A little airborne Viagra with your coffee, anyone? Here are a few shots from yesterday's practice aerial acrobatics. Fleet Week, for those of you who don't know, starts tomorrow. more ›

Hawking their new Touch 3G phone, T-Mobile will drop 100 stunt skydivers into the air to perform synchronized formations over the city at noon today. The launch/spectacle will also feature "fly-by jets and skywriting," with the air ballerinas landing at four locations throughout SF (Justin Herman Plaza, Marina Green Park, Pier 39 and the Moscone Recreation Center). Sounds exciting! more ›

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All this kafuffle over the Patriot's version of sex, lies, and videotape can only remind us of one thing-- the Greatness of the Raidahs. What other football team is so synonymous with cheating? It's part of their legend, their mystique, their je ne sais quoi. Hell, even Lisa Simpson even knows this. Or, as John Madden put it: "everybody says the Raiders cheat...OK, we cheat. So, what are you going to do about it?" more ›

Flipping through the radio this morning, we caught an interview with Bill Romanowski on the Sarah and No Name show. No Name pretty much fawned over him while Sarah fawned not necessarily over him but over his new protein drinks. Callers, however, didn't just fawn over him but slathered over him too, mainly for what they kept on saying was for "bringing passion to the Raiders." The subtle dig, of course, being that the Raiders don't have any passion anymore and need another Romanowski type to step up and give the Raiders a swift kick in the patootie. more ›

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49ers 26 Broncos 23: We dislike Mike Shanahan in the same way we dislike Tony LaRussa: two guys who've read one too many press clippings about their supposed genius and let it go to their heads. Shanahan totally over thought this season (starting Cutler) and over thought yesterday's game and as a result, the Broncos aren't in the playoffs. We watched just enough of yesterday's game to hear the announcers say over and over again how the Broncos need to run more and how woozy Cutler looked yet Shanahan still kept him out there throwing. The Niners should have been knocked out of the game early, yet proved they were just feisty enough to beat them. more ›

The final week of the National Football League's 2006 regular season is here. It couldn't have come quickly enough for the Raiders. more ›

* Houston vs. Oakland Sunday, December 3, 2006. 1:15 PM, PST. Week 13 The Battle Of The Trough After losing four straight games to every team in the AFC West and one franchise that used to be in the division for good measure (@SEA; DEN; @KC; @ SD), the Raiders limp home. In uglier times early on this season before the wins versus ARI and PIT, this Week 13 game against the flailing Houston Texans had been projected as the Raiders' best chance to get a win. more ›

This week, our 49ers finally got some production from running back Kevan Barlow. What we got was a fourth round draft pick in a trade with the New York Jets, and a bunch of grief out of Barlow's mouth as he left San Francisco for the East Coast. more ›

As much as we said we were going to avoid the NFL Draft, we found ourselves on a lazy Saturday morning tuning in and getting hooked. In it's way, it's got that same addictive quality as a good reality show-- it's totally mindless yet totally absorbing. And like your good reality show, there's all the suspense going on once you figure out all the various more ›

Oh, God, what an awful, excruciating, painful, embarrassing weekend of football. We don't think we've ever been more pissed off come Monday at the doings of the NFL than we are today. How could we ever bench Eli Manning for Brad Johnson? What the hell were we thinking? Why should we ever listen to those "Fantasy Football Gurus" who claim to know what the hell they are talking about? more ›

As we look ahead to week 14 of the 2005 NFL season we see a pretty dreadful slate of games featuring the hometown teams. So we tried to think of a compelling reason why you should watch the games this weekend instead of going out with your homies to see the "gay cowboy eating pudding movie" (you know you want to) and we actually were able to come up with a few things. more ›

It’s about that time again (for the first time). Time to heap a whole year’s worth of praise on to several lucky and talented establishments that did us the kind service of getting us drunk. Yes indeed, ‘tis the season for recognizing the best of the best, the places that don’t settle for second place, that realize life is a marathon not a sprint, and any other clichéd ‘successories’ slogans you can think of. Crack-a-lack-a!! Barrespondent Drew here to give out some FISTies!! more ›

Likely to start throwing chairs if he hears the words ‘Virgin Pina Colada’, Barrespondent Drew continues his quest to find a bar so seedy and unscrupulous that they’d spike your kid’s Shirley Temple given half a chance. more ›

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