Raiders interim head coach Tom Cable held his first weekly news conference and was highly likable. He wore a red t-shirt and jeans and seemed like the most regular guy and he predicted the Raiders will beat the Jets and he said the Raiders are a good team and he [...]

Ira Miller, my friend and former colleague, phoned me a few minutes ago. He lives outside Chicago these days and we often speak on Monday mornings to go over Sunday's NFL action. It is one of my great pleasures in life to talk football with Ira, the dean of NFL [...]

How much did challenging that field goal really matter?Before I answer that question I want to give you some insight into how a columnist thinks. I covered the Niners on Sunday and when the game was over, I had to decide what to write my column about -- what my [...]

I'm beginning to have my doubts that JTO is better than Alex Smith. I really am.I mean when the season started it was conventional wisdom that Smith was a bum and a wimp and JTO was an undiscovered gem that Mike Martz, the genius, found under a rock or wherever [...]

Warriors president Robert Rowell addressed the media about Monta Ellis before tonight's exhibition game and explained why the team is fining him $3 million. Here is a transcript of his Q&A.How did you get to a suspension of 30 games?) We spent a lot of time trying to figure out [...]

What were the Warriors thinking?They suspended Monta Ellis 30 games for his moped accident. Riding mopeds is banned in the player contract, but come on, 30 games without pay -- and it is without pay -- is about $3 million. That's too much money. That's harsh. And mostly that's really [...]

I asked a lawyer who would win a libel suit between Al Davis and Lane Kiffin. I asked it because Davis called Kiffin a liar -- many times -- in the famous news conference when he fired the coach. For an expert opinion I called a lawyer named Peter Scheer, [...]

This one was easy, coming up with the two best-liked 49ers. And, yes, I'm doing a lot of blogs these days on most-liked and most-disliked Niners. I got a bee in my bonnet. So, anyway, I phoned Iggy at UCLA and posed the question and he immediately shot back: FRANK [...]

I've been thinking about who fans like and dislike on various teams. Today I'm writing about the Raiders.Which is the favorite person in the Raiders organization, and which is the most disliked? According to my email and voicemail the most disliked person in the Raiders organization is Al Davis, hands [...]

Alex Smith is getting a bad rap.Yesterday, I started a spirited discussion on 49erswebzone, thousands of 49ers fans debating their three most-disliked people in the Niner organization. In this blog I had written John York, Mike Nolan and Vernon Davis are the top-three disliked based on my email and voicemail. [...]