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The Warriors hang on to defeat the Timberwolves.

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by Jerry Feitelberg

The Golden State Warriors finished the five-game road trip Wednesday night by beating the Minnesota Timberwolves 94-91. The Warriors have won five of the last six games but they look like a tired team as the motion game has slowed down and the passing is not as crisp as it has been earlier in the season. The Warriors, however, will be getting a chance to rest as they are off until February 20th because of the NBA All-Star break.

The Warriors have not played up to their standards especially in the last three games against the New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers and now the Minnesota Timberwolves, All three teams are having a woeful season and the Warriors should be blowing them out but that did not happen and they were lucky Wednesday night as they blew a 14 point lead with just 7:30 left to play in the game.

The Dubs were led by Steph Curry. Curry had 25 points on 9-for-23 shooting and had 8 assists.
Draymond Green, who was questionable due to an ankle sprain, had 8 rebounds in the win. Andre Iguodala and Leandro Barbosa came off the bench to put some spark in the game and were big factors helping The Dubs to the victory. Iguodala was 4-for-4 from the floor and Barbosa added 10 points but those two sparked the second unit that made up for the sluggishness of the starters. With the win, the Warriors now have a 42-9 record, which is the best record in the NBA as the Atlanta Hawks were beaten by the Boston Celtics.

The Warrior bench outscored Minnesota’s bench 32-14. The T-Wolves were led by Marco Rubio and Nikola Pekovic. Pekovic had 17 points and 13 rebounds but missed a layup with 7.9 seconds left in the game that would have put Minnesota in the lead.

After the game, coach Steve Kerr had this to say " Amazing, amazing recordReally proud of the guys, and I’ve never seen a group of guys that needed the All-Star break more than this team.We’re so out of whack now.We’re tired, We’re not making our cuts. We’re not getting good shots for each other. The ball has stopped moving and we need a rest, and fortunately we’ll get one. "
The Warriors next game will be in Oakland at the Oracle Arena on February 20th against the San Antonio Spurs.

Warriors Stop Sixers Streak at 4

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By Matthew T.F. Harrington

It wasn’t quite the romp one would expect, but the Golden State Warriors did prevail 89-84 against the 76ers in Philadelphia Monday night. Despite an off night from the Splash Brothers (if 33 combined points can be considered “off”), the Dubs ended the Sixers four-game win streak while handing the surefire lottery pick candidates a 41st loss on the season.
Former Sixers Andre Igoudala (13 points) and Marreese Speights (10) provided critical depth off the bench on a night when Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson hit a combined 11 of 34 shots.

The Splash Brothers finished with only 4 three-pointers on 18 attempts, but Curry still managed a team-best 20 points. Thompson finished with 13. Leandro Barbosa provided the lift for the Warriors, with the reserve guard collecting 16 points in just under 20 minutes of work. The Sixers Robert Covington scored a game-best 21.

Philadelphia (12-41) led 24-20 after 12 minutes, but trailed by two 46-44 at the half. The Warriors opened up the final 24 minutes on an 8-2 run to build a lead they would all the way down to finish, leading by as much as ten points at one point.

The Warriors earned at least a .500 record during their four-game road trip with victories over the Sixers and Knicks. The capper would be a triumph over a struggling Minnesota Timberwolves squad Wednesday night to run the Warriors (41-9) record to 3-1 on the away set. The trip began with a 124-116 loss to the Atlanta Hawks.

Kerr Picks Up Win in MSG Debut

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By: Ben Leonard

Warriors’ head coach Steve Kerr nearly signed with the New York Knicks during the offseason. The decision to spurn the Knicks certainly has proven to be a shrewd one, as Kerr’s Warriors took a 106-92 win in his coaching debut at Madison Square Garden on Saturday.

A day after falling in a tightly contested battle to the NBA-best Hawks, the level of competition dropped significantly for Kerr’s squad. The lowly Knicks fell to an atrocious 10-41, while the Warriors moved to 40-9. Nearing the All-Star Break, the two squads already have a thirty win differential, with both heading in completely different trajectories. Draymond Green lead the way for Golden State, dropping 20 points for the squad with title aspirations against the team with its sights set on the #1 pick.

