Here's todays sports news...

It's Monty Python. It's from Life of Brian. It's "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. Enjoy......

San Francisco just received a grant of $1.8 million dollars that will go to helping clean up the streets in certain neighborhoods. The program, called the Community Corridor program, is already being used on Irving Street and with the new, extra money, will be expanded to the Haight, Western Addition and the Fillmore. The money goes to assigning a "block sweeper" for each section who goes around making lists of things that need to be cleaned and fixing them. There are similar programs in cities around the world. ...

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for?...

We're going to talk about something we rarely talk about-- hockey. Why? Because the San Jose Sharks are now up 2-0 against the Edmonton Oilers in the second round of the playoffs, after winning last night 2-1. The Sharks, who have won six playoff games in a row, won on a game winning goal by MVP candidate Joe Thorton (check out the great video of it from a fan in the stands). Then there's how they did it, winning last night's game despite, incredibly, being down two players in a 5-3 matchup, only to have two of those players lose their sticks, and still-- somehow, inexplicably-- kept the Oilers from scoring for over a minute. That's studly. Even better is the fact that in describing the whole thing, Sharks coach Brian Wilson referenced the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. How can you not give some props to a Monty Python quoting coach? ...

So, yes, yesterday was Gavin's big State of the City speech. In a speech entitled "Why it matters to be a San Franciscan," a question that answers itself if ever there was, in the fact that only in San Francisco would that question even be asked (for instance, we bet there’s never been a speech entitled "Why it matters to be a Topekan"), Gavin pronounced the city "strong and getting stronger." Just wondering, but has......

Where will SFist be? Only the shadow our readers know...we'll be at Dorkbot's presentation of "Experience the Experience of 1 Baud," part of their 'Experience the Experience' series they've presented here on their West Coast tour -- last week was 'catapulting wireless devices' (blogged by the EFF's Jason Schultz). Monochrom's Johannes has been guest posting over at SF Metblogs -- check it out! Edward Champion, AKA Dr. Mabuse, let's you literary types know that......

SFist is so &%#$# sick of the blizzard of press surrounding Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow that we could puke....