SF News 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
SF News The Barry Problem If you just looked at the stats and the numbers, which is all the rage these days, Barry is just a 42 year old dude with two bad knees, a .270 batting average,
SF News The Athletics Pounce on Twins: One to Go! The Oakland Athletics this afternoon showed why this year’s team is infinitely grittier and more determined than playoff teams of years past. This collection of misfits and guys barely above the legal
SF News Farewell Felipe Well, everybody knew it was coming, but now it's official, Felipe Alou is no longer the Giants manager. Remember, in sports it's never official unless the press conference and
SF News Two Little Words that Mean So Much: Beat L.A! As this disheartening, dispiriting, and disillusioning Giants' baseball season comes to a close, it is quite possible that there is still a chance that this season could be saved, redeemed even. For
SF News Stuck At Two After losing two in a row to the Angels, the A's had to be thinking that a three-game road swing through Seattle would cure their clinching blues. After all, they&
SF News SFist Previews the 49ers-Eagles Game After the first two games of the season, Niners fans are all giddy and glowing about things. They have the same look on their face one has when one finally hooks up with
SF News Worst. Team. Ever? How bad is this team so far? They're 0-2 and have yet to score a TD, having only scored two field goals. The QB has been sacked 15 times, they&
SF News Stanford Football: Art Shell, Don Nelson, . . . Jack Elway? Fans of the fir might not find this surprising, but SFist has learned through a source connected with the Stanford Athletics Department that head football coach Walt Harris will not be back next
SF News Brooks' Shoulder Has a Boo-Boo Interesting little side note to all this, before the season: a bunch of QBs asked the NFL whether they could each have a say in the types of football they get to use-
SF News What's the Score, Boys? What Did Bugs Bunny Do? What's With the Carrot League Football Today Not that we watched a lot of football yesterday, but we saw that red haired woman in the Nissan commercial enough times to make us feel like we need to introduce her to
SF News What's the Score, Boys? What Did Bugs Bunny Do? What's With the Carrot League Baseball Today? Cardinals 34- Niners 27: Sometimes a loss can be a victory and this is one of those losses that looks like a victory. Except in the win column where it really counts. The
SF News The SFist NFL Preview: The American Football Spectacular Previews the Raiders Thank goodness. It is here. Let the games count once more, o sweet departed St. Tagliabue, let the National Football League's Regular Season mercifully come. Once more for our entertainment, the
SF News The SFist NFL Preview: Your Complete 2006 NFL Regular Season Guesstimate So, here's how we think it'll play out. In this preview, each division's teams are ranked in order of their predicted finish from first to last. Then,
SF News The SFist Football Preview: Your 2006 49ers-- "Separating Wheat From <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff>Chaff</a>" Thank goodness. Let it come. Let the games count once more, we pray you, let the National Football League's Regular Season begin. Once more for our entertainment, the thirty-two franchises
SF News Who Reads Yesterdays Sports Papers? First, onto baseball: The Giants are now on a three-game roll after taking two from the Cubbies and beating the Reds in ten innings Monday. Your Black & Orange hero? Shea Hillenbrand
SF News Does Ken Macha Matter? And yet, we utter his name among baseball denizens and they shrug their shoulders and continue imbibing a cold, frosty one. Macha does little to capture the imagination of A's fans
SF News SFist Officially Breaks Up with the Giants Deep down we knew this team sucked from the early goings, but we had problems dealing with it. We finally dealt with it. In fact, you can look at our postings over the
SF News The A's Will Win the West Beane, like Brian Sabean of SF Giants hype, makes his bones when it counts most-- during the trade deadline. This year, the flutter of butterfly wings could be heard from the A'
misc SFist Rants: When the Olympics Committee Comes A-Calling We’re considering booking our dream vacation now if the Olympic Games will be in San Francisco instead of Los Angeles or Chicago in 2016. Maybe it's a chance to try
SF News Fire Felipe? So with the passing of the trade deadline, we have the answer to this weekends' big Giants' question-- wave the white flag or go for it. We're going for
SF News Still Going for the Gold If you're waiting with baited breath to see if we become an Olympic city, don't. The USOC will decide first whether to even put together a bid in the
SF News We Got a Runner But not last night. Nope, fireworks seemed fitting as the Giants have now gone where they haven't gone before -- four game winning streak. How mediocre has this team been? They haven&
SF News Who Are These Guys? That's three in a row, putting them 1 1/2 behind the first place Friars for the NL West lead and just a game back in the Wild Card race. This
SF News Wake Me Up, When The All-Star Game Star Game Ends Okay, yeah, we know, the Giants have to promote the hell out of this sucker as there's not much else to brag about on King Street these days and 2007 is
