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Jon Spangler May 4, 2013 at 02:59 pm
Rick Eymer made a "bush league" grammatical error that should have been caught. See…Read More paragraph 2:
"Since signing a professional contract with the Detroit Tigers in 1981, Melvin HAS RODE a roller coaster of success and failure."
Even a sports reporter should know better than this.....
Eyleen Nadolny May 2, 2013 at 02:43 pm
Bob Melvin is the best thing to happen to the A's in MANY years! Love him and the team! How…Read More appropriate it is that the team's "Root Beer Float Day" every year benefits the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation! Most important of all: KEEP THE A'S IN OAKLAND!!!
Born and Raised February 8, 2013 at 04:17 pm
That's funny I was going to say the same thing about a lot of 49r fans. However, football fans of…Read More just about any team have that element whether you want to recognize it or not. I'll be going to the Raiders games as much as I can this year because of the access to BART.
Michelle Kye February 8, 2013 at 03:44 pm
If I were a Raider's Fan, I would... it sounds like a good deal. Although, as CJ stated, I'd be…Read More concerned about increased crime. I remember a pre-season game with the Niners vs. the Raiders and there were a lot of incidents -- I said never again!
P February 5, 2013 at 03:55 pm
Palomar,
Well said comment!
There should have been an early pass-interference call on the 49ers as…Read More well.
If the refs had been making calls in the early game, players would have had to play by the rules throughout. Instead they let there be numerous late whistles and late hits (where one guy had the runner stopped with a tackle and then other guys were allowed to hit him--very physically dangerous and with game-changing possibilities of injuries and fumbles) and also over aggressive shoving/fighting after the point (mostly started by the Ravens).
I thought the officiating was poor and changed the nature of the game.
Wasn't this almost the fewest penalty calls that these teams have EVER had? (I'd like to hear those statistics.) Did these teams change that much from their previous season play that they now weren't doing penalties? I doubt it.
Palomar Parkman February 5, 2013 at 12:39 pm
The game was very entertaining for fans of both teams. That is why you watch. The 49ers played like…Read More a young team. Flashes of brilliance and moments of stupidity. The non-calls by the refs changed the ebb and flow. Their performance was pathetic and that is supposed to be the 'best' ref crew the NFL has to offer. Bad calls and non-calls never even out. I expect to see the game played by the rules.
I am not sure what the ultimate outcome would have been if it was properly officiated but it most definitely would not have been the same game I watched. What a disgraceful display by the NFL on their biggest stage.
Eleanor Bernstein January 29, 2013 at 01:48 pm
We've know Terry and his football group for many years!! Have a great time, Terry!! And we know…Read More who will be with you in spirit!!
Paula Miller January 29, 2013 at 12:02 am
It is great when longtime loyal fans are rewarded for that loyalty! Seems that young Mr. York got…Read More his enthusiasm and class from his Uncle Eddie D.
Chris J Kapsalis January 25, 2013 at 01:37 pm
My sister was born in 1962 and me in 1965. She did what many big sisters do to their little…Read More brothers, like lock me out of the house, the car while we waited for our mom. Had me running around and open the door, lock it, laugh, I would lose it and get in trouble of course. Pick on me, tell me I had a big head pointing to a baby picture of me in a little pool with my head out of the water and body in the water. Of course it gave me a huge complex about having a huge head. In 1972 she got a Ouija board and I was 7, she had it say I was going to die before I turned 8. She said I was adopted. I asked my parents who said I wasn't. I called her a liar but she said they won't tell me because they know I would freak out. She learned what Gay meant and I thought it meant happy, so she asked me if I was gay and when I said yes she.. Well you get the idea, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. So I got her back a few times. I hid under her bed and when she came in and sat on her bed I grabbed her ankles and you never heard a scream like that! I put a fishing line out my bedroom window and put it over the roof and tied it to a balloon and a sheet over it and waited. When she was in her room I pulled it up in her window and that was fun!! I was teased and bullied until one day in the garage, 1977, I was 12. I forget what she did but I punched her in the face really hard and that ended 12 years of bullying. She knew then I was not taking it anymore.
