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Bruno Mars Is Centerpiecing The Super Bowl Halftime Show With Help From...
The NFL is set to announce the halftime performer for the Super Bowl 50 halftime show on Thursday, which as we all know is the most important news in the history of mankind. But here at the SB50...
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Super Bowl 50 Countdown -- 10 Weeks To Go: Security Ramping Up In Wake Of...
Security was bound to be a major focus of Super Bowl 50 and it has been, as the SB50 Countdown Blog has documented almost from the start as well as more recently. But I can tell you this: As I have...
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Super Bowl 50 Countdown--9 Weeks To Go: My latest "Santa Clara Six" plus...
Lots of good stuff in this week's installment of the insipid yet awesome SB50 Countdown blog . . . ping your friends! Here goes: Carson Palmer In December, with the season grinding toward the...
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Super Bowl 50 Countdown--8 Weeks To Go: Trying to coax the too-cool Bay Area...
What will happen when you turn a corner in the Bay Area and see an inordinately large "50" symbol illuminated by solar power? Will you be enthralled and excited? More importantly, will you hashtag?...
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Super Bowl 50 Countdown -- 7 Weeks To Go: The celebrity factor! Which starry...
Over the past 10 months, we have covered many important angles of the upcoming Super Bowl in Santa Clara. Security. Transportation. Logistics. Ticket scalping. Jennifer Aniston and Dallas Cowboys...
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The Raiders and LA Relocation: Why the 49ers and Jed York could play a key...
The Raiders officially applied for relocation on Monday, which was expected. The St. Louis Rams and San Diego Chargers also submitted official papers to seek a move to Los Angeles. Next week in...
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Super Bowl 50 Countdown -- 27 Days To Go: The Super Bowl Soccer Park Mess And...
UPDATED: The soccer parents' request for an injunction against the NFL and Super Bowl was denied late Tuesday. I have updated my post from last night to reflect this. Technically, next month Santa...
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Super Bowl 50 Countdown -- 26 Days To Go: I Can Now See Super Bowl Week...
I had originally planned another topic for today's installment in the dogged yet sensitive SB50 Countdown blog. But then this Raiders' non-relocation thing intervened. So I posted a blog item with my...
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Chip Kelly: The 49ers Go Out For A Tightrope Walk. Can't Wait To See What...
Maybe the most dreadful part about the 49ers during the 2015 season was not that they lost so many games. It was that they were boring. They're not boring any more. The hiring of Chip Kelly by the...
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Super Bowl Countdown -- 22 Days To Go: Would You Spend $7,000 To Come Here...
You live here. But let's say you didn't and wanted to come here for the Super Bowl. How much would it cost? A study by hipmunk.com, a San Francisco based travel site, released some data this week that...
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Super Bowl 50 Countdown--10 Days To Go: My Unauthorized Pre-Preview Self-Tour...
I know you come to the fabulous SB50 Countdown blog for exclusive and moderately interesting posts. So I spent Thursday in San Francisco investigating the Super Bowl City setup. That's the popup theme...
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Super Bowl 50 Countdown -- Eight Days To Go: A Behind-The-Scenes Peek Of The...
I drove to San Francisco on Saturday to pick up my Super Bowl press credentials (Sorry! No photo! Someone might counterfeit!) The traffic honestly wasn't that bad. I don't expect that to continue. The...
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Super Bowl 50 Countdown--Six Days To Go: The Question John Elway Couldn't...
Today, this will be a shorter version of the Countdown blog than usual because of my duties at the always-preposterous Media Day (now rebranded as Opening Night), the only place where you can be...
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Super Bowl 50 Countdown--Four Days To Go: Does Anyone Remember The San...
Apologies for this being such a short post today (wait, was that cheering I heard?) because I spent too long working on this column for Thursday's print editions about former 49ers coach Bill Walsh...
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Super Bowl 50 Countdown--Three Days To Go: Mike Holmgren Explains His Theory...
(No Girl Scouts were forced to reschedule their reading habits during the creation of this blog.) * * * I apologize for an even shorter-than-short version of the Countdown blog this time because I...
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Super Bowl 50 Countdown--Two Days To Go: My Complete Predictions For Sunday,...
Hard to believe that after nearly 52 weeks of this Countdown blog, which began in February of last year, we are getting to the end. I'll have my wrapup posting tomorrow. But today, I'm giving you an...
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The Jed York Interview: 49ers Owner Discusses The Kaepernick Situation And...
Last Friday afternoon, Jed York kept his word. The 49ers owner had promised me he would make himself available for a one-on-one interview in the wake of the Super Bowl at Levi's Stadium and the Hall...
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The Jed York Interview: 49ers Owner Discusses Eddie DeBartolo's Hall of Fame...
Here's part two of my lengthy Jed York interview from last Friday. This segment involves the 49ers owner talking about the recent Pro Football Hall of Fame election of his uncle, Eddie DeBartolo Jr....
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The Jed York Interview: The Super Bowl 50 Takeaways, The Grateful Dead...
Here's another segment of my recent lengthy Jed York interview. This was actually the first part of the hourlong interview. For all of the struggles and missteps by the 49ers football operation...
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The Jed York Interview: Should He Feel Guilt About Promising 49ers Fans...
One more segment of my Jed York interview, with a self-explanatory headline above. Here goes: Levi's Stadium. Where Girl Scouts will sleep after controversy was solved. Q: All right. Last year,...
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