Brian Murphy

San Francisco

Host at KNBR-AM/FM (San Francisco, CA)

Wake up early to hang with @markusboucher, @johnjkerley and @tonyfarias30 at KNBR 104.5 FM/680 AM in SF, 6a-10a. Beats work.

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Articles

Jock Blog: Trying times on offense mean we’ll soon find out a lot about 28, the executive

1 week ago | thesportsleader.com | Brian Murphy

These are the times that try Buster Posey’s soul. Well, maybe that’s a tad dramatic for late May baseball. But you gotta grab a reader in the Jock Blog, lest he or she doom scroll somewhere else. Today’s focus is the task facing the new Giants president of baseball operations. He rode a wave of good vibes with his hiring in October of 2024. And his winter signing of Willy Adames was a can-do move, shoring up shortstop and making San Francisco look like a destination again.
Jock Blog: Post contract Brock Purdy should hold the entire building to a higher standard

2 weeks ago | thesportsleader.com | Brian Murphy

I’m a Brock Purdy fan. His story is undeniable, from 262 to leading the Super Bowl in overtime. He’s polite, professional, gritty. His biggest material want in this crass market economy is a bass fishing boat. His new contract is that most elusive of things in today’s hot take world: reasonable. So how is a guy supposed to make a Jock Blog about all that?
Brown already 'looking forward' to next start after first struggles of '25

2 weeks ago | bvmsports.com | Brian Murphy
UNC seeking naming rights sponsor for Kenan Stadium

2 weeks ago | wral.com | Brian Murphy

Kenan Stadium could soon have a new corporate naming rights sponsor, though Kenan will remain part of the title of the stadium. Rick Barakat, the new chief revenue officer for the school’s athletic department, told a UNC Board of Trustees committee on Wednesday that the process to sell naming rights has begun. “We’re going to be looking to be pretty creative with this,” Barakat said.
Ronald Goldfarb, legal reformer who battled Mafia for RFK, dies at 91

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Brian Murphy

Many of his nearly a dozen books stemmed from work done by his Washington law firm, which specialized in public interest cases, taking on subjects such as farm laborer rights in “Migrant Farm Workers: A Caste of Despair” (1981) and the penal system in “After Conviction: A Review of the American Correction System” (1973), written with law partner Linda Singer. A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.
Jock Blog: Eulogizing the 2024-25 Jimmy Butler Warriors

3 weeks ago | knbr.com | Brian Murphy

Man, that was a three-month rush, that whole Jimmy Butler-to-the-Warriors adrenaline shot the Bay Area got. It’s over now. For the time being. It did not end in an NBA title, or even an NBA Finals appearance, much less a Western Conference finals berth. It ended with Steph Curry in various forms of street clothes for the last four games of the season, and with Jimmy Butler — so often the recipient of a gushing Jock Blog in this past stretch — petering out with tepid play in the last two games.
Jock Blog: Dubs in seven. Again.

1 month ago | knbr.com | Brian Murphy

Look at the Golden State Warriors, making the Elite Eight. Thirty NBA teams started this ride back around Halloween 2024. Ocho remain. Can the Dubs get past Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves, and make the Final Four? What, you gonna bet against Steph Curry and Playoff Jimmy Butler? The Warriors were 25-26 before Butler suited up on Feb. 8 in Chicago, wearing Dubs blue and gold — or whatever color they wear on any given night. They were a 10th place team thinking about the play-in bracket.
Federal judge tells state board to certify Riggs’ victory in disputed NC Supreme Court race

1 month ago | wect.com | Jack Hagel |Brian Murphy

RALEIGH, N.C. (WECT) - North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs would retain her seat on the state’s highest court under a new federal court order that said efforts to invalidate some absentee ballots are unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Richard Myers II on Monday ordered the North Carolina State Board of Elections to certify the Democrat’s narrow victory in the November election. But he paused the ruling for seven days to allow Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin to appeal.
Jock Blog: How much concern caused by first real bummer of Posey era?

1 month ago | knbr.com | Brian Murphy

Let’s hope this Jock Blog is more of a “Blip on the Radar” Blog, one that ages poorly, , like most of my takes, and we can call delete from our phones in short order. OK, here goes: this three-game Giants losing skid has my brow furrowed. Is this little 72-hour bummer — swept in San Diego in two quckies, followed by an inexplicable loss to the inexplicably bad Colorado Rockies — the first sign that pixie dust has an expiration date?
Jock Blog: Buster, Brandon and Boch. The eve of a symbolic celebratory Saturday

1 month ago | knbr.com | Brian Murphy

It’s Brandon Crawford Day on Saturday and the Hollywood screenwriters nailed the timing on this one. After all, Buster Posey — Crawford’s championship teammate two times over, and his frequent carpool companion from the East Bay to Oracle Park — is now running the Giants. Who better to roll out the red carpet for No. 35? Wait — we mean the old No. 35; gel-haired, clubhouse DJ Brandon Crawford.