I wrote my Sunday column for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat about the New Orleans Saints and their bounty program for knocking opposing players out of the game -- paying players for things like "cart-offs." I find this program troubling. It makes a game into a blood sport. And I [...]
A lot of people are blaming Jed York for what went wrong Saturday at Candlestick Park. I call this the culture of blame. People accuse me of being hyper-critical, but I am not blaming Jed. It is easy to say after the fact he was lax. In fact, there were [...]
The 49ers and SFPD issued far reaching new rules and guidelines for 49ers' home games. They also said the chaos at Saturday's game was unusual, actually unheard of. I believe them. I go to all Niner home games and I don't remember two shootings in the postgame parking lot or [...]
I had written a column about the Giants, a pretty good one. But my editor phoned and said, honestly Lowell people want to read about the violence at Candlestick Park, they want to read about this story going forward. Of course, he was correct. What happened on Saturday is the [...]
Reports are coming out that the Raiders and 49ers will cancel next year's exhibition game -- scheduled for Oakland -- because of the violence during and after Saturday's game at Candlestick Park. Tim Kawakami, that crackerjack columnist from the Mercury News, is the leader in breaking this news. The game [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.