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Traveling In The Third Dimension

I’m Uncle Marty to all, this is The 3D RadioActivity, as DaytonAiredale and I join you for the 623rd time by taking a look at a gerund which is a noun formed from the verb “to travel” by adding “-ing”. A common one is a basketball term, where it describes an action. Specifically it’s the […]
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Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – "No Time To Think” by Bob Dylan

“Street Legal” is one of the most underrated records in Bob Dylan’s canon. When it came out in 1978, it had the tough task of following both “Desire” and “Blood On The Tracks,” two of Dylan’s most respected studio albums and comparatively speaking, it did not fare so well. It was then followed by the […]
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Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – "Mean Man” by Detroit Cobras

You can draw a sonic line between The Bangles and Detroit Cobras when it comes to influences. Both groups draw upon the classic girl group sound of the 1960s, but add their own garage rock spin to the proceedings. Detroit Cobras are a garage rock band from, you guessed it, Detroit whose first few albums […]
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Psychedelic Time Warp – Show 14

Hosted by Bart Shore. This week’s episode of Psychedelic Time Warp includes music from The Kinks, Traffic, Psychedelic Furs, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Derek and the Dominos, Black Sabbath, Rolling Stones, Steely Dan, the Doors, and Led Zeppelin from Led Zep II, and Iron Butterfly’s iconic In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida. Live music comes from Santana, the Allman Brothers, […]
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Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – "Old L.A.” by New Multitudes

While Bruce Springsteen tries to turn himself into Woody Guthrie by writing socially conscious lyrics (that are nebulous at best) and adopting a faux Oklahoma accent, the spirit and songs of Woody are alive and well in the form of New Multitudes. Marrying new music to lyrics left behind by Woody Guthrie is not a […]
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Jannelle Moore on the Warriors: Handling of Klay’s knee worth watching

