Brian Murphy

The dog in Jimmy Butler is just what the doctor ordered for the Warriors.

It was always a sensitive situation, the “GET STEPH SOME HELP BEFORE WE ALL DIE” argument.  For starters: Yeah, sure, it would be awesome if Steph Curry and the Warriors were loaded to the gills every year with clones of prime Kevin Durant, prime Andre Iguodala and prime Shaun Livingston. Who wouldn’t want that?  But […]

PHOTO: ROBERT EDWARDS By Brian Murphy The Dodgers are spending more money to win than any team in baseball history. The Giants appear to be dumping salary. This, sports fans, is what you call “sub-optimal”. It stinks that all-time Giants icon Buster Posey has to preside over a Giants team whose ownership group is telling […]

IF Saleh indeed takes the gig, the 49ers have answered perhaps their biggest off-season question not named Brock Purdy’s bank account with a resounding YES.

Boy, writing a Jock Blog about the Warriors seems like entering a minefield. These past few days have been rather dramatic in the land of a team that used to be known as “playing with joy” — remember those ancient days? Back before TikTok? The Warriors are at that place known as the crossroads, as […]

PHOTO: SERGIO ESTRADA Hello, 2025. You’re sure to be a fascinating year. You will reveal to us how good Buster Posey is at his new job. You will reveal to us just what the heck Mike Dunleavy and Steph Curry are going to do about this basketball mess. And you will reveal to us the […]

Final Jock Blog of 2024 and I’ve got bad news for you, Bay Area: No championships this year, kids. (With apologies to Stanford women’s sailing, of course. The canvas can do miracles. Just you wait and see.) The 49ers huffed and puffed and couldn’t blow the Super Bowl house down in February in Las Vegas. […]

The mercy kill for a lost season finally arrived in the holiday rain of a Great America parking lot, on a Thursday night in December.  Rams 12, 49ers 6. It was worse than it sounds. Thank the football gods. It was never going to happen this year, as I was just saying to my pal […]

We must chill. No one is trading Kyle Shanahan to the Chicago Bears, the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago White Sox or the Chicago Bulls. Even the Chicago Sky is out of luck. No Shanahan in a trucker hat roaming the hardwood. Nor is anyone firing Kyle Shanahan as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. […]

The 49ers look physically and emotionally tired. It’s OK to say it, and it’s OK to understand it. You can’t win ‘em all, kids.