Green trailed only Stephen Curry’s game-high 22 point effort in the game, and pulled down 13 rebounds. His physical presence helped the Warriors in their effort against a ‘Melo-less Knicks team, and even blocked two shots. Without Anthony, the Knicks were even more listless than usual, making just 40.2% of their field goal attempts.

Kerr’s Warriors set the tone early, jumping out to a 32-19 lead at the end of the first quarter. Golden State went on to romp New York, holding a sizeable 89-63 advantage with just over three minutes left in the game. However, the Warriors seemingly became complacent after taking a nearly insurmountable lead, up just 95-90 with just over four minutes left to play. An ensuing 6-0 run sealed the victory for Golden State, capped by Curry’s trey with just under three minutes remaining.

Curry dropped 54 points in the Garden just two years ago, but had a relatively modest game by his standards. Although he did have a game-high total for points, he turned the ball over three times and made just 1 of 3 free throw attempts. Clearly, this is not reason for concern, but it is still worth noting.

Point guard Langston Galloway lead the way for New York with 15 points in a losing effort, grabbing four boards and dishing out three assists. Former superstar Amar’e Stoudemire also chipped in off the bench with 13 points of his own.

Golden State will continue its East Coast road trip, traveling to Philadelphia to play the ’76ers at the Wells Fargo Center on Monday night.

Stats and info courtesy of ESPN

Golden State Warriors commentary & podcast: Could last Fri’s Warriors-Hawks match be a prelude to the NBA Championship?

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by David Zizmor

OAKLAND–The Golden State Warriors who have had not very many problems handling opponents thus far this season was playing a team that played them evenly the Atlanta Hawks on Friday night and this was no second rate team. The Hawks might be the only NBA team that is in the same stratosphere as the Warriors in terms of their record. Were talking about the two best teams in the NBA and the Hawks had the home court advantage on Friday in addition to having the Warriors just flown cross country with very little sleep to Atlanta for the Hawks 124-116 win.

The Hawks just had a slight advantage in that respect this wasn’t exactly a blow out it was a game that was fairly close for most of the way. The Hawks pulled away a little bit I in the fourth quarter and the Hawks were ridiculously hot from outside they were hitting everything and hitting every three pointer it didn’t seem they could miss at all.

Atlanta’s offensive design can get those open three pointers and even by the Hawks standards they were just hitting everything and it didn’t seem like the Hawks missed anything when they had a shot. When you have a offense to give you open looks your going to get a better than average three point percentage but the Hawks were well over 50 percent which is not what teams normally have.

Part of it was the W’s were a little tired from the cross country flight maybe they were a step slower on Friday. Whatever the case maybe it was a very good game definitely worthy of the hype. You had two of the best teams in the NBA, this game looked like it could have went the Warriors way they were playing very well getting the lead but the Hawks fought back in the second half.

It was a great game you tip your hat to the Hawks, the Warriors are going to face them again in Oracle in March and we’ll see what happens in that match up. Although the Hawks (42-9 .824) had a slightly better percentage than the Warriors (39-9 .813) the record doesn’t make a difference and you could look at the records and split them up anyway you want.

You could say the Warriors have the better winning percentage and the Hawks have the better record in terms of overall wins. The differences are really teeny tiny the difference are minot, there aren’t many differences between these two teams, they play very similar style of basketball and their both coached by guys Warriors Steve Kerr and the Hawks Mike Budenholzer who have roots in San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich’s offense. The Warriors and Hawks meet again on March 16th in Oakland.

