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Boxing play by play commentator for @SHOsports. 35 years play by play commentator Pac12, Mountain West, WCC football & basketball.
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Barry Tompkins: Say hello to Kylian Mbappe

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... So who do you like? What do you mean? In what? Well, despite its being buried somewhere beneath the downs of the Giants and the ups of Bryce Eldridge; the offseason drama of the San Francisco 49ers; and the ongoing quest of the Golden State Warriors to get younger while being older, the biggest event in the world has crept into town and began in earnest on Thursday.
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Barry Tompkins: Brunson is overcoming my New York bias

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We who do this sort of thing for gainful employment (or in my case, just employment) are taught from the moment we step out of our own neighborhood to be unbiased. I lay myself bare here in telling you that, were I to have any kind of bias it would be against New York sports teams.
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Barry Tompkins: Valkyries offer hope amid Giants’ struggles

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Do you get the sense that even Kruk and Kuip would rather be watching something else on television these days? There simply aren’t two guys in existence who love their job more and do a Hall of Fame worthy version of making 162 games a year sound like they’d been given the golden ticket to Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory.
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Barry Tompkins: Hail (or it is Hell) to the losers

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I had an epiphany this past Wednesday (I had a bowl of granola, too, but the epiphany stood out). The Giants were playing an afternoon game in Phoenix and there was an NBA playoff game that started at 5:30 p.m. By 8 p.m. or so, my day’s diversions would be concluded and I could move on to something really important like watching a recorded version of Jeopardy. Now to that epiphany. By day’s end I had realized three things.
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Barry Tompkins: Horse racing and life lessons from Big Al

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Who do you like in the Preakness? I’m guessing that’s a question that is not likely Topic A at every breakfast table in Marin County this week.
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Barry Tompkins: The Giants’ struggling offense summed up in one stat

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I’m just not a handyman. My solution to anything around me that might not be operating properly or is nicked, scratched or otherwise incapacitated, is an immediate call to someone who doesn’t think a wrench is a place for a Jewish cowboy. And yet, the biggest question I get asked these days is “How do we fix the Giants?” Here’s the cold, hard truth. I have no idea. Even if I had Buster Posey on speed dial, all I could offer is the number of a plumber.
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Barry Tompkins: Draft-day experts more often wrong than right

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... So, let me get this right. We talk about nothing but the NFL draft for about six weeks. We pontificate. We compare notes. We predict and we watch. And when Mr. Irrelevant is ultimately picked with the final selection in the seventh round we collectively fold our arms across our chests, crunch up our forehead, and declare in unison, WHAT!?!?
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Barry Tompkins: The draft, and life and death in agate type

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By the time you read this yarn, the San Francisco 49ers will have drafted any one of about 37 people that the “experts” said would be their selection in the first round. One person — two max — will be able to stand up and loudly proclaim, “I told you so.” The draft has changed a tad over the last decade or so.
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Barry Tompkins: Building a college program tougher than ever

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... My apologies. I realize that I used up about 400 words last week talking about the college basketball transfer portal, so for those of you who were looking for my take on the “New Look” Warriors, or the juggernaut Giants, I’m sorry. Simply fold this sports section and neatly place it on the bottom of Tweetie Pie’s cage. I have about 900 more words to spew on the subject before my Pepcid AC kicks in.
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Barry Tompkins: The Dodgers are as good as advertised

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I’m changing my preseason prediction. The Los Angeles Dodgers will finish with a record of 160-2 (Unless they lost again after my column deadline Thursday, in which case they’ll finish 159-3). The San Francisco Giants will finish 71 games behind them in the standings. They’ll make the playoffs. I believe that champagne will flow in the clubhouse of every team that beats the Dodgers even once.
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Barry Tompkins: Opener aside, Giants are trending up

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For some reason I woke up Thursday morning thinking about my dad. He was not a particularly humorous man, nor prone to witty repartee, but I remember coming to breakfast after another opening day whooping suffered by the home team, and my dad said to me: “They’re not going to be serving beer at the ballpark anymore.” “Really?” I gullibly asked. “Yeah,” my dad said.
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Barry Tompkins: Cinderella and the Big Bad Wolf

