All NFC matches Pat!!! Stress free Sunday enjoy Legend!

Tim Lincecum rocked 🔥 Happy 42nd birthday to The Freak!

"Gone way too soon.. An incredible athlete, but more importantly an incredible human" @EmmanuelAcho sends an extremely heartfelt message to Aldon Smith, his family, friends, and fans. The Speakeasy sends heartfelt condolences to everyone affected by this tragic passing.

Aldon Smith passed away this weekend. Most people are talking about his incredible ability, potential, and performance as a football player. Even though that is all true. He was so much more than that. He was a great friend and his kindness changed my life forever. I met Aldon our freshman year at Mizzou. He was redshirted and relatively unknown as an athlete. His giveaway was the biggest hands you'll ever see and his ability to dunk at 250lbs, but his size in many ways didn't match his personality. He was relatively quiet and in most scenarios would try to shrink into the room vs stand out in it. Over the course of the next year, we became close. We were very different people, from different places, but we both connected on the feeling of being a bit lost in the beginnings of adulthood. That year, I never really thought about him as a football player. He was just this gentle giant who loved to play video games and talk about life. His sophmore year he broke the single season sack record at Mizzou, became an All American, and his life changed forever. He became a celebrity on campus. He became a household name in Missouri. He became a top NFL draft prospect. I remember how crazy his life became, and how quickly. ESPN doing interviews. Fancy cars being "loaned" to him. And people everywhere inserting themselves into his life. Despite the craziness, my friend was always a text away. My junior of college, I decided to take my first stab at entrepreneurship. I wanted to launch a chapter of Camp Kesem. Kesem is a summer camp for children whose parents have been affected by cancer. The camp would be totally free and be a chance for a kid to experience the magic of being a kid again. As a son of a breast cancer survivor the idea of being able to create this camp in Missouri meant the world to me. The Livestrong Foundation was hosting a nation wide contest to win $10,000 as seed capital to get started. To win, you had to have the most votes. I tried really freaking hard to win that competition. I was going up against some really influential people at huge schools. As a somewhat awkward kid in Columbia, MO I had no chance. So I asked my friend Aldon for a favor. I asked him if he would help me out and promote the link to vote. He did more than just posting about Kesem on Facebook, skyrocketing us into the top place in the country. He kept supporting me the next 3 years while I was working on building Kesem. He showed up to have fun with the kids. He helped me fundraise. He helped me get Kesem to become an official organization sponsored by the NFLPA so he could publicly endorse us as as a player. Since then Torry Holt, Larry Fitzegerald, and many others have supported Kesem. But Aldon was the first. Kesem led me to move to Austin to work for the Livestrong Foundation. Kesem is how I met my wife. Kesem gave me the confidence to start Workweek and continue the path of building something from scratch. But in reality, Aldon enabled all those things. Throughout the years we had many amazing memories together. Having my wife and I vacation to his house in San Jose. Going to New Orleans for the Super Bowl and seeing his entire family make the trip. Meeting his son and watching him be a dad. The hilarious night we met Derek Jeter. Having the most intellectual conversations about life while playing Call of Duty. I also saw him struggle. There's no doubt he was a complicated person. Truthfully, I don't know if he ever really figured out who he wanted to be. I know just because your'e 6'4, 250lbs, and get 5.5 sacks in a single NFL game doesn't necessarily mean you want to be a football player. No matter the reasons, he made many bad decisions in his life. Some of those mistakes made it hard for me to stay as close as we'd once been. One day, not too long ago, I just decided to text him. It had been years since we really chatted. I just wanted to say thank you for all that he had done for me and that I was sorry I wasn't there for him more through his struggles. We FaceTimed after that, and it was like the old days all over again. Aldon was more than the headlines, the mistakes. He was a generous, gentle soul, a kid at heart, someone who was endlessly curious about life... all in the body of a world class NFL player, bearing the weight of professional pressure and personal circumstances that most of us can't even imagine. People are complex. People who make bad decisions can also do great things. A person can be hated by almost everyone and, yet, there are people in that person's life who still love them deeply. I learned many of these lesson due to Aldon, and I'll carry them with me forever. Rest in peace, Aldon. You won't be forgotten.

Been watching the #SFGiants since ‘89 (yes, I’m old). Never witnessed a season like the one we’re currently in. 2017 was disappointing, but the three rings were glistening, and you could still smell the champagne. 2022 was whatever because I always felt 2021 was a fluke. 2026 is in a category of its own…

3rd youngest defense. Its a hungry defense. Why would Mike Evans leave Tampa Bay? Hes hungry for a 2nd ring. 49ers have plenty of hungry players.

Well said

If you care about Warriors basketball, or Steve Kerr, or just want to read the absolute best feature writer in the business, Wright Thompson, you should set aside the time needed to read this. #dubnation espn.com/nba/story/_/id/4868…

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This isn't Photoshop. This is the face of a champion wrestler who nearly died in a chimpanzee attack. At just 6 years old, Dunia Sibomana was attacked by a pack of enraged chimpanzees in a DRC national park. They tore off half his face and killed his brother and cousin. It was horrifying: both lips gone, part of an ear missing, a finger lost, muscles shredded, and deep scars everywhere. Because of how he looked, Dunia became an outcast. Kids bullied him. Adults looked away. At 8, he was brought to the US for a charity program and underwent over a dozen life-changing surgeries. They rebuilt his lips and muscles using tissue from his forearm. After being adopted, Dunia discovered freestyle wrestling. He gave it everything and succeeded. In just three days, he won two African Championship golds: first in the youth division (winning every match early, 33-1 total), then in the senior division 🥇🥇 Now 18, Sibomana is one of the most inspiring young athletes on the planet. He doesn't hide his face. He owns his story and trains like hell to be the best.

Happy Muthafuckin Birthday to my brother @Soul_Reepah #49erx Enjoy your day fam, you deserve it!

IDGAF what consensus says, De'Zhaun Stribling a DAWGGGGGGG!!! #49ers

I cannot wait until next season…

40 came a long way. I remember being at Solar Music Group (SMG St. Charles) in Fairfield hearing E-40 & the Click live. I got my cassettes next door where they had rare or early releases for VIP like myself but I was YBB street team before they were famous (Mac Dre, Mall, ‘90’s)

From Mission High School to the NFL and the Seattle Seahawks, Julian Neal is the first SFUSD high school student drafted in decades. Selected in the 3rd round as the 99th pick, he’ll be representing Hunters Point and all of SF on the national stage. Let’s go, @J12_neal!

Did the 49ers have a bad draft? @JohnMiddlekauff reacts to head coach Kyle Shanahan & GM John Lynch's draft picks & debates if they reached in the early rounds.

Yessir!!!

Special “Shout Out” to S Julian Neal, the 99th overall pick in the NFL Draft by the Seattle Seahawks. This doesn’t usually happen to San Francisco Unified School District students. In fact, it’s rare. Neal went to Mission HS to Fresno St, to Arkansas and now he’s with the defending Super Bowl Champs. Dreams can come true. @49ers @OurSf49ers #JulianNeal #NFL

A whole lotta anger out there about a 49ers draft class that hasn’t lost any games yet. But I know all of you know more than the team, so all good!!! (17 current starters on a perennial contender were drafted but keep reading about how they do nothing but fail!)

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