Football

Jim Brown: 1936-2023

May 20, 2023

Almost sixty years after he retired I’m still thrilled whenever I think about Jim Brown on a football field, overpowering defenders in his path and outrunning those in pursuit.  He had scores of memorable runs and receptions but this brief video of his five greatest plays is a good introduction for those too young to…

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Painting in Color

June 7, 2020

Joe started drawing when he was very young. He drew horses, cartoons, Roy Rogers, the Lone Ranger, airplanes, things he related to. He also liked drawing on walls and in coloring books. He wasn’t thinking of art as a career and never took classes or followed guidelines that someone has to declare him an artist…

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Dwight Clark: The Catch

June 11, 2018

Entering training camp 1980 the San Francisco 49ers had lost fourteen games two straight seasons and weren’t generating much enthusiasm in central California or anywhere else. Still, even as a temporarily disengaged fan, I wanted to learn a little about the team and didn’t change channels when a Sacramento sportscaster interviewed one of the players.…

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Bill Walsh Calls Belichick

February 6, 2018

Of course I watched the Super Bowl. I’m an admirer of Bill Belichick. I enjoy watching him coach and assume he loved watching me guide the 49ers for ten seasons. Honestly, I don’t feel any competitive fire when I think about him. Oh, there is some tension, I suppose. I’m tired of all these young…

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5-Star Review for “Basketball and Football”

January 20, 2018

I would like to thank Lance Smith, the Sports Book Guy, one of the top reviewers of sports books in the nation, for his kind words about my most recent book, “Basketball and Football.” Sports Book Guy Lance Smith January 20, 2018 “With one of the simplest titles for a sports book, ‘Basketball and Football’…

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“Basketball and Football” is Published

August 20, 2017

In a rousing trip through the worlds of Basketball and Football, George Thomas Clark explores the professional basketball league in Mexico, the Herculean talents of Wilt Chamberlain, the difficulties and humor of attempting to play basketball in middle age, and observes that coaching at Caltech can be more painful than studying all night for a…

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Candlestick by the Bay

May 5, 2017

On a wet gray day late in December 2015 I was driving north on 101, telling my wife about great childhood adventures in the sixties when our family journeyed to Candlestick Park to watch the San Francisco Giants. We would come in the other way, from Sacramento through the city by the bay, and I…

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Northwest Catastrophe

October 23, 2016

seattle mourns seahawks move to bakersfield

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Super D

February 8, 2016

best offense on field denver defense

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Walsh Lectures Harbaugh and Kaepernick

October 6, 2014

This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”

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Rhinos Battle Poachers

November 23, 2013

Thank you, humans, after centuries of slaughtering rhinos and driving many of our species into extinction and others to the brink, for trying to implant microchips in horns of all Kenyan white rhinos you can shoot with tranquilizers and thereby track poachers who kill us, and presumably arrest, prosecute, and convict the heathens who love…

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Dolphin Brother Supports Incognito

November 9, 2013

This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”

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The Human Brain

June 9, 2012

This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”

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Madonna Teases Super Bowl Audience

February 7, 2012

hey some guy flipped off america during super bowl halftime show few noticed nonevent but bible busters protested when should’ve imagined madonna fifties fit in parked or moving cars on sofas in reading chairs on or under dining room tables planning to disappear in smoke revealing message world peace

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Invitation to Brave Tweeters

January 24, 2012

brave men tweeting san francisco forty niner kyle williams should die should jump from golden gate should catch bullet should blow up in car because twice fumbled football are invited to next tweet at team headquarters Source: SFGate.com on January 23, 2012

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Champions of Sleep

January 10, 2012

This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”

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The NCAA Confesses

September 21, 2011

What’s in that syringe? Untie me. You’ll go to jail. This won’t work. I’m not talking. I hope I won’t. I know I shouldn’t say as a kid I was a white wimp and still am and therefore perfect to work for the NCAA. I loathe my athletic superiors and all the media and fan…

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Ryan Mathews Demolishes the Bruins who Ignored Him

September 28, 2008

Two years ago this November I went to see a Bakersfield phenom who was rushing for about 300 yards and four touchdowns a game against good high school competition.  I took notes and wrote an article and sent it to UCLA coach Karl Dorrell and three of his assistants, stressing Ryan Mathews wanted to attend…

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Letter to Division I Personages

December 6, 2004

This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”

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