Here is a link to my Wednesday column about Raiders play-by-play announcer Beth Mowins. The full text runs below: Why should people take Beth Mowins seriously? The phone interview had been going cordially. Then I asked Mowins the inevitable question, the blunt question. You see, the Raiders hired Mowins — [...]
Here is an early link to my Sunday column about the Raiders in free agency. The full text runs below: How is football like baseball? A team must be strong up the middle. In baseball, a team needs a good catcher, pitcher, shortstop, second baseman and center fielder. Of course, [...]
Here is a link to my Tuesday column about the Raiders great hiring and the Niners joke hiring. The full text runs below: The Raiders got rid of the untalented guy, the ordinary guy and hired someone special. The 49ers got rid of someone special and hired the untalented guy, [...]
Here is a link to my Sunday column which asks the eternal question, Who is a better owner Mark Davis or Jed York? The full text runs below: Who is a better team owner, Jed York or Mark Davis? Both are in the news. Both are searching for new head [...]
Here is a link to my Friday column about Mike Shanahan. The full text runs below: Mike Shanahan is apparently in play at the 49ers and Raiders. We’re talking candidate for their head-coaching vacancies. Bad idea times two. Shanahan was an almost-great coach in his day. He won two Super [...]
Here is a link to my column about Mark Davis and the Raiders after the Raiders' ninth straight loss. The full text runs below: OAKLAND — It’s difficult to write about the Oakland Raiders. Forgive me for getting personal. No earthly reason exists to write a column about their 41-17 [...]
After the Raiders lost their ninth straight, Tony Sparano and Derek Carr came to the interview room. Sparano was a straight-ahead, plainspoken, down-to-earth man. He is likeable. He's still only an interim, but I give him credit for being a gentleman. Carr was charming, generous, verbal and honest. What a [...]
Here is a link to my Tuesday column suggesting various times Mark Davis could fire Dennis Allen. The full text runs below: When should Raiders’ owner Mark Davis fire coach Dennis Allen? This is strictly a procedural issue. Davis could fire Allen today, but that might lead to logistical problems. [...]
Here is a link to my Sunday Raiders column. The full text runs below: This is in praise of Raiders’ rookie quarterback Derek Carr. But not too much praise. Call it praise tempered with caution. Big emphasis on the caution. First the praise. Carr came up big against the world-champ [...]
Here is a link to my Tuesday column on how the Raiders can't get no respect. The full text runs below: The Raiders can’t get no respect. Ain’t that the sad truth? A blog called NFL Nation conducted a confidential survey asking players which team they’d least like to play [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.