David does Warriors commentary and podcast each week on http://www.sportsradioservice.com Dave talks more Warriors and Hawks below in his podcast

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: The Warriors get no respect, victims of west coast bias

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

OAKLAND–Anybody that has lived in Northern California for a while understand that for any of our pro-teams here to get the respect they deserve nationwide, even the Golden State Warriors this season, which lose a game every two weeks, it not easy. During baseball season, even with the San Francisco Giants success of winning three World Series the last five years, we are subjected to the regular Yankee vs Red Sox game on television nationwide. A friend of mine that arrived from Latin America told me “are those the only two teams that play?”.

I have lived in the Bay Area since 1969, and this attitude by the media towards our west coast teams have changed little, even though today California is like a country, in 2013 California’s population was over 38 million people. It is the most populous U.S. state, home to one out of eight people who live in the U.S. and it is the third largest state by area.

If California was an independent bilingual country, our economy would surpass those of many countries in the world, including some in western Europe, especially compared today with Greece, Italy and some of those countries going basically bankrupt.

Efrain Osorio was a Cuban-American professor, editor in Havana of the old and very prestigious Christian Monitor Newspaper, who taught me a lot, and he (who lived in New York City) used to tell me “everything starts here, this is the center of the universe, remember we are born three hours earlier than you guys in the west coast, and we also die three hours earlier”, and yes, he was a character, but not far from the truth. I covered the Golden State Warriors last time they won an NBA title,(their only title in their Northern California history 1974-75), that was a very unexpected win, as they swept the Washington Bullets in four games, with the great Rick Barry winning the MVP.

After they won it all, there was a celebration at Union Square in San Francisco(even though the team played in Oakland)and I was there, as owner Franklin Mieuli, coach Al Attles, announcer Bill King(in my opinion the best ever basketball play by play man) I share great memories of Bill while doing the Warriors and the A’S. They all spoke to thousands crowding that famous San Francisco square.

The Warriors last title was 39 years ago, and they should have their best chance this season to win it again. There are really no dominating teams in the NBA anymore, the Lakers, the Clippers, the Celtics they are not what they were not long ago. First game of any professional team in the Bay Area that I ever covered, were the Warriors, when they played at the Cow Palace, in Daly City, as a writer for El Mundo bilingual news of Oakland, Hal Childs was their Public Relations man.

Childs as I remembered in 1971,the last year the San Francisco Warriors would play at that facility. It hosted the San Francisco Warriors of the NBA from 1962 to 1964 and again from 1966 to 1971. The Warriors temporarily returned to the Cow Palace to host the 1975 NBA Finals due to the fact that the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena was booked for an Ice Follies performance. History will repeat itself, and in a few years the team will move back to San Francisco, and they will probably be named again the San Francisco Warriors. The “Golden State” name never stuck with many people, including me, it made it sound like a college team, not a pro-team.

In the 1970’s the NBA’s biggest and most dominating star was Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,(previously known in UCLA as Lew Alcindor) just like in the 80’s Michael Jordan dominated the league, Abdul-Jabbar’s sky hook was unstoppable, if you saw it, and you covered basketball, and are of the age to have been a fan back then, it was a thing of beauty.

Today there are great players in the NBA, but there are definitely no Abdul-Jabbar’s or Michael Jordan’s, these types of players do not grow on trees. The biggest star is LeBron James who leads the league in scoring with and average of 26 points per game, the Clippers Andrew Jordan leads in rebounds with 13 per game, and Warriors Stephen Curry has the fastest hands with 2.1 steals per game leading the pack. The Warriors are a very exciting team, leading their division, second only to Atlanta in total wins, and a team that deserves much more respect than the media across this country is given them. At home, as of today, they are 23-2. No they are not in the Rodney Dangerfield category of “no respect”, but they could get much more…don’t you think so? If the Golden State Warriors go all the way, and there is a parade, someplace in the Bay Area,(Oakland needs a parade much more than San Francisco) will they then get that respect…I am not too sure.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the former Spanish radio voice for Golden State Warriors basketball and does News and Commentary on http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Hawks get by Warriors in matchup of NBA heavyweights

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By Joe Hawkes-Beamon

ATLANTA — If critics still had their doubts about the Atlanta Hawks being the best team in the NBA.

Doubt no more.

