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Mavericks Goes Long

There was no sign of Mark "Cutback" Davis or Bob "Jungle Death" Gerard in the waves off Pillar Point on Saturday, but 24 of the world's ballsiest

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The Warriors: 2007-2008 Season Preview, Part Three

OK, so we've got some new and intriguing faces like Marco Belinelli, Brandan Wright, and Stephen Lasme joining returning favorites like Baron Davis, Monta Ellis, and Andris Biedrins to give coach

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The Warriors: 2007-2008 Season Preview, Part Two

Yesterday we got caught up on the Warriors' offseason moves; today we look at what those moves will mean for the 2007-2008 season and beyond (in 300 words or less). There

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Cycling: The Marin Centurians

On Saturday, the roads of west Marin and southern Sonoma counties were rife with those two-wheel vermin known as cyclists. Nearly 2500 of them. No, Critical Mass didn't make a

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The San Francisco Theater Festival Breaks A Leg

This past Sunday, under blazing blue skies in the City's snuggly warm SOMA bosom of Yerba Buena Gardens (YBG), there were no microphones, no stage lights, and no admission fees (and

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Cycling: Cirque de Soler on du Galibier

Ahhh, du Galibier. Switchback after switchback of asphalt hell. Hell if you're on a bike, but heaven if you're watching the world's best cyclists do the work.

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Cycling: Feed Your Head

American sports fans, do you know what you're missing right now? The magical, the legendary, the completely captivating Tour de France. Yup. In fact, the Tour has already reached its first

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The Warriors: Ciao, JRich

" . . . and with the 18th pick, the Golden State Warriors take . . . Marco Belinelli." Uhhh, come again? Damn, we hate being this good. Was there ever any doubt that Don Nelson would use

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The Warriors: Draft Day 2007 -- Think Big

It's been 365 days, one failed first round draft round pick, a new/old coach, a franchise-changing trade, and an improbable playoff run since last year's NBA draft,

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Cycling: Reviewing the Soul of Cycling

Let's face it, the great American cycling novel has yet to be written (not lately, anyway). And what cycling-related literature there is falls into one of three categories: inspiration, celebration,

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The Warriors: The Delicious Taste of Home Cooking

Bust out the Thin Lizzy Warrior Nation, because the boys are back in town. Thursday night in the vaunted O-rena, the Warriors rebounded from back-to-back shoulda-coulda-wouldas in Salt

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The Warriors: Sluggish in Salt Lake

We were pretty much wrong about everything. Last night in Salt Lake City, in game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal series, it was the Utah Jazz who had the energy and it

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The Warriors: The Dream Continues, Tonight

Improbably, almost impossibly, the Golden State Warriors' dream season continues tonight with game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal matchup with the Utah Jazz. The Warriors are into the semis by virtue

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The Warriors: Moving On, with Authority!

Go ahead Bay Area, whoop it the hell up. Call in sick to work, pick up a twelver at the corner store, order some team gear online, call your boys over, and replay

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The Warriors: Ain't Nothin' but a Ballgame

"Ain't nothin' but a ballgame fellas, ain't nothin' but a thing." That's probably what Baron Davis and Stephen Jackson were telling their teammates

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The Warriors: Just Livin' the Dream

Warrior Nation, can it get any better? Seriously. After Golden State's tenacious, gutty, and spirited come-from-behind 103-99 victory over the Dallas Mavericks Sunday night in the O-rena,

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The Warriors: Meltdown to a Reality Check

That huge farting noise you heard last night wasn't Mark Cuban sitting on a whoopee cushion, it was the sound of the air going out of the Warriors playoff fantasy balloon.

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The Warriors: Our Starting Five

OK, so we've gotten some flak about picking the Warriors to take down the Dallas Mavericks in six games in the opening round of the NBA's western Conference playoffs.

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NBA Basketball: The Western Conference Playoffs

Revel in it Bay Area NBA fans: this year the Western Conference playoffs mean something, because for the first time in 13 years, the hometown Warriors are part of the party. So let&

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The Warriors: The Nightmare is Over

It's been building for the past month, but fans of the historically woebegone Golden State Warriors, awoke this morning with a dazed sense of disbelief to screaming headlines announcing: THE STREAK

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The Warriors: Golden State Rising

A good NBA season is like a good acid trip: it's all about peaking at the right time. Just ask last year's champions, the Miami Heat, about that one

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College Basketball: You Again?

That's what the Ohio State University and the entire sporting world, with the exception of diehard Gator lovers and their recently embarked bandwagon brethren across the land, are thinking after the

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The Warriors: Exposed

Oh good grief, Warriors. Spurs 126, Warriors 89. And it wasn't nearly that close. Coming off Sunday night's agonizing loss to their nemesis, the Lakers, the Warriors needed a

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The Warriors: Count It

Even after last night's unsatisfying loss to the Utah Jazz in the SLC, we're calling it right now -- cancel your reservations at the midtown Manhattan Day's Inn,

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College Basketball: How Was Your Weekend?

The first weekend of the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments is in the books -- are you still alive in your office pool? Not if you took the Road