Jay Mariotti
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16-0? 73-9? Anything seems possible now
LOS ANGELES — Maybe they’ll never lose again. OK, they will, but it was hard to relinquish that fantasy late Thursday night as Andre Iguodala literally bowed to Stephen Curry » → Read More
Crawford cool, but job one is Greinke
The first time I encountered Brandon Crawford this year, he was staring at a video machine after a game in San Diego, studying his swing from that day’s at-bats. The » → Read More
Phony morality: Raiders want Smith back
So here was a chance for Mark Davis to keep delivering on a worthwhile human mission, a decidedly anti-Al decree. Just as he won’t have domestic abusers playing for the » → Read More
As Super Bowl hosts, are we vulnerable?
The game is just 81 days away, with the hours, minutes and seconds still ticking down merrily on the Super Bowl host committee’s website. Yet right about now, as a » → Read More
Security breach only part of Raiders’ mess
If this was “The Autumn Wind,” as celebrated in poetry that is said to define Raider Nation, it seemed to be blowing southward Sunday … toward Los Angeles. Not an » → Read More
Playoffs, Heisman? Stanford has shot
What’s fascinating here, so very funny, is that Stanford usually does the snubbing. No American university has a lower acceptance rate these days, with only 5.1 percent of applicants receiving » → Read More
Nothing wrong with ‘70’ dream
In one sense, I wince about the Warriors because they’re inviting the Invasion of the Numbers Nerds, a storm of maddening projections and algorithms about the algebraic/geometric meaning of an » → Read More
The power of football activism
They rape. They steal. They commit academic fraud. They drink and drive. They sue to be compensated like professionals when they receive full-ride scholarships while living and training in luxury. » → Read More
For a day, Gabbert looks golden
You’d be a fool, of course, to just flip the narrative without more evidence. Blaine Gabbert forever may be buried as the definitive bust, best known for being taken one » → Read More
No Kerr? Trust Cool Head Luke
So here it was, the dreaded blindspot, the first time Steve Kerr’s sideline presence would be sorely missed. As in: Why was Stephen Curry still on the bench, with Draymond » → Read More
Warriors treat adversity as fun
Does it even matter at this point if Steve Kerr, as whispers suggest, might not return to his coaching seat for weeks? Or that Stephen Curry, towel over his head » → Read More
Jed created debacle that he can’t fix
Other than finding a general manager, a head coach, two coordinators, a quarterback, an offensive line, a functioning ballcarrier, some linebackers and defensive backs, more pass-rushers, an agronomist to fix » → Read More
Player of Week? Try Sportsman of Year
Admire, if you dare, the inflated post-deflation numbers of Tom Brady. Salute, as you should, the Grand Slam flirtations of Jordan Spieth and Serena Williams. Even think out of the » → Read More
Just dream, baby: Raiders in playoffs?
This was a day to belt out “Hells Bells,” come on like a hurricane, stare at Al Davis’ eternal flame in the end zone and actually dream a little. This » → Read More
Last gasp from the Black Hole
A marquee outside the Paramount Theater advertised a bizarre coming attraction: ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN. Whatever in mother’s creation that is, it couldn’t be weirder — or scarier — » → Read More
Kap should be traded, not smeared
How do you think people become CEOs in life? They snitch and connive, whisper and slink, poison and smear. Whether or not Jed York is the source for last season’s » → Read More
Curry raises a banner, then the roof
Speaking to the adoring crowd, his people in his cathedral, he mentioned the lonely banner in the rafters and how it was about to have company. “So without further adieu » → Read More
Here’s where MVP must be MVP
It looks like your mother’s jewel box, this vintage building where the Warriors will claim their rings tonight. But to the NBA champions, Oracle Arena must feel like a bunker, » → Read More
The ‘Coooop!’ show ... in L.A.’s backyard
SAN DIEGO — The divot is still kicking up from where Amari Cooper, on the day he arrived as an American sports happening, left somebody named Jimmy Wilson eating dirt » → Read More
As Kerr knows, life is too precious
We are reminded today that basketball is a sport, a job, and that Steve Kerr has much to offer the world beyond it. He learned about life’s longer view as » → Read More