misc American Football Spectacular: Comic Sans * San Diego vs San Francisco Friday, August 29, 7:00 PM PST Preseason Week 4 The Battle Of The Rivalry-That-Isn't It's the final preseason game of 2008, with all its attendant stress/ennui.
misc American Football Spectacular: Of The Sex Cannon And The Neckbeard When the 49ers drag their rotting fool-hardy monstrously-depressing shambles of a wreck of a display of a quarterback contest to The Windy City today, they'll be providing the backdrop for another team's quarterback
misc American Football Spectacular: Unsuited Suitors Suit-Up The 49ers are still insisting they have three good starter-quality quarterbacks. The Packers are still insisting they have one good starter-quality quarterback. Both franchises are in the process of proving themselves wrong.
SF News Beware Of BART Delays BART is running a tad late systemwide after someone got struck by a train at Civic Center station 'round noon, reports the Merc. Oy. If need be, click here for updates on BART
misc American Football Spectacular: Spikes To You Well, the 49ers signed free agent LB Takeo Spikes over the weekend. That's good. A former first-round pick for Cincinnati, Takeo's tale has become one of derailed potential. He was once well-within the
misc American Football Spectacular: You Can't See Me * San Francisco vs Oakland Saturday, August 8, 7:00 PM PST Preseason Week 1 The Unseen Battle It's here. The NFL preseason is finally here for the Bay Area. But, unless you've overpaid
misc Your Barry Zito Update: The Situation Is <s>Not</s> Improving [Wince.] So, here's what happened tonight for Zito in the first inning against those danged Los Angeles Dodgers: First batter: RF Matt Kemp smashed a ground-rule double that was 'bout a foot shy
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest Review: The Kids In The Hall in-conversation Delayed due to "teh"-knogical difficulties... sigh...
SF News American Football Spectacular: Wild Card Wknd 2008, "Purity Test" * Jacksonville vs Pittsburgh Saturday, January 5, 5:00 PM PST Wild Card 2008 The Purists' Battle This is the game that John Madden has been gerly awaiting. A matchup of two classically built,
SF News American Football Spectacular: Wild Card Wknd 2008, "And Then The Rain..." -- the Jesus Lizard, "And Then The Rain"The NFL's 2008 Wild Card Wknd has arrived at the same time as this rainstorm front. It's forecasted to be wet at both of Saturday's
misc Bay Area Wanderer: First Frolic Of 2008 * Bay Area Wanderer: Rockaway Beach, PacificaRang in the new year with seafood and beachwalking.Sometimes you've gotta get your frolic on. This was one of those times. Hello, 2008.Photo by the talented
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Queens Of The Stone Age Q.) What are theees "Queens Of The Stone Age?" A.) That'd be a band that makes hip-shakin' heavy rock 'n roll for adults. On the second night of their sold-out stand at The
misc American Football Spectacular: Donohue's Deceit, Garcia's Return, And Delicious Garlic With the perpetual rebuilding process that is the San Francisco 49er franchise, every so often an old part of old successes will cycle back through SF. This Sunday, Gilroy’s second-most-favorite export returns
SF News American Football Spectacular: A Level Of Sadness Akin To Elliott Smith Reporting from the snow-dappled streets of Chicago, it's your American Football Spectacular preview for this Saturday night's battle at The Stick as The Queen City's feline football franchise comes to town. * Cincinnati vs.
SF News American Football Spectacular: Kill The Head And The Body Will Die Joe Frazier was once quoted as sayin' "Kill the body and the head will die." For an NFL offensive unit, the opposite is the case. And here comes the context: it's your American
SF News American Football Spectacular: One Up, One Down Reporting from spa-side in Santa Ana, it's your American Football Spectacular preview of the next rung of pain on the agony ladder that is the 49ers' '07 season. * San Francisco vs. Arizona Sunday,
SF News American Football Spectacular: This Test Ended Before You Arrived It's been a mighty tough season to be a 49er fan; what with the bevy of broken expectations, the death of Bill Walsh -- and this week -- the passing of former Head
Arts & Entertainment Remember: Tonight Is Guy Fawkes Night In SF Wait, remember ? Well, Guy Fawkes and his part in an attempt to blow up England’s Parliament in 1605. Why? Because Guy was an English Catholic and he wanted to ‘splode the Protestant
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 American Football Spectacular: All That Glimmers For both the New Orleans Saints and the 49ers, this season has . There's no worse feeling in fandom than unmet expectations. And both of the NFL's gold-helmeted teams have seen the bottom drop
SF News American Football Spectacular: All My Ghosts "All my ghosts, on every sea, in every land / Who needs that now?" The 49ers venture into the wilds of Jersey this Sunday to war with the New York American football Giants. * San
SF News American Football Spectacular: No Surprise * Seattle vs. San Francisco Sunday, September 30, 2007. 1:00 PM, PST. Week 04 The Surpriseless Battle This is it, the game that will tell whether the 49ers can seize the lead in
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: The Arcade Fire And what does The Arcade Fire sound like? Figure that the group's music is like some sort of 10-person raucously ad-hoc mix-up of Neutral Milk Hotel, Slipknot, Springsteen's E Street Band, and The
SF News American Football Spectacular: Man(ny) Down Ahhh, crap. During this week’s practice, 49er OLB Manny Lawson tore an ACL and will be out for the 2007 season. This is a mighty blow to the nascent Niner defense, who
SF News American Football Spectacular: "Momma Said Knock You Out" After staunching out the Arizona Cardinals last week, the Niners head to St. Louis to try to get ahead at the expense of the reeling Rams and bolt further ahead in the race