Category Archives: Brian Murphy

Rob Schumacher | 2020 Nov 12 Can't tell you how many Jock Blogs in the last eight months have centered around the search for normalcy - in the sound of baseball on the radio, or college football on a ...

Kyle Terada | 2020 Sep 27The Jock Blog needs serenity. Now.Too much stress in the world, as I was just saying to Kyle Shanahan as he looked over his depth chart for the Packers game.What we need is a ...

Tim Heitman | 2020 Oct 27 Devoted readers of the LRJB (Lightly-Read Jock Blog, for you newcomers) could see this one coming like a Cody Bellinger two-cheeked swing for the fence: Yeah, like any red-bl...

Kyle Terada | 2020 Sep 26Avid readers of the Jock Blog will not be surprised to hear this, but I'm pleased to hear the 2021 baseball season will feature no DH in the National League, according to earl...

Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports Times I like the word "true": - Season 1 of "True Detective". - When the deep-voiced narrator on the old "Dragnet" told us, "the story you are about to hear is true." ...

Danielle Parhizkaran | 2020 Sep 27Of all people, I didn't expect our Murph & Mac platinum member "Friend of the Program" (Gentleman) Jim Nantz to knock me for a loop about the 2020 49ers.Generally...

Kirby Lee | 2019 Dec 6 I had the blessing and the curse to be raised by a man who valued ethics. This makes many things in the modern world - and today I am speaking of the return of college football ...

Kelley L Cox | 2020 Aug 23February 26, 2020 was about six lifetimes ago for most of us. Just a few tiny things have happened since then: a global pandemic, roiling racial injustice protests, a nation ...

Kyle Terada | 2020 Aug 26 Here's a sentence you may never see again in the Jock Blog: Way to go, Dodgers. That's right. I wrote it. And it took every ounce of repressing my scarred 1970s childhood - I...

Jerome Miron | 2020 Aug 17Move over, Bobby Thomson.It's really Fernando Tatis, Jr. who hit The Shot Heard 'Round the World.Setting aside the fact that it's just AWESOME TO BE ARGUING BASEBALL DURING A...