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How 49ers QB Brock Purdy rates through the first 17 starts of his career

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:00:37 GMT

SANTA CLARA –Trent Williams said getting Brock Purdy with the final pick of the 2022 NFL Draft was like winning the $2 billion Powerball jackpot.Extreme?Maybe so. But Purdy has now started 17 games for the 49ers including the playoffs — the equivalent of a full season — and what he’s done in that span ranks with some of the best who have ever played quarterback in the NFL.It was last Dec. 11 when Purdy made his first start against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Tom Brady after coming off the bench the previous week against Miami following a foot injury to Jimmy Garoppolo. The 49ers won 35-7. The Bucs are back in town Sunday. Baker Mayfield, a former No. 1 overall pick, is the Tampa Bay quarterback now.Purdy looks back at that game fondly but with an eye toward the future.“I watched the film, there’s some stuff, honestly, where I was like, ‘Dude, that’s a little sloppy,’ ” Purdy said Thursday. “The operation, how I run t...

Five observations from the Warriors’ five-game losing streak

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:00:37 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — Home hasn’t been kind to the Warriors yet. With a loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday, they move to a 1-5 record at Chase Center that includes a 0-4 start to their six-game home stand.The bad time at home has plenty of caveats: Steph Curry missed the last two losses nursing a sore knee. Draymond Green was ejected from Tuesday’s game and suspended for the rest of the homestand for choking Rudy Gobert. Klay Thompson was ejected from Tuesday’s loss and now Gary Payton II is dealing with an ankle sprain.There’s plenty to pull from the losses, though. Here are five takeaways from a bad time out at Chase Center.Are they mediocre?The Warriors are 6-7 now 13 games into the season with a five-game win streak and a five-game losing streak under their belt. Through both highs and lows, Golden State has turned in pretty mediocre results outside of Steph Curry’s 30.7 point per game average driving the scoring almost entirely.Let’...

Bay Area News Group boys athlete of the week: Evan Vernon, Christopher football

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:00:37 GMT

Christopher football player Evan Vernon is the Bay Area News Group’s boys athlete of the week for Nov. 6-11 after he received 40.52% of the vote by the deadline Wednesday.California football player Jayden Macedo finished second.Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition.Related ArticlesHigh School Sports | Polls closed: Bay Area News Group boys athlete of the week High School Sports | Polls closed: Bay Area News Group girls athlete of the week High School Sports | Bay Area News Group girls athlete of the week: Michelle Ho, Dougherty Valley golf High School Sports | Bay Area News Group boys athlete of the week: Aaron Knapp, St. Francis football High School Sports | Poll closed: Bay Area News Group boys athlete of the week Vernon caught five passes for 67 yards and had 14 tackles and a fumble recovery to help lead Christopher to a dramatic 32-28 victory over top-seeded Archbishop Mi...

What’s behind E. coli in Point Reyes National Seashore? Beef grows between ranchers and environmentalists

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:00:37 GMT

The National Park Service has found E. coli bacteria levels well above health standards in several water bodies around the Point Reyes National Seashore, reigniting the contentious debate over the future of cattle grazing at the beloved Northern California landscape.Even as the park has taken major steps to make ranching less harmful to watersheds, contaminated water was detected at several sites, including a lagoon that flows into popular Kehoe Beach, indicating runoff from cattle manure at upstream ranches.“There certainly are improvements. But it’s not perfect. Substantial water-quality issues remain in the park,” said California Coastal Commission Deputy Director Cassidy Teufel in a Thursday presentation of park data from a year-long collection and testing effort at 24 different sites.But, surprisingly, cattle aren’t the only culprits: Tainted water was also found in two other popular sites, McClures and Abbott Beaches, which have few or no cattle — suggesting that wildlif...

Jury convicts Bay Area man for 2021 road rage shooting

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:00:37 GMT

A Solano County Superior Court jury on Wednesday convicted a 47-year-old Fairfield man of a 2021 road rage shooting in Fairfield.Marcial Cardenas Pineda faces up to 19 years in state prison at his sentencing, set for 1:30 p.m. Dec. 15 in Department 7 in the Justice Building in Vallejo, where the trial was held.Jurors found Pineda guilty of shooting at an occupied motor vehicle and assault with a semi-automatic firearm. They also found true the allegation that Pineda used a firearm to commit the crimes, Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams noted in press statement released Thursday afternoon.Court records show that on Sept. 21, officers responded to a call of a suspected road rage shooting incident.The victim was travelling on Interstate 80, taking the Waterman Boulevard/ Air Base Parkway exit when she noticed Pineda’s vehicle driving erratically.After exiting the freeway, the Pineda rolled down his window and fired a single shot toward the victim, striking her vehicle, the...

