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College Football: Gator Burn

Speed kills. It's an old football saw, but it still cuts right to the heart of the matter in sorting out the detritus of last night's BCS National Championship Game: faster is better.

Arts & Entertainment

Interview: Oliver Chin

What's your favorite thing about them? Collaborating with fantastic illustrators and artists to give people worthy alternatives to the cookie-cutter commercial widgets that permeate our culture. What's on your holiday wish list? Please

The Warriors: A Night at the Races, but No Payout

The good news is the Warriors scored 135 points last night in Memphis against the Grizzlies. Bet you can't see where this one is going. Yup. The bad news is that they gave

The Warriors: Breaking News (And It's All Bad)

New year, same crap. Actually, it's still 2006, so maybe the Warriors are just clearing their pipes of the last dregs of bad karma before starting a new year and a new franchise

American Football Spectacular: The Last Time

It couldn't have come quickly enough for the Raiders. * Oakland vs. New York Jets Sunday, December 31, 2006. 10:00 AM, PST. Week 17 The Battle Of Motivation In Week 17, with nothing

The Warriors: On the Rebound

Hey, here's a couple of news flashes for you: on Wednesday night the Warriors won, on the road, by holding a fourth-quarter lead. That's right, the team's road losing streak of eight games

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

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Crashes the "Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions" Launch Party

Last night SFist actually braved leaving their apartment and went out to Capcom's Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions Launch Party. Because whenever somebody offers us free drinks, we're there. Plus, launch parties are pretty

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

Wanted: Pissboy

What, pray tell does it take to have the job of personal peon? Well, you have to live in San Mateo and have access to a car. Which is great because you'll have

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

American Football Spectacular: Dark Homecoming

Coming to you from next to the fireplace at Fiddler's Green while watching The Big Game, it's your American Football Spectacular Week 13 preview for the Raiders! * Houston vs. Oakland Sunday, December 3,

American Football Spectacular: Nothin' But Gold Helmets In This Game

Here is a verified list of Katrina charities from give.org. Back to the show. * San Francisco vs. New Orleans Sunday, December 3, 2006. 10:00 AM, PST. Week 13 Battle Of The

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

Arts & Entertainment

Camp Playstation

Yeah, yeah, everyone's talking about it -- hardcore gamers are camping out at the Metreon to buy a $600 Playstation, which goes on sale tonight at midnight. The first people showed up around

American Football Spectacular: Oh Man, It's The Morning After, "Shut The Door"

At Ford Field, the two teams brawled like a couple of clumsy middle school gym wrestlers, with neither able to decisively put the other away amid all the clambering. The game was still

It's Monday-- Do You Know Where Your Sports Team Is Called?

But there's also some techy news to this story too as Cisco, the company which owns the property the proposed stadium will be built, plans to go all Cypberpunk on the stadium, turning

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

It's Thursday-- Do You Know Where Your Sports Team is Playing?

Once again, the reasons for the Niners dissatisfaction with everything is well known but we should go through them again just for the heck of it. Basically, like the A's, the Niners are

Where Do The Children Play (MarioKart)?

We can't read about Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity without getting all misty-eyed. Back in 2004, the gaming website (spurred by the misconception that videogamers are violence-addicted jerks) created a big awesome geeky

American Football Spectacular: Time For Cold Weather American Football

The National Football League's Week Nine of the 2006 regular season is upon us here in the Bay Area, as well as the first tinge of wet weather. Curl up on the couch

Bored By Bochy

So how did the Giants' hiring of Bruce Bochy go over with Giants fans? Well, does the word "meh" mean anything to you. It's not that people were upset (well, some people were)

Baseball the Way God Intended-- During the Day

Quick note on todays ALCS game-- the game is scheduled to start around 1:30 PST. The reason MLB is giving is because it's supposed to, yes, snow late Friday night and they'd

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

Voila! The A's Get The Monkey Off Their Backs

This afternoon beneath overcast skies at McAfee Coliseum, the 2006 Oakland Athletics continued to defy expectations by smacking the Minnesota Twins 8-3 in a fashion befitting a potential World Series team. The entire