Local sports headline of the day

Barry Zito no longer a zero in Giants' rotation

If anyone, that’s Tim Lincecum, I guess. Anyway, the hed attached to an Alex Pavlovic piece in the Mercury News may sound like faint praise for Zito, but it’s nothing compared to the blow delivered to 49ers quarterback Alex Smith by this hed on a Lowell Cohn post at the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat: “At least 15 quarterbacks who would improve the 49ers right now.”