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The sports world today mourns the death of Cinderella. The once omnipresent sprite who almost yearly offered a magic slipper to a seemingly overmatched contingent of wannabes come March, has met a tragic end. Her body was found in the pumpkin that once served as her carriage.
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Barry Tompkins: The kids on the Warriors, Giants are alright

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It’s been a long while ago for me, but I’m sure some of you are in the process of watching your sons or daughters play organized sports like basketball, baseball, swimming, or lacrosse. And it’s certainly a forgivable offense if somewhere deep in the bowels of your mind the thought occurs “My kid could be the second coming of Willie Mays, Steph Curry, or Caitlin Clark. My retirement’s all set.
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Barry Tompkins: So many draft experts, so little time

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I admit it. I do listen to sports talk radio. I do it for several reasons and in spite of several others. When I’m driving, I like to think of talk radio as audio wallpaper.
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Barry Tompkins: When it comes to losing games, tanks but no tanks

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I’ve been thinking about this whole tanking issue in the NBA. Is it real? If so, what is the effect? And maybe most Importantly, is it worth it? When I thought that this might be something to discuss with you, my loyal readers, a line from a while back kept flowing through my peanut mind.
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Barry Tompkins: The then and now of the Winter Games

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Have you been watching the Winter Olympics? Yeah, me too. But, not very much. My reason is that — by its nature — it is an event best pre-packaged into a prime time entertainment show that is extremely entertaining if you care only about the smiling American faces on the podium. It’s good television — it’s just not a sports event. The ultimate moment is surely coming after the last commercial break and before the cloying interview that ends the show.
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Barry Tompkins: Plenty of notes to toss away during spring cleaning

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Pitchers and catchers have reported to baseball spring training camps, and that can only mean one thing. It’s time to clean off my desk. I guess I can toss away all those juicy notes on Brandon Aiyuk, Justin Verlander, and Bad Bunny. That should thin the pile down to where I can almost see what material my desk is actually made of.
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Barry Tompkins: Giannis, we hardly knew ye

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Before I brazenly declare what my plans are for the weekend, I thought I might give you a detailed diagnosis of the trade the Warriors pulled off Wednesday night. Do you have your notebooks out, class? I like it. Okay, put your pencils down. I will grant you this. Kristaps Porzingis is not Giannis Antetokounmpo. Yet, they’re very much alike. Both names are extremely difficult to spell and would immediately mean elimination from any spelling bee.
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Barry Tompkins: With 49ers done, focus shifts to Warriors, Giants

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Is football season almost over? Phew! Thank goodness. All right, there is that one lone game that remains next week, and it is right here in our midst, but who’s playing again? That’s right — not the home team. So, I thought we might turn our attention to more immediate matters and chat a bit about our other local heroes. Like the hometown hoopsters. Here is a team that was a tall guy’s version of a love-in for years.
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Barry Tompkins: The loneliness of an empty locker room

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This was the week to pack up. It was kind of like going home from college after your freshman year, glad for the break from the long school year, but still looking forward to what next year might bring. Tuesday was the end of the semester for the San Francisco 49ers. It was now time to mend. It was also a time to reflect.
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Barry Tompkins: Snake-bitten 49ers keeping storybook season alive

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “The 49ers don’t have a chance this week.” Oh wait! That’s what I said last week. “They are playing a team that they finish second to in all three aspects of professional football. Offense, defense, and special teams.” Hold on a second while I erase that from my notes. “They’re on the road and playing in a place that is notoriously hostile to visiting teams.
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Barry Tompkins: Fired NFL coaches can find their way again as coordinators

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I remember sitting in a bar with the old quarterback George Blanda having a drink or 12 and talking about the evolution of the game of football, and how sophisticated it has become. You can’t just be the fastest guy or the strongest guy on the planet and survive in today’s game. It’s now about technique and positioning. About leverage and vision. About tendencies and evaluation; game planning and scheme; routes, cuts, angles and check downs.
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Barry Tompkins: Resolutions for Bay Area sports decision makers

