Articles Written by:    RAY RATTO     

« Previous  |  Next »

Vereen's big night carries Cal to win

"No, I've never carried that many times, ever," he said as he basked in the reflected glow of Vereen's 42-carry, 193-yard, three-touchdown performance in Cal's amazing 34-28 victory over Stanford on Saturday night. "The most I ever did was the high 20s, ...

From RAY RATTO, San Francisco Chronicle,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: California Golden Bears,  Jeff Tedford,  University of California, Los Angeles

That's not a Cy of relief for payroll

He meant other than "two," the number of consecutive National League Cy Young Awards that Lincecum now owns. He was thinking in terms of millions, as in, "How many millions will our arbitration filing differ from Lincecum's, and how much of a hit can ...

From RAY RATTO, San Francisco Chronicle,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Philadelphia Phillies,  Cy Young,  National League,  Ryan Howard,  Jason Bay

It's Good News . . . No Wait, It's Bad News

The Giants received the worst possible news Thursday when Tim Lincecum won his second consecutive Cy Young Award. Specifically, that Tim Lincecum won his second consecutive Cy Young Award. Put simply, his arbitration price just rose by a good several ...

From RAY RATTO, San Francisco Chronicle,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Cy Young,  Tim Lincecum,  Major League Baseball,  Ryan Howard,  Bill Neukom

Ratto: Warriors put the 'free' in free fall

They are renouncing their worldly goods, one bit of bric a brac at a time, with the apparent goal being to have no earthly encumbrances to prevent them from their ethereal reward. The truck has been backed up and parked, flashers on, and the onloading ...

From RAY RATTO, San Francisco Chronicle,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Stephen Jackson,  Vladimir Radmanovic,  Raja Bell,  Monta Ellis,  Corey Maggette

Bowl's dream matchup doesn't involve Stanford

The Rose Bowl, we know about. Stanford is in if the Cardinal beats Cal, Arizona beats Oregon, Oregon beats Oregon State and USC beats Arizona. That's a lot of moving parts, true, but hardly beyond the realm of the conceivable. But the Emerald is our ...

From RAY RATTO, San Francisco Chronicle,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Boston College,  Bobby Bowden

USC-Stanford game speaks well of Pac-10

-- One, he'd better be really good at the L.A. Coliseum on Saturday. -- And two, it probably won't make much difference for him personally. In popularity contests, late discoveries are typically too late to do the discoveree any good. He is positioned ...

From RAY RATTO, San Francisco Chronicle,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Pac-10,  American League,  Jim Harbaugh,  Matt Barkley

Sharks numbers game doesn't add up

Yeah, yeah, laugh if you want, but the Sharks have more than half their roster with jersey numbers above 40, and since none of those are 66 (Mario Lemieux), 77 (Paul Coffey), 99 (Wayne Gretzky) or anything else even resembling cool, it is clear that ...

From RAY RATTO, San Francisco Chronicle,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Mario Lemieux,  Paul Coffey,  Wayne Gretzky,  Kent Huskins,  Doug Murray

Very early upset specials

(11-09) 23:07 PST -- Teams that just might do a little damage in the NCAA Tournament: Long Beach State: Four freshmen sparked Dan Monson's second 49ers team to a 10-6 record in the Big West. They will be bloodied early by games against Notre Dame, West ...

From RAY RATTO, San Francisco Chronicle,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: National Collegiate Athletic Association,  Anthony Grant,  Texas A&M Aggies,  Gonzaga Bulldogs,  Melanie Brown

Strange reversals of fortune

"It's how we believe in each other. The excitement that everybody has, the confidence we have in each other is tremendous right now. It feels real good to come to the sideline and hear your defense chatting you on, and vice versa. I don't want to say ...

From RAY RATTO, San Francisco Chronicle,  8 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Alex Smith,  Vince Young,  Shaun Hill,  Kerry Collins,  Bud Adams

Gerhart's grand day: Glory comes with price, as Bear's injury shows

An hour later, Jahvid Best was carried from Memorial Stadium after a horrific head-and-shoulder-first landing, and suddenly whatever Gerhart's travails might have been seemed thoroughly trivial. By the time Best had been injured hurdling over one ...

From RAY RATTO, San Francisco Chronicle,  8 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Jahvid Best,  Pac-10,  Walt Harris,  Buddy Teevens,  Jim Harbaugh

« Previous  |  Next »

Who is This?

Help us add to our database, by linking this writer their entry in Wikipedia or Source Watch, or by suggesting that we remove it from our index.

Suggest an Entry

Enter a url from sourcewatch.org or wikipedia.org:


recommend removal

close