Leonard Vinci January 22, 2013 at 05:28 pm
It's amazing how many folks know so much about sports and don't have a clue about how our government…Read More in Washington and even here in Danville are messing with our lives. Go 49er's on Super Sunday... Wow...Super Sunday
Chris J Kapsalis January 20, 2013 at 05:59 pm
These are the things teams will print out and tape up in the locker room to fire up their team and…Read More players, especially an underdog. When I saw this yesterday I said Oh No! No way, they didn't. Still early, but I know for a fact they do this sometimes.
Emily Henry (Editor) January 20, 2013 at 05:00 pm
49ers: 28, Falcons: 21
Patriots: 30, Ravens: 38
Go Niners and Ravens!
Lance Howland (Editor) January 19, 2013 at 03:41 pm
Niners 33 Falcons 21 Patriots 38 Ravens Nevermore 20
Dive Turn Work January 10, 2013 at 02:10 pm
I paid $10K to have dinner with Bush. Of course, I got a nice photo and a decorative plate. I think…Read More I overpaid.
Lance Howland (Editor) January 9, 2013 at 09:50 pm
It's brilliant. A $10 beer seems so much more reasonable if you paid $5,555.55 for the ticket ...
Emily Henry (Editor) January 11, 2013 at 06:38 pm
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Denise Kalm January 9, 2013 at 07:17 pm
Cheating has become rampant in our schools to the extent that even talented children are finding…Read More they need to "cheat to compete." If we continue to reward cheaters in the public realm (sports, politics or Hollywood), we send the wrong message to our kids. Cheating should have a dire price. Bonds should never be awarded this honor.
Wayne Cochrun January 5, 2013 at 03:48 pm
During during Bob's tenure DLS was the best coached football team in America, at any level. The…Read More names of the players changed but the fundamentals and techniques never changed!!! And football IS fundamentals!!!!
Wayne Cochrun, former footall coach for 43 years in Southern California.
Jack Weir January 4, 2013 at 09:07 pm
Our son Drew played for DLS for four years, and was on the varsity team that maintained the 151-game…Read More "Streak." At the football awards ceremony his senior year, Coach Ladoceur commented that Drew was "a very good influence on our team." I can think of no higher compliment. I know Bob will continue to teach and coach young men to become upstanding and responsible members of their community.
Bill January 9, 2013 at 03:21 pm
Would like to think committing to win, with integrity, does carryover for more than just DLS…Read More winners. But I doubt it's more important than kids having positive role models in many, if not all aspects of their lives. Sometimes it's a coach, sometimes it's a dance teacher, sometimes it's a parent...or, even better, sometimes all 3.
jim January 8, 2013 at 05:10 am
it feels good to win- much better than losing. It is a reflection of the hard work put in and is…Read More the reward for being good. It is not life or death, but very little really is. My view is, if you are going to do something, then give it your all. If that causes you to win- so be it. If not- then at least you gave it your all. In DLS case, just very impressive that kids can operate at such a high level and play the top talent in the country and compete-- congrats to a great program. If you ever played in a freiendly game of baseball, a pick up basketball game or a Thanksgiving Day football game-- you know why it is important to win-- because you dont want to loose- you dont plan on loosing and you dont practice to loose. That attitude will carryover into the balance of these kids lives and make them more successful at whatever they do in the future...
Tom January 7, 2013 at 07:12 pm
I agree with Jack but have a different take. Why in the world is it so important to win HS football…Read More games? I know many current and former DLS kids and they are good kids and most are also good students but I have never understood why ANY sport could be that important.
ROBERT E. FISHBACK April 29, 2013 at 11:17 am
A little off subject, but.....The Jets released Tim Teboe and that is the best thing for Tim and…Read More hope he gets over the royal screwing he got from incompetant coaching staff.
mike gregory January 9, 2013 at 11:03 pm
I don't care if you recruit or what 151-0 is a feet that's beyond believable or 399-25, and he…Read More stoped playing teams in a division to travel and play the best in the country, and he still won won won
Gemini21 January 7, 2013 at 11:22 pm
My passion is valid. Calling a person naive shows your ignorance with your facts on this subject.…Read More I live here and know how it works, but most of all have hands on knowledge. Yep, they don't have to recruit and recruiting from "all over the U.S." as you implied previously is "naive".
