The song playing over the PA system took several fans and players by surprise after the Oakland A’s won 8-0 on Opening Night at the Coliseum. Instead of “Celebration” by Kool and the Gang, which they’ve been playing after A’s victories for several years, it was “Theme for Oakland” by a Bay Area rock group called […]
Unless it was an April Fool’s joke that was explained after I got out of the car last night, “The Towny & Zakariah Show” (95.7 The Game’s evening show featuring Chris Townsend and former Lucky Break contestant Zakariah Slenderbrook) will no longer be a regularly scheduled program, starting tonight with the first game of the Bay Bridge […]
The San Francisco Examiner has been around for over 150 years. Throughout my childhood it was an afternoon paper that had an odd relationship with the San Francisco Chronicle. I assumed the two newspapers were fierce competitors, which wasn’t necessarily the case, probably because my father could never stick with one newspaper subscription for very long. For […]
Today’s lineup: @billbarnwell 3:30, @SteinmetzNBA 4:30, @realmickfoley 5:00. Plus my own 40-for-40. 40 things in sports that made me. — Damon Bruce (@DamonBruce) March 25, 2015 As you can see in the tweet above, Damon Bruce expected to chat with wrestling legend Mick Foley at 5 pm. So how was KNBR able to post this photo […]
I’m over a week late with the ratings, which upset a lot of you. Some of the nasty emails and tweets I received … do you kiss your mothers with those mouths? My word. Just kidding, no one mentioned it. A few days ago I checked out the website where the ratings numbers are available and noticed […]
It’s always fun when we get to pull out the popcorn for the purposes of watching athletes and media figures in the Bay Area trading jabs with one another. 95.7 The Game host Matt Steinmetz hopped onto Twitter Sunday morning with a thought on Draymond Green. It appears Green follows Steiny, because he was quick […]
95.7 The Game (KGMZ) will have a new program director this summer. Jason Barrett announced he’ll be moving back to New York when his contract ends in June, ending a four-year run marked by a dizzying number of lineup changes. Barrett made his decision known in a 2,800-word blog post that included a 30-second snippet from […]
Yesterday over 15,000 folks braved lousy weather and showed up to the Oakland Coliseum complex for A’s FanFest, an event meant to sell tickets and acclimate fans to new players, which is something it seems this team does in great volume every year. I was on the airwaves of the A’s flagship, 95.7 The Game, […]
Ratings down across the board, blah blah blah, nobody listens to sports talk radio during holiday season, blah blah blah (I know you’re here to read about Bill Romanowski’s argument with Damon Bruce). San Francisco November December Holiday Station AQH% Reach AQH% Reach AQH% Reach Owner KNBR-AM 8.9 1,449,500 3.7 745,800 3.6 722,800 Cumulus KGMZ-FM […]
No one knows for certain whether Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Adam Gase would be a great catch for an NFL team with a head coaching vacancy. However, according to Greg Papa on 95.7 The Game’s “The Wheelhouse,” Trent Baalke had the 36-year-old coach on the hook on Wednesday … but 49ers CEO Jed York decided to toss Gase back into the sea. The […]
When news broke that the Oakland Raiders interviewed Mike Shanahan, many NFL observers paused and scratched their heads. For Raiders’ announcer Greg Papa, it was more than just confusing … it was flat out wrong. Among all of the rivalries that pervade the NFL, perhaps one of the most notorious and heated was the one between Shanahan […]