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This year I am being resolute. I am forgoing anything that so much as resembles a resolution. My resolution over/under is roughly four days. At which time I begin berating myself for a complete lack of discipline that generally lasts until roughly the following New Year’s Eve. That said, I’m heading for the treadmill as soon as I finish writing this yarn. Which should be by Tuesday.
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Barry Tompkins: 49ers offering Bay Area fans hope as year ends

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... And you think Santa Claus is tired. As I recall, he was in and out of here without anybody seeing him. And that ain’t easy where we live. Not only don’t we have a fireplace, thus no chimney. And those drain pipes can give anybody a nasty rash. And from what I hear, he had several stops to make. But at least he’s got help. We don’t. I did call Taskrabbit asking for a few elves to help clean up around here — of course they were booked in June.
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Barry Tompkins: Bay Area gets to spend Christmas with the good guys

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... How’s your Christmas season going? Are you chock full of ho-ho-ho’s? Are you humming Here Comes Santa Claus on your way to work? Is your Night Silent, or do you have a dog or a small child? Quite frankly Jack Frost has nipped on my nose to the point that I believe it fell off last Thursday. I’m quite sure it’s somewhere in the chestnuts I was roasting on an open fire — just to stay warm.
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Barry Tompkins: Baseball’s Winter Meetings are a Mickey Mouse affair

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The baseball Winter Meetings were held this week. Not ironically, but rather fittingly, they took place within shouting distance of Disney World in Orlando. Having covered these Winter Meetings more times than I care to remember, I can assure you they were properly located. Everybody shows up hoping to be Cinderella. For the most part they wind up Goofy. For some, deal-making during this week is more Fantasy Land than Tomorrow Land.
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Barry Tompkins: Counting down Kuminga’s tenure with the Warriors

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I’m making myself a resolution more than three weeks ahead of the New Years variety. I vow to never again mention the name Jonathan Kuminga after January 15th — the date he becomes dispensable for the Golden State Warriors. Jonathan Kuminga is a good player. Just not here.
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Barry Tompkins: Another Thanksgiving with too much food, football

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Don’t pay the ransom. I’ll try and escape. I find myself this Friday prone on a sofa from which I cannot seem to extricate myself, nursing a bubbly glass of Alka Seltzer, and feeling as though I have eaten Cleveland. I come from a long line of devout eaters. And, as our family grew, so did the Thanksgiving bounty. And along with that came the new age of vegans, pescatarians, pollotarians, carnivores and fruitarians.
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Barry Tompkins: It’s time for the kinda, sorta Big Game

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Shhhh! It’s Big Game week. Never before has so little been said about an event that once captivated a community. There’s a side of me that gets it. San Francisco is a pro sports town now — like most big cities in America. College football has been compromised so much that SEC payrolls are closer to NFL salaries than they are to their collegiate peers.
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Barry Tompkins: A ball in the dirt, the road to hell

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
My mother was a gambler. A good one. She was a card counter who, were she a bigger bettor, would have been banned from playing in any Las Vegas casino. Over the years I played, conservatively, 1,500 games of gin rummy with my mom. I won three. Not only would she beat me, she would then recite what cards were in my hand that I had horribly misplayed. My friends loved my mom. They would all come over after school to play poker with her. And my mom would promptly beat them out of all their allowance money.
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Barry Tompkins: Proclamations from the guru

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
This week I find myself recalling when the Beatles, at the height of their popularity, decided that they did not know everything about the world they were living in and sought help from a greater being. That greater being was an all-seeing, all-knowing guru with a magnificent beard and several iterations of beads, stones, and faux jewelry draped around his wrinkled neck. His name was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (not related to Berra).
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Barry Tompkins: 49ers need to contend with New York crowd

