ESPN: 49ers Frank Gore gets New Deal

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Gore reaches agreement with 49ers through 2011

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com


When the San Francisco 49ers selected tailback Frank Gore in the second round of the 2005 draft, the former University of Miami star proved to be one of the biggest steals in the last several seasons. On Tuesday evening, the 49ers opened up their coffers to Gore, the NFC rushing leader in 2006.


ESPN.com has learned that the 49ers reached agreement with Gore on a four-year contract extension through 2011, with the deal averaging just shy of $7 million in terms of so-called "new money."

Gore will receive an initial signing bonus of $6.5 million and total guarantees of nearly $14 million. The contract will pay Gore $13.862 million in its first two seasons and $18.212 million in the first three years. Because Gore had one season remaining on his original rookie contract, the four-year extension creates a five-year deal, and the total value over the course of the five seasons is $28.012 million.

Base salaries are $450,000 (for 2007), $2.5 million (2008), $2.5 million (2009), $2.85 million (2010) and $2.9 million (2011). The contract includes a $4.165 million option bonus and roster bonuses of $1.75 million (2009), $1.85 million (2010) and $2 million (2011). Gore's full base salary of $2.5 million in 2009 is guaranteed.

San Francisco officials acknowledged at the end of the 2006 season that, in keeping with their recent initiative to secure their nucleus players for the long-term, they hoped to sign Gore to an extension. Through negotiations with agent Drew Rosenhaus, this deal continues a string of big-money contracts for tailbacks that have been ongoing and were ratcheted up in recent days.

The deal is unusual in that it comes after Gore has logged only two seasons in the NFL and after he overcame severe knee and shoulder injuries to emerge as one of the league's premier runners.

Gore, 23, played as the backup to Kevan Barlow as a rookie in 2005, then won the starting job in training camp last summer. Starting in all 16 games, he carried 312 times for 1,695 yards and eight touchdowns. In two seasons, he has 2,303 yards and 11 scores on 439 carries, appearing in 30 games, with 17 starts.

Senior writer Len Pasquarelli covers the NFL for ESPN.com.

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Anyone listen to NFL Radio on Sirius?

I forgot which guy blew up a week or 2 ago about "Senior writer Len Pasquarelli covers the NFL for ESPN.com" but it was absolutely hilarious.

He basically called him out on stealing and taking credit for important moves in the NFL.

When Drougns was traded to the Giants, Sirius NFL radio interviewed him immediately after... 3 hours later ESPN "broke" the story giving Pasquarelli all the credit.

The radio guy went absolutely nuts... great stuff. They still play the clip on a daily basis.
 

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smarta5150;1438272 said:
Anyone listen to NFL Radio on Sirius?

I forgot which guy blew up a week or 2 ago about "Senior writer Len Pasquarelli covers the NFL for ESPN.com" but it was absolutely hilarious.

He basically called him out on stealing and taking credit for important moves in the NFL.

When Drougns was traded to the Giants, Sirius NFL radio interviewed him immediately after... 3 hours later ESPN "broke" the story giving Pasquarelli all the credit.

The radio guy went absolutely nuts... great stuff. They still play the clip on a daily basis.
Florio (PFT) said it was Adam Schein.

SCHEIN RIPS ESPN

A funny thing happened on Sirius NFL Radio on Thursday. Shortly after 4:00 p.m. EDT, Adam Schein and Jim Miller were interviewing Eagles G.M. Tom Heckert. Not long into the session, Heckert announced that the team had agreed to terms receiver Kevin Curtis.

Thirty minutes later, the crawl on ESPN attributed the scoop to Len Pasquarelli.

Schein went bonkos. And justifiably so. The G.M. of the team had announced the move live on the air. There was nothing to "learn" or to "report" after Heckert declared to the world that the move had been made.

It's the second time in less than a week that ESPN has pulled such a maneuver. Last Friday, Adam Caplan advised Sirius producer Nick Pavlatos that Browns running back Reuben Droughns had been traded to the Giants. No one else was reporting it at the time, so Pavlatos (as we hear it) called Droughns, and broke the news to the player that he had been dealt.

Not long thereafter, Droughns was interviewed on the air by Schein and Solomon Wilcots about the trade. Then, after the trade was thoroughly discussed on Sirius NFL Radio, the ESPN crawl announced the news -- and attributed the scoop to Pasquarelli.

We've got no problem with a major media company relentlessly cross-promoting its assets, but when a national satellite service with the league's official radio network is getting the information straight from the horse's mouth, it's just plain wrong for ESPN, or anyone else, to attempt to claim the story as its own.
 

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smarta5150;1438280 said:
Yes WG... I loooooove when they rip ESPN.

:lmao2::lmao2::lmao2::lmao2:
ESPN.COM GETS CALLED OUT AGAIN -- 3/19/06

We've noticed an interesting trend over the past few weeks. After years of looking the other way, more and more members of the "real" media are calling out ESPN.com for hijacking stories reported elsewhere.

Writes Matt Maiocco of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat: "[A] fine report by Matt Barrows of the Sac Bee today about Mike Nolan wanting there to be two forms of pass interference. ESPN picked up the story but did not credit it properly, making it sound as if it was their own report. We don't have such hangups here about giving credit where credit is due. Click here for that story."

Recently, Adam Schein of Sirius NFL Radio lambasted the boys in Bristol twice in less than a week for creating the false impression that Len Pasquarelli had broken stories that originated on the official NFL satellite radio network.

We just don't get it. The readers don't care who breaks the stories; they simply want a source for information that they can trust. But how can anyone trust an organization that twists the truth in order to artificially inflate their own writers?

Believe it or not, we've got plenty of friends at ESPN -- and we're hoping that the folks there who have a strong sense of fairness and decency will press the right buttons in order to rectify a situation in which a few folks with no shame are making the entire operation look bad.
 

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Gore had a great season and all, but think I would have waited another year to see if he's for real.
 

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When McGahee got traded by the Bills I heard it first on FSR when they were interviewing Thurman Thomas, who said it would be done by 3pm. Sure enough, there it was. Guess who got the scoop?
 

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That isn't even a lot of money. I was expecting at least a 10 Mill. signing bonus.
 

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As long as he doesn't shred his knees again the 49ers got him for a pretty good deal.
 

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Per Fox Sports Radio this morning on the drive to work:

"49ers running back Al Gore received a new contract this morning . . .

I about spit my coffee out.
 

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Catch-22;1438371 said:
As long as he doesn't shred his knees again the 49ers got him for a pretty good deal.
This is a great deal for the Niners. I would even sign Jones for this amount.
 
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