Jan 26, 2022 5:38pm
SAN FRANCISCO — One little knee ‘tweak’ could’ve changed everything for Klay Thompson and the Golden State Warriors.
      Hours before Sunday’s tip-off against the Utah Jazz, Thompson just had a run through and was planning on playing until Warriors Director of Sports Medicine and Performance Rick Celebrini noticed the way Thompson was moving and suggested otherwise. Celebrini thought Thompson should sit, and relayed his concerns to Warriors head coach Steve Kerr.
       “I didn’t realize that anything was wrong and Rick said that it would be best to hold him out because he has a tweak in the knee,” Kerr said prior to the game.
       Since the soreness is inhis surgically repaired knee, the Warriors thought it would be wise to sit Thompson for Utah and sit him out of practice Monday to give the knee time to rest and for the pain to subside.
       Before Tuesday’s game against the Mavericks, Thompsons’ status was upgraded from questionable to available and starting. While the soreness in Thompson’s hyperextended knee subsided enough for him to play, should the Warriors be concerned now?
       Thompson had knee surgery to repair his torn ACL in July of 2019. While in rehab, Thompson ruptured his Achilles and had surgery in November, 2020. In the 941 days Thompson was sidelined before his emotional return two weeks ago, the on-court work was limited. You can run, cut, and plant to test the strength of the knee but the true test is in an actual game, and rehab can’t properly simulate or replicate the experience of a game. According to UCSF Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and 95.7 The Game Injury Insider, Dr. Nirav Pandya, soreness months after surgery is common.
       “I think just given the time that he’s been away from the game, it’s very common for the joint whether you had surgery on it or another area to get sore. Just because it’s hard to really reproduce what it’s like in a game in practice or rehab,” Pandaya said. “A lot of athletes coming back from these major injuries will have some degree of soreness or kind of tweaks and things like that. I think the thing you always get worried about though is ‘could there always be a risk of a structural injury inside that knee?’ But in general, when athletes are away for that long period of time, you can see soreness but you get concerned because it’s on the same side as where he had surgery before.”
       Pandaya believes that the Warriors are taking the smart approach with Thompson. The Warriors holding him out of those two games may be best in the bigger picture of the remainder of the season and playoffs.
       “It’s better to be safe for two reasons. One is gives you the time if it is just soreness to let it resolve because any athlete who has gotten soreness you don’t want them to have pain,” he says.
       “I think secondly, if one of the things they are probably looking at is to check is this soreness happening because Klay is doing something abnormal in terms of his running or jumping. Is he moving in a kind of way that’s causing him to put more pressure on that area? So you want to nip those things in the bud pretty early because he has several games to play.
“And the third thing, I think the most important thing people are worried about is in any knee that’s had a prior surgery like an ACL, you take those complaints very seriously. You want to make sure there’s not some sort of cartilage damage, some sort of meniscus damage, or anything else. So, I think it’s important from all three of those fronts particularly given his age, and how long he’s been away, and how important he is to the team.”
       At this point, Thompson missing two games for this issue is the Warriors being cautious and not running the risk of further injury. However, if soreness is an ongoing issue, here are some signs that there could be something deeper going on.
– Knee stiffness
– Pain with rest
– Swelling
       In Thompson’s return, the Warriors have been monitoring and restricting his minutes. Averaging between 18-24 minutes per game, Thompson played a season-high of 25 minutes in Tuesday night’s 130-92 annihilation of the Mavericks.
If this knee continues to flare up and tweak, what are the Warriors looking at in terms of treatment and management? Due to the fact that Thompson said that the knee was hyperextended, Pandya’s level of concern was heightened.
       “That does raise my concern a little bit more of ‘okay he felt fine but was there any kind of damage or any kind of irritation that was done at that point?’ So if it were to come back, I’d worry a little bit more about did that hyperextension cause him? Was there something else that happened at that time that’s going to be a recurring issue.”
       If this will be a lingering issue, Pandya suggests modification.
       “Assuming that he’s not causing any damage and just has an irritated knee, it is to limit the minutes. If he’s playing 26 and his knees are sore, do you do things like ‘look, you are going to play 20 this next game or you’re going to sit out this next game.’ I think they are already doing it with him not playing back-to-backs, which is key. But it may mean that if it’s not back-to-backs and it reappears, are you then saying ‘look, this is four-game road trip and we are going to have you only playing one game.’ So I would assume barring any structural damage and this keeps popping up, it’s going to have him taking more stretches out to deal with that soreness.”
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       If this is a trend and Thompson will miss stretches because of a lingering concern, getting an MRI for further examination is likely. For Pandya, Thompson’s threshold should dictate any treatments and modifications
       “I think a lot of it has to do with what’s he saying hurts. Is it hurting in an area that’s giving you a little more concern? Is there a lot of pain and swelling, and that’s when you start getting concerned that something else may be going on. It’s not just ‘Klay hasn’t played in 941 days and he’s just sore because he hasn’t really had a chance to get his legs underneath him.’ ”
       Thompson’s knee responded well after two-days rest and he was able to play 25 minutes Tuesday. The Warriors had no practice Wednesday, so that’s a day of rest. While the Warriors are being as cautious as they can with Thompson’s knee, this could be something worth monitoring as the season progresses.
7 great sports bars for watching the 49ers take on Los Angeles this Sunday

