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Saturday Links: New ‘Year of the Fire Horse’ Mascot Unveiled for 2026 Chinese New Year Parade

The Alcatraz coyote is thriving, but visitors need to give it space; a brawl broke out after an East Bay high school basketball game Friday night; and the new Chinese New Year mascot, “Maverick,” has been unveiled.

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American Football Spectacular: Your Complete 2007 NFL Regular Season Guesstimate

For just a little while, there there be kickoffs and touchdowns and the illusion of a level playing field. Tonight, it's time for the National Football League's 2007 regular

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American Football Spectacular Remembers Bill Walsh

Yesterday, the gentleman who came to be called The Genius passed away from leukemia at the age of 75. The importance of Bill Walsh to San Francisco sports, and the whole of the

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American Football Spectacular: Calendaring The Raiders' (Fraught) 2007 Regular Season

iously, how can this be so? The Raiders -- owners of the worst record in the NFL last season at 2-14 -- have been saddled with the most difficult schedule in 2007? Huh-whaah?

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American Football Spectacular: Calendaring The 49ers' 2007 Regular Season

Can QB Alex Smith continue significantly improving his play without Norv? Will all those nice offseason pick-ups gel into a usable 3-4 defense? Can RB Frank Gore's body continue

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American Football Spectacular: Super Bowl XLI, "From Florida, To Florida"

* Indianapolis vs. Chicago (in Miami) Sunday, February 4, 2007. 3:25 PM, PST. Super Bowl XLI The Battle of the Tampa 2 What's this, then? A Cover -the-what, now? Well,

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American Football Spectacular: And A Child Shall Lead Them

Kiffin has shown himself to be one of the most skillful tacticians in the National Football League in his 11 seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, helping birth the successful “Tampa 2” zone

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American Football Spectacular: The Best Wknd

It's the best American football wknd of the year. The four still-standing franchises slug it out for a slot in the Super Bowl. Awesome. Oh sure, that whole Super Bowl

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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,

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American Football Spectacular: Our Villains Are Bleeding And So Are We

* Seattle vs. San Francisco Sunday, November 19, 2006. 1:15 PM, PST. Week 11 The Battle Of The Wounded Hawks Talk about gettin' up after being challenged, in the last two weeks

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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

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American Football Spectacular: Blown Away In The Windy City

On an average Autumn Sunday, the current Chicago Bears are among the most powerful squads in the National Football League. So, this past Sunday, when the 49ers went on over to Soldier Field

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American Football Spectacular: Weak Points And The Art Of Inertia

Don't forget to wake up as early as you care to on November 1 to go grab cheap candy at the store! Here at American Football Spectacular we are big fans

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American Football Spectacular: Race To The Bottom

"The only thing more embarrassing than the franchise are the fans that support them," said American Football Spectacular's Arizona correspondent Chesko. "They've accepted perennial defeat to

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American Football Spectacular: Accounts Of Explosiveness Considered And Debunked.

Week Seven of the National Football League's 2006 regular season dawns cold and crisp over our Bay Area teams. The Indian Summer is breathing its last and Autumn is seeping in.

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American Football Spectacular: "Walking Wounded"

It's Week Four of the National Football League's 2006 regular season. Things have been tough. How’ve you been? Here's what happening with your Niners and Raiders

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American Football Spectacular: "Return And Repose"

It's Week Three of the National Football League's 2006 regular season. Here's what happening with your Niners and Raiders. * Philadelphia vs. San Francisco Sunday, September 24, 2006.

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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

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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,

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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

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American Football Spectacular: Your Santa Clara 49ers' Stadium Preview

Welcome to American Football Spectacular for 2006 season. We hope you enjoyed your offseason, and are poised for the joy of our National Football League preseason previews. This week, after years of dithering,

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American Football Spectacular: We've Been Used.

Our 49ers won over the Houston Texans. Yet we write this with a sneer, for the fix was in. Houston had but to lose this game to garner the top pick in the

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American Football Spectacular: Desperation And Reckoning

San Diego Chargers at the Kansas City Chiefs, Saturday, 12/24/2005, 10:00 AM PST Wild Card playoff football is nothing compared to the atmosphere for two teams clawing for that last

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American Football Spectacular: Your Bay Area NFL Preview

Welcome to American Football Spectacular, your guide to American football in the Bay Area, and all points beyond. From here on out, we will be covering anything for you involving oblong balls that