Category Archives: Brian Murphy

Jeremy Brevard-USA TODAY SportsOne-and-dones have killed name recognition. The Pac-12 is a disaster. The rise of the NBA in the past few years has only served to show how limited the skill sets are.An...

f Ed Szczepanski | 2018 Sep 30 As one of the last baseball fans in America, I support the demise of the one-out specialist in the new rule change. I'm jesting, of course. I imagine there might be two ...

Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports Wait - I have to put on my White Sox hat before I Jock Blog. Time for some Warriors Rage. I kid, of course. Since when has a Jock Blog taken itself so seriously? But it...

Jayne Kamin-Oncea | 2019 Feb 19 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - I feel like by the time you read this Jock Blog, another rumor or seven will have broken out about Bryce Harper's future. By the time you scroll dow...

Isaiah J. Downing | 2018 Sep 3 The emotion of the Bruce Bochy retirement announcement unleashed a torrent of memories, so many sweet, rich ones. Don Mattingly visiting the mound twice at Dodger Stadiu...

Jake Roth | 2018 Jul 12 We have a texter to the 'Murph & Mac' show who launches the same text, in perfectly-timed intervals of every two hours or so. The text reads: "Is this Farhan guy going to d...

If you listened to KNBR the day after Willie McCovey died, you heard us play an unforgettable four-minute stretch of audio from June 29, 1980. It was the day Willie McCovey made a fan base weep with j...

Kyle Terada | 2018 Oct 24 Maybe it was the sight of those pristine, sweet, always-should-wear-'em 1975-era Golden State Warriors uniforms. Maybe it was Fitz shouting "Jerebko tipped it in! Jerebko tip...

Kyle Terada | 2018 Oct 16 "The ball is tipped, and there you are .... " ... Asking yourself: Is Kevin Durant leaving the Warriors????? Ohhhhhh, noooooo! And yes, I just used the opening of basketball'...

D. Ross Cameron-USA TODAY Sports Let's enter our Philosophy of Human Behavior 101 class and take out our blue books. The essay question is: "A Giants fan is happy that the A's have been eliminated fro...