Here are some draft-day terms I never want to hear again. They make me want to faint. Upside Character guy He's a football player The game of football In the trenches Game is won at the line of scrimmage Five technique Three technique He runs downhill Blue collar guy Lunch [...]
I know the draft is going on and all that, and all you want to read about is who gets picked when. But right now I'm writing about hand towels -- I write this while Grant sits across from me at the Cohn Zohn dining room table and writes his [...]
We were sitting around tables in the Niners' cafeteria, all of us staring at Trent Baalke. The PR guy said we could ask Baalke questions about the draft. I've been through this before. I knew we could ask questions but Baalke, or any GM, never would answer. So for the [...]
I need to get this off my chest. it's about phrases I never want to hear again. Ever. I watched the Giants game on ESPN last night and already I've had enough of "the situation." I kept hearing stuff like it's a first and third situation or it's a two [...]
I like Wikipedia. It is not fashionable to like Wikipedia. I teach at a university and intellectuals often look down on Wikipedia -- not scholarly enough, not high brow, not thorough. I like Wikipedia. I can't afford the Britannica -- however you spell it. I don't want to drive to [...]
In a shocker which rocked the football world to its core the 49ers lost on Sunday at home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The 49ers, long regarded as the class of the NFL, managed to score no points in the 21-0 loss which shook up the league. Football mourns at [...]
I'm in my Arlington, Texas hotel room drinking my morning coffee and reading responses to my blog, one of the interesting activities of my life. This morning I am learning I'm petty. That may be true, although in real life I'm generally not petty. Maybe I can be in my [...]
I made two predictions: 1) the Giants will win the NLCS. 2) they would close out the Phils on Thursday night at home. I was wrong on the second, the less important prediction of the two. I still believe they will win the series. But let's say I'm wrong on [...]
News Flash. Stop the presses. COHN RESIGNS. Not Lowell Cohn. My kid Grant (Iggy) just got a gig at CSNBayArea.com contributing to their blog, The Cooler. As a result and in perpetuity he is resigning from his old man's blog and striking out on his own. In fact, his first [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.