SF News American Football Spectacular: The Niners Are Courting Condi?! Keep Your Powder Dry. Meaning: Be prepared and save your resources until they are needed. Origin: The allusion is to gunpowder which soldiers had to keep dry in order to be ready to fight when required. OK,
misc American Football Spectacular: A Fish Rots From The Head First After dutifully soaking-in the coverage of Samurai Mike Singletary's promotion to head coach, the unfortunate conclusion becomes: it doesn't matter who San Francisco's head coach is. The single biggest problem hobbling the 49er
misc American Football Spectacular: After Beating The 49ers, One NYG Fan's Diagnosis Now we've got all these rumors swirling that Head Coach Nolan II will be fired after this latest underwhelming showing. American Football Spectacular's New York American Football Giants correspondent Joon Lee has some
misc What On Earth Is Happening With Al Davis' Face? While your editor is no picnic to look at, this here is some terrifying stuff. Check out the Gate's jarring shot of Oakland Raiders master and lord Al Davis. Shudder.
SF News Raiders Young Whipersnapper Coach Gets the Boot "Too vocal for his liking," Raiders owner Al Davis fired coach Lane Kiffin, 33, last night, just two days after the Raiders bit it hard to the Chargers (28-18). Also, word is that
SF News Oakland Raiders Tommy Kelly Busted for DUI Word is that Oakland Raiders football player Tommy Kelly -- who, we should point out, is one of the "NFL's highest paid defensive players" ion the field this season -- was arrested Sunday
misc American Football Spectacular: Annnnd That's <i>Game</i> That's it. QB Alex Smith was officially put on the injured reserve list today, effectively ending his time with the 49ers. After losing his job in the preseason to UCD's-own J.T. O'Sullivan,
SF News Rabid Raiders Fans Never Disappoint: 45 Arrested at Monday Night's Game Oh wow. This is amusing. Oakland police used used stun guns to break up several fights going on during Monday night's Radiers vs. Bronco game. Drunkenness, fighting, assault, and drug charges (drug charges?
SF News Alex Smith on his way Out? A "victim of extremely high expectations as the top overall pick in the 2005 draft," the quite dashing 49ers QB, Alex Smith, might not be returning next year. Why? Because he's expensive (six-year
SF News Former Raider and NFL Union Head Gene Upshaw Dies Oakland Raiders Hall of Fame guard and union leader Gene Upshaw died last night at his Lake Tahoe home. He was 63. Having been diagnosed last Satuday with pancreatic cancer, the death comes
misc Football Is Nearly Upon Us: 49ers Training Camp Intrigue (By Joe Kukura) Leadership voids -- who's gonna fill 'em? Leadership voids are the only thing these 49ers know for sure they have. Sure, Patrick Willis has a fucking "S" on his chest.
SF News Football Is Nearly Upon Us: Raiders Training Camp Intrigue (By Joe Kukura) Life becomes worth living again, as NFL teams have opened their training camps league-wide. We’ll be contemplating these nascent Oakland Raiders today, and the similarly-underdog 49ers tomorrow. The two
misc Around the Sports Dial Sharks- A team many people thought would contend for the Cup is once again choking as they now fall 3-0 to the Dallas Stars. The Sharks just might be the Obama of hockey--
SF News Raider/49er Draft Pick Highlight Porn By Joe Kukura Football, people! Unless you live under the worst toupee in sports broadcasting, you know that the NFL Draft was this weekend. Endless hours of live intrigue and analysis, both Saturday
SF News Around the Sports Dial Here's what we've missed in the world of Bay Area sports while trying to figure out who the Oceanic 6 are... -And now.the Rai-duhs. First they signed oft-injured and oft-whining Javon Walker
misc It's Got to be the Morning After Warriors 110 Trail Blazers104 - Okay, let's rattle off some numbers now. The Warriors were 4-1 on their just finished homestand and have won seven out of their last nine games. Since Jan
misc Your Perfunctory Super Bowl Post Just some random scribbling on a game that is still reverberating through our hungover, overstuffed brains.... -One of our pet peeves in any sort of sports movies/TV show is that no matter
misc As the Raiders Turn It appears that Al Davis re-emerged from his cryogenic chamber to get into a nasty spitball spat with Lane Kiffin. Apparently, Al is a little upset that the Raiders once again didn't have
misc It's Got to be the Morning After Timberwolves 109 Warriors 108- And how did the Warriors celebrate not only MLK Day but the official start of George Bush's last year in office? They lost to the worst team in the
misc It's Got to be the Morning After Pacers 125 Warriors 117- Okay, so the Dubs lost to the Pacers, but all things considering, losing to the Pacers is the least the Warriors could have done considering Mully robbed them blind
misc It's Got to be the Morning After So after all that, the Niners hired Mike Martz as offensive coordinator anyways. After just one interview and after not really talking to anybody else. The hiring has raised all sorts of questions
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 It's Got to Be the Morning After We went to see Walk Hard yesterday and we actually saw some homeless guy with a backpack walk into the movie, go to the very back of the theater, and sit himself down.
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
