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Could Be Worse: Five Players 49ers Faithful Can Be Glad To Be Rid Of
Posted: 26th March 2010 by Patrick Goulding II in NFL
The 2010 season stands to be a make-or-break year for the San Francisco 49ers. They managed to escape their seventh straight losing season in 2009, finishing even at 8-8. Now with head coach Mike Singletary entering his second full season, the next step NEEDS to be a playoff berth.
The 49ers off-season moves, and also lack thereof, have generated some interesting conversations about whether the team is in better position ...
NFC West Offseason Round Up: From Signings, To Trades, To the Draft
Posted: 25th March 2010 by Patrick Goulding II in NFL
The 2010 NFL offseason has seen its fair share of major moves in the NFC West thus far.
Pro Bowlers and Super Bowl Champions have retired; big names have left, re-signed, or changed hands. Even a very famous college coach has decided to make another run at the NFL success that has eluded him so far in his football career.
With the transactions so far already creating headlines, this article ...
Very Superstitious: Three Superstitious Fixes for the Slumping Sharks
Posted: 23rd March 2010 by Patrick Goulding II in NHL
Time to face the music.
The San Jose Sharks have been mediocre at best since well before the Olympic Break and downright dismal through most of 10 games since, leading to their worst skid since 1997.
Theories abound as to what their major malfunction seems to be, but the fact of the matter is, answers remain elusive.
Time for drastic measures!
Where neither practice, nor speeches, nor days off, nor rationalizing ...
Why Pro Football Hall of Fame Fan Balloting Is A Terrible Idea
Posted: 21st March 2010 by Patrick Goulding II in NFL
In my opinion, NFL fans should have absolutely NO say in who gets enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Think about that for a minute. If you are like most NFL fans, you will take offense. Something deep and guttural within your being will rise up and shout, “NO! THAT’S NOT RIGHT! WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE!”
Why should this notion illicit such opposition? Because it is “Un—American.” Well, ...
Don’t Stop Believing! Why 2010 Is Far From Over for the San Jose Sharks
Posted: 20th March 2010 by Patrick Goulding II in NHL
The Sharks’ recent swoon has brought about harsh criticism and more than a little speculation across various sports media outlets that this is simply 2010’s beginning of the end of another strong regular season bid destined to result in an early playoff exit.
However, there are some indications that things in the South Bay may not be as dismal as some prognosticators of doom (and that is meant toward nobody in ...
Should David Carr be in the Driver’s Seat for San Francisco 49ers?
Posted: 19th March 2010 by Patrick Goulding II in NFL
There has certainly been a lot of talk about the departure of GM Scott McCloughan in San Francisco over the last couple of days.
With the draft just weeks away, questions have been raised over who will lead the 49ers draft process and what the team’s direction will be going forward? Speculation is plentiful; answers (or even good theories) are few.
Like Coach Singletary fielding questions last summer during Crabtree-gate, ...
I Want To Believe!: Three Reasons This Could Be the San Jose Sharks’ Year
Posted: 18th March 2010 by Patrick Goulding II in NHL
Now seems like an odd time to write an article about why Sharks fans should be optimistic about the upcoming playoffs.
The Sharks are coming off their worst loss of the season to a division rival who stands to miss the playoffs, and are in the throws a three-game losing skid which saw them miss an opportunity to sweep the Anaheim Ducks and exact a small measure of revenge for their ...
ôWhat Could Go Wrong?ö The 2010 Draft Blunders the 49ers Need to Avoid
Posted: 12th March 2010 by Patrick Goulding II in NFL
The 49ers are coming off their first non-losing season since 2002, a year when they enjoyed a stirring playoff comeback at home against the New York Giants in the Wild Card round, only to get demolished by the eventual Super Bowl Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers the following week in Steve Mariucci’s last game as 49ers Head Coach.
This modest measure of success has a fan base, hungry for a return to ...
The 49ers Top 5 Strange Personalities In History: Characters Welcome
Posted: 10th March 2010 by Patrick Goulding II in NFL
The 49ers have certainly seen their fair share of unique and interesting personalities over the years. Whether fans loved them, or hated them, nobody was ambivalent.
While this phenomenon has spanned the entire timeline of franchise history, I have limited my consideration here to players only, starting from the Super Bowl era forward. I would love to hear input on what I messed up, who I left out, or how I ...
San Jose Finds a Way: Gritty Performance Vaults Sharks over Columbus
Posted: 7th March 2010 by Patrick Goulding II in NHL
It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t certain. It wasn’t easy. It wasn’t decisive. It wasn’t any of the things that a March matchup between an NHL conference leader and a team seemingly destined to be watching from the sidelines in mid-April ought to be. What it was was another encouraging sign of the evolution of the San Jose Sharks toward becoming a team worthy of claiming hockey’s ultimate goal.
Saturday night’s contest ...