In Sabreena Merchant's latest WNBA Power Rankings, she gave Golden State Valkyries rookie Carla Leite some nice print. She has a section in her column to celebrate rookies called Rookie of the Week. After Sonia Citron was the Rookie of the Week for…
Originally published on October 29, 2014They’re all sweet. But thinking about what it took for the Giants to even get there this year, this one may be the sweetest. The Giants never really had a healthy Angel Pagan all season long. Matt Cain …
On January 30th, 2024, the Golden State WNBA franchise, who didn't yet have a name, hired Jess Smith to be their team president. On May 7, 2024, Ohemaa Nyanin was hired to be the general manager. And today, the now Golden State Valkyries have hired …
Just two days after their season ended, and an hour before the MLB playoffs began, the Giants introduced Buster Posey as the President of Baseball Operations. Buster wasn't a quote machine, but that was to be expected. What he was, was endearing to …
With the regular season now over, we wanted to revisit our pre-season over/unders, which is a fun look back to see how optimistic (or not) we were over six months ago and how the season actually played out. Brad came up with the questions and we bo…
As if the 49ers 1-2 start didn't have the fanbase in dismay already, two new pieces of 49ers news soon will. According to head coach Kyle Shanahan, Javon Hargrave tore his triceps and will miss the rest of the 2024 season. Javon Hargrave p…
The Matt Chapman contract renewal should've been a positive thing for San Francisco Giants fans who have had to watch the most average team in baseball. But after reading the reporting on the who, what, when, why and where, it doesn't seem all that …
On Monday, 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan had an injury update on Deebo Samuel and it wasn't good. Deebo Samuel came out of Sunday's game with a calf strain and will miss "a couple" of weeks, Kyle Shanahan said. Shanahan said Samuel hurt the calf…
Fantasy Football owners and some national media seemed to be a bit ahead of the rest of us when it came to the health of Christian McCaffrey. But once he missed Monday night's game against the New York Jets, 49ers fans' radars were up. Were the 49er…
On Wednesday, Bay Area sports writer Tim Kawakami surprised his more than 100,000 Twitter followers by posting that he was leaving The Athletic, his employer since 2017, when he was tapped to be the Editor in Chief of the then new Bay Area vertical.…
Before there was BSPN, there was simply a Facebook page called "We Want Winners." This Facebook page was created in the late 2000s because of an experiment with an early Facebook app that created a post based on a scheduled game. Soon, that app wa…
On the 49ers season preview episode of We Want Winners, Rod and I talked about some prop bets he was making or has made for the 49ers this season. We've embedded that specific segment below if you want to watch it. But, here are those bets. Rod be…
On Wednesday night, we published the latest episode of Thompson 2 Clark, the show that kicked off this network. With the Giants waiving the white flag on the season, my co-host Brad Evans and I decided to take a look at the young players and said wh…
If you hadn't heard yet, you've heard now; The Sports Reporters is back. The show, which began in 1988 and ran until 2017 in different iterations, was back again on ESPN's YouTube channel on Tuesday. It came back with a different look, one in whic…
While the Giants have waived the white flag on this season, they've made sure that third base will be kept warm for the next six seasons. Late Wednesday night, it was announced that the Giants had signed Matt Chapman to a six-year deal for $151 mill…
As reported by The Athletic, Trent Williams is ending his holdout, with the understanding that he is returning to the Bay Area to finalize a new deal with the team. That comes on the heels of Brandon Aiyuk ending his hold-in and re-signing his new d…
The 49ers placed rookie wide receiver Ricky Pearsall on the reserve/non-football injury list today, just two days after he was shot in San Francisco after a robbery attempt. That means the earliest Pearsall can play for the team is the fifth game of…
I wrote the first iteration of this blog post in 2013 on my old roheblius.net blog. It was originally a list of 15 dunkers. I changed it to 20 after Zach LaVine and Aaron Gordon happened. It will stay at 20 for this version of the post. I con…
Last Sunday, Christian McCaffrey broke an old Jerry Rice record when he scored a touchdown in his 13th game in a row. Who knew that old Jerry Rice records were even approachable? On Sunday night's episode of We Want Winners, Roderick and I ta…
Brock Purdy is an oddly polarizing quarterback, even amongst 49ers fans. He's either the second coming of Joe Montana or the most overrated QB in the history of the NFL, being carried by one of the best teams in the NFL. Okay, it's not that bad. …
On The Death Lineup, Brian and I made our predictions for Warriors Vs. Kings. You can listen to the entire podcast to get our full context. Brian believes that the Warriors are losing game one because of the raucous Kings crowd and…
On the March 28, 2023 episode of the Thompson 2 Clark Podcast, my co-host Brad Evans put together a list of six predictions for us to discuss. We'll go through all six here so we can revisit when the season is over to see how we graded. 1. W…
One of the best things about podcasts is that there's no one way to do a podcast. Some are back-and-forth conversations. Some are full of in-depth reporting and keep you on the edge of your seat (shout out to Bone Valley which was the best one of th…
