Category Archives: Sports

Niners Week Nine Awards: The Niners Suck and I Don’t Care Because the Giants Won the World Series Edition

While San Francisco’s baseball team reached the top of the mountain last week, its football team reached the nadir of the likely short-lived Jim Harbaugh era. Let’s take a look at the Niners’ pathetic 13-10 loss to the Rams in … Continue reading

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2014-15 NBA Preview

The sports calendar always wraps around on itself, like Ouroboros eating its own tail, but this year it feels particularly interminable for me. Baseball is still going, as the Giants attempt to clinch their third World Series championship in five … Continue reading

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Niners Week Seven Awards: The I Stopped Watching at Halftime Edition

Since the Niners decided not to show up for last night’s game, I’m not going to spend much time on this. Frankly, even the ten minutes I do spend on this is more than that shitty effort deserves. The Al … Continue reading

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Niners Week Six Awards: The Brandon Lloyd Saved the Season Edition

Teams from San Francisco beat teams from St. Louis. Putting aside baseball considerations for now, let’s look at the Niners’ 31-17 victory over the Rams. The Al Davis Award (dysfunctional football team): The Santa Clara Raiders The first half of … Continue reading

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Niners Week Five Awards: The Delayed by the MLB Playoffs Edition

I’m not going to give myself an award this week, but I would like to note that I have a legitimate reason for posting my recap three days late. I watched Niners-Chiefs on Sunday afternoon lying on my mom’s couch, … Continue reading

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My Almost Completely Off the Cuff 2014 MLB Playoff Preview

Longtime friends of mine know that I’m a big baseball fan. As much as I love the Niners—sometimes to the exclusion of just about everything else in my life—and as much as I get crazy excited for hoops to return … Continue reading

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Niners Week Four Awards: The I Am Confused By This Team Edition

A day later and after having read pretty much every recap on the internet (Note: that second part definitely isn’t true—the internet is big), I still don’t really understand what happened on Sunday. At no point during that game did … Continue reading

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Niners Week Three Awards: The Our-Team-Might-Not-Be-Good Edition

Ugh. I don’t even have to say that wasn’t fun, because Jesus, anybody that watched the Niners get outscored 17-0 in the second half (making the aggregate score of our second halves so far this season a fan-fucking-tastic 52-3) knows … Continue reading

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Niners Week Two Awards: The Shitshow Edition

That was a lot less fun than Week One. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that the second half of that game was the least fun half of Niners football since the first half of Super Bowl … Continue reading

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Niners Week One Awards: Las Vegas Edition

The moment the NFL released its 2014 schedule and I saw that my beloved San Francisco 49ers were opening the season in Dallas against the team I hate most in all of sports, the Cowboys, I knew I was going … Continue reading

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