Barry Tompkins: Watchable 49ers … Unwatchable Giants
I find myself once again in deadline hell. That is to say the San Francisco 49ers played last night and this yarn was delivered about the same time they were enjoying their pregame meal. So, I simply...
View ArticleBarry Tompkins: What now for Logan Webb, Chris Paul?
I’m determined this week to get to the bottom of the pile of notes on my desk that I’ve been meaning to talk to you about. Most have pretty much gone unsaid and now spend their days hanging out with my...
View ArticleBarry Tompkins: 49ers GM Lynch proves change can be good
I first met John Lynch when he was an aspiring quarterback at Stanford. It was there that I believe Lynch’s philosophy of running a football team was formed. His coach at Stanford for his first three...
View ArticleBarry Tompkins: How baseball trades are made
So here we are smack dab in the middle of the NFL season; the Golden State Warriors have been more the Golden State Worriers; and the selectors of the college football playoffs are wishing that the...
View ArticleBarry Tompkins: Warriors, Giants have seen better days
If memory serves, it was that well-known prognosticator Chicken Little who once offered: “The sky is falling. The sky is falling.” And here we are, all this time later, and I’m thinking that the old...
View ArticleBarry Tompkins: One day and three coaching giants
Bill Belichick, Pete Carroll and Nick Saban in one day. Ladies and gentlemen, arrogance has left the building. The Monday after the NFL regular season has always been referred to as Black Monday. It’s...
View ArticleBarry Tompkins: The coaching carousel and the games themselves
Washington and Michigan made it all the way to the college football national championship game, and it appears that both will be coached by somebody else when the 2024 season kicks off in 9 months. The...
View ArticleBarry Tompkins: Breaking down 49ers’ breakdown
This just in … Kansas City beats San Francisco, wins Super Bowl LVIII. Just in case you hadn’t heard. Much as I feel there are only a few days and words to break down a football game before it’s...
View ArticleBarry Tompkins: The great thing about women’s basketball
Not that many years ago I was assigned to do a basketball game at the Yuengling Center on the University of South Florida campus. My game was in the evening, but because I had just arrived in Tampa...
View ArticleBarry Tompkins: Dancin’ the Big Dance
Are you ready for the Madness? I hope so, because its already started and that makes a Friday column that’s due on Thursday noon a very difficult one to write. Undaunted, I will plunge into some...
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