Jan 26, 2022 2:49pm

It’s a NorCal vs. SoCal battle this Sunday to see who gets to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl.
So expect to find an appropriately amped-up atmosphere this Sunday at these popular Bay Area sports bars. And arrive very early if you want to snag a table. Many of these locales offer outdoor seating.
Double D’s Sports Grille, Los Gatos
Dean and Darin Devincenzi may win “best sports bar in Silicon Valley” honors year after year, but they consider their place a restaurant first, a bar second. Either way, like all good sports hangouts, it doubles as a museum, with Joe’s No. 16 jersey and other cool sports memorabilia on display.
The screens: 32, including an 85-incher and several 75s.
The menu: Customer favorites include the Korean-Style Baby Back Ribs and the Three Alarm Fire, a fried chicken sandwich topped with pepper jack cheese, jalapeño slaw and chipotle aioli. Six pasta dishes and several pizzas are offered.
You’ll find 10 craft brews on tap, along with a full bar for cocktails including their award-winning, tequila-based Smokey Wildflower.
Details: 354 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos; www.doubleds.com
Stadium Pub, Walnut Creek
Billed as Walnut Creek’s oldest sports bar, the Stadium Pub will mark its 30th birthday this year. Fans pack this old-school place year-round, and there are screens and seats both indoors and on the front patio. Check out the great sports photos and other memorabilia.
The screens: Close to 50.
The menu: Classic bar food plus house-made corned beef and kosher hot dogs and sausages. The French fries rate a menu category all their own: You can order them original style, spicy, cheesy, garlicky or topped with chili.
More than 15 beers are on tap. Signature cocktails include the house-made, “slightly spicy” Hail Mary Bloody Mary.
Details: 1420 Lincoln Ave., Walnut Creek; www.thestadiumpubwc.com
Rookies Sports Lodge, San Jose
Rookies offers sports fans their choice of two vibes. There is the “Cheers”-style lodge setting of the original, which opened in 2010, and the sleek urban feel of the newer downtown location. Or, as one local bar expert says, think of one as Candlestick, the other as Levi’s Stadium.
The screens: At the Meridian location, you’ll find 20 inside and 9 outside. Downtown has 33.
The menu: Both locations serve burgers, wings, nachos, pizza, salads and bowls (Cajun, teriyaki) — and most sandwiches and burgers come with your choice of side dish, among them house-made chili, salad or chips with salsa.
There’s a monster list of about 40 craft beers on tap, with an emphasis on Bay Area brewers. Both locations also offer wine and a full bar.
Details: 1535 Meridian Ave. and 99 S. First St., San Jose; www.rookieslodge.com
Jack’s Brewing Company, Sports Pub & Grill, Fremont
You need a long name to cover all the roles that Jack’s plays. It’s a microbrewery, a sports hangout and a family restaurant. This longtime favorite has occupied a prime spot at the Hub for more then two decades, run the whole time by the Steadman-Wallace brother-sister duo.
The screens: Besides the 10-foot “monster screen,” there’s an 80-incher and 20 other TVs.
