SF News 49ers at Falcons NFC Championship Game Preview By Daisy Barringer Note: I have knocked on wood for every single positive thing stated in this article. This, despite the fact that I learned this morning the reason we knock on wood
SF News Former NBC Bay Area Sports Anchor Daryl Hawks Found Dead Three-time Emmy winner Daryl Hawks, a former NBC Bay Area Sports anchorperson, was found dead inside an Atlanta hotel room Thursday morning. Rich Lieberman reports: "Atlanta police called Hawks' death a medical emergency
SF News Atlanta Braves Coach Accused of Making Gay Slurs at AT&T Park Uh oh. A pitching coach for the Atlanta Braves is in hot sweet tea for making anti-gay remarks AT&T Park last weekend. TMZ reports: "Atlanta Braves pitching coach Roger McDowell has
SF News After Beating Braves, Giants Move to NLCS In the second straight 3-2 victory against Atlanta -- the Giants don't seem to believe in insurance, do they? -- San Francisco won their Division Series three games to one tonight. And, just
Arts & Entertainment Unfettered Journalism, Homonyms, Print Mixing Yesterday, David Hazinski attempted to harness the awesome power of the world wide web with this colonel of wisdom about the currant state of journalism. In his op-ed peace for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
SF News American Football Spectacular: At The Bottom And Still Falling "Do you remember bein' promising?" -- Trouble by Engine 88. Continuing the tour of pain through the ex-members of the NFC West, this week the 49ers visit the the wreckage that once was
SF News Where Was This Dude in '93? It appears to be bomb day here at the ole 'Fist as we have yet another bomb story to relate to y'all. This one involves a die-hard (seriously die-hard) Giants fan who called
SF News Muni Loves To Count There's a money room in the basement of 1 South Van Ness, where the Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates Muni, is headquartered. Workers literally count by hand bags of cash and coins taken
misc Losing the Fuzz Via Gender Reassignment: John Mark Karr God bless the Bay Area Reporter. In this week's issue, Ed Walsh reports that former JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect and one-time possible kiddie porn connoisseur, John Mark Karr, "had sought gender reassignment surgery,
Arts & Entertainment We're Number One! San Francisco Is Top City For Singles Hey, all you singles in San Francisco/Oakland, looks like you live in the right place. Our fair city was tops in Forbes 7th Annual Best Cities for Singles Report. The magazine made
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Tegan & Sara: identical twins cum awesome rock songstresses with questionable haircuts play tonight in the Mission. Show starts at 8 p.m., Brava Theater, 2789 24th St.; tickets are $25. --
SF News American Football Spectacular: Capsulizing the 2007 NFL Draft's First Round It's time for American Football Spectacular's capsule reviews of the 2007 NFL Draft. Adventure, excitement,! All hard information was culled from NFL.com's pretty excellent draft tracker site. Proceed. * Selection # / Team (trade info)
SF News The Warriors: The Season's Biggest Game If you were born after 1994 you have no idea what it's like. If you're a long-time fan, you might have a hazy, vague recollection of it. If you come from places like
SF News Who Loves the 90's? The Raiders Do! Let's go to the rap sheet, shall we? At his first stop in Indianapolis he was let go after making obscene gestures at the coach during a game. At his next stop in
Arts & Entertainment The Macho Adventures of the Superfisters It's the end of days, lakes are on fire, it's raining frogs, and zombies roam. Dirty toughguys Otis and Dale Savage make a living as bounty hunters -- folks pay them to track
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part Three Eve Batey: While I’m asking what you’re going to do for money now, of course I also want to know – Nathaniel Ford: Increase patronage! EB: Well, yeah! NF: Increase our patronage,
SF News Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part Two NF: There’s an effort that’s going on right now which is the Transit Effectiveness Project, and it started before I got here. But similarly, we were doing something similar in Atlanta,
SF News Protestor Watch: Oakland Immigrant Protests SFist Melissa went to today's immigrant rallies in Oakland, and was kind enough to pass along these awesome pictures of the event. Over 1000 people marched for 7 miles in Oakland, while several
SF News SFist is Talking Baseball: Day 3 SFist Chris: The National League West? Holy crap what a mess. There's only room for one Pacific Coast League fellas. Of course it isn't that bad, but the NL West is pretty bad.
SF News Tourney Update Despite the dearth of local men's teams in the tourney, the Bay Area is still part of the tournament, hosting some pretty sweet regional games for both the Sweet 16 and the Elite
SF News Gavin Expresses Muni Thoughts, Our Eyes Roll So, Gavin's been pretty chatty about Muni lately, hasn't he? First up, he's alleging that some cable car operators are stealing fares, "because on three occasions he rode the cable cars and handed
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Cole Stratton We should have asked him what he did to attract performers from Mr. Show, The Kids in the Hall, Saturday Night Live, Stella, The State, The Daily Show, Arrested Development, and The Upright
SF News Will We Get What We Paid For? His base pay will be $298,000, but he has eligibility for up to "$337,000 when all compensation is taken into account." We got excited hearing that last bit, thinking "maybe they'll
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Literary Events We first heard of Tayari Jones when we read her novel , which details the coming-of-age experiences of three children under the shadow of the (recently reopened) Atlanta child murders. We've been reading reviews
SF News Et Tu, BART First MUNI announced they wanted to raise fares. Then Caltrain hopped on board the fare raising train (ha! we made a pun). And now BART. Why, raising fares is the new black. Thanks
