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Well, that sucked.

Now we've got all these rumors swirling that Head Coach Nolan II will be fired after this latest underwhelming showing.

American Football Spectacular's New York American Football Giants correspondent Joon Lee has some verrry specific opinions about Nolan and the state of the Niners...

Here's a rundown of what's happening in the world of sports blogs

-In a GAME THAT MATTERED, the A's lost their opening game, 4-0 to the Mariners. It's too easy to make much out of the first game of the season, but it should be noted that the A's took 17 out of 19 games against the Mariners last season and the Mariners just halved that. What happened yesterday could basically be summed up by this: great pitching. Mariner’s wunderkind Felix Hernandez, all of 20 years old, gave up only three hits in eight innings and struck out twelve.

Here's todays sports wrap up

Here's todays daily wrap up of sports news.

So the Chron has added yet another blog to their arsenal, the originally named Sports Columnist Blog. So with all these blogs going on, who's going to be left to, you know, actually write in the paper?

Miss Monta Ellis' last minute shot two nights ago? Here it is.

So the Raiders hired somebody, baby-faced Lane Kiffin, a 31-year old coach with no head coaching experience. Nice. When we were 31, we could barely hold down a job, let alone coach a professional football team. Football Chris will give the analysis in a bit, but we heard Al was so into the idea of hiring somebody young that he posted a job listing in the local college paper. Have fun, Raiders fans.

-Ray Ratto thinks Carole Migden's proposal to keep the 49ers in San Fran is a load of hooey. -That new stadium, BTW, is polling at about 73% in favor down in Santa Clara.

-So we've already had our say about Art's canning, but what does everyone else say? Ray Ratto wishes whomever the next coach is good luck and Gwen Knapp thinks it should be the Mulleted One (as does Don Banks on CNNSI). Raiders Fan House runs down a list of candidates as does Inside Bay Area. In the national sites, Deadspin wonders if Al and Art are the new Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner and ESPN's Mark Kreidler thinks Al needs to get over himself and hire some big name guy. Over in San Jose, Mark Purdy picks Bill Cowher out of his ass as a potential replacement.

-In light of the end of the NFL season, the 49ers look forward to next year while the Raiders look inward. Shell thinks he's coming back but Warren Sapp isn't.

-Sharks lose to the Dallas Stars 3-0. Not really a surprise considering the Stars were looking to open up a can of whoop-as and the Sharkies were coming off a four-game break. It's the Sharks second loss to the Stars and the third time they've been blanked in the past fourteen games.

-The Niners beat the Seahawks in what has to be a bit of a shocker, 24-14. We'll have more on this later.

Let's take a look at the reaction to the Bonds' signing, shall we? Ray Ratto calls out Magowan for whimping out and Scott Ostler makes a bunch of jokes that all imply he's not a big fan of the dude. Glenn Dickey, however, is. Over at the Mercury, Tim Kawakami says the Giants make lousy poker players and Sabean should quit. Ouch.

It's official down on The Farm. In a story that we broke more than two months ago, ESPN.com and others are reporting that Stanford has fired head football coach Walt Harris. Hate to say it Main Stream Media, but we told you so.

-Glenn Dickey says Stanford coach Walt Harris will be fired after the Big Game. We said that months ago. Jake Curtis sums up the pros and cons of firing him and Ray Ratto says the obvious-- that Harris is under a lot of pressure.

-The Warriors111 Spurs 102: This is the second big-name team the Warriors have beaten up at home in a week (they beat the Jazz earlier) and they got some R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Take Care TCB, from Spurs coach Greg Popovich. Bruce Jenkins says it's all about Nellie.

So how did the Giants' hiring of Bruce Bochy go over with Giants fans? Well, does the word "meh" mean anything to you. It's not that people were upset (well, some people were) but most people just kind of gave it a shrug and said that it's not such a bad pick. Kind of like when you go out looking for a used car to buy and you dream of a sports car or a hybrid and you wind up doing what everyone else does-- buy a Honda. It's not very exciting and it's not very sexy but the car just plain ole works.

Yesterday, the Chron bid adieu to football columnist Ira Miller as he wrote his last column. Miller, who has been covering football for the Sporting Green for twenty-nine years, is retiring (bought out in a cost-cutting move). He plans on playing a lot of golf and writing the occasional column on AOL.

For those wondering what happens to columnists when they get let go from their respective papers, we're beginning to find out that just like everyone else, they go blog. Oh, Internet, what aren't you good for? Case in point is Glenn Dickey, ex-columnist for the Chronicle who was unceremoniously "reassigned" last fall. While he still writes the occasional story for the Chronicle, his long-running column has ceased to be. So, over the past month, Dickey has gone online with a blog of his own, GlennDickey.com. Could Laurel Wellman be next? Rob Morse? Jon Carroll's cats?

Imagine our surprise this morning when we opened up the Chronicle's sports section only to see farewell columns by the Sporting Green mainstays Tom Fitzgerald and Glenn Dickey. Not only that, but right next to each other. Fitzgerald has been writing "Open Season," a roundup of funny quotes, stories and jokes, since 1989, and Dickey has been writing his column since 1971. Both say they are being "reassigned" to writing "sports features" and other stories, although being "reassigned" at the Chronicle often means disappearing for long periods of time only to reappear once a month with a column relegated to the back pages (see Stephanie Salter, Ruth Rosen, and Laurel Wellman -- Rosen and Salter have been so reassigned they're not even listed on SFGate anymore). While Dickey gave no hint of how he feels, Fitzgerald gave a hint of bitterness over the move, writing that the purpose of his last column "isn't to debate the decision." Dickey just mentions that "management has reassigned me to general-assignment sports reporting." Considering that Dickey is pretty much an institution as a columnist, that's a pretty big deal. "Open Season" was always worth a chortle or guffaw (we know people who desperately tried to get their jokes into the column) and while we sometimes didn't agree with things Dickey wrote or knew what the hell was up with his beard, he always made us think. This may not seem like a big deal to those who don't read Sporting Green but considering that for a long time whenever anyone said "the Chronicle really sucks" we could always say "yeah, but the Sports section is pretty good." Now we're not sure we can even say that anymore.