Though he left the retirement option open in talking to the media before the meaningless final game of the season, Don Nelson will return as the Warriors’ coach next season. You — and Warriors management — need only wait for the July 1 deadline he has set for his announcement.Everything Nelson said pointed to his return. He noted that, unlike his "retirement" when he left the Dallas Mavericks, this one would have to be final: "I’m not going to take a year off and come back at 70."
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Despite the dramatic debut of John Bowker, it will probably be two years minimum before enough prospects get to San Francisco to turn the Giants into a contender again.It could be even longer than that for the most intriguing prospect, Angel Villalona, the Dominican teenager signed to a huge bonus last year, who has been compared to Albert Pujols, Miguel Cabrera and Frank Thomas."It could be four years," new farm director Fred Stanley told me. "When he gets here, we want him to stay. We’d like to get him 400 games in the minors."
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Trent Johnson’s "dream job" was about to turn to a nightmare, and his bolting for LSU is symptomatic of the problems that Stanford faces in basketball and football.
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The news that the Giants and Dodgers would move to the West Coast for the 1958 season created shock waves in the baseball world. In San Francisco, residents were ecstatic. Baseball was king in 1958. In the eyes of San Franciscans, getting the Giants made the city truly major league.
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Will Barry Bonds play this season? Probably, if he stays in shape and is patient, because he’snot likely to be signed before midseason.Bonds’ market is limited. He can’t play for a National League club because he can no longer play in the field. Giants fans saw that last year. All he accomplished was giving shortstop Omar Vizquel more opportunities to make spectacular over-the-shoulder grabs of pop flies that should have been handled by the left fielder.
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If you know where the Giants are going with their youth movement, give them a call. They don’t seem to be able to get a handle on it.
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Who will be the next Cal men’s basketball coach? He should have a record of success as a head coach, yet be young enough to have the energy to compete in the Pac-10 Conference, perhaps the best basketball conference in the country. He should be a coach for whom Cal would be a step up. There are some strong candidates, especially just from the West. Among them:
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Basketball officials are out of control.
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Watching the Warriors is like watching a movie you’ve seen several times. You know how it will turn out. In Don Nelson’s first six years with the Warriors, his teams made the playoffs four times but got past the first round only twice. In the 1988-89 season, the Warriors beat Utah in the first round, but lost to Phoenix in the second round. In 1990-91, they beat San Antonio in the first round, then lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in the second round.
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The Pac-10 Conference, probably the strongest men’s basketball conference in the country, got six teams into the NCAA Tournament, but only UCLA is likely to get very far. The Bruins, though, could salvage the tournament’s honor by winning the whole thing.
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The Giants are trapped halfway between opposite ends, rebuilding with younger players or trying to put together a contending team. They’ve done neither of them well this year. Spring training is usually a time for optimism. When the Giants opened camp, there was much talk about how harmonious the Giants’ clubhouse would be without Barry Bonds, how they had a collection of "gamers" who would keep hustling. It sounded like a tryout for a high school team.
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Barring a miracle in the Pac-10 Conference men’s basketball tournament, this will be the last week of Ben Braun’s coaching career at Cal.
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Although the 49ers will have competition at quarterback, new offensive coordinator Mike Martz would like Alex Smith to start. "The first thing you look for in a quarterback is accuracy," Martz said when we talked in his office this week, "the ability to hit a moving target consistently. Alex has that ability." Smith has also had poor protection, inadequate receivers and four coordinators in four years. "You wouldn’t wish that on any quarterback," Martz noted. As a result, Smith has developed bad mechanics, which Martz realizes.
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Lane Kiffin will soon be history — the betting among insiders is that he’ll be gone before next month’s draft — and the only question is his successor.
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The 49ers have extended quarterback Alex Smith’s contract for another two years, general manager Scot McCloughan announced Thursday.McCloughan added that he still thinks the draft should be the primary tool for building the 49ers, not free agency, which begins tonight. "You can bring in the players who not only have the skills you need, but the [right] kind of attitude," he said.Smith’s original contract was structured so the 49ers could buy it out after this year. Instead, they exercised a buyback clauseso he will be under contract at least through the 2010 season.
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