The Niners placed Colin Kaepernick on injured reserve, ending his season. Probably ending his strange, over-rated career in San Francisco-Santa Clara. Something about an injury to his non-throwing shoulder. He got this injury Week 4 and still was able to play. He was listed as probable for this game until [...]
Here is a link to my Sunday 49ers column. The full text runs below: Ira Miller wrote me an email early last week. Ira and I covered the 49ers together for a long time and are close friends. Ira, now retired and living outside Chicago, was the best football beat [...]
Here is a link to my Tuesday Kaepernick column. The full text runs below: SANTA CLARA — Benched. Second banana. The guy who holds the clipboard. Colin Kaepernick, the once and no-more starting quarterback of the 49ers got shoved to the side, according to reports. He now is benched, irrelevant, [...]
Here is a link to my Thursday column about Colin Kaepernick. The full text runs below: SANTA CLARA — Colin Kaepernick. He’s the subject of the day for the Niners, certainly the subject of the week, maybe the subject of the season. So, here’s what happened last Saturday — to [...]
Here is a link to my Thursday column. The full text runs below: Colin Kaepernick: Never has an athlete been so arrogant after accomplishing so little. He’s not as arrogant as he used to be. That’s when he was totally insufferable. But he’s still off the scale — the Scale [...]
Here is a link to my Tuesday column about Colin Kaepernick. The full text runs below: SANTA CLARA When Jim Tomsula climbed onto the stage for his Monday post mortem — an apt phrase in this case — I immediately asked, “Why is Colin Kaepernick still your starting quarterback?” It [...]
Here is a link to my Monday column about the Niners. The full text runs below: SANTA CLARA The finest moment for me in Sunday’s exhibition game between the 49ers and Cowboys was that once-in-a-lifetime play when Niners quarterback Colin Kaepernick threw caution to the wind and scorched a 90-yard [...]
The Niners new unis look cool. Not that the uniforms matter. The 49ers could play in rags as long as they play well. Will they play well? In a statement released by the team, Colin Kaepernick said of the uniforms, "I love the jerseys. I think it's a fresh look. [...]
Here is a link to my Tuesday column about Colin Kaepernick. The full text runs below: Met a young guy in Arizona when I was covering spring training — I flew back home on Sunday. Nice young man. Said he was from Turlock. Turlock? The bells and whistles went off [...]
Here is a link to my Monday column about why the Jim Harbaugh Era is ending. The full text runs below: OAKLAND Jed York doesn’t need to fire Jim Harbaugh. Jim Harbaugh just fired himself. Harbaugh had a week and a half to prepare for the Raiders, to prepare for [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.