The menu: Regulars have made the beer-battered Arctic Cod and Chips, Jack’s BBQ Ribs and Giant Cheese Steaks the top sellers. There’s also a vast array of burgers, sandwiches and salads, and a children’s menu.
Sports-themed beers — the Grid Iron Amber Ale, the Hardwood Pale Ale and the Penalty Shot Porter — are brewed onsite. There’s also a full bar.
Details: 39176 Argonaut Way, Fremont; www.jacksbrewing.com
The Old Pro, Palo Alto
Long a favorite of 49ers and Stanford fans, this hangout has been around since 1964. That was back in the bar’s El Camino Real days; for many years now, Ramona Street has been home to The Old Pro, its walls full of fascinating sports memorabilia.
The screens: More than 24 inside and outside.
The menu: Only in California do the game-day eats include trendy, locally sourced fare like Smoked Diestel Turkey Chili, made with organic, non-GMO turkey; an Avocado-Kale Caesar salad; and Crispy Brussels Sprouts with a Thai chile glaze. They’ve got the obligatory wings, sliders and pizza, too.
There’s a full bar with 18 taps, primarily local craft brews.
Details: 541 Ramona St., Palo Alto; www.oldpropa.com
La Barrique, San Jose
This is a new sports bar on the local scene, and it’s an unconventional one, to be sure. Entrepreneurs Helen and Harry Nguyen pulled together an impressive culinary team for their upscale French-Vietnamese concept, then decided to broaden the restaurant’s appeal.
The screens: A 200-inch TV in the dining room, plus other screens in the bar.
The menu: In the main room, it’s dishes like Duck Two Ways. In the bar, you can order shareable plates like Pork Belly, Tuna Tartare and, of course, Chicken Wings.
If you’d like to replace high-fives with Champagne toasts, this is the place to do it. The long list of wines, sparkling and otherwise, favors France and California. Cocktails include the popular Lychee Frozé and the Trái Xoài (mango) Margarita. And yes, there are several beers on tap.
Details: 969 Story Road, San Jose, in the Vietnam Town center.
The Lot City Center, San Ramon
Here’s another new, unconventional spot for gridiron fans. And it’s not a sports venue at all. But it seems the bar and grill at this movie complex located at the upscale City Center Bishop Ranch has become a go-to place for fans. It’s open, airy — and if the game’s lopsided, you can always take in a movie.
The screens: There’s a humongous one above the bar — actually nine screens that form a single image.
The menu: Flatbreads (think Prosciutto and Burrata) and the Chicken Caesar Salad have been popular since this place opened. Signature plates include Crackling Chicken with Thai peanut slaw and an Impossible Burger. Prefer to munch on popcorn while watching the game? The theater is always popping a fresh batch.
The Lot’s got a full bar, several signature cocktails (maybe Fly Me to Hawaii or A Day at the Spa?), and a huge wine list. Beer drinkers will find at least a dozen on tap.
Details: 6000 Bollinger Canyon Road, San Ramon; https://thelotent.com/city-center
Kurtenbach: The 49ers carried Jimmy Garoppolo to the NFC Championship Game — it’s time for him to repay the faith

