SF News The NBA: Brawlin', Round 2 Ding-ding! NBA fans, lehhhhhhhhht's get ready to ruuuuuummmmm-bbbbllllllllllllle -- again. Saturday night in Madison Square Garden, the most famous boxing arena in the world, the NY Knicks and Denver Nuggets set upon each
SF News The Warriors: Storm Warning Ho' boy. Somebody better call FEMA. Fire up the buses and make sure that the Oracle has plenty of cots and bottled water, because there could be a CAT5 disaster looming in the
SF News College Football: The Argument Against a Rematch or How the BCS Got It Right So the final pre-bowl Bowl Championship Series (BCS) poll is out, and guess what? Everybody's pissed about something, except for Ohio State and Florida, the two teams that received Golden Tickets to the
SF News The Warriors: Thank you Spurs, May We Have Another What a stinking dog of a putrid rotting corpse of a disgusting disgrace of an abomination of a disgrace of a debacle of a sham of a fraud of a spectacle of a
misc College Football: Didn't see this one coming It's official down on The Farm. In a story that we broke more than two months ago, ESPN.com and others are reporting that Stanford has fired head football coach Walt Harris. Hate
SF News The Warriors: Now we're cooking with gas! Memo to David Stern: Start the playoffs right now, baby, the Warriors are ready to make a run! What is it with this team? Just when Warrior nation was about to write them
SF News The Warriors: Playah debatin' The Warriors crazy train to fantasyland went a little off the rails last night as they dropped a heartbreaker to the Phoenix Suns, 113-110, snapping their seven-game home winning streak and five-game overall
SF News The Warriors: Making a (home) stand If hoops is a game of streaks, right now the Warriors are Frank the Tank. They're flying so high, they're looking down on the Democrats. They're looking so good, Gavin Newsom is jealous.
SF News The Warriors: The season's first significant win Ahhh man that felt good last night. Playing like the playoff contender that we all want them to be, the Warriors notched their first significant victory of the season last night, polishing off
SF News The Great Outdoors: El Corte Madera Creek Open Space Preserve First off, let's clarify the name. It may be El Corte Madera Creek Open Space Preserve (ECM) on the maps, but in the hearts and minds of locals, it's known as Skeggs, which
SF News The Warriors: Measuring the Pacific Division Let's cut right to the chase: the Warriors are completely outmanned in this division. That's the bad news. The good news is that they have a decent chance of not finishing last, again.
SF News The Warriors: Opening night Dujuan Wagner, Adonal Foyle, and Zarko Cabarkapa are riding the pine in suits tonight. For the opposition Lakers, Kobe won't play, and Phil Jackson, Kwame Brown, and Aaron McKie, and Chris Mihm may
SF News The Warriors: 2006-2007 season preview, part two Yesterday we reviewed the team's offseason futzing, its new identity, and the numbers game heading into the 2006-2007 season. The roster is set, and there is an energy and a spark and a
SF News The Warriors: 2006-2007 season preview, part one Here we go Warriors fans. It's been 12 years since our hometown hoopsters last tasted the sweet nectar of postseason. Will this year be lucky number 13? It depends on your expectations. This
SF News The Warriors: Lighten up Francis Easy, Nellie, easy baby. It's early yet. Tuesday night, the Warriors came from behind in the Oracle to beat the Portland Trailblazers relatively easily, 108-96. But in the post-game news conference coach Don
SF News The Warriors: Oracle Sez . . . On Friday, the Warriors announced their biggest signing of the year so far, agreeing to a 10-year, $30 million naming rights agreement with free agent multinational software corporation Oracle. The new name of
SF News The Great Outdoors: Point Reyes Peninsula Less than an hour north of the City, a lonely wedge of land juts out into the teeth of the Pacific swell. Almost completely separated from the Marin mainland by the grinding force
Arts & Entertainment It's the Great Pumpkin Festival, Charlie Brown! The 36th annual Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival kicked off Saturday morning to much fanfare and a crapload of pumpkins and pumpkin paraphenalia. Several blocks of the fog-shrouded farming community-cum-tourist giftshop's Main Street
SF News The Warriors: Efes Pilsen, It's Turkish for Beersketball Let the PR horns boldly announce it from the highest rafters: The second Don Nelson era is off to a flying start. Last night, the Warriors beat up on Turkish squad Efes Pilsen
SF News The Warriors: Hope Springs Eternal Training camp. Whether you're fans of the Chicago Cubs, the Arizona Cardinals, the Boston Bruins, or even the Golden State Warriors, it is a time of hope. A time to believe. A time
SF News Stanford Football: Art Shell, Don Nelson, . . . Jack Elway? Fans of the fir might not find this surprising, but SFist has learned through a source connected with the Stanford Athletics Department that head football coach Walt Harris will not be back next
SF News The Warriors: Hello Nellie-Ball, Goodbye Elie-Ball The Contra Costa Times is reporting today that Warriors assistant coach Mario Elie will be not be back for the 2006-2007 season. Though Elie's status has not been confirmed by either Elie or
SF News Cycling: Lance's New Dope, and More Oh deerie-deer, Lance is back on the hot seat. An article in the New York Times on Tuesday reports that two former U.S. Postal teammates of Lance, Frankie Andreu and another unidentified
SF News The Warriors: If It Wasn't for Bad Luck . . . This is how it plays when you're payin' for your snakebit ways. The Warriors caught a, uh, bad break Wednesday when they learned that first round draft choice Patrick O'Bryant will likely miss
SF News The Warriors: Looking Forward in the Rearview Mirror Holy crap Warriors, not again. It's the off season. The Warriors went with the safe pick in the draft. Mullin has made only one inconsequential trade all summer. No quick fixes, but no