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There is actually one team in the area that is playing well and that is your San Jose Sharks. For that, we turn to Sharks' correspondant Ian to get the latest

Our hockey correspondant, Ian, returns to discuss the slow starting Sharks

Some of you just can't get enough Gavvy Gav -- Berkleyist finds a picture of him and Sofia Milos (Newsom?) by Luke Thomas. Us, we can't get enough MC Hammer! This may be SFist, but we Hella Heart Oakland. Lots of other new blogs of note. Jon Swenson says Phil Zajicek is blogging his Tour of California ride. And just in time for spring training, El Lefty Malo finds a new Giants blog, Giants Jottings.

Sasha dishes the news about TechConnect -- RFP deadline went by without so much as a press conference. Big news is that Google and Earthlink have teamed up, and that Houston's recent WiFi RFP was made public (The City threatened to sue when theirs was leaked). Francisco De Costa claims a victory after the public forum on Bayview redevelopment. San Jose Inside's Single Gal takes a look at the six folks who want Ron Gonzalez' job. And Pepper offers some analysis on the reports that Herr Governator's rising in the polls again.

1115.org weighs in with their analysis of last night's State of the State, and Capitol Notes' John Meyer takes folks behind the scenes. SF CityScape has high hopes for The City's promotion of interim Planning Director Dean Macris to a permanent post. And San Jose decides they want a city wifi network, too.

Tom Foremski defends his opinion that bloggers, and not Bono, Bill and Melinda, should have gotten Time's recent Person of the Year cover. Om Malik realizes that GigaOm's content is being ripped-off, and wonders what he can do about it -- we see this kind of crap all the time, and hope that there's an especially hot place in the afterlife for the perpetrators. Eric Rice gives a video camera to a five year old for Christmas, and the kid is videoblogging in minutes, it's that easy.

John Vanderslice. Helllooooo...over here...brought to you by SFist. Oh, wait, we don't need to act cool, we've got plenty of readers (thanks for asking). We love them because they love to argue over breasticles!

Well, ever since we saw Danica Patrick finish fourth at Indy, we've been smitten. The story has everything SFist could ask for -- incredibly fast cars, high technology, controversy and a woman in a man's world. Doesn't hurt that she's kind of super-cute.

Yesterday was a big day for race fans of both the four-wheeled variety and the two-legged variety. First, the Taylor Woodrow Grand Prix of San Jose finished up a wild weekend with Sebastien Bourdais winning in the Champ Car race and Katherine Legge winning the Toyota Atlantic race -- from blogs to formula one racing, it was a big weekend for the XX-chromosome set in the South Bay! PJ over at the Shark's Page (who's been doing a fantastic job covering everything but the Sharks during their lost season) has some great photos and links, including the one of our favorite salad dressing pitchman Paul Newman above. Mad props to the folks who designed the course -- it included a speed-bump in the form of a stretch crossing the Santa Clara VTA tracks!

Yesterday the San Jose Sharks re-signed its head coach and two assistant coaches to new multi-year contracts.