Here is a link to my Wednesday column about Tim Lincecum. The full text runs below: Time to write about Tim Lincecum in the past tense. He always has been a present-tense person. This is a sad column. He has trouble with his hips. He’s not getting better. He probably [...]
Here is a link to my Sunday column. The full text runs below: SAN FRANCISCO — Woody Allen, the most distinguished alumnus of Midwood High School — my high school in Brooklyn — would have called the Giants’ 6-0 Saturday loss to the Cardinals a “dead shark.” A team gets [...]
Here is a link to my Friday column. The full text runs below: SAN FRANCISCO — Be real clear about what the Giants just did. They took a series from the Cubs who had not lost a road series since late June. The Cubs are the hottest team in baseball. [...]
Here is a link to my Thursday column. The full text runs below: This is about the Giants, the Captain Marvel Paradox, Marty Lurie and ice cream. The Giants are a flawed team — sometimes they are downright crummy — but they still could win the World Series. I’m dead [...]
Here is a link to my Wednesday column. The full text runs below: This isn’t the saddest story ever told. But it’s sad, anyway; It’s the Saga of Timmy and Matt — better known to the world as Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain. The saga was supposed to have a [...]
Here is a link to my Thursday Giants column. The full text runs below: SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants need another bat. As in a hitter. They got shut out in their Wednesday matinee, lost 2-0, went quietly, passively. Five hits. Asleep at the switch. Astros starter Scott Feldman did [...]
Here is an early link to my Thursday column about do-gooders and smokeless tobacco and the SF Giants. The full text runs below: I have a horror of do-gooders. Do-gooders mean well, but they are bossy and they intrude on our lives and tell us what we should and should [...]
Brian Sabean and the Sabettes usually make the right move. That's what they did this time. They needed a starting pitcher. They got Mike Leake who will eat up innings, rest the bullpen and almost surely win. Tim Hudson moves to the bullpen. It's unclear he can warm up fast [...]
Here is a link to my Thursday column about the Giants. The full text runs below: SAN FRANCISCO Forget Wednesday’s Giants game. They won 5-0 over the horrible Milwaukee Brewers, and it was a very good win. Think about the Major League Baseball trading deadline that looms. It ends Friday [...]
Here is a link to my Tuesday column about the Giants home opener. The full text runs below: SAN FRANCISCO In the game part of the opening-day program at AT&T Park, the San Francisco Giants couldn’t hit. In the hitting part of baseball, the Giants couldn’t hit. Any way you [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.