SANTA CLARA – Kyle Shanahan promised this training camp more secrecy to advise opponents, but the 49ers coach lifted his filter Saturday to pass on positive health updates. First, Shanahan said defensive end Nick Bosa took the practice out as a routine ‘maintenance day’, which came after Bosa sat out …

Ramón Laureano was hit twice by a pitch in the game that ultimately resulted in a bank-clearing brawl between the A’s and the Houston Astros on August 9th. That, in addition to Astros’ striking coach Alex Cintrón writing a slur about Laureano’s mother, is what resulted in this: Laureano was …

GREEN BAY, Wis. – Through the first three days of padded practices, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers had completed just 55.0 percent of his passes in 11-on-11 situations. On Saturday, the sixth practice of training camp, Rodgers began to warm up. With Preston Smith not at all mad by …

ALLEN PARK – Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but TJ Hockenson has had one very good week at training camp. Hockenson shone for the Detroit Lions, who closed the pads for the first time this week on Saturday. The close end of the second year drew worries about …

This had the subtlety of a Mike Tyson roundhouse. Marc-Andre Fleury’s agent, Allan Walsh, tweeted a photo of his client with a sword in his back. Written on the sword was “DeBoer”, the last name of Las Vegas Golden Knights coach Peter DeBoer. Clearly, Walsh is not happy that Fleury …