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49ers' Harbaugh defends Kaepernick's non-chattiness

SANTA CLARA, Calif. Jim Harbaugh has championed Colin Kaepernick from the day the San Francisco 49ers drafted him in 2011, and Friday that meant defending the quarterback's brevity with the media. "I saw there was quite a bit of sport made of Colin Kaepernick and people even were tallying his responses," Harbaugh said of Kaepernick's monosyllabic news conference Wednesday. "It's sad, really, because you don't know him. He's a determined person, a spiritual person, a very hard worker and he wants to do well," Harbaugh said. "He works extremely hard at it, and you get the honest person when you deal with him." Kaepernick, in his first...