Jan 26, 2022 2:02pm
Jimmy Garoppolo is no stranger to this situation.
The 49ers covered up his anything-but-elite quarterback play for not one, but two playoff games only two seasons ago.
But eventually, as it always does, the burden of offensive success fell on the quarterback.
The Niners tried to hide him as long as they could, but in the third game — Super Bowl LIV — Garoppolo crumbled under the weight. His fourth-quarter quarterback rating in the biggest game of his life was 2.8. That’s out of 158.3. He completed only two of his 10 pass attempts for 24 yards and he threw an interception.
Garoppolo has another chance at a third playoff game on Sunday, when the 49ers play the Rams in the NFC Championship Game in Los Angeles.
And while the Niners will once again try to ensure that Garoppolo — who has thumb and shoulder injuries — is not the fulcrum of the team’s offensive attack, the Rams will do their best to make sure that he is.
If Sunday is the moment he is called upon to lead the way to victory — to be the MVP of the game — can he do it?
Maybe.
I wish I had a better answer for you. I wish I could levy a strong prediction. Even I, someone who has called out Garoppolo for sub-par play again and again (and, today, again) can’t tell you. The truth is that nothing seems off the table for Garoppolo, good or bad.
Garoppolo has shown that perplexing duality during the Niners’ run to this improbable championship game. At times, he has been woeful — a curse on an otherwise great team. Other times, he’s been clean, efficient and accurate — a leader of the highest order and a quarterback who seems undeniable in the biggest moments.
As we saw Tennessee in Week 16 and Dallas in the wild-card game, and, oh yeah, the last time the 49ers played the Rams, in Week 18 with the playoffs on the line, Garoppolo can be both versions of himself in the same game. Good Jimmy or Bad Jimmy — you never know which one is going to show up when the ball is snapped.
Yes, the Garoppolo experience has required an increased dose of Dramamine — and perhaps some stronger stuff — over the last few weeks. And yet here the Niners are. In a league defined by quarterbacks, Garoppolo and San Francisco stand as part of the NFL’s final four.
Let’s be clear: Garoppolo has the ability to be the exact quarterback the 49ers need to reach the Super Bowl with a win on Sunday. His best might not be anything close to the level of Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen, but in this Niners’ offense — and with this great defense’s backing — the best of Garoppolo (no turnovers, a couple of nice throws) is more than enough to win and play for a championship in the same stadium in a few weeks.
But we’re yet to see that Garoppolo in a postseason game. Frankly, we have not seen that kind of play against a good opponent since Week 10, when the Niners beat the Rams at Levi’s Stadium. (I won’t just happily forget that Garoppolo had a game-losing pick-six dropped in Cincinnati in Week 14.)
It’s without argument that Garoppolo has been the Niners’ weak point on offense in their two trips to the playoffs. If you can’t agree to that, you’re beyond salvation.
After all, Garoppolo has completed only 62 percent of his passes, 146 yards per game, two touchdowns to five interceptions in five games.
This postseason, he’s completed 61 percent of his passes for 151 yards per game, zero touchdowns, and two interceptions (with far more possible interceptions than touchdowns).
This isn’t the 1970s. This is not a model for winning a title.
“All he does is win,” I hear his supporters claim. Indeed, the Niners are 4-1 with him at the helm in the playoffs. But it’s more like the 49ers win and Garoppolo comes along for the ride, sometimes chipping in at the end, just to make sure he gets his name on the group project.
I would even go as far to say that Garoppolo’s performance in this postseason to date — again, both games the 49ers have won — has done nothing to increase the slim chances of him coming back to the team next year.
Think about it: if the 49ers can get this far with this kind of quarterback play, what’s the impediment to moving on from Garoppolo?
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Perhaps Trey Lance, Garoppolo’s replacement next season, won’t have the ineffable qualities that No. 10 carries: Garoppolo is tough, well-liked, and his relentless sense of optimism seems to rub off on the team, especially in big moments. But I think those things get far too much run for Jimmy G.
He’s a quarterback of a final-four team — for most folks, it feels strange to not compliment him. But, what else has there been to compliment him about as of late other than the things we cannot quantify?
The truth is that because the 49ers keep winning with Garoppolo, some folks feel the need to package the quarterback’s bad as good and his average as great.
Even his teammates are flummoxed by the fact that he is at the helm of a final-four team.
Niners linebacker Fred Warner is a sharp guy. I don’t say that about everyone. But check out the logical knots he tied himself into to explain Garoppolo being a final four quarterback:
“Well, I mean, we’re able to maintain trust in him because we keep winning,” Warner said. “A quarterback, if you went down the list of [the] order of importance of positions on the team, like, [the] quarterback’s No. 1. A team’s success is very heavily dependent on the quarterback position. So the fact that we’re winning games is not just a surprise, Jimmy’s playing great football.”
He continued:
“And it’s a team game. It’s not just all heavily dependent upon if Jimmy does well, we’re gonna win. No, he does exactly what we need him to and he comes into work every single day and it is the exact same person.”
Did you follow that? The Niners keep winning, so Garoppolo must be playing well. After all, the quarterback position is the most important on the field. But also, the Niners don’t need Garoppolo to win games, because it’s a team sport.
Huh?
Rams quarterback Matt Stafford sure wishes he could have Warner tripping over himself like that come Sunday.
But the duality of Garoppolo doesn’t matter for Sunday. That’s because the time for grading on the curve is over for the Niners’ quarterback.
Whether you believe he’s an impediment to winning or someone who has done his part to date — or both, like Warner — the Niners are going to need more from Garoppolo than what they have received to date this postseason.
Can he do it? Absolutely. But that’s no longer the question.
The right question is “Will he do it?”
We’re about to find out.
Pleasant Valley girls basketball stays undefeated in EAL play

