SportingGreen SanFrancisco Chronicle and SFChronicle.com | Sunday, October 28, 2018 | Section B xxxxx• THE FUTURE OF FOOTBALL Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle The 49ers exit the locker room on their way to the field before a preseason game against the Dallas Cowboys at Levi’s Stadium on Aug. 9. By Eric Branch The series In February, Josh Begley, a For years, mount- STRUGGLING San Francisco native and Cal ing evidence has graduate, finished producing linked football one of the most haunting violence with brain short films of 2018. trauma and life- For more than five minutes, threatening condi- TO REDUCE viewers are presented with tions. Now that we know the sport can stitched-together footage that produce deadly includes stretchers, motion- results, where do less bodies, thousand-yard we go from here? stares and high-impact colli- THE DAMAGE sions that result in flying Today: How is the spittle and, on one occasion, a NFL trying to make pair of trembling, locked arms its game safer? B1 As a violent sport wrestles with effects on brains, that suggest a seizure. We know what Begley’s film, “Concussion needs to be done. how is the NFL making things safer for players? Protocol,” is a compilation of But will we finally every reported concussion do it? A1 from the 2017 NFL season. An avid football fan who Monday: Falling increasingly struggles with youth participation the game’s violence, Begley is a sign of things wanted to create a historical to come. record of the carnage to The NFL reported 291 concussions which many fans have be- Tuesday: What 291 during the 2017 season, a16.4 percent come desensitized. will the future of increase from the 2016 season “We all kind of hear about football look like? In game (235) Practice (56) aconcussion crisis in the NFL, and maybe we can all Online: Read the remember seeing a few con- full series now at cussions in the course of www.sfchronicle. watching a game,” Begley com/future-of Football continues on B4 -football CAL 12, NO. 15 WASHINGTON 10 WARRIORS Bears take big step toward bowl Unselfish duo gets even better By Rusty Simmons 1 WSU 41, ended in a 37-yard interception By Connor Letourneau spite their immense talent, they Stanford return by Evan Weaver that 151 appear to be as ego-less as any Cal’s secondary has been 38: Pac-12 propelled the Bears to a 12-10 NEW YORK — Stephen All-Star tandem in NBA history. Combined driving opponents batty all North rivals victory over No. 15 Washington Curry and Kevin Durant can In leading Golden State to a points by season. air it out. at Memorial Stadium. both takeover a game single- 5-1start,Curry and Durant have B9 Kevin On Saturday, they made the Playing the first meaningful handedly. Durant and traded turns in the spotlight as Washington coaching staff 1 Bruce snaps of his collegiate career, But the Warriors are at their Stephen they cheer for each other.With briefly blow a gasket. Jenkins: backup quarterback Jake best when both former MVPs Curry over those two insync so early in the In an attempt to spark a Cardinal Haener missed a receiver by work in lockstep, feeding off the season, the rest of the league is sputtering offense, the Huskies open up the nearly 10 yards with his initial each other’s strengths to form Warriors’ trying feebly to find answers. subbed out four-year starting offense but throw, had to a call a timeout the most potent 1-2 punch in the past two Leave Durant one-on-one, quarterback Jake Browning for fall short. before the next play and saw league. What makes their part- games, and he drills turnaround jump- two series — including one that B9 Calcontinues on B8 nership so special is that, de- both wins. Warriorscontinues on B6 TISSOT chrono xl GOLDENSTATEWARRIORS special edition. AVAILABLE AT US.TISSOTSHOP.COM ANDSELECTWATCH ANDJEWELRY STORES NATIONWIDE B2 | Sunday, October 28, 2018 | SFChronicle.com XXXXX• PAGE 2 How to reach us Contact Al Saracevic, Sports Editor, at [email protected]|Phone: 415-777-7201 WORLD SERIES Game 3: Dodgers 3, Red Sox 2 (18 innings) Hollywood drama lasted well into night in longest Series game ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Exhaust- ed yet exhilarated, the Dodgers Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images Harry How / Getty Images headed home for a catnap. The Eduardo Nuñez was traded by the Giants to After being released by the A’s, Max Muncy Red Sox might well have Boston in 2017 for two minor-leaguers. retooled his swing and hit 35 homers in 2018. tossed and turned thinking about one that got away. JOHN SHEA Baseball Max Muncy’s home run leading off the bottom of the 18th inning finally ended the David J. Phillip / Associated Press After mere ripples here, Nuñez, longest World Series game in A clock at Dodger Stadium history early Saturday and turns to midnight in the 17th gave Los Angeles a 3-2 victory inning of Game 3. Muncy thriving on biggest stage over Boston that cut the Dodg- ers’ deficit to 2-1 in the best-of- the 13th and the Dodgers tied it seven matchup. 