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Feb.02.2013
In January 1994 Dallas defeated San Francisco 38–21 in the NFC championship game.
“That loss catapulted us to the next year, our championship year,” recalled quarterback Steve Young. “We could not deal with that loss. It was too devastating. No one talked about it at all. To this day we haven’t...
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Feb.01.2013
George Orwell was a Socialist who came to see, in the years after Joe Stalin's crimes were known, that Communism was the new evil replacing Naziism in this world of ours. His story of animals, re-creating the Russian Revolution, sounds ridiculous until you read it. Read it! Then read it again....
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Feb.01.2013
The Old Testament tells the story of Lot’s wife, who, upon escaping from Sodom and Gomorrah, disobeys God by turning to observe the destroyed city. She is turned into a pillar of salt.
The modern Lott, as in Ronnie Lott, was and remains to this day a pillar of greatness, a rock upon which all 49ers...
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Jan.25.2013
This is a short book Ernest Hemingway wrote late in his life, during his Cuban years. The fisherman's struggle to bring his greatest catch ever, the shark, in from the sea while it is slowly and painfully bitten and chewed up by the other fish along the way is the metaphor for life's struggles....
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Jan.25.2013
The San Francisco 49ers of the golden 1980s were a team of superlatives. Discussions can be had to “determine” whether they were the greatest dynasty ever; whether Montana was the best of all quarterbacks, Ronnie Lott the game’s all-time greatest defensive back, Jerry Rice the finest receiver, and...
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Jan.24.2013
This is timeless Shakespearean drama, about a King and his three daughters, wrapped around corruption, betrayal and tragedy. It speaks to the power and pressure of leadership, and modern politicians would well to heed its valuable lessons.
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Jan.24.2013
The San Francisco 49ers victory over the Cincinnati Bengals at the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan on January 24, 1982, at first appeared to be just another surprise world championship by a previously bad sports team. Obviously Bill Walsh was the “flavor of the day” among coaches, Joe Montana was an...
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Jan.23.2013
The Great Escape may be the greatest tribute to man's yearning to be free ever portrayed on the cinema.
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Jan.23.2013
In the spring of 1953 I received a call from Pete Rozelle who, at that time, was the public relations director for the Los Angeles Rams. He told me that the Rams were looking at me and to hang tight. As it turned out, L.A. selected a 6'4", 235-pound offensive tackle out of Kentucky (in the third...
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Jan.22.2013
In American literature, there are two distinct "schools" that emerged from the Lost Generation of ex-patriates who lived in Paris after World War I. These are the Hemingway and Fitzgerald wings of political novelization.
Fitzgerald was a member of the East Coast elite, the Ivy Leaguers of the...
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Jan.22.2013
When it comes to the San Francisco 49ers, everything comes down to this day, this game, this moment: The Catch. It is the Holy Grail of the franchise, the parting of the Red Sea by which a flood of glory days follow.
The date was January 10, 1982. It had been an unusually rainy season in the Bay...
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Jan.21.2013
John Milius is the greatest screenwriter you never heard of, not to mention a terrific director. He describes the "Dirty Harry" Callahan character as "God's lonely man." Milius is that rarest of rarities, a Hollywood conservative. He herein wrote a film for the Republican Clint Eastwood that spoke...
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Jan.21.2013
It starts with my dad, a native San Franciscan. As a young man, he ushered 49ers games at Kezar Stadium. The Rams, the Eagles, the Packers…he saw them all. Pro football on the West Coast. For my old man, a Cal grad who played alongside Sam Chapman and Vic Bottari; rooted for Pappy Waldorf’s teams,...
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Jan.20.2013
I finally read this book, and did so in light of the mounting criticism of Bush as "dumb," along with attempts to discredit his military career. My sense at this point is to look at the available empirical evidence. George W. Bush was admitted to Yale and graduated in four years. He was a legacy,...
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Jan.20.2013
By and large, when modern pundits ponder the question, or create Internet polls to determine who the greatest quarterback who ever lived might be, the name most often mentioned is Joe Montana.
This in and of itself does not mean that Joe is indeed the greatest signal-caller ever. It is a subjective...
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to re-live it.”
—George Santayana
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Conservative, Christian, USC, American patriotism
Steven’s Favorite Books
The Holy Bible; Plato’s Republic; Sun-tsu’s Art of War’ Machiavelli’s The Prince; William Shakesepeare’s Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth; Dostoeyevsky’s Brothers...