Jan 26, 2022 1:36pm

The Pleasant Valley girls basketball team has now won five consecutive games after its 60-53 win Tuesday night at home against Enterprise.
Caitlyn Vickery led PV in scoring with 15 points, Mariah Letcher scored 12 points, Maddux Wilson scored 11 points and AJ Gambol scored nine. Gambol scored six of her nine points from the free-throw line, finishing 6-of-10.
PV (14-7, 4-0 Eastern Athletic League) plays next at 8 p.m. Thursday against Shasta.
Report scores or results by emailing sports@chicoer.com. Results must be reported by noon the next day following the date that the game was played.
49ers-Rams ticket prices rise as Faithful swarms secondary sites

Jan 26, 2022 1:27pm
The Rams realize they can’t prevent 49ers fans from inundating SoFi Stadium again for Sunday’s NFC Championship game. So their players and coaches are focused on what they can control: Making sure the 49ers Faithful don’t have a reason to make a return trip to L.A. in two weeks.
At least that’s the message from Rams coach Sean McVay as the teams prepare to battle for the right to play in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi on Feb. 13. McVay was asked Monday whether his team will be affected by another mass invasion of 49ers fans for their home game Sunday.
“I don’t know that I really look at it like that,” McVay told reporters. “I think that you just look at it as, ‘Hey, let’s control what we can control.’ ”
Still, McVay couldn’t help but make a plea to Rams ticket holders.
“Hold onto those tickets, and it’ll be much appreciated,” McVay said. “But our guys are looking forward to putting on a good show against a great opponent. (We) can’t wait to be able to do it, and don’t sell those tickets!”
Despite a clear attempt to stop 49ers fans from taking over SoFi like they did in the regular-season finale almost three weeks ago, there are mounds of evidence The Faithful managed to secure plenty of tickets. And a denial by the Rams front office that they intended to shut out 49ers fans when their ticket partner, Ticketmaster, restricted sales of this week’s tickets to Southern California residents only.
“The policies were put in place to give local residents and season-ticket members first access to tickets,” Rams vice president of corporate affairs Joanna Hunter told the Los Angeles Daily News this week. Hunter said the 49ers fans were not a factor in that decision.
That residency provision was lifted when it became moot because all tickets were sold out through Ticketmaster, which only opened up more chances for 49ers to scoop up tickets through third-party vendors. StubHub said it had a little more than 4,400 tickets for the game available as of Wednesday afternoon. As you might imagine, they aren’t cheap.
The cheapest ticket you can find there is $599. The average price of those remaining tickets is nearly $1,200. Of course, if you want to just hang out and tailgate at SoFi, that’ll cost you “just” $145. The big spenders can still go watch the game in style in a Lower VIP section, where four tickets available at $12,000 a pop remained Wednesday.
Alex Terry of StubHub said business is so good that the NFC Championship will likely be the third-best-selling postseason game in the ticket resale company’s history. She also said 77 percent of the Rams-49ers tickets have been sold to California residents – 44 percent of them reside in Northern California.
SeatGeek, meanwhile, appeared to have the lowest get-in price for the game available. For $541 you can still get a seat in Section 551 in the upper deck above the west end zone at SoFi.
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When Ticketmaster’s restrictions first went into effect Sunday, it didn’t take long for some creative 49ers fans to figure out a way to game the system.
Some of the Faithful went into stealth mode to purchase tickets for the team’s first NFC Championship game on the road since 2013, when San Francisco’s 2013 season ended in Seattle. One man belonging to a Facebook group for 49ers fans said Tuesday he was able to purchase tickets to Sunday’s game directly from a member of a Rams fan Facebook page. The man, who requested anonymity, said he — and some others — got the tickets after following advice from a fellow 49ers fan – he hid his location from public view and also made all photos showing his 49ers allegiance private.
Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford knows dealing with the 49ers defense will be a challenge within itself. He’d prefer not to deal with a crowd that makes it difficult for his teammates to hear him, like the last time the 49ers were there.
“Hopefully it’s one of those games where we come out and it’s heavy blue and yellow (in the stands) and we have a nice, loud crowd that makes it tough on them,” Stafford said.

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