Atlanta finished with seven players score in double figures, led by Jeff Teague’s 23 points on 5-of-15 shooting from the field, but shot 11-of-11 from the charity stripe as the Hawks shot a blistering 70.6 percent in the third quarter to take a 124-116 home victory over the Golden State Warriors Friday night in the battle of the top two teams from each conference.

Paul Milsap scored 21 points, Kyle Korver had 17 points (5-of-9 from 3-point range), and Al Horford finished with 12 points and 14 rebounds for the Hawks, who improved to an NBA-best 42-9 and 14-3 versus the Western Conference with the victory.

The lion share of the credit must got to the Hawks’ bench, that really determine the outcome of the game.

Mike Scott scored 17 points, Kent Bazemore had 11 points, and Dennis Schroder finished with nine points but combined to sink 7-of-8 on 3s. The second-best 3-pointing shooting shot 15-of-27 from 3-point range and outscored the Warrior’s bench, 39-32.

“They were good,” said Warriors coach Steve Kerr. “They were better than us. We broke down defensively. They had a lot to do with that because of the way they stretch you out.”

The Hawks have won 21 of their last 22 games following a franchise record 19-game winning streak.

After leading 25-21 at the end of the first quarter, Golden State (39-9) just slowed down against Hawks team that improved to 25-3 at home this season, second to Golden State’s 23-2 record at Oracle Arena.

Klay Thompson had a game-high 29 points and Stephen Curry scored 26 points, to go along with nine assist and one turnover.

Harrison Barnes and Draymond Green had 12 points apiece, but Green had a gigantic night on the glass, finishing with a career-high 20 rebounds.

Golden State did have their way with the Hawks in the paint, outscoring Atlanta 58-36 down low. The Warriors even held the edge in rebounding, outrebouding the Hawks 51-38.

But Golden State committed too many turnovers (14), and never overcame the 14-4 run by Atlanta in the final minute of the second quarter after leading 50-47.

Golden State will have another chance at Atlanta when the Hawks visit Oakland on Mar. 18.

The Warriors continue their road trip Saturday night at Madison Square Garden against the Knicks, their fourth game in five nights.

Extra Buckets:

  • The game showcase three of the eight contenders in the Three-Point Contest before NBA All-Star Weekend in New York Feb. 14 in Warriors’ duo of Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, and Atlanta’s Kyle Korver.
  • The entire starting five of the Hawks (Horford, Teague, Korver, Milsap, and Carroll) were named Eastern Conference Players of the Month for January, the first time in NBA history that an entire starting five were given the honor. Atlanta finished 17-0 in January, tops in the NBA.
  • Apparently, Curry does not like Teague defending him at all. According to ESPN Stats and Information, Curry shot 3-of-8 on jump shots with Teague as his primary defender. In the first quarter, Curry shot 1-of-6 from the field, his worst of the season. He was 0-of-4 against Teague.

Curry’s 51 Points Key Warriors Comeback Over Dallas

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By Matthew T.F. Harrington

The Golden State Warriors (39-8) overcame a sluggish start Wednesday night against the Dallas Mavericks, turning an early 24-4 deficit into a 128-114 win at Oracle Arena. Warriors All-Star Stephen Curry torched the Mavs for 51 points, including 27 in the third quarter to key a Golden State comeback.

Curry picked up his half-century of points over 36 minutes, nailing a Golden State record 10 threes while going 16 of 26 from the field. Klay Thompson pitched in 18 points, while Marreese Speights and Leandro Barbosa chipped in 14 apiece of the bench.

Chandler Parson led the Mavs with 24 points while Tyson Chandler added 21. The Mavericks (33-18) were playing without Rajon Rondo, absent with an orbital bone injury sustained in Dallas’ previous game.

After trailing 24-4 just under halfway through the first, the Warriors to finish out the quarter on an 21-18 run for a 42-25 deficit. A 33-20 second period put the Dubs within four at 62-58. Backed by Curry’s 27 points, the Warriors took the 101-98 edge in the third then closed out the Mavs on a 27-16 final frame.

