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Kurtenbach: Trent Williams isn’t being weird about retirement; you shouldn’t be, either Original

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By Dieter Kurtenbach 
| The Mercury News
SANTA CLARA — Trent Williams isn’t being weird about retirement, so why should you? He knows the end is near, and, deep down, you know the end is near, too. The San Francisco 49ers certainly know it. We’re operating from a place of honesty these days. Let’s stop projecting insecurities or trying to re-write the rulebook. It’s professional football, not a magical fairy tale where everyone gets to play until they’re 65 and then collect a cushy pension.
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Dieter Kurtenbach: Rams' terrifying Myles Garrett trade leaves the outgunned 49ers in the waiting room

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By Dieter Kurtenbach 
| The State
There is absolutely no sugarcoating what happened to the San Francisco 49ers on Monday. The 49ers already harbored a massive, glaring, neon-lit problem heading into the 2026 season: The two best teams in the NFC reside in their own division. But that problem just mutated into a full-blown catastrophe. The NFC West is an unabashed, unhinged arms race. And the Los Angeles Rams just acquired the biggest arms in the league. I might mean that literally.
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Kurtenbach: Baseball's bargain bin franchises are exposing the SF Giants' grift

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By Dieter Kurtenbach 
| The Sacramento Bee
I told you it would get worse. And boy, did it ever. Because the San Francisco Giants, losers of 10 of their last 13 games, aren’t just a bad baseball team - they’re a 26-man piece of performance art on how to set money on fire while tripping over your own shoelaces. And the most damning indictment of this sprawling, high-revenue disaster isn’t simply that they lose a lot - as much as anyone in baseball. No, it’s who they lose to, and exactly how they look doing it.
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