives: Brian Murphy

Nothing like cramming for a final exam, as I was just saying to my 20-year-old college self.The Giants are staring at the July 30 trading deadline like the proverbial student who has spent the entire ...

Mike Dunleavy, Jr - unveil your grease board, good sir.Ever since the fateful night of April 16, 2024, the very eve that the Sacramento Kings trucked the overmatched Golden State Warriors, 118-94, we'...

Here's a sentence I never thought the Jock Blog would type:Where do you stand on the Slater Wars?And I know what you're thinking: Wait . . . there are Slater Wars?Shout out to the Waterboy in the morn...

Because this is a Jock Blog, and because it's worth the paper it's written on, let's go there.Let's do the 49ers 2024 Schedule.Wins and Losses. Week by Week. That fruitless, hopeless waste of time and...

Sergio Estrada-USA TODAY Sports.Consider this Jock Blog of May 10, 2024 to be the first of many 2024 49ers-related Jock Blogs to ask the same question:Given that rookies and undrafted free agents repo...

Photo: Ed SzczepanskiIf you listen to us in the morning - thank you, immediate family - you know we have a couple of running bits when the Giants are doing that frustrating ".500 Thing" they do.When t...

Matt Pendleton / USA TODAY NETWORK.This Jock Blog is being penned Friday afternoon and may have the shelf life of Trey Lance's run as QB1 in Santa Clara. A late Friday trade of Deebo Samuel could redu...

Cary Edmondson-USA TODAY Sports.Boy, the Warriors sure could have made our lives easier by not getting trucked by the Kings last Tuesday night.Had the Warriors not been trucked by the Kings, they'd be...

Matt Krohn-USA TODAY Sports.So much for Shohei-Gate ruining the Dodgers.Not only is Japanese megastar Shohei Ohtani on a heater - 13-for-30, three home runs, four doubles and a triple in his last seve...

Congratulations, John Fisher. Today you announced that Sept. 26, 2024 will be the last A's baseball game in Oakland, ending a 57-year run that ran from Catfish Hunter to Vida Blue to Mitchell (The Rag...