With one month of summer left and with the MLB trade deadline today that can only mean one thing, the start of the 2009 training camp.  NFL football fans across the country are gearing up for the official start of a new season hoping the off-season acquisitions their respective teams made will help them get into the playoffs and hopefully a Super Bowl trophy.  With rookies already reporting to camp on Tuesday, along with some veterans, the rest of the players report today with the first practice of training camp set for tomorrow morning.  From the reactions of some 49er [...]

Wide Receiver Michael Crabtree has entered into his second day of his contract holdout.  Running back Glenn Coffee signed a four year deal with the Niners right before training camp started.  Hopefully the signing will motivate Crabtree who I have dubbed MCT.  In the meantime here is a poem I wrote for Crabtree:
MCT Where Are Thee?
NFL draft slipped to number ten
Passed over by everyone including Al Davis and his men
Contract holdout, demands top money
Potential bust factor, your agent is funny
All while rehabbing a foot that was broken
We didn’t see you in OTA’s, you have shown nothing, so why are you [...]

Well, I have to say I am not surprised all of the 49ers rookies have reported to training camp with the exception of wide receiver Michael Crabtree.  After the NFL draft in April the only negative press about Crabtree was certain coaches, Eric Mangini was one, were turned off by his “diva” attitude.  Another reason is his agent is Eugene Parker who represented the Lam’s running back Stephen Jackson and the Bills Jason Peter with their holdouts last year.  Parker also represents another rookie drafted in the top ten, the Chiefs defensive end Tyson Jackson who has not signed as [...]

This is a guest post from reader Mizg

The week of July 6, 2009 a new bill was unveiled in Sacramento that would allow Santa Clara to avoid a public bidding process for its proposed new NFL stadium – in an apparent violation of the city of Santa Clara’s own charter.  Bill Bailey of Santa Clara Plays Fair is very concerned with this new development.  He says of his city and citizens “if it’s our money, it should involve our rules.”  The author of this bill is California state Sen. Elaine Alquist, who represents much of the South Bay, & [...]

Gary Mialocq over at the blog The SF 49er Observer shows the San Francisco and Santa Clara connections run deep: San Francisco and Santa Clara
Former 49er offensive lineman Jeremy Newberry is set to announce his retirement from the NFL due to a left knee injury.  Newberry was drafted in the second round of the 1998 NFL draft by the 49ers and he started 90 games from 1998-2006 for the Red and Gold.  He mostly played center while on the team but in 1999 he started all 16 games at right tackle and right guard showing his versatility as lineman.  In [...]

The last time the 49ers had a winning record and won the NFC West was in 2002 and now seven years later after enduring Terry Donahue, Dennis Erickson, The Joke Family, aka the York’s, the loss of T.O. (probably a good thing, but he ran the almighty Jerry Rice out of town), Mike Nolan and his brilliant number one draft pick, should we have a sense of potential for the 49ers in 2009?  Listening to Mike Singletary the team has it in them to be great if they give everything they got, here’s looking at you Vernon Davis, and if they play ever down like the game is on the line the 49ers will succeed.  But with training camp less [...]

Here is the third installment of the San Francisco Chronicles series about the Santa Clara stadium deal: Santa Clara’s stadium deal: Too good to be true?
In an interview Mike Singletary said he will name the starting quarterback after the third exhibition game against the Cowboys on August 29.
“One of the things I feel very strongly about is one of those guys is going to take us where we need to go. I have two quarterbacks I feel very confident about. I don’t have one great guy. I have two good guys and somebody is going to step up and the [...]

Did you know you cannot pump your own gas in Oregon? A little fact I learned camping in Oregon last weekend.

Finally we are seeing something written by a major media outlet about the 49ers move to San Francisco.  The San Francisco Chronicle is doing a five-day installment of a series about the 49ers and their possible move to Santa Clara.  The first two articles are great and go in great deal about how everything started and how we got to where we are today.  There is not much in criticism in the articles but I think with this we [...]

The 49ers kickoff their 2009 training camp on July 24 and there are still many unanswered questions and unknowns. Here are some on the offensive side:
Hill or Smith?
The fact that we still have to ask this question is ridiculous.  What more does Shaun Hill has to prove to earn the starting job?  What has Alex Smith proved to still be in contention?  Hill is a confident quarterback and he has shown he can win football games.  He is 7-3 as a starter for the 49ers.  As fearful as we think Mike Singletary is, I think he is trying to be [...]

The big sports story from this past weekend was the shooting death of former NFL QB Steve McNair in Nashville, TN. Waking up to the news on the Fourth of July was sad and I can only imagine how Titan and Raven fans are feeling as more information is released about the circumstances revolving around his death. Today authorities announced McNair’s girlfriend, Sahel Kazemi, who has also found dead in McNair’s condo had purchased a gun several days before the shooting. Police have not classified Kazemi’s death however it will most likely be announced as a murder-suicide.
My greatest memory of [...]