RealClearSports: Bay Area Full of Dysfunction

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- That the San Francisco 49ers are telling us they could play in Oakland, while the Oakland Athletics are more than hinting they want to play in San Jose, might not make sense to people back in the rust belt. Yet it's perfectly logical to us demented folk along the Pacific.

Read the full story here.

© RealClearSports 2009

SF Examiner: Carroll endures a rare rough season at Southern Cal

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

SAN FRANCISCO — Pete Carroll is making the best of it, which always has been his way. The letter writers in L.A. are down on him, because lately he hasn’t done what they wanted. Pete’s even a little down on himself, not that the enthusiasm doesn’t wash over the disappointment in a second or two.

Read the full story here.

Copyright 2009 SF Newspaper Company

RealClearSports: Tiger Recognized as Athlete and Punch Line

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

Well, there's one thing we learned from all this. No, not that Elin Nordegren is going back to Sweden. Rather that golfers indeed are athletes.

Otherwise why would Ms. Nordegren's soon-to-be-ex be voted Associated Press Athlete of the Decade?

Read the full story here.

© RealClearSports 2009

RealClearSports: Randy Moss Is Up to His Old Tricks

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

He showed up in a limousine, with an escort of seven police officers. Randy Moss made a grand entrance his first day with the Oakland Raiders, proclaiming, "Who wouldn't want to be in silver and black?''

Two years later, April 2007, the answer was Randy Moss.

Read the full story here.

© RealClearSports 2009

SF Examiner: 49ers on their way to recapturing glory

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

There was a feel of the ’80s at Candlestick on Monday. Not only because Alex Smith was kneeling down as the clock ran out. Not only because the crowd was screaming, noise that reverberated back into time, but because the 49ers played the way they once played — and presumably may play again.

Read the full story here.

Copyright 2009 SF Newspaper Company