San Francisco 49ers News and Rumors
NFL players: Is it time to ask and tell?NFL players: Is it time to ask and tell? Players for the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens, who will square off Sunday in Super Bowl XLVII, have grabbed the public's eye in another arena - gay rights. The 49ers became the first NFL team to ma… |
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) Baltimore Ravens starters Dannell Ellerbe and Dennis Pitta practiced Wednesday in heavy winds at Tulane University, looking sharp despite nagging injuries. |
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If Chris Culliver, a little-known but productive backup cornerback for the 49ers, was looking to use the tremendous exposure of Super Bowl week to make a name for himself, he certainly did that — in a negative way. |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver apologized Wednesday night for anti-gay remarks he made during a Super Bowl media day interview. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com The chorus from Sandy Hook Elementary School will sing "America the Beautiful" before Sunday's Super Bowl between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens. |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Jim Harbaugh and Colin Kaepernick are getting most of the attention when the 49ers meet the media this week, but the 49ers’ coach and quarterback both say the attention should go to the offensive line. Asked about the offensive skill position players to… |
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Barry Petchesky, deadspin.com Jessica Sanchez, of WKMG in Orlando, is our new local news hero. While doing a stand-up in the French Quarter on New Orleans's preparations for the Super Bowl, Sanchez had an uninvited guest crash the party. Since the woman wanted to talk on camera so b… |
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Doug Farrar, yahoo.com NEW ORLEANS -- It's entirely possible that nobody outside the San Francisco 49ers' organization better understands the dynamic between head coach Jim Harbaugh and quarterback Colin Kaepernick than Indianapolis Colts quarterback and 2012 first-overall dr… |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com 49ers CEO Jed York said on PFT Live Tuesday that the 49ers hope to keep both Colin Kaepernick and Alex Smith for next season. That’s a different approach than anyone’s been predicting and it is one that 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh seemed to dismiss at th… |
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NEW ORLEANS -- ESPN.com's Dan Graziano had some fun asking San Francisco 49ers players to name the best athletes on the team. Aldon Smith went with ... Aldon Smith. That came as no surprise to me. In an effort to loosen up Smith during Super Bowl media … |
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Matt Loede, 49ersgab.com By Justin Bradford We’re only days away from the greatest game of the season. Plenty of experts and amateurs will tell you what each team needs to do in order to hoist the Lombardi Trophy in New Orleans on Sunday night. Aside from the fundamentals such … |
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John Koblin, deadspin.com So, it took me a whole week to stumble upon this pic, which appeared on page 48 of last week's Sports Illustrated. It was taken during the NFC championship game at a San Francisco gay bar named—wait for it—Hi Tops. One dude in a tight T-shirt is pumpi… |
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Smiling, even laughing, at questions about a report linking him to a company that purports to make performance-enhancers, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis said Wednesday he "never, ever took" the stuff. |
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Doug Farrar, yahoo.com NEW ORLEANS — After half a season watching Colin Kaepernick take the San Francisco 49ers to places he couldn't, quarterback Alex Smith will get a chance to help another team. According to Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network, the 49ers will try to trade Smit… |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com San Francisco 49ers defensive tackle Justin Smith estimated Wednesday that his triceps is at least 50 percent torn. |
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Ravens' returner Jones draws 49ers' full attention |
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Ken Belson, nytimes.com Mario Manningham of the 49ers, who was injured in the second to last game of the regular season, advises younger teammates to appreciate their playing time. |
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Ohm Youngmisuk, ESPN.com Kyle Williams said he was "shocked" that the New York Giants were not disciplined for comments made by a couple of their players that the San Francisco 49ers receiver was targeted for his history of concussions in last year's NFC Championship Game. |
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John Clayton, ESPN.com Fans of old-school football should rejoice about the Ravens-49ers matchup. It should be power football at its finest. |
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Super Bowl 49er fans in S.F. then, now San Francisco Chronicle Copyright 2013 San Francisco Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 8:35 pm, Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Sitting i… |
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Drew Magary, deadspin.com It's not exactly daring to hate Ray Lewis. Facebook data show that most people are rooting for the 49ers to win the Super Bowl, and I'm sure "FUCK RAY LEWIS" has a lot to do with that. No one disputes that Lewis should be a Hall of Famer, and … |