Michael Dodge January 5, 2013 at 05:55 pm
I started at DLS in 79 and had him as my religion teacher, he was a fantastic teacher, I remember…Read More working out with him when I wrestled.. He was bench pressing more then anyone back then.
Kari Hulac (Editor) January 4, 2013 at 06:12 pm
Received this comment by email from DLS running back Jim Donnelly ('83):
"Coach Lad is as…Read More fine a coach, leader, teacher, mentor, and man/person in any sport at any level. You will hear the same from any others you ask that played for or work with him. Coach Lad came to DLS in my freshman fall in 1979, at the time DLS was a doormat of a football team winning 1 or 2 games a year in the 70’s. My senior fall season of 1982 was his 1st undefeated and NO CA championship team and that was the tip of the iceberg for what he and the program accomplished the next 3 decades. You know the numbers, a record for the ages in any sport and has built DLS to be regarded as the best HS football program in US history. He got the most out of every player by challenging you both physically and mentally beyond places you thought possible. It was about the team and playing for and loving every one of your teammates more than yourself. That was common on every DLS team, year in and year out, and at the core of the programs success. It’s just like Coach Lad to retire at 399 wins and not care about the attention and accolades win 400 would bring him in September.
The John Wooden of HS football is retiring today. It was an honor to play for him and be a part of the DLS program and family.
Robert Rothgery January 5, 2013 at 03:24 pm
This transition has been long anticipated and is a product of strategic planning and infrastructure…Read More development that is entirely consistent with the team's more observable disciplines on the playing field. To understand the DLS program you must realize that Lad guides his team from a foundation of discipline, training and ethic, but without the control and go-fer management so common in prep athletics. It produces a different behavior - one where commitment and community trump performance induced by conformity and outward obligation. Robert Ladouceur's presence is not an irreplaceable blip in history, but simply another chapter in a successful program that has been running for over three hundred years.
Tom Kirkbride January 5, 2013 at 08:17 am
De La Salle will continue to thrive. Coach Lad has schooled his successor well(14 years); over 30…Read More players return from 2012; the jv and frosh teams lost only two games total. And Lad remains present for advice/council.
Bill December 21, 2012 at 05:25 pm
DLS does indeed get students, regardless of athletic ability or intent, from outside the immediate…Read More geographic area... no question about that. I lived in Antioch when my son attended DLS. That's one thing about a private school... there are no boundaries. (My son was NOT an athlete. We just chose for him to attend DLS for all its other attributes.) The football program continues to feed off its prior successes.
Another thing to consider is that not all of their players are outstanding athletes. (Some research would be needed to see how many get college athletic scholarships.) What they have is a physical and mental regimen and training that brings these individuals together as great teams. Attitude and desire can accomplish great things beyond the physical.
George March December 21, 2012 at 04:07 pm
I am not a DLS "hater." I do enjoy football, at multiple levels. If DLS does not…Read More "recruit" per se, then it is truly a remarkable coincidence that they have such a luck-of-the-draw collection of gifted kids who all just happen to live within the immediate surrounding area of the school - the way a typical public school draws its students (and year after year...what DO they put in the water?). No, I suspect that there must be a certain level of influence to 'entice/encourage' students of certain academic/athletic abilities to attend the school beyond the geography of their residence. Whatever you wish to call it.
Bill December 21, 2012 at 03:38 pm
Glad to see someone else speak up. My son and my lady's son both attended DLS in the 90s. There is…Read More no recruiting. There past success is a self perpetuating thing in that top players from the area want to attend there. There also are no scholarships for athletes. DLS has a financial aid program, as do most private schools, for any family that qualifies regardless of being an athlete or not.
PS: DLS won the Open Division which is a class for schools of their caliber. And before criticizing DLS for their football success, people should find out about their academic success as well.
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