Category Archives: Brian Murphy

Kelley L Cox | 2023 Mar 16Emerge from thy caves, sports fans. Hibernation is over!Cue the French horns from the CBS "March Madness" theme. Love a good theme.Take it from a guy who gets to talk about s...

Kelley L Cox | 2023 Feb 26Thank goodness for Brandon Crawford.It was the warm vibe of the two-time World Series champ shortstop that prevented me from greatly exaggerating the reports of the...

Allan Henry | 2022 Sep 25SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - My guy Paulie Mac is off to Portland this week to go to church, aka seeing Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and this has everything to do...

D. Ross Cameron | 2022 Dec 27Life comes at the Jock Blog fast.Not thinking the Warriors were going to do anything at the trade deadline, I planned to pen an ode to the worrisome state of the...

Bill Streicher | 2023 Jan 29It's hard to think this way after a decade that gave us Buster Posey and Steph Curry, but the 49ers' lack of a Super Bowl championship of late is not the worst th...

Kyle Terada | 2023 Jan 22I'm talking to you all. My friends. People of the Jock Blog.I owe this to you.You give me 2 minutes worth of your eyeballs once a week. The takes and writing are mediocre at b...

Cary Edmondson | 2023 Jan 8Attention, 49ers fans: Don't overthink this!The 49ers will beat Pete Carroll and the Seattle Seahawks at Levi's Stadium. Rain or shine. Likely rain. No paraly...

Photo: Chris MezzavillaNew year, new jock blog? You wish. Turning a calendar didn't make your loyal correspondent any smarter, so let's dive right in to 2023's most outrageous question:Can the 49ers w...

Kiyoshi Mio-USA TODAY SportsWas it Farhan Zaidi, or Klay Thompson, or George Washington at Yorktown who famously said:"Hold that, haters!"The news Tuesday night that Farhan, maligned Farhan, the Farha...

Vincent Carchietta | 2022 Oct 11We all said we were excited and thrilled and titillated by the return of the Hot Stove League, after last year's lockout.But as I chew my fingernails to the n...