The NFL is trying to pretend everything is normal and as it should be. The league recently released its schedule for 2011-2012, and starting Thursday it will hold the annual draft. Of course, the league needs to do these things. But there's an implied message. Don't worry. Everything is OK [...]
Turns out I'm attending the Bonds trial tomorrow just in case the jury comes up with a verdict. Phil Barber will cover the Giants for the Press Democrat. So I'm going to bed now and getting up early for court. In the meantime I want to link to a piece [...]
This will be a quickie because it's almost midnight in the desert and Grant and I have been going since 8:00 this morning -- first at the A's and then with the Giants on the road. Grant calls it "journalism boot camp." But I want to say something about the [...]
As you know the NFL owners and players have agreed to extend the drop-dead, season-killing, lockout deadline a week. That is great news and may indicate -- may -- that both sides truly want a resolution, want a season, are being rational. I take this as a good sign and [...]
The NFL owners and players have extended their drop dead deadline 24 hours before they blow up next football season and look like a bunch of idiots. They continue talking and talking is better than not talking. I wrote my Friday column on where I think this 24 hour extension [...]
I'm about to run out of the house and drive to the City for Comcast so I'll make this real fast. Both sides agreed to a 24-hour extension in the NFL labor talks. This is good. It means, probably, there is give on both sides. Maybe owners are dropping some [...]
The NFL owners may lock out the players as soon as tomorrow night. They are threatening no football in the fall of this year. They want incredible concessions from the players and they have started a fight the players never sought. In other words, the owners have lost our sympathy [...]
I'm reading the papers this morning and there's a lot of Cam Newton stuff. How Newton was the big news at the combine and how he made an entrance and how he got the superstar treatment and blah blah blah. Look, Newton was a very good college quarterback. He is [...]
In all fairness, I say they should not ban football. I know what you're thinking -- the sport is horribly dangerous, for little kids and in the NFL. Some Sunday's it's a bloodbath out there. So many players get concussions and that leads to complications in later life. Moral do-gooders [...]
I enjoy this morning's discussion about Aaron Rodgers on the Zohn, about whether he's the best QB in the the NFL. Spurred on by that I'm posing a hypothetical. Who was a better QB, Joe Montana or John Elway? I can phrase this another way: If Elway played for Bill [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.