Up next for the NBA-leading Warriors is a date with a team that has mirrored Golden State. The Dubs travel to face the Atlanta Hawks, a team that just had it’s 19 game win streak snapped, in a battle of the best in each conference.

The Warriors Continue to Win

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by Jerry Feitelberg

The Golden State Warriors got off to a slow start Tuesday night as the played the Sacramento Kings in Sacramento. The Kings (17-29) started Darren Collison, Rudy Gay, Ben McLemore, Derrick Williams and All-Star Center DeMarcus Cousins hoping to somehow beat the Warriors and prevent the Warriors from sweeping the 4 game season series. The Kings got off to a hot start and behind Ben McLemore’s eleven points took an early 20-10 lead. The Warriors then went on a 19-2 run behind the great play of the second unit. Key players were Andre Iguodala, David Lee. Mo Speights, Leandro Barbosa and Shaun Livingstone and the first period ended with the Warriors holding a seven point 29-22 advantage.

The Warriors behind great defense and great hustle of the second unit extended the lead to 37-22 before Sacramento could right the ship and hope to get back into the game. At this point in the game, the Warrior bench had produced 24 points as compared to just 8 from the Kings’ bench. Again, it was good defense, hot shooting, great passing and strong contributions from the bench. The half ended with Golden State leading 63-42. The Warriors had 22 assists and just 4 turnovers in the first 24 minutes of play..

The Warriors increased the lead to 25 early in the 3rd period. Andrew Bogut had contained DeMarcus Cousins all night but Bogut had to sit down as he committed his fourth foul early in the 3rd period.

Cousins went to work on Mo Speights and the Kings clawed their way back and cut the deficit to just 11 near the end of the period. The Warriors led by 14 as the start of the fourth period and the second unit took control of the game. Speights, Iguodala, Lee and Barbosa continued their strong play and the Warriors won by 22 as the final score was 121-99.

The Warriors’ Steph Curry played 29 minutes and had 23 points and 9 assists. Klay Thompson scored just 14 but the bench was led by Mo Speights who had 17 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists. Andre Iguodala pitched in with 17 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist while Leandro Barbosa’s numbers were 12 points,3 rebounds and 5 assists. Andrew Bogut had 6 points, 5 rebounds and 2 blocked shots as the Warriors swept the season series from the Kings and have beat them 8 straight times.

After the game coach Steve Kerr said " that was a great win and the guys on the bench came in and just took over."

The Warriors return to Oakland Wednesday night to face the Dallas Mavericks at 7:30PT and then go on a four game road trip before the All-Star break with stops in Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia and Minnesota. Don’t forget to stay warm guys and good luck on the trip. Thw Warriors are now 38-8 for the season.

Warriors cruise to win over Kings

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By Robert Steward

SACRAMENTO–

The Golden State Warriors ran their winning streak to four against the Sacramento Kings Tuesday night with a 121-96 victory. While Klay Thompson did not come close to a repeat performance the last time the teams met on January 23rd, when he scored an NBA-record 37 points in the third quarter, hitting 9 three-pointers en route to scoring 52, the result was the same: another Golden State victory. Sacramento, fresh off snapping an eight-game losing streak at Indiana this past Saturday, jumped out of the gate quickly and lead 7-0 with only 2 minutes gone in the game. They eventually stretched it to their biggest lead of the game at 20-10 with 6:05 left in the quarter. The Kings’ Ben McLemore had the hot hand in the early going, hitting 4 of his first 5 shots, including 3 of 4 from 3-point land. After that, however, Golden State completely took over the game, going on a 19-2 run, including 15 consecutive points to finish the quarter leading 29-22. Sacramento missed its last 8 shots in the quarter, while the Warriors heated up from the floor and shot 58% for the quarter compared to the Kings 36%.

