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Column: Super Bowl brothers like no others
John Harbaugh had just finished answering the masked man in front of him when a caped crusader from a children's network swooped in to ask how he ...
Suggs, Webb, stand out at Super Bowl media day
Scenes and observations from the NFL's annual Super Bowl media day — interviews with players and team personnel from the Baltimore Ravens and the San ...
Column: 'Not like we signed up to play tennis.'
Super Bowl week is beginning to resemble one of those family reunions where your crazy uncle says something outrageous, but just true enough to spark ...
NFL players react to Obama's opinions on football
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs respects and understands President Barack Obama's opinion about the dangers of football — and hesitation ...
Ravens' Ed Reed agrees with president's concerns
Unlike several players at the Super Bowl, Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed agrees with President Obama that football needs to be made safer. Reed wants ...
Team flag waves as 49ers arrive for Super Bowl
Jim Harbaugh stepped to the podium, smirked a bit, and greeted his first news conference as a Super Bowl coach. "We're super happy to be here," he ...
Alex Smith handles role with unselfishness, class
Alex Smith ran off the field at Candlestick Park two weeks ago to a standing ovation and cheers from the sellout crowd, not much different from the ...
Harbaugh parents could become Super Bowl TV stars
Jack and Jackie Harbaugh would do well to practice their impassive faces in front of a mirror before the Super Bowl. The parents of Baltimore Ravens ...
Jim, John Harbaugh ready for rematch at Super Bowl
Jim and John Harbaugh have exchanged a handful of text messages, and plan to leave it at that. No phone conversations necessary while the season's ...
49ers rally past Falcons 28-24 in NFC title game
The loss stuck with them for a year, pushing the San Francisco 49ers in everything they did. They didn't want to feel that way again. Not to worry.
After Giants win title, Niners getting their shot
When Jim Harbaugh and Alex Smith drove in the Giants' victory parade last fall, players on San Francisco's championship baseball team hoped they might ...
49ers head to Super Bowl, beating Falcons 28-24
The clutch quarterback. The genius coach. The big-play defense. The San Francisco 49ers are ready to start a new dynasty with a familiar formula.
Column: Hiring Kelly risky move for Eagles
Chip Kelly made his bones as a football coach by doing things fast. By most standards, though, his leap into the NFL was agonizingly slow.
Ravens, 49ers plan different endings
This time, it will be different. That's the mantra the Ravens and 49ers must carry into Sunday's conference championships. One step from the Super ...
Golden era for QBs, with great stories around NFL
The two kids from Northern California burst from NFL afterthought to championship contender in eerily similar fashion a decade apart. Tom Brady and ...
Title games feature Ravens-Pats, 49ers-Falcons
One game is a rematch. The other might feel like one — at least to one of the teams. For the second straight year in the AFC, the New England Patriots ...
Kaepernick gives 49ers new look in NFC title game
Colin Kaepernick stood in a cramped corner of the 49ers' locker room smiling and chatting with Alex Smith late Saturday night when a stranger ...
Kaepernick delivers, 49ers beat Packers 45-31
The unproven kid thoroughly beat the former Super Bowl champion and reigning MVP. With a strong arm that allowed him to pick the Packers apart from ...
Ravens shock Broncos; 49ers rout Packers
The 49ers and Ravens are getting another shot at making the Super Bowl. Losers in tight conference championship games a year ago, they are returning ...
Billy Cundiff practices alongside David Akers
Billy Cundiff, sporting a crisp new white No. 6 jersey, had an impressive first day of practice with the San Francisco 49ers while kicking alongside ...
All 12 playoff teams have flaws to fix
The NFL's dandy dozen is set — and truth be told, a little scared. Nobody's perfect, and all the teams that made the playoffs face potential pitfalls ...
Stanford holds off Wisconsin 20-14 in Rose Bowl
Andrew Luck, Toby Gerhart and coach Jim Harbaugh started Stanford's improbable football renaissance, yet they never stood in the center of the Rose ...
49ers win NFC West with 27-13 victory over Arizona
Bare-chested Joe Staley and Mike Iupati jumped up and down wearing only their shorts, each offensive lineman doing his best to will the Vikings to ...
Column: Seattle isn't just sleepless, it's loud!
That dull roar still rumbling between your ears a day later is not your imagination. It's the echo from the 49ers-Seahawks game Sunday night, when an ...
Seahawks roll past 49ers in noisy Seattle 42-13
Red Bryant remembers the early years of his career, when the Seattle Seahawks struggled to win only four and five games in his first two seasons.