HeyJaredBarry Tompkins
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Barry Tompkins: Time to check in with our local heroes (opens the original)
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I have a few random thoughts about what’s going on in Bay Area sports and I thought we might have a little sit-down and paint a picture of what’s been and what might be for our local contingents. And I promise we’ll “paint” this picture with erasable ink. The Giants finally shut the door on a season in which the biggest asset to the club probably would have been Dr. Kevorkian right around the trade deadline. It’s one thing to lose 97 games. It’s entirely another losing 97 games in the manner the
Barry Tompkins: Retiring Krukow is a true Giants legend (opens the original)
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It began with a question mark and will end with an exclamation point. The exclamation point has nothing to do with the baseball team. Were that the case, it would have ended with two question marks. The question marks would have been about the team, and who’s going to be back next year. The exclamation point is about who isn’t. It just got to be a chore for Mike Krukow. The disease that’s attacking his body and affecting his mobility has finally said “no more.” His mind, his knowledge, his humor
Barry Tompkins: Reasons for optimism at Cal this season (opens the original)
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I have a soft spot for college football. Let me put that another way. I HAD a soft spot for college football. I grew up with Cal and Stanford football. I took the Key System train across the Bay Bridge and walked to Strawberry Canyon to watch the sturdy Golden Bears play when I was a teenager. I once had my car bogged down in the mud of the parking lot at Stanford for three days after watching Stanford play Army in a deluge. When I returned to it, it was in a rice paddy. I was in Berkeley and lu
Barry Tompkins: Cut day looms for players on the bubble (opens the original)
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Not really. Not anymore. But there was a time in the NFL when the most hated person in the locker room was a non-existent character who roamed the halls on cut-down day selecting a gaggle of non-suspecting wannabes to take a walk with him to the gallows. It was a day when Hall of Fame dreams turned into merely hopes of being employee-of-the-month. When a career of celebrity and riches turned into an employment application and the bottom rung of the salary totem pole. It’s the end of training cam
Barry Tompkins: The cheap, the heartless, and the unforgivable (opens the original)
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Now that I am easing my way out of my day job, and into the nether world of figuring out what I really want to do when I grow up, I look back on 58 years of yammering about sports on television — 40 years of it bouncing from one network to another. And at times — all of them at once. And when I do, my first thought is “how did this little schnook from the Richmond District of San Francisco manage to survive the sharks that permeate — and often run — the business of radio and television?” I was t
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