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October 31, 2007
There is no doubt that coach Don Nelson and his sidekick Chris Mullen have reshaped the Warriors, and the team now has a pretty strong pool of players from which Nellie can choose to implement his failed system of up-tempo small-ball.
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| October 30, 2007
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October 27, 2007
For both the New Orleans Saints and the 49ers, this season has suuucked. There's no worse feeling in fandom than unmet expectations. And both of the NFL's gold-helmeted teams have seen the bottom drop out of their dreams for the 2007 season.... [continue]
October 25, 2007
Yesterday, we got a press release touting the fact that the city was going to issue a proclamation to Perry Mann, founder of the Exotic Erotic Ball, and Snoop Dogg. Our reaction? Get! Out! But after the news was released, bigger wigs got together and basically decided "what the frak are we thinking?" and so the proclamation was taken back.... [continue]
October 21, 2007
With Gavin's re-election "campaign" about to get under way, the Chron took a look at four years of the Gavster. Since Sunday was beautiful and the sports on TV plentiful, we'll give you the recap. ... [continue]
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October 19, 2007
The 49ers venture into the wilds of Jersey this Sunday to war with the New York American football Giants.... [continue]
October 18, 2007
Luis Alvarado, 18 -- one of the two men charged with kidnapping, raping, and stabbing to death Sany San -- committed suicide in his jail cell using a bedsheet today. San, a Cambodian immigrant who had survived the Khmer Rouge, led an incredible life. (As Rita already urged you... [continue]
Hey, remember that Question Time thingy? You know, that non-binding measure that voters passed which called for Gavin to appear in front of the Board of Supes and answer questions thrown his way while the rest of us get to kick back and watch the fun? Well, if you remember, Gavin kind of refused to do it and instead staged fake Question Time, "Town Hall" meetings throughout the city and wound up killing any sort of conflict over the issue by basically boring everyone to death. Even the chickens got bored and stopped attending. ... [continue]
October 17, 2007
Matier & Ross today have a story about a police officer who is in a little bit of trouble for writing a letter to the Chron criticizing the Mayor's homeless policy. In the letter, officer John Lewis, complained that the current plan, mainly to roust the homeless at 4 in the morning, is ineffective and that the homeless people he encounters neither wants services nor are scared off by the idea of citations. His idea is to roust the homeless, or at least watch over them, during the day when the homeless aren't asleep but in their full drunken/drugged out state. Lewis is now "under investigation" with the possibility of being reprimanded for what could easily be assumed as his act of letter writing. ... [continue]
It that that seems a day can't go by without some sort of danger happening with Muni transportation. This time an argument between a man and a woman at the Seventh Street and Market Muni stop resulted in the woman getting slashed. She was sent to St. Francis Memorial... [continue]
October 16, 2007
Katie Couric just looked freaked out as all hell telling us about it, but that might be because she's about to lose her job. Still, a drug-resistant staph "superbug," might result in the deaths of each and every one of us! Fatalities may exceed AIDS-related deaths! By tomorrow! No,... [continue]
Anyways, Sean saw this, failed to see any humor in it, and made his offer to be the money bags to everyone's favorite "hunky-hipster attorney". Again, we don't know if this is true or what the what is with the story. It could be a joke, a crazy rumor, or something Sean and Matt jokingly talked about while drinking some wine and discussing the finer points of Costas Gravas's L'Aveu. ... [continue]
Update: Wow, that was lightning quick! The account has been suspended... and we just posted this minutes ago! Still, for shame, bayareatailgater. Don't you know that the only time this kind of thing is ever appropriate is when it's done in a men's locker room? Jerk. First off, we... [continue]
Yikes. SFPD found a man stabbed to death at 47th Avenue and Fulton Street early this morning, a little before 3 a.m. After responding to several calls complaining about a man screaming in the streets, police discovered the dead body of a 29-year-old man when they arrived on the... [continue]