2-2 on Kinsler’s two-out throw- As we all predicted when the innings later on Muncy’s homer. rest is history, though we now Muncy homered to left- ing error from second base in Giants parted withEduardo The same Muncy who wasn’t knowJerryWest would have center on a full-count pitch the bottom half. Nuñezand theA’s withMax good enough tostick on last- quit the Warriors’ front office from Nathan Eovaldi, Boston’s Boston Manager Alex Cora Muncy, they’ve becomefaces of place teams in Oakland in 2015 had they traded Thompson; scheduled Game 4 starter who used starter David Price in the 2018 World Series. and 2016 andat one point con- Steve Kerrwasn’t a proponent, instead pitched six innings of relief, rotated his outfielders in Game 1 was put out of reach sidered quitting. either. Tenyears from now, we’ll relief, jolting the remaining the middle of innings and even by Nuñez’s homerun, and the Dreadful at the plate and knowwhether theGiants’ new fans to their feet at 12:30 a.m. put catcher Christian Vazquez record-breakingGame 3 ended unable to excel at any position, boss’decision to trade or keep A grinning Muncy tossed his at first base for the first time in on Muncy’s homer. It wasn’t that heshowed zero signs that he’d MadisonBumgarnerwas the helmet aside as he headed for his big-league career. longago that the Giants shipped one day become a World Series right one. The difference is, the third in the final scene of a Out of position players, Nuñez to Boston (2017 trade marvel, let alone a guy who’d hit Giants aren’t close to contend- pivotal game that lasted 7 Dodgers manager Dave Rob- deadline) and theA’s released 35homers and be invited to the ing, and it would beabsolutely hours, 20 minutes. erts called on ace Clayton Ker- Muncy (2017 spring training). HomeRun Derby. no surprise if Bumgarner has “The feeling was just pure shaw to pinch-hit in the 17th. Lookat them now. In the But here he is. Along with pitched his final game as a Giant. joy and incredible excitement,” He flied out. wake of leaving the Bay Area, Nuñez.Two players who didn’t As we mentioned in this space he said. “What a ballgame. What a where both played on awful last in the Bay Area but will immediately after theBobby The Dodgers mobbed Mun- marathon,” Dodgers third teams, they’ve shockingly show- forever be linked in an unlikely Evansfiring, the new person cy at home plate, celebrating baseman Justin Turner said. “I cased their game on baseball’s World Series. won’t have the same loyalty to the solo shot that pulled them think my beard got about 3 grandest stage. Bumgarner aseveryone else in back from the brink of a poten- inches longer.” 1 TheMets reportedly settled Nuñez’s homer gave the Red the front office because he/she tial 3-0 Series deficit that no “It was an amazing game,” on someone to lead their base- Sox momentum heading into has no history in the organiza- team has ever recovered from. Dodgers outfielder Ya siel Puig ball operations department, theirGame 2 win and brought tion. Aquickway to begin re- The game had everything: said. “I’m a little tired. But choosingBrodie Van Wage- memories of otherGame 1 theat- plenishing a thinfarmsystem we’re ready to come back to- nenoverChaimBloomof the 1 Twenty-three players on rics that ignited one-sided andadd young pieces to an old morrow.” Rays, who also interviewed for each team were used, includ- World Series, such asWillie roster isby trading Bumgarner, Then he looked at his watch the Giants’ opening. VanWage- ing nine pitchers on both Mays’ Polo Grounds catch in who has ayear remaining on a and corrected himself. nen has been anagent who sides. 1954,Kirk Gibson’s walk-off team-friendly contract. It would “In a couple of hours,” Puig helpedrunCAA Sportswhile 1 Eighteen innings — four homerun in 1988 andPablo be silly for the new boss not to said. representing several Mets in- more than any of the previous Sandoval’s three-homer festi- seriously consider,or even pur- cludingYoenis Céspedes, 662 World Series games. val in 2012. sue, such a move.Brian Sabean Jacob deGrom(remember over Each was thegenesis of a said Bumgarner’s status would 1 The 7:20 running time was the summer whenVanWage- Dodgers 3, Red Sox 2 speedy World Series that ended be part of all interviews, so a 1:39 longer than any Series nen proposeddeGrom should in either four or five games, and strategy for moving the most game played before — and 15 Boston AB RHBI BB SO Avg.