Bay Area News Group girls athlete of the week: Sarah Chow, Sacred Heart Cathedral volleyball

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:00:37 GMT

Sacred Heart Cathedral volleyball player Sarah Chow is the Bay Area News Group’s girls athlete of the week for Nov. 6-11 after she received 42.52% of the vote by the deadline Wednesday.Evergreen Valley cross-country runner Ruby Chen finished second.Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition.Related ArticlesHigh School Sports | Polls closed: Bay Area News Group boys athlete of the week High School Sports | Polls closed: Bay Area News Group girls athlete of the week High School Sports | Bay Area News Group girls athlete of the week: Michelle Ho, Dougherty Valley golf High School Sports | Bay Area News Group boys athlete of the week: Aaron Knapp, St. Francis football High School Sports | Poll closed: Bay Area News Group boys athlete of the week Chow, a senior setter, had 33 assists in SHC’s 3-0 sweep over Notre Dame-Belmont in the NorCal Division II semifinal. The victory clinched th...

Newton: Texas to California, migrants’ travels through U.S. politics

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:00:37 GMT

The first indication usually comes from a worker in Brownsville, Texas.That person informs Los Angeles officials that Texas authorities have just completed their latest roundup of immigrants from shelters and meeting sites. The state has loaded up a bus full of men, women and children and pointed it toward Los Angeles.As far as Texas is concerned, that’s all state officials need to do: Load the bus, ship them out. But in Brownsville, locals take it upon themselves to provide at least some of the help that Texas withholds, so they jump on the bus before it departs and create a quick manifest of those on board. They get names, phone numbers and other contact information for friends or loved ones they might have in California.Then the bus pulls out. Brownsville workers call their counterparts in Los Angeles and relay the manifest. The clock starts ticking.“We have 24 hours to start calling people,” said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights, kno...

SJSU student housing deal may be “win-win” for university, San Jose

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:00:37 GMT

SAN JOSE — A game-changing $113 million deal to bring San Jose State University students to a hotel tower is deemed to be the “ultimate win-win” for the school and the city’s downtown district, experts say.SJSU is poised to use the deal to bolster the university’s emerging strategy to transform all of downtown San Jose into its campus as the school’s influence widens and enriches the city’s entire urban core, not just the areas adjacent to the campus.SJSU logo on the sky bridge of Spartan Village on the Paseo, a San Jose State University student housing complex on South Market Street in downtown San Jose, concept. (San Jose State University)Dormitory in Spartan Village on the Paseo, a San Jose State University student housing complex on South Market Street in downtown San Jose, concept. (San Jose State University)“We are going to be a bigger and bigger part of the downtown,” said Charlie Faas, San Jose State’s vic...

2 bodies found along Marin County shores

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:00:37 GMT

Authorities are investigating two deaths discovered along the Marin County waterfront, one in San Rafael and the other on Richardson Bay.San Rafael police said a body was found floating about 10 feet offshore Tuesday near Francisco Boulevard East just west of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. Bystanders tried to pull the body to shore before police arrived, said Sgt. Justin Graham said.The preliminary investigation revealed no signs of trauma or a crime, Graham said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Daly City man pleads no contest to cop assault charge Crime and Public Safety | Protesters escalate stakes, traffic impacts with shutdown of Bay Bridge during APEC summit Crime and Public Safety | Man convicted in vicious 2019 attack on woman along Mountain View trail Crime and Public Safety | Two men get 16 years for 2019 fatal shooting during Oakland marijuana robbery Crime and Public Safety | ‘Dange...

Traffic calming measures part of moving toward San Jose’s 2030 carbon-neutral goal: Roadshow

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:00:37 GMT

Q: The striping and light at Hamilton Place need to be fixed as soon as possible. I saw another near miss this week with someone in the confusing straight-to-left turn lane there. A big truck did not know the lane ended and almost took out the car on his right at the last moment. You could hear tires squealing. This signal and pavement striping are dangerous.Lindsay GeierA: This message followed your recent questions for Colin-the-city-spokesman.Q: Taking Leigh Avenue from De Rose Way to Hamilton has been an easy commute. Now the signal is constantly on at Hamilton Place, even when no one is making a left turn or leaving. It also now creates a very long wait for those going south on Leigh. I’ve seen people get so fed up that they stop, look and then proceed through the red light.Also, why, with all the densification, would the city think it was good idea to reduce Leigh Avenue to two lanes with large bike lanes, especially when the Los Gatos Creek bike trail is right there? The left...