Category Archives: Brian Murphy

Murph: 49ers questions and answers heading into training camp
Like a life preserver thrown to Bay Area sports fans, the NFL season is here to save us from drowning in Giants lousiness. I mean, it's been nearly six weeks since the Warriors won the NBA championshi...
Syndicated Author Jul 28, 2017

Murph: We come to praise, not bury, the Giants’ sellout streak
The Giants' sellout streak at AT&T Park is over, and the riffs are flying. "Sellout streak? The only thing sold out was Larry Baer's imaginary world!" "Sellout streak? Yeah, if you count empty gre...
Syndicated Author Jul 18, 2017

Murph: Warriors foil the haters again
The Warriors won the 2016-17 NBA championship on June 12, 2017.The Warriors essentially won the 2017-18 NBA championship less than a month later.Here we are, the smoke of NBA free agency nearly cleari...
Syndicated Author Jul 06, 2017

Giants collapse reminder of darker times
This Giants thing is insane. Never has a Bay Area team collapsed from championship contender to potentially the worst team in the league so utterly, so completely, so swiftly. Or has it happened befor...
Syndicated Author Jun 20, 2017

Warriors dynasty invites comparisons to 1980s 49ers
Attention, all you kids 30 and under. Listen to your boy Old Man Murph. This Warriors thing is pretty cool. How cool? So cool, I am here to tell you: Kids, these are your glory days 49ers. Understand,...
Syndicated Author Jun 13, 2017

Giants coming home, and everyone’s grumpy
Had to block a guy on Twitter today over the Giants. Well, I didn't *have* to. I chose to. Because sometimes it's sort of fun. Anyway, the gent's offense was to send me a drawing of a giant middle fin...
Syndicated Author May 25, 2017

Murph: Warriors not yet celebrating due to unfinished business
The Warriors won the NBA's Western Conference. They are Western Conference champions. There is no team better in the West. What's more, they went 12 and gosh darn zero en route to that prestigious tit...
Syndicated Author May 23, 2017

Murph: Bonds to the Wall of Fame; So when’s the statue?
The Giants made a little news this week by announcing that Barry Bonds will have a plaque unveiled in his honor on the team's "Wall of Fame" outside of AT&T Park before the July 8 game against Mia...
Syndicated Author May 19, 2017

For Giants’ offense, hope is not a strategy
Here's how blah the Giants’ 2017 season has been - the Bay-wide adrenaline rush from big Mike Morse's smilin' round-tripper on Wednesday night, the shot through the night that was supposed to ig...
Syndicated Author Apr 28, 2017

Coach Kerr’s health scare has inspired the Warriors
The Warriors' 2016-17 postseason run has taken on an air of inevitability, fueled by inspiration.On March 11, coach Steve Kerr made the momentous decision to sit Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond...
Syndicated Author Apr 25, 2017

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