Sacramento’s woes continued into the second quarter as they missed their first two shots and turned it over 3 straight times. Meanwhile, Golden State ran off the first 8 points of the quarter before the Kings’ Jason Thompson ended the 23-0 Golden State run with a jumper at the 9:37 mark to make it 37-24, Warriors. But the high-scoring Warriors came right back with a 3-pointer by Leandro Barbosa and then got a lift off the bench from Marreese Speights, who hit 5 of 8 from the floor in the quarter, including scoring 8 straight points. Sacramento’s DeMarcus Cousins was repeatedly chirping at the referees, no doubt frustrated by the lack of fouls he believed should have been called on the Warriors, who were certainly physical with the Kings’ big man in the middle. Golden State continued to light it up from the floor throughout the quarter, grabbing their biggest lead of the half, 63-40, right before the quarter ended with Sacramento trailing, 63-42. Golden State maintained their hot shooting, finishing at 58% for the half, while the Kings were only shooting 37% from the floor. The Warriors also dominated the Kings in the paint and on fastbreak points, outscoring the Kings, 32-14 and 24-8, respectively.

Golden State opened up the third quarter much like the second quarter, going up 69-44 following a 3-point shot by Harrison Barnes. But Sacramento made a brief run at that point, with McLemore and Rudy Gay hitting back-to-back 3-pointers, followed by a jumper by Darren Collison to cut the deficit to 17, at 69-52. But, as was the case throughout the game, anytime the Kings even threatened to get remotely close, the Warriors had an answer every time. Golden State’s Klay Thompson hit a 3-pointer to end Sacramento’s run and shortly thereafter the Warriors had pushed their lead back up to 78-56. Sacramento then did their best to make it a game, going repeatedly to DeMarcus Cousins in the low post and Rudy Gay began to heat up. A 17-7 run by Sacramento, fueled by Cousins and Gay scoring 15 of the 17 points, cut the lead to 12 at 85-73 with 2:36 left in the quarter. The Warriors’ Andre Iguodala ended the run with a trey and the Warriors closed out the third quarter leading 94-80. Gay scored 14 in the quarter, while Cousins scored 11.

The Warriors hammered away at the Kings on the boards in the 4th quarter, outrebounding the Kings, 16-6 in the quarter. The Kings were still in striking distance, trailing 101-86 with 8:44 left before Golden State ran off 12 points in a row to open up their biggest lead of the game at 113-86 with 5:31 left, essentially ending any hopes of a Kings comeback. For the game, Golden State outrebounded Sacramento, 49-34, while also dishing out 33 assists to the Kings’ 17. A balanced scoring attack and a deep bench played dividends for the Warriors tonight, as they had 5 players in double figures, lead by Stephen Curry with 23. Iguodala and Speights both chipped in 17 off the bench, with Thompson scoring 14 and Barbosa contributing 12 points, also off the bench. The Kings were led by Cousins, who had his usual strong game, finishing with 26 points and 11 rebounds, to go with 4 blocked shots. Gay had 20 points, while McLemore and Darren Collison both scored 18 apiece. Strangely enough, McLemore, who started strong and made 4 of his first 5 shots in the opening 6 minutes of the game, took only 4 more shots for the duration of the game, making 2. Golden State improved to 38-8 overall, while the Kings fell to 17-30.

Up next for the Kings will be the Dallas Mavericks, as they come visit Sleep Train Arena on Thursday night at 7pm.

 

 

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: Super Bowl XLIX the dumbest play; plus Amaury’s latest in baseball news

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

PHOENIX–With 26 seconds left on the clock the dumbest play I have ever seen in a Superbowl, as well as many millions, 114.4 million to be exact(a new SB record). At the end it was a great show overall, great half time, and this is exactly what the NFL needed this time. It has not been a good season for the NFL, with all the scandals, players arrested, domestic violence, but as pure entertainment, and that is what the Superbowl is all about, I have to give it a nine, out of a perfect ten score. The commercials this year, were not as great.

