Author: Jim Balz

Our MNF recap starts with this: the 49ers are 6-0, but they had to sweat for it. San Francisco led 20-3 at halftime at Levi’s Stadium on Monday night, then watched Washington claw back before rookie Romello Height sacked Jayden Daniels on fourth down in the final minute to seal a 23-17 win. Jim and Harry both picked the 49ers,…

College football fell apart on Saturday. Not a single team stayed put in the latest AP Top 25 rankings, after five of Saturday’s top seven teams lost in a first for the poll. Sunday added a London shootout and a Panthers win in Philadelphia, and Week 6 wraps up tonight with Monday Night Football from Santa Clara. The Balz twins…

Week 6 has one more game to go. Tonight’s Monday Night Football game sends Washington to Santa Clara, and the twins have already argued through two pots of coffee. The weekend’s biggest story is a team that can’t buy a win: the Chargers are 0–6 after a 22-6 loss to the Chiefs. Kansas City stayed perfect at 5-0, and the…

Busy night on the sports desk. My brother Harry Balz is at the Avalanche game, so it’s just me, a laptop and too much coffee. The story is Guardians Rays ALCS Game 2. Cleveland came into Tropicana Field with a chance to go up 2-0 and leave Florida with a choke hold on the series. Instead the Rays took Game…

Harry says the Broncos got lucky. I say they finished the job. Before we get to Broncos vs Seahawks Thursday, here’s the score: Wil Lutz kicked a go-ahead 19-yard field goal with 5:07 remaining, lifting the Denver Broncos over the winless and mistake-prone Los Angeles Chargers 23-17 on Sunday. That makes Jim Balz 1-for-1 on Broncos picks this week. Write…