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A's Brand Baseball: The Cruelest Month

The anemic run production—3 shutouts and an AL-worst 70 runs scored in 19 games—has caused some A’s fans to push the panic button, and frankly it doesn’t have SFist

Arts & Entertainment

They're Thinking Of The Children (Just Not Thinking Very Hard)

Although similar recent efforts have mostly failed, our very own Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Leland Yee is pushing a bill -- AB 450 -- that would fine retailers $1,000 for selling M-rated

Your 2005 Giants: Six Down, <strike>154</strike> 156 to Go

Considering that the Giants are missing their two biggest bats and have suffered through a couple of ugly bullpen metltdowns in the last few games, they've got to be pretty pleased with their

It's Opening Day!

Even so, the other teams in Major League baseball will play 162 games this year. That includes your Oakland Athletics, now Lewis Wolff's and Billy Beane's Oakland Athletics as well. (Try to share.

The Warriors Come Out To Play. No, Really

How hot have the Warriors been? Since Baron Davis was acquired, they have: - Beaten Minnesota, Sacramento, Phoenix, the Knicks, and 76ers - Have the best record of any California basketball team since

Do You Know The Way?

Feel free to make your own "there isn't any there there" jokes; we here at SFist try to avoid cheap shots at our sprawling stepsister to the south. San Jose is the eleventh-largest

The Raiders Got Back

Every year, Al somehow manages to pull money out of nowhere and sign some splashy free agent. Some work (Rich Gannon), some don’t (Warren Sapp). This despite obstacles that a certain owner

Welcome to Papago Park: A's Preview

Oakland A's fans everywhere should be forgiven for the fit they threw on December 18, 2004. Just two days after trading Tim Hudson to Atlanta for three guys we'd never heard of, the

The Warriors at the All Star Break

Oh wait. That's the Washington Wizards, not the Golden State Warriors. Sorry. This season so far has been just about like every other last place Warriors season- the sporadic win and hope-inducing streak

Let's Go Out To The Court-Room...

Spring is in the air -- can you smell it? It's that intoxicating mix of grass, red clay, pine tar and chaw. That's right -- pitchers and catchers report in just a few

Arts & Entertainment

Interview: Jason Blalock

Jason Blalock combined inspiration from an old SFist fav, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, and his shock and awe-induced state from encountering the Raider Nation, and turned this all into art. Jason's film Oakland

Arts & Entertainment

A Voice-Over They Couldn't Refuse

EA Games has come under fire lately for allegedly overworking its employees. The game, for PS2 and Xbox, is due to ship this fall, unless the EA Games minions drop dead of exhaustion

Oh My Gawd. The Warriors Win

Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles, the Warriors won last night, defeating the Denver Carmelo Anthony’s 107-97 at the Arena Nobody Can Sell the Naming Rights To in Oakland. The game ended

Warriors Lose--Repeat Ad Nauseam

While losing to the Shaq-led Miami Heat 98-91 isn't that much of an embarrassment, it being the Warriors' seventh loss in a row is. It's especially disappointing in that not to long ago,

Arts & Entertainment

We Wonder, Wonder Why The WonderCon Falls

In case there was any doubt, we're all a bunch of dorkus malorkusses over here, which is why we're so giddy about the upcoming WonderCon 2005 at the Moscone in February. (Hipsters too

This Old House

As we said, there's nothing legitimately wrong in what the Giants are doing, and as die-hard supporters of the Orange & Black we're okay with the Giants searching through the sofas looking for

Monday Morning Quarterback

Well, we're damn glad this season is over. Best performance of the year goes to Cal, even if they did get upset by Texas Tech in San Diego last week. Fact is, this

Jeremy on '04

GOOD STUFF Sports: Swimming star Michael Phelps. He could have entered fewer races to help ensure better results in his best events, but he didn't -- he participated in every event in which

Goodnight, Night Cabbie

The Chronicle today said goodbye to yet another columnist, this time not out of economic hardship on part of the Chron, but on economic hardship on part of the columnist. Citing the need

We Want a Catcher, Not a Belly Scratcher

After last season’s spirit-crushing, totally maddening season, Giants’ fans from around the Bay, like kids sitting on Santa’s lap, have all been screaming the same thing: “We want reliever! We want

EA no Mea Culpa

So now that the Electronic Arts tale of discontent has splashed the pages of both the Mercury News and the Times (Lord, don't local reporters hate it when nationals scoop 'em), we'd like

Barry & BALCO- Where Do We Go From Here?

Now that all the dirty secrets of the BALCO trial have been leaked and suspicions confirmed, those of us who bleed orange & black are in the midst of some of the darkest

Bay Blogger, Erm, Friday

We're worried about Kat Hunter. Oh, we think she'll be fine. What we're worried about is the legions of lonely gamers out there who dream about meeting a smart, sexy woman who they

We've Got Spirit, How About You?

Sure, everyone's talking about the Big Game. But what about the little game? High school football playoffs in the Central Coast Section (Spartan Spirit!) start tonight (maybe) but not without controversy. SFist got

The Condition of the Working Class in Redwood City -- Update

And the saga continues. Electronic Arts seems to have pissed off one too many geeks, and now that this story has gone public details are beginning to emerge that don't look good for