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If Steve Young is right about “perception,” 49ers are in trouble (a few current players are reportedly “disgusted,” too)
Steve Young, the Hall of Fame quarterback who’s known as “bro” to loyal listeners of KNBR, joined Tom Tolbert and Ray Ratto yesterday for an all-too-rare media appearance in which Young isn’t stuck next to that know-it-all shill for the 49ers, Trent Dilfer. Young is relatively unique among media types who refer to the 49ers as […]
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9.6K8Manute Bol bobblehead night: Warriors fans of a certain age look back
The Warriors play the Chicago Bulls tonight at Oracle and it’s Manute Bol bobblehead night. I don’t usually get too hyped for bobblehead giveaways, but I’m very excited for Manute Bol bobblehead night. Incredibly excited as a matter of fact. Excited enough that I might just have to get in my car and drive to the […]
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5.7K5Klay Thompson drops 37 in a quarter: The Day After
Wake up, Warriors fans. Rub the gunk out of your eyes. Splash some cold water on your face. “Wait … what happened last night? Was I dreaming? Did I really see Klay Thompson drop 37 points in one quarter? Did that actually happen?” Yes, Warriors fans. That actually happened. Put on your robe and slippers. Grab yourself […]
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4.7K47Why so little Warriors chatter on sports talk radio?
Going to go ahead and borrow this from Ethan Sherwood Strauss for a minute … Agree with this poster pic.twitter.com/Dou6gfeiap — Ethan Strauss (@SherwoodStrauss) January 5, 2015 Thanks Ethan, I owe you a fountain soda in the Oracle Arena media room tonight. Oh, they’re free? How about a hot dog? Oh, they’re free too? Let […]
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December ratings: KNBR takes a 49ers-like tumble
Whether it was due to the 49ers’ collapse or the Giants’ lukewarm offseason stove, KNBR’s ratings fell to their lowest marks in quite some time this month (according to the Nielsen numbers for San Francisco and San Jose). San Francisco October November December Station AQH% Reach AQH% Reach AQH% Reach Owner KNBR-AM 6.6 992,400 8.9 1,449,500 3.7 745,800 Cumulus […]
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Ted Robinson on KNBR: “I had women thanking me for saying what was on the air here.”
Ted Robinson will return to the booth Sunday to call the 49ers’ next game, and on Monday he was a guest on two KNBR shows. He expressed a lot of the same things with Tom Tolbert and Ray Ratto that he said earlier in the day with Murph and Mac, so I tried to transcribe all the relevant […]
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Ted Robinson suspended two games by 49ers and Pac-12 Network for insensitive comments about domestic violence on KNBR
I wasn’t listening to most of the portion of Monday’s “Mr. T Show” that got Ted Robinson in hot water. All I heard was the 49ers play-by-play announcer referring to Janay Palmer Rice’s decision to marry Ray Rice as “pathetic.” If you’re looking for a detailed account of what Robinson said (and he said a […]
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4.1KPeavy and Ishikawa lead Giants to victory, just like Sabean and Bochy planned it all along
The Giants needed a game like this. After the debacle that was last night, when a 15-minute cloudburst turned into a four-hour rain delay and a loss, and a protest (more on that later), everyone associated with the Giants needed a game like this — the players, the coaches, the broadcasters, the fans, and especially […]
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3.4K19#KeepJim worked: Jim Barnett says he’ll call every game in 2014-15
When fans heard the Warriors were considering a replacement for Jim Barnett, they were the opposite of apathetic. A “#KeepJim” movement spread on social media (with a lot of help from Adam Lauridsen), and it appears that the front office has listened to popular opinion and decided to give the people what they want. @WarriorSports […]
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4.1K23Eric Byrnes: 2013-14 was David Lee’s “most miserable basketball season”
Current/former(?) KNBR host Eric Byrnes went on with Tom Tobert and Ray Ratto yesterday afternoon, and in the course of some Warriors smalltalk dropped a “juicy, juicy, juicy” (as Byrnes himself might say) nugget. “One thing I heard, and this was interesting. And I don’t know what the reason was. Now I heard this secondhand, […]
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Donald Sterling once told Tom Tolbert he had size and strength to “compete with the blacks”
Some of the best radio in the Bay Area comes from stories about a team in Los Angeles. Tom Tolbert spent only one year with the Clippers, but the 1993-94 season has provided over a decade of material. Most of the stories pertain to how cheap the organization was. For example, the team held practices at the YMCA, and Tolbert […]