Looks like we're in a heapin' load of trouble as those who like to get outraged at us are outraged again. Or, at least something the Archbishop of San Francisco did. Last weekend, while conducting mass, the Archbishop was giving communion when up came two people "wearing bizarre makeup and costumes, including one dressed in a parody of a nun's habit." Hmm…couldn’t that also describe the Pope? Anyways, the "offenders" in question, of course, were members of the Sister of Perpetual Indulgence. So Archbishop George Niederauer gave them communion. ... [continue]
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October 15, 2007
Members of the exclusive Norteño gang in the Mission District got capped with a civil injunction today, barring them from hanging out each other in a 60-square-block area and from loitering after 10 p.m., according to a report in the Chronicle. Those who are subject to the preliminary injunction...can... [continue]
October 12, 2007
Remember yesterday's stabbing onboard a Muni bus at 16th Street and Mission? It turns out that the cause of such chaos was good-Samaritan behavior rearing its ugly head. While riding the 14-Mission, a 50-year-old man received a few non-fatal but violent stabs to the chest after coming to the... [continue]
Bad day on the transportation front yesterday: so someone got stabbed on a MUNI bus yesterday afternoon around 1 p.m. at 16th Street and Mission, and on the morning commute, southbound 880 near Hayward was completely snarled after people discovered body parts all over the highway. Turns out a person... [continue]
October 11, 2007
No signs of slowing down: Someone was stabbed on a MUNI bus at 16th and Mission today a little past 1 p.m. this afternoon. "One person was transported to a hospital with undisclosed injuries, according to the fire department," says CBS5, via Bay City News. And be careful out... [continue]
October 10, 2007
After last week's dueling press conferences and memo-leakage, the Homeless issue is becoming the Issue du Jour, leading to a full-fledged reporter dogpile. First came CW Nevius who weighed in with yet another story on the issue, this time saying that even in liberal, tolerant, San Francisco, residents might not be feeling so liberal and tolerant when it comes to dealing with the homeless. As evidence, he points to one of those online polls SFGate ran about the issue in which 90% of the people said they wanted something to be done. We, as a rule, hate those "polls" because it's actual scientific value is nil as it's all determined by people who were motivated enough to play along and doesn’t factor in those who were too lazy to. ... [continue]
October 9, 2007
Hey, remember angry Sarah Nome, the lady who refused to move out of the Kaiser hospital in Marin for over a year, and ran up a $1.4 million bill? Well, Kaiser's 1) gotten ownership of her house in San Anselmo and 2) will be auctioning it off to pay off... [continue]
October 5, 2007
Man, and we'd already cancelled all our usual plans! The Ed Jew October 26 trial's been delayed. Noooooooo! They ended up postponing the trial because of Bill Fazio's request to withdraw as counsel -- Ed's been given two weeks to find a new lawyer, and Fazio estimates it'll take another... [continue]
With Gavin caught up in a tough re-election campaign against...ummm...well...huh.... he's started playing up his street people street cred. Recently, he announced a plan to deal with all the vagrants caught doing vagrant-like by sending out "Homeless Outreach Teams" to deal with it. The teams consist of police officers and social services and when they catch somebody doing something unpleasant, they're supposed to give them a choice between going into outreach services or being issued a citation, which as far as we can tell, is the handing out of giant frowny faces that will be put on a giant white board in the local police station. The program will be focused on targeted areas around Union Square and SOMA, read, tourist traps. Apparently, tourists don't appreciate seeing people defecate in the streets while riding the Cable Cars and eating soup in a sourdough roll-- kinda gives new meaning to the phrase "San Francisco Treat." Gavin has been putting putting some of these policies into effect lately but is now making a bigger deal out of it. ... [continue]
101, the highway of doom! There was a drunk driving death near Willow Road Wednesday morning, along with all those random shootings the day before. The cops, for what it's worth, say none of those random shootings are connected -- but still: we'll take 280 this week, thanks. A student... [continue]
October 2, 2007
The latest weekend murder in SF: At around noon on Saturday, a 66-year-old Asian man was shot to death after a road rage incident in Viz Valley. Witnesses say the man was arguing with three men in their late teens or early 20s after a fender bender right before the... [continue]