Evan Webeck at Mercury News in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group)
Sports Enterprise Reporter

Evan Webeck

​Evan Webeck is the Sports Enterprise Reporter for the Bay Area News Group. He previously covered the San Francisco Giants from 2022 through the 2024 season, and before that chronicled Steph Curry's pursuit of the NBA's all-time 3-point record, high school athletes' path back to play during the COVID-19 pandemic and the 49ers' loss in Super Bowl LIV. A graduate of Arizona State University, Evan currently lives in San Francisco and is originally from Seattle, where he helped his hometown newspaper, The Seattle Times, win three APSE Triple Crowns and one Grand Slam while competing in the largest category.

Location:San Francisco Bay Area

Awards:APSE Triple Crown, APSE Grand Slam

Expertise:baseball, basketball, football, prep sports,

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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, left, and Los Angeles Rams safety Quentin Lake, right, watch as Zaileen Janmohamed, president and CEO of the Bay Area Host Committee, second from left, throws a football to Kathryn Schloessman, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment Commission, during a news conference for the official Super Bowl Handoff ceremony in San Francisco, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

After Super Bowl, Bay Area sets aim at landing next big event: Women’s World Cup

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell called the Bay Area a "very special place" and said the league "could not have had a better week."
Seattle Seahawks fan Shanae Hemrick, of Washington, cheers before the start of the Super Bowl 60 against the New England Patriots at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

Fans from across US — mostly supporting Seahawks — flock to Levi’s Stadium for Super Bowl 60

Levi’s Stadium, home of the 49ers, was flooded with a sea of blue and green.
New England Patriots tight end Austin Hooper (81) warms up before an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills in Foxborough, Mass., Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Patriots’ Austin Hooper, Bay Area native, is ‘smelling the roses’ in Super Bowl homecoming

Hooper, who played at De La Salle and Stanford, still visits the Spartans' Concord campus to train each summer
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy, right, who co-coached the girls’ flag football Pink Team, high-fives players after their win over the Green Team during a glow-in-the-dark showcase on the Pro Bowl field at Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

49ers’ Brock Purdy addresses rival team winning Super Bowl in Levi’s Stadium

Either the Seattle Seahawks or New England Patriots will hoist the Vince Lombardi Trophy on Sunday, while Purdy said, "We all wanted that to be us."
San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan reacts during the first half of an NFL football divisional playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)

Is Kyle Shanahan deserving of coach of year? NBC analysts weigh in

49ers coach Kyle Shanahan led team that his longtime friend, Chris Simms, said wasn't 'even good' to brink of NFC West title.
A part of an electrical substation is seen behind a fence near the San Francisco 49ers practice facility during training camp at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Thursday, July 24, 2025. A recent viral social media thread alleges that the low-frequency electromagnetic waves produced by the power plant are apparently to blame for the 49ers’ injury woes. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)

NFLPA heard power plant concerns from players, ‘monitoring’ 49ers’ research

Interim executive director David White noted experts' denunciation of the viral theory but said players had voiced concerns.
Rappers Too Short, left, and E-40 speak during a Bay Area Host Committee news conference for the NFL Super Bowl football game in San Francisco, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

E-40, Too $hort help kick off Super Bowl in quintessentially Bay Area fashion

Michelin-starred chef Dominique Crenn, San Francisco's youth poet laureates and a robot named "Tron" also helped kick off Super Bowl week.
The playing surface that will host the 2026 NFL Pro Bowl is being installed inside the Moscone Center South in San Francisco, California, on Friday, January 30. (Evan Webeck / Bay Area News Group)

How NFL plans to put on Pro Bowl inside Moscone Center with 37-foot ceilings

A made-for-TV Pro Bowl will take place in front of an invitation-only audience of 2,000 fans Tuesday inside San Francisco's Moscone Center.
New San Francisco Giants manager, Tony Vitello, puts on a jersey (23) and a baseball cap during his introduction by San Francisco Giants President of Baseball Operations, Buster Posey, and General Manager Zack Minasian at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

SF Giants’ first-year manager Tony Vitello has a Hall of Fame mentor: Tony La Russa

La Russa, 81, has communicated frequently with Vitello since Buster Posey put him in touch with the Giants' new manager. "It’s really been sincere and almost sweet," Vitello said.
Golden State Warriors' Jonathan Kuminga (1) heads to the basket against Toronto Raptors' Sandro Mamukelashvili (54) in the fourth quarter at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)

Where does Jonathan Kuminga fit in Warriors’ plans after Jimmy Butler injury?

"JK's going to factor in here again," coach Steve Kerr said after Kuminga scored 20 points and led a second-half rally in their first game without Butler.