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Your SFist 2006 Sports Year In Review

In fact, we tried to think about when we had a worse year and came up with maybe 1995 or 1996 when both baseball teams kind of sucked and the Raiders still in

Arts & Entertainment

A Kite Doesn't Run Through Fremont

No, we're just joking. It's not known why they're not filming in Fremont as they appear to be filming almost everywhere in the East Bay but Fremont. Scenes so far have been shot

Arts & Entertainment

It's Tuesday-- Do You Know Where Your Baseball Team Is?

Oh, Lew Wolff, look what you've gone and done. In protest of you moving the A's, you've made a couple of frat boys dance... Hat tip Marisa Lagos of the NWZCHIK blog on

It's Sunday-- Do You Know Where Your Sports Team Is?

Let's start in Santa Clara where Matier & Ross remind us that there's been three attempts to move a team that way-- the Giants, the A's, and MLS's San Jose Earthquakes (hey, did

It's Got To Be the Morning After- Winter Sports Edition

Because you all love sports so much, we're doing a daily feature on the latest in sports. Warriors 117 Kings 105- What's gotten into the Warriors? They've won four in a row and

It's Thursday-- Do You Know Where Your Baseball Team Is?

The thing most outsiders don’t understand about Oakland is that sentimentality is not one of its remarkable traits-- the Raiders beat that out of us in 1981. We are use to teams

It's Wednesday-- Do You Know Where Your Baseball Team Is?

Well, it's official, or at least as official as official gets-- the A's are moving to 'the Burbs. Tuesday they held a press conference with all the official types and even unveiled a

It's Tuesday-- Do You Know Where Your Team Is?

Okay, here's today’s team on a move recap: As for things in Oaktown, the repercussions of the A's possible move to Fremont has mainly been a shrug and a cry of "so

It's Monday-- Do You Know Where Your Sports Team Is Called?

But there's also some techy news to this story too as Cisco, the company which owns the property the proposed stadium will be built, plans to go all Cypberpunk on the stadium, turning

It's Thursday-- Do You Know Where Your Sports Team is Playing?

Once again, the reasons for the Niners dissatisfaction with everything is well known but we should go through them again just for the heck of it. Basically, like the A's, the Niners are

Fremont!

Basically, the Coliseum doesn't work anymore because it's seen better days-- it, in fact, has that "first apartment you lived in when you moved here and shared a two-bedroom apartment with five people"

American Football Spectacular: The Tuesday After, "Headlines For Election Day"

OBVIOUS: Scoreless In Seattle EMOTIONAL: The Rain Can Hide The Tears TIMELY: See How Poorly A System Works When There Are No Checks And Balances? FASHIONABLE: At Least Our Uniforms Look Far Classier

Who's the A's Boss?

So what are the A's supposedly looking for? Basically somebody who gets out of the way and realizes it's Billy's team. A's managers can't have a big enough personality to overshadow Billy and

Who's the Giants' Boss?

With that in mind, we're going to take a look at what the Giants and A's are looking for and who has been rumored to be the new boss, starting with the Giants.

Holy Cow! Macha Gets The Ax in Oakland

However, A's fans really shouldn’t be surprised by this move. Macha has historically bugged certain players to the point of inspiring mutiny. Terrance Long, a very likable outfielder of the Giambi-led crew,

The A's, the End

But this is the playoffs and that doesn't happen. There's only one team who ends the season without tasting disappointment and for A's fans, they watched what had been a great, fully enjoyable

Baseball the Way God Intended-- During the Day

Quick note on todays ALCS game-- the game is scheduled to start around 1:30 PST. The reason MLB is giving is because it's supposed to, yes, snow late Friday night and they'd

The A's are Against the Ropes

For A's fans, however, last night's game was not business as usual. Milton Bradley became a big league star last night with his prime time base knocks off Justin Verlander. If there is

Ex-A's Pitcher Killed in Plane Accident

Lidle was on the team for only two years, in 2001 and 2002 but was a key component of those A's teams. In fact, we remembered him as a pretty good pitcher and

A’s v. Tigers, Game One: Shock & Awe

And give the Tigers massive credit for exploiting the A's inadequacies. When a guy can't throw strikes, one needs to pounce with immediacy on 2 and 0 or 3 and 1 pitches. Brandon

Week In SFist: Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair!

"Gimme head with hair/ Long beautiful hair/Shining, gleaming/Streaming, flaxen, waxen..." In 1906, we had the Big One. In 1989, we had Loma Prieta. In 2004, we had the Winter of Love.

American Football Spectacular: The 2006 Battle Of The Bay Preview

* Oakland vs. San Francisco Sunday, October 8, 2006. 1:15 PM, PST. Week 05 The 2006 Battle Of The Bay Raider versus 49er matchups in the NFL regular season are a thing to

Voila! The A's Get The Monkey Off Their Backs

This afternoon beneath overcast skies at McAfee Coliseum, the 2006 Oakland Athletics continued to defy expectations by smacking the Minnesota Twins 8-3 in a fashion befitting a potential World Series team. The entire

SFist Week in Review: MUNI, MUNI, MUNI

Elsewhere, with the elections coming up, there was a lot of politics happening. The governor went green, his opponent went to Loserville, Population 1, Rob Black went back to Africa, Nancy Pelosi tried

The A's Finally Have an Opponent

The A's might have wrapped up their playoff spot days ago, but the big question of who they would play was still up in the air. Finally, this afternoon, the A's got their