By Art Spander
For Maven Sports
STANFORD, Calif. — The football cliché is that quarterbacks get too much credit for a victory or too much blame for a defeat, that what they contribute to a team is overrated.
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Big Game, Cal, Chase Garbers, Stanford Email Article By Art Spander
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — It’s football, the NFL. Not ice skating or diving.
There are no points for style, only for touchdowns or field goals. The only thing that counts is the final score.
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49ers, Jimmy Garoppolo, Kyle Shanahan Email Article By Art Spander
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SAN FRANCISCO — Bill Bradley knew about winning. He played for the championship Knicks, then was a U.S. Senator. And about losing, failing in bids to become a candidate for president.
”The taste of defeat,” Bradley wrote of his career, “has a richness of experience all its own.”
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By Art Spander
For Maven Sports
SAN FRANCISCO — It was not the normal introduction. Nobody cared what Gabe Kapler would do as the new Giants manager. Only about what he failed to do when he was director of player development for the Dodgers, and some of his players were accused of sexual assault.
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By Art Spander
For Maven Sports
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — They let it get away. The game. You can’t turn over the ball the way the Niners did, two fumbles and an interception, and expect to win.
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