Category Archives: Brian Murphy
Murph: Protest in Marin City an exercise in learning how much I did not know
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...
Jun 04, 2020
Murph’s Reading List: Best new Bay Area sports books for quarantine
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...
May 28, 2020
Murph: Is it reasonable to ask MLB players take pay cut during pandemic?
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...
May 14, 2020
Murph: Like a bolt from the heavens, baseball is back
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...
May 07, 2020
Murph: Reflecting on the Little League World Series, the latest sports casualty
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...
Apr 30, 2020
Murph: The NFL pulled off the CoronaDraft, and it was sort of amazing
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...
Apr 24, 2020
Murph: Is baseball’s potential return worth not being able to attend?
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...
Apr 16, 2020
Murph: This weekend’s 1-2 punch is enough to put me on the canvas
Michael Holahan | 2020 Mar 13 We've all been trying to take this pandemic and its nuclear effect on our society, country and sports world day-by-day, and for the most part, we've been grinding away wi...
Apr 10, 2020
Murph: Coping with a baseball-less ‘Opening Day’
Gary A. Vasquez | 2018 Mar 29Today would have been the day.At 1:10 pm today, you would have tuned in to KNBR 104.5 FM/680 AM at your workplace. You would have been working, of course, because it's a T...
Mar 26, 2020
Murph: Don’t feel alone, I’m just as confused as you are
Kelley L Cox | 2020 Mar 12 Don't feel alone. I'm just as confused as you are. We're all in this together. First March without Madness? We're all in it together. No Opening Day for our beloved baseball...
Mar 13, 2020
