Category Archives: Jock Blogs

Don't thank Kevin Durant for bringing his eye-popping resume or his staggering talent set or his limitless shooting range to the Golden State Warriors.Thank him, mostly, for changing the way we think ...

July — A.K.A. The Dead Zone. No basketball, no hockey and football is still too far away to get really excited for. What’s a fan to do while waiting for a baseball game to satisfy your pri...

WHAT THE F?@& JUST HAPPENED? How strong is your free agent pitch game when you can get Kevin Durant to take less money than he could have gotten from Oklahoma City AND pay more in taxes? I will ne...

The offseason would have started at the same time whether the Warriors won or lost Game 7. However, the way the season ended should send the Warriors front office into an offseason fervor trying to ma...

So the natural order of things has occurred. LeBron James suckered Draymond Green into doing something wholly unnecessary. No doubt that James’ deliberate step over of Green was itself an act of...

One of my earliest sports memories is watching the first Muhammad Ali-Leon Spinks fight (more than likely, it was a television rebroadcast of the event on ABC’s Wide World Of Sports). Since I wa...

The Cavs built their team around LeBron and the Warriors just built a team. LeBron did his thing Thursday night as he had 23 points, 11 rebounds and was an assist shy of a triple-double. At times he h...

Ever have to settle for imitation crab meat? Sure, it looks like crab and depending on the quality of said faux crab meat, it might even taste like the real thing. No matter what type of Jedi mind tri...

Programming note: Bob Fitzgerald will do the play-by-play alongside Tom Tolbert on KNBR 680’s call of Game 1 between the Warriors and Cavs. So here we go with the Warriors trying to put an excla...

It's always a good idea to learn from those before you, so I once kneeled at the foot of the great Bay Area sportswriter Art Spander. He noted that famous curmudgeonly golfer Nick Faldo was retiring a...