Bay Area Sports Patience or Panic? A Golden Warriors Early Season Check-in Is it time to panic, Warriors fans? The narrative out there is that we might be witnessing the unraveling of a dynasty and the inevitable, age-induced "decline" of great players.
Bay Area Sports The 49ers Cannot Stop Beating the LA Rams Are the Niners a slightly unpredictable team who lose games that they should win, and win games that they should lose?
Bay Area Sports In Super Bowl Rematch, 49ers Hang In There With the Chiefs, Until They Don't Even though the San Francisco 49ers had taken an early 10-point lead on Sunday, memories of Super Bowl LIV in 2020 were no doubt still fresh.
Bay Area Sports A 2022-23 Warriors Season Preview: After the Contracts and the Punch, It's Finally Time to Seize the Moment But now that game one of the 2022-23 season is finally here, now that the ink is dry and at least a few questions about what will happen tomorrow have been answered — I am relieved beyond words.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fall to Atlanta In a Game They Were Expected to Win When the 2-3 Atlanta Falcons marched straight down the field on their first, seven-ish-minute drive on Sunday for the eventual touchdown, it was clear that the game — which on paper favored the San Francisco 49ers — was going to be tougher than expected.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Cruise Past Carolina for 37-15 Win, But Rack Up a Slew of Injuries The win was convincing, but so is the injury list. Even though the San Francisco 49ers went into Charlotte, North Carolina, and handled the Panthers with relative ease, they left with a chunk of their roster banged up.
Bay Area Sports After Aaron Judge Breaks AL Home-Run Record, the Debate About *Barry Bonds and the Pursuit of Purity Is Resurrected The tiny asterisk that has been attached, even if only by implication, to Barry Bonds' name was suddenly thrust under a microscope again this week. In the search for baseball "purity," however, no one's hands are clean.
Bay Area Sports The 2022 San Francisco Giants' Postmortem: A Season that Began with Promise and Ended at .500 The milestone in mediocrity perfectly exemplifies the overall blah-ness of the Giants' year. Sure, back in early May, San Francisco was actually leading the NL West, and seemed as if they might once again defy expectations and make a run at the postseason. But that inertia quickly faded.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Beat LA as Defense Owns the Rams When would the 49ers season take on a momentum of its own? When would Jimmy G just be the QB again, and not the guy who had said his goodbyes, packed his bags and had surgery, only to be resurrected in the red and gold, like a ridiculously good-looking Frankenstein?
Bay Area Sports Hoping For More Jimmy G Magic From the Past, the 49ers Fall to the Broncos In a Defensive Grind Though they never really seemed to be in the game, Russell Wilson and the Broncos managed to come away with the 11-10 W, while the 49ers can only shrug their shoulders, and wonder if they can bring the past back into the present, while they wait for the future.
Bay Area Sports Hunter Pence To Be Inducted Into Giants' Wall of Fame In September On September 17, Hunter Pence will be honored on the Giant's Wall of Fame outside Oracle Park on King Street. Pence will be celebrated in an on-field ceremony during a series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Bay Area Sports Giants Wheel and Deal on Trade Deadline, But Their Division Rivals Make One of the Biggest Moves In MLB History After weeks of wild speculation and agonizing among fans, superstar Juan Soto is headed to a California city named after a saint. No, it's not San Francisco, though the Giants will see plenty of the Dominican outfielder this season.
Bay Area Sports The USF Dons' Bill Russell, K.C. Jones, and the Alley-Oop Origin Story Bill Russell's recent passing at age 88 highlights the evolution of the game of basketball, and the countless contributions made by two Bay Area-bred greats.
Bay Area Sports Awards, Trades, Taxes and Fines: An Offseason Check-In With the Golden State Warriors After winning their fourth 'chip' in June, the Warriors have taken to the stage, the internet, podcasts, and the bleachers, always with the golden glow and gaping grins that emanate from those who sit upon the throne.
Bay Area Sports Momentum, Talk of Trades and Superstars: A Mid-Season Checkin With the San Francisco Giants With 91 games under their belts, and only, what, 206 remaining(?), the Giants have entered the All-Star break having gotten at least a little of their groove back.
Bay Area Sports The San Francisco Giants Are Going Through a Rough Patch. What's the Cure? The Giants have fallen to third place in the NL West, now behind the San Diego Padres and — gag — the Dodgers; San Francisco is 9.5 games behind LA. The Giants have lost five games in a row, and 11 out of the last 14. Just two weeks ago, they were 10 games over .500, but are now 40 and 38.
Bay Area Sports After a Five-Year Dynasty, Then Injured and In Last Place Before Climbing Back to the NBA Mountaintop, the Warriors are Champions Again No amount of hardware, no ceremony nor abundance of headlines can truly express what it's felt like to get through the highs and lows of this season. The season itself was the reward — the championship is the cherry on top.
Bay Area Sports Andrew Wiggins Wills the Warriors to a Well-Earned Win and 3-2 Finals Lead With a 104-94 win last night, the Dubs are one win away from the mountaintop heading back to Boston for Game 6 on Thursday.
Bay Area Sports Steph Curry Goes Nuclear as Warriors Eke Ahead of Celtics in Fourth Quarter to Claim Game 4, Even Series 2-2 The Warriors took Game 4 107-97 to tie the series at 2-2 heading back to Chase Center on Monday. It was a spectacular win culminating a fantastic game, with the Stephen Curry sitting atop the pile, as if on a gilded throne.
Bay Area Sports A Strong Celtics Performance in the Paint, a Feisty Crowd and a Scary-Looking Pile-Up on Stephen Curry: Boston Takes Game 3, 2-1 Finals Lead Boston had their way with the Warriors on the boards and in the paint, and the Celtics were up by as much as 18, then down by a few points briefly in the third quarter, before they took over again in the fourth.
Bay Area Sports Noise-Canceling Headlines: The Warriors' Hot Takes on End-of-Season Chatter Noise exists because all of us — fans, reporters, players — are screaming at the top of our lungs. Cue the $50+ billion sport's media industry there to hear our impassioned cries, and amplify them back to us.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Plays Tight Defense, Gets Hot in Third Quarter to Win in Game 2; Even Series Heading to Boston The Warriors had set a defensive tone immediately in Game 2, then activated their offensive weapons when it mattered most. The Dubs managed to bench most of their starters in the fourth quarter and seal the game for a 107-88 win to even the series at 1-1.
Bay Area Sports Crushed In the Fourth Quarter, Warriors Drop Game 1 of the Finals to Celtics It seemed like we were in for a grind-out, down-to-the-wire finish, but Boston went on a 17-0 run late to slug their way to a 120-108 win to open the Finals.
Bay Area Sports Warriors and Celtics Meet In Historic Finals Matchup This Week, and Odds Are on Six or Seven Games In facing the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals, it will be a proper geographic West Coast vs. East Coast showdown, with both teams representing the more northern latitudes of their respective sides of the country.
Bay Area Sports Two Baseball Players — One of Them a Giant — Get Into a Fight Over Fantasy Football On Friday, the Cincinnati Reds' Tommy Pham was suspended for three games — or the entirety of the Giants/Reds' weekend series, which Cincinnati won 2 games to 1 — for slapping the San Francisco Giants' Joc Pederson in the face.