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Your San Francisco 49ers will bring their ailing bodies, tattered unis, and first aid trunk to the Big Apple this week to do battle with the New York Giants. They’ll come limping into MetLife Stadium with a team that is so banged up physically it needs a drum and a fife to make its entry. The home crowd will not be kind. The 49er Faithful have proven to be road warriors as much as their beloved football team. They’ve turned SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles into Levi’s Stadium South.
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Barry Tompkins: Out with the old, in with the really new

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
I expect that by the time you read this yarn, you will know everything there might be to know about one Tony Vitello. He of course is the shiny new manager of your San Francisco Giants. I spent most of the day Wednesday trying to figure out if I thought this first major hiring by Buster Posey was a great innovative idea or something that came to him in a dream following a rollicking evening in a hookah bar. Knowing Buster, it’s the former.
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Barry Tompkins: A get well soon card to the 49ers

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Woe be the San Francisco 49ers. If it weren’t for bad luck, they’d have no luck at all. I had a friend once who seemed to inevitably have something bad happen to him. He was philosophical about it. “If I bought a turkey farm they’d call off Thanksgiving” was a common lament. “If soup was free, I’d have a fork” he told me another time. I thought of him when the most recent stroke of bad luck struck our local football heroes.
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Barry Tompkins: Live from underneath a pile of scrap notes

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
My wife has given me an ultimatum. Either I get rid of all the scraps of paper with scribblings on them that I have accumulated over the past few weeks. Or she will summarily dispose of the notes, my desk, the coffee cups on it, and me — assuming she can find me under the scraps. I like my desk. But, I like my wife better, so I’m dumping the scraps on you — my loyal readers. Here’s one. It says, “turnips, an eggplant, anchovies, and a vanilla bean.” Oh wait, that’s my shopping list.
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Barry Tompkins: Out with the old and in with the … old

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
I’ve been asking everyone I run into what they make of Bob Melvin’s leaving and Jonathan Kuminga’s staying. The overwhelming response is “Who dat, mon?” I guess I can understand that, seeing as I’m in Belize, where the only Giants are tarantulas, Posey is a flower, and Kuminga, I hear, is a side dish that normally accompanies conch fritters.
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Barry Tompkins: Take it from me — Or somebody else

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
I don’t know why it is, but this week I feel compelled to discuss the burning needs of your San Francisco Giants as we all look ahead to the reclamation project that faces our favorite head of baseball operations, Buster Posey. Sadly, I pale in the pontification department compared to my wizened peers.
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Barry Tompkins: The Zen of the San Francisco Giants

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
I’ve been very concerned lately about our San Francisco Giants. They seem to be in the final throes of a season of extremes. There was joy, which led to optimism early in the year. Great! In June they beat the dreaded Dodgers to take over first place in the National League West. Quick! To the World Series ticket applications. Drats! Seems the World Series ticket apps were traded by Farhan Zaidi to the Yomiuri Giants in exchange for a Shohei Ohtani autograph and a sushi platter to be named later.
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Barry Tompkins: How to fix the 49ers? Don’t ask me

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Alright, I admit it, Kyle Shanahan knows more about football than I do. In fact, he not only knows more than “I,” he knows more than any of us critics who have weekly solutions to the 49ers ills and what’s needed to be done to make them all better. Yeah, but what does he know about dangling participles?
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Barry Tompkins: Fantasy football — 40 years of knowing nothing

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
We had our draft earlier this week. And so did about 62-million other people. The little game that began right across the bay in Oakland has now taken over the minds of roughly one of every six Americans for the next five months. And every one of those 62-million Fantasy Football players truly believe they know just a little bit more about this complicated game than the “other guy.” With all due humility, I will tell you that I feel like one of the “founding fathers” of Fantasy Football.
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Barry Tompkins: 49ers’ depth still being tested despite rebuild