”I made the decision. I said, `Throw the ball,”’ coach Pete Carroll said. ”Nobody to blame but me.” We cannot criticize coach Carroll for speaking the truth. But we can definitely criticize him for his judgment at the time. Marshawn Lynch rushed 24 times for 102 yards and a touchdown and caught a 31-yard pass in the Seahawks’ Super Bowl 49 loss to the Patriots. However, he was not anyplace to be seen when with a few minutes remaining in the game, Wilson three the interception that sealed the defeat of the Seahwaks, and prevented them to repeat as Superbowl champions.

The call from coach Carroll towards the end of the game in regulation, was one of the worse I can remember in a Superbowl. Tom Brady who won the Most Valuable Player(as I predicted in a previous column)said after the victory “It’s been a long journey. It’s just a great win. We left it all on the field.” Brady, born San Mateo by winning his third MVP in a Superbowl ties his idol 49er great Joe Montana with four Super Bowl wins. “I was a huge fan of Joe Montana” says Brady. Marshawn Lynch who prior to the pass interception by Wilson the ball to the half-yard goal line said he was not surprised of the pass, in his words: “it is a team sport”. But deep inside everybody and their grandmother, have to be thinking that Lynch probably said “what then hell?”

Tom Brady is 37 years old, owns a bunch of NFL records, with no plans of retiring, there is little doubt that if he wins another Super Bowl, he will be considered the greatest quarterback ever in NFL history.

All clear: In Oakland, an investigation by the city’s Public Ethics Commission has found there was no violation of city election last year when Councilwoman Rebbeca Kaplan accepted two campaign contribution checks from Oakland A’s co-owner Lew Wolff… Miguel Tejada is now playing baseball in the Mexican Summer league with the Pericos de Puebla team, the ex-Athletics shortstop is 40 years old…All In: The Los Angeles Dodgers are having some drastic changes inside their Spanish broadcast, veteran play by play man Jaime Jarrin will continue in the Spanish radio booth(he has been there since the late 1950’s)and his son Jorge Jarrin, who during the past couple of years was doing the Dodgers Sports Telecast in Spanish will join Jaime on radio, while Pepe Yniguez, play by play radio, and Fernando Valenzuela, commentary radio, are moving from radio Spanish to do 150 Dodger games on Spanish television for Time Warner-Cable. Manny Mota will continue as commentator for 30 games on Spanish television, while Valenzuela will work the other 130 games… Anaheim: For the fifth year in a row the LA Angels will broadcast all home games from Angels Stadium on Fox Sports West/Spanish with José Mota, commentary and yours truly at play by play; this production airs in the LA area and also in Arizona and Nevada on other cable companies. I will also handle half of a 72 game home schedule in Spanish for the A’s on KIQI 1010AM radio(Bay Area) and three other affiliates on the network…SABR: Society for American Baseball Research held their 2015 annual meeting of the Lefty O’Doul San Francisco/Sacramento chapter at famous Ricky’ Bar and Sports Lounge in San Leandro, they have a group of members getting ready to travel to Cuba to watch baseball in the island…NBA: Will this be the second time the Warriors win a title? I was there as a sports reporter here in the Bay Area when they won their first and only championship during the 1974-75 season, it is about time for the Warriors, to go “all the way”, it has been 40 years, but the record for longer time without winning a Championship in the Bay Area still belongs to the World Champion Giants, they moved to San Francisco from New York in 1958 and won their first World Series in The City in 2010, if you are counting, that was 52 years…Dominican Republic: The Commissioner’s Office and the MLB Players Association jointly announced on Monday that they will partner with the United States government to focus on education in the Dominican Republic.The program, with the help of the U.S. Agency for International Development, will focus on education, supporting children with disabilities and combating domestic violence..Changing jobs: Omar Minaya ex-New York Mets General Manager left his job as Senior Vice President of the San Diego Padres, to become a special adviser to the Major League Baseball Players Association. Minaya, born in Dominican Republic, became the first ever Hispanic General Manager in Major League Baseball.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish radio voice for the Oakland A’s and is the Angels Spanish TV voice and does News and Commentary each week on http://www.sportsradioserivce.com