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NEW ORLEANS -- It was not difficult to find the members of the San Francisco 49ers' offensive line on the turf of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome at Super Bowl Media Day on Tuesday, even though thousands of people were there, including peppy guys dressed as… |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com The 49ers were fighting with one arm behind their back without defensive tackle Justin Smith, and he’s currently playing with about half an arm. Smith said he has a tear of about 50 percent of his left triceps tendon, which will require surgery shortly … |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com Randy Moss said yesterday he thought he was the greatest receiver in league history. Then the 49ers receiver said it again today, though he went on at length about how much respect he has for Jerry Rice. But after the first volley, Rice himself admitted… |
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Tom Ley, deadspin.com Ray Lewis's crazypants Super Bowl media tour continues apace. Yesterday, he was saying nonsense about it being "God's time" when asked to speak about his 2000 murder charge. Today, he called recent PED allegations levied against him by Sports … |
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Jason Sickles, yahoo.com Ingredients for a superb live-blog? Try Beyonce, beer commercials, and the biggest game of the year. Now all we need is you, rambunctious Yahoo! readers. Join us Sunday during Super Bowl XLVII between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens. Tell u… |
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Jerome Boger will referee the Super Bowl for the first time in hos career. |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com Near the end of the 49ers’ 28-24 NFC Championship Game win against the Falcons, 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks hit Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan and left Ryan with a sprained AC joint in his left shoulder. Brooks can empathize with Ryan’s plight since … |
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NEW ORLEANS -- Field goal tries have decided two of the 11 most recent Super Bowls and four of them overall. San Francisco 49ers fans could do without such a finish in Super Bowl XLVII after their team's kicker, David Akers, missed 10 of his 19 tries fr… |
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NEW ORLEANS -- The Cain and Abel coaching sub-plot in this year's Super Bowl is undeniably the most irresistible in NFL history, but it's still the playing talent that decides championships in football, and that's where the San Francisco 49ers have almo… |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Ravens tight end Ed Dickson is watching tape of the 49ers, and he likes what he sees. Dickson said at Super Bowl Media Day that watching the 49ers’ defense give up 24 first-half points to the Falcons in the NFC Championship Game, the Ravens became confi… |
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Kristian Dyer, yahoo.com Now all that's left is the commercials. No need to watch the Super Bowl for the actual game, at least not with PredictionMachine.com having run 50,000 simulations of Sunday's Super Bowl matchup and determining that the San Francisco 49ers will beat the … |
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Behind the NFL's most explosive postseason offense is a coach whose plans surprise his players as much as opponents. Jim Trotter gets into the head of the Niners' Greg Roman. |
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Jim Trotter, CNNSI.com NEW ORLEANS -- When 49ers players and coaches are asked about the ingenuity of offensive coordinator Greg Roman's game plans, the response is always the same. There is a smile, a chuckle or a roll of the eyes, then a virtual shrug of the shoulders that … |
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Jay Busbee, yahoo.com So here's a tale of mixed messages and unclear lessons. Sharon Osgood, a hardcore 49ers fan who desperately wanted to follow her team to New Orleans, wired $5,900 to a seller on Craigslist offering two Super Bowl tickets. She and her boyfriend had poole… |
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Brian McIntyre, yahoo.com With Tuesday's "Media Day" over and done with, the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers can get down to business and focus on preparing for Super Bowl XLVII. Both teams will practice on Wednesday, with the 49ers using the New Orleans Saint… |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com There’s a reasonable chance that if Alex Smith had simply lied, he’d still be the starting quarterback of the 49ers. But he said Tuesday he had no regrets about revealing his concussion symptoms, which opened the door for Colin Kaepernick, and the doo… |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Players on the 49ers and Ravens are finding out one of the down sides of playing in the Super Bowl this week: Your friends and relatives assume you have free tickets to give them. In reality, players in the Super Bowl get two free tickets and the opport… |
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NEW ORLEANS -- Aldon Smith was a disruptive force for the San Francisco 49ers during late, critical moments of the NFC Championship Game. The outside linebacker still hasn't collected a quarterback sack in five games and 52 days. That bothers him a grea… |
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Around the NFC West: Jan. 30, 2013 NEW ORLEANS -- The clock on my laptop does not update automatically when changing time zones. It's on Pacific time, in other words, and that means it reads 3:38 a.m. as I'm punching its keys on this Wednesday morning. … |
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Beauty-queen Webb works the Superdome The former Miss Alabama was carrying a microphone and interviewing players for "Inside Edition," but one can imagine the 49ers not even getting in the camera shot. Webb, who was "discovered" duri… |
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S.F. cops, merchants ready for revelers Firefighters couldn't douse the flames until police cleared away the people who were throwing bottles at them. There were isolated problems elsewhere - including the trashing of a Muni bus at Third and Market stre… |
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After a decade of mostly familiar names, Super Bowl XLVII is set to provide some welcome new blood under center. Sunday will mark the first title game... |
