A reader of this blog wrote a polite comment chastising me for mocking Jim Tomsula. Mocking was the reader's word. I have thought a lot about the comment and I have mocked Tomsula and sometimes I do feel bad about it. I have mocked the way he talks, the way [...]
Here is a link to my Tuesday column. The full text runs below: SANTA CLARA Advice to Jim Tomsula, currently head coach of the 49ers: If you’re seeing things running through your head, who can you call? Ghostbusters. Every coach riding a four-game losing streak needs a personal ghostbuster, a [...]
Here is a link to my column from the 49ers-Vikings game. The full text runs below: SANTA CLARA What did we learn about a Jim Tomsula team — i.e. the 49ers? What did we learn in Tomsula’s debut as head coach in the Niners’ 20-3 win againster the Vikings? Well, [...]
Here is a link to my Tuesday column about Jim Tomsula. The full text runs below: OK? Today’s question is one word — no verb, no subject, no sentence. The question simply is OK? OK is the most frequent, loaded and certainly the most revealing phrase in the Jim Tomsula [...]
I've been around Jim Tomsula only a few times, so I'm still trying to read him and understand him. He spoke to the media Thursday night after the first round of the draft ended. He is an expressive man, puts everything into his words and uses his hands when he [...]
Here is a link to my Sunday column about Jed York and the truth. The full text runs below: I don’t believe Jed York is a truth teller. There’s a noun for people who don’t tell the truth. Jim Harbaugh spoke to the Merc’s Tim Kawakami the other day. Harbaugh [...]
Here is a link to my Sunday column about Jim Tomsula, babbler. The full text runs below: I used to feel a certain way about the Nobel Prize when Al Davis ran the Raiders. If the Nobel committee offered me the Nobel Prize for Literature but said I never again [...]
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, [...]
It is being reported the 49ers have hired Jim Tomsula, the puppet, as their new head coach. What a joke? If this is true they went from Jim Harbaugh to Harbaugh's underling who couldn't even rise to defensive coordinator. Double joke.
Jim Tomsula was a pleasure for his one-week tenure. He won't be head coach and I'm not advocating that. I'm just saying he was a pleasure. Before the postgame press conference he thanked the media for how we treated him the past week. He smiled and laughed. He was such [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.