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Warzone: Bay Area reaps sports bonanza

- The Fresno Bee

Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 | 11:09 PM

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Enter the Warzone, leading with the helmet.

-- What a time for Bay Area sports fans. The 49ers are in the Super Bowl. The Giants are polishing their World Series trophies. The A's made the playoffs with a bunch of rookies. The Warriors are the NBA's most-improved team. Even the Sharks are 4-0.

And then there are the Raiders. Just wince, baby.

-- The only thing that got sabotaged, Tim Brown, was your own credibility.

-- Sure hope someone asks Ray Lewis on Media Day why the blood of a murder victim was found in the back of his limo after that infamous night 13 years ago in Atlanta.

But you know that won't happen.

-- On ESPN's "First Take," loudmouths-in-arms Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith debated whether Tim Tebow could've led the 49ers to the Super Bowl.

With straight faces, even.

-- Police say Redskins tackle Trent Williams was "the victim" in a Honolulu nightclub fracas.

Williams is 6-foot-5 and 325 pounds. If that's a victim, we'd like to see the perpetrator.

-- Here's what we don't get about the whole Manti Te'o imbroglio: Why does a star linebacker at Notre Dame need the Internet to meet a girl?

Figured only 43-year-old single sportswriters were that desperate.

-- The Lakers held a team meeting to clear the air, and within minutes, details of who said what to whom started popping up all over the Internet.

Even the Jets think that's a dysfunctional situation.

-- How in the world is Fresno's Brook Lopez not an NBA All-Star?

Guess 18.6 points, 7.4 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game aren't enough when you play in a tiny media market like Brooklyn. (Oh, wait.)

-- Has any Bulldogs football player and assistant coach enjoyed a more mutually beneficial one-year relationship than Phillip Thomas and Tim McDonald?

Best of luck to both in their future endeavors.

-- Good move by Fresno Unified to ban full-contact football practices in the offseason.

Anyone who thinks it's a good idea for teenage boys to be smacking helmets year round needs to have his head examined.

-- The NCAA's two-year probe into the Miami football program has been compromised by improper conduct.

Naming 2 Live Crew as lead investigators was a terrible idea.

-- When the NCAA screws up, does it self-report to itself?

-- For no particular reason: Jack Squirek.

-- Stuff you can't make up: The Chelsea soccer player in hot water for kicking a ball boy in the stomach is named Eden Hazard.

Yep. He's a hazard all right.

-- Mike Eruzione is selling his game-worn jersey and stick from the 1980 "Miracle On Ice" Olympic hockey game.

Do you believe in keepsakes? No!


The Warzone never keeps anything, including time. Clock him at marekw@fresnobee.com or (559)441-6218.

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