Category Archives: Brian Murphy

Kyle Terada | 2019 Dec 29 For five months now, we sports fans have dealt with life in the pandemic. What we're dealing with includes cardboard cutouts, Gabe Kapler in a mask, and now an autumn without...

Stan Szeto-USA TODAY Sports If loving baseball in the COVID-19 era is wrong, I don't want to be right. As I write this latest Jock Blog, I had to check my social media news feed to make sure Major Lea...

Jake Roth | 2019 Jul 1The designated hitter in the National League.Pass the vomit bag.After that lovely imagery leaves your head, I will shift to a tone of conciliation. Listen, if you're a DH fan, kn...

Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images Pretty much the last good moment of the year 2020 was when Raheem Mostert put the finishing touches on a 220-yard, four-TD day in the NFC Championship at Lev...

Cody Glenn | 2019 May 14As 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, i...

Kim Klement | 2019 Oct 8As if 2020 wasn't surreal enough, we've now found ourselves somehow reliving the 1994 baseball strike in the middle of a global pandemic.Whoever is playing the pranks on us fro...

Andrew West/The USA | 2020 May 5 It came like a bolt from the heavens. Woke up Monday morning, headed downstairs for another "Living Room Session" with Paulie Mac, Bonnie-Jill, Copes and Markus the Wa...

WILLIAM BRETZGER/THE | 2019 Aug 27 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...

NFL Handout Photo | 2020 Apr 23 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'. He didn't call...

Sergio Estrada | 2019 Apr 28Here's a crazy one for you in these crazy days.To be a sports fan in 2020, means we have to embrace being unable to be a fan.I know, that sounds like a bad college philosop...