Category Archives: Brian Murphy

Oh, wait - Steph Curry might very well play basketball on Saturday?There goes a theme I was working on, blown to smithereens: No more "Pelican Intrigue."It sounds like a Grisham novel. Or an indie ban...

So, did you take the sucker bet? Did you get all tingly and 1997-y and red-shirt-on-Sunday-ish and place a bet on Tiger Woods to win the Masters? Ouch. After all, you should have remembered what P.T. ...

Probably like most of you, I felt a whole lot different about the 2018 Giants one week ago than I do today. One week ago, Jeff Samardzija was healthy as a stallion. One week ago, Madison Bumgarner's l...

Few Bay Area sports executives in the 21st century got pilloried by us in the sports media more than 49ers CEO Jed York and his president, Paraag Marathe. (That's with apologies to the Irving G. Thalb...

The question is simple: Should the Giants trade for Giancarlo Stanton? The answer isn't simple. There are persuasive arguments both ways, so much so that I find myself having cold feet at the latest M...

Mandy Shanahan might want to see Jimmy Garoppolo as a 49er. You might want to see Jimmy Garoppolo as a 49er. But as our chat with ESPN's Adam Schefter reminded us yesterday, the 49ers' desire to see J...

Well, the Giants didn't win the press conference. Now, let's see if they can win the offseason. Which is, of course, a tad more important. The "Four Horsemen of the ’98 Loss Apocalypse" - Larry ...

Giancarlo Stanton smashing baseballs off the Coke bottle in left field at AT&T Park? Sign me up. I know, I know. Most of his home runs would fall a few rows short of the Coke bottle. Other than th...

  SANTA CLARA–It's easy to get caught up in what I'd call an "August High" when you visit an NFL training camp. Storylines abound. Rookies look young and spry. The familiar allure of the NF...

There was a time in my close-minded life I'd have blasted Major League Baseball for this upcoming "Players Weekend" nonsense. Nicknames on the back of the jersey? My old self would have spat out my $1...