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
…..and then, there were 53. Okay. Now let’s see what we’ve got here. Your San Francisco 49ers are about to embark on what they are counting on as a revival season. The thinking now is last year’s bottom dwelling finish was merely a hiccup on the road to Super Bowl glory this year. And, good news! It also means the 2025 49ers have the easiest schedule in the entire NFL. If we only didn’t have to play the games.
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Barry Tompkins: Shhhh! College football starts this week

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
College football starts this week. That is huge news in Athens, Georgia; Columbus, Ohio; Tuscaloosa, Alabama; and Austin, Baton Rouge, Ann Arbor and Norman. But in San Rafael, Tiburon, Novato, and Sausalito, opening day of the college football season finishes a distant second in anticipation to the Fairfax Photo Club Exhibit and the ever popular Read to a Dog day at the Petaluma Library. (Now I’ve done it.
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Barry Tompkins: Confessions of a wannabe All-Pro

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
I’ve been thinking of volunteering as a wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers. Normally I would say I’ve aged out of this pursuit, but it seems like Kyle Shanahan could use my help seeing as he’s just about down to asking innocent bystanders if they’ve ever caught a forward pass or even been in autograph-asking range of Brock Purdy. My own football playing career was brief — but painful.
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Barry Tompkins: ESPN makes its move with NFL Network purchase

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
I saw this week that ESPN has purchased the NFL Network and the weekly pro football mosh pit, The Red Zone. At first blush, this is the equivalent of the Cartoon Network taking production control of 60 Minutes or PBS. Upon reflection, the Cartoon Network was beaten to that task by the current Trump Administration. Damn! I was rooting for the Cartoon Network. I spent nine years working for ESPN, and what I’ve always said about that network is that it’s a good place to be from.
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Barry Tompkins: New regime … same old problem

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
I’ve always been a fan of the artist Picasso. Mind you, I have no idea what was going through the man’s mind when his portraits could have three eyes and a nose that’s located somewhere near the ear lobe. I bring this up because for me it’s analogous to the San Francisco Giants. I’ve always been a fan, but I just can’t understand what they’re trying to portray.
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Barry Tompkins: Wake me up when the preseason is over

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Are you ready for some football? Well, ready or not — it’s here. The San Francisco 49ers threw open the doors to their practice facility this week and in walked about 93 physical specimens each of whom is intent on claiming one of the 53 available jobs come September when things get serious. If your name is Purdy, McCaffrey, Williams, Kittle, Bosa, Warner or Lenoir, you needn’t look over your shoulder. Nobody’s coming to get those guys.
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Barry Tompkins: The All-Star Game, the Swing Off, and the Food Channel

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
I remember having a conversation with the great John Madden about the increasing popularity of groups like the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, the Raiderettes or the 49ers Gold Rush. He laughed and said, “Yeah, one day the players and coaches will sit on the sideline watching the cheerleaders for a couple of hours and then the team will fill a 20-minute intermission.” John Madden obviously was the proud owner of a crystal ball.
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Barry Tompkins: Club World Cup experience has been a mixed bag

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
The soccer World Cup is coming to the U.S. (and Canada and Mexico) next year and I have no doubt it’ll be a huge hit. There’s nothing like the nationalism that flows from every match of sports’ most international event, and I’m certain it will usurp all other events that might occur during its stay here. The Club World Cup? I’m not so sure.
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Barry Tompkins: Giants’ bold moves offset by failing farm system

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
Today I come to you with three questions: 1) Why is there air? 2) What is the meaning of life? 3) What the hell is wrong with the San Francisco Giants? The first two are easy. The third — not so much. As of this writing, the Giants are reeling. Suddenly pitchers are unable to locate home plate and hitters seem to have forgone the popular Torpedo bat in favor of the sponge rubber variety.
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Barry Tompkins: Warriors, Kuminga are at a crossroads

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By Barry Tompkins 
| Marin Independent Journal
“Horses for courses.” It’s a race track parlance that has been used for years when trying to evaluate where a thoroughbred is most comfortable. It means that there are just some horses who run on one track like the second coming of Secretariat; and then take their talents to another track and run like they’re just a step ahead of the glue factory.
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