Here's a link to my column previewing the Raiders-Vikings game. The full text runs below: Another test for the Oakland Raiders. The Minnesota Vikings are in town, the 6-2 Vikings who have won four in a row and are tied for first place in the NFC North. Those Minnesota Vikings. [...]
Here is a link to my Monday Raiders column. The ful text runs below: OAKLAND The Raiders are for real. More real than most people expected. Ask the New York Jets, a good team the Raiders ran out of California with a 34-20 whipping, sending them back to their haunt [...]
Here is a link to my column previewing the Raiders-Jets game. The full text runs below: Big test for the Raiders. The New York Jets are in town. Big test. The fact that the Raiders are having a big test, actually qualify for a big test, is news in itself. [...]
Here is a link to my Monday Raiders column. The full text runs below: OAKLAND You don’t praise a team for losing. That’s the standard protocol because — and this is a deep truth of life as we know it — there is nothing good about a loss. Nothing. So, [...]
Here is a link to my Thursday column. The full text runs below: Based on one game — and one game only — the narrative we blithely accepted in the preseason about the Raiders and 49ers got stood on its head. Or its helmet. This was the narrative going into [...]
Here is a link to my Monday column. The full text runs below: OAKLAND Welcome to Oakland Raiders football, Jack Del Rio. Welcome to losing to the Cincinnati Bengals in your inaugural game, a game that promised so much until it didn’t. You never thought being Raiders head coach would [...]
Here is a link to my Sunday column. The full text runs below: The Raiders, who open at home today against the Bengals, did right to sign Aldon Smith to a one-year deal. Oh, that’s such a tepid, cautious statement. The Raiders didn’t only do right. The Raiders did brilliant. [...]
Here is a link to my Monday Raiders column. The full text runs below: OAKLAND The Raiders played their third exhibition game on Sunday night — it was against the Arizona Cardinals. Who cares about the score? The third exhibition game is the “dress rehearsal,” the closest these silly preseason [...]
Here is a link to my Sunday column. The full text runs below: Lots of talk about the Raiders moving to L.A. Lots of talk this is their final season at O.Co Coliseum. Please. Time for a Raiders reality check. Here are 10 reasons the Raiders never move to L.A. I write [...]
Here is a link to my Saturday column. The full text runs below: OAKLAND — It’s so obvious what the Raiders are doing. I use “obvious” in the most flattering sense. They are trying to establish rookie wide receiver Amari Cooper as a key player. Maybe THE key player on [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.