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Your SFist 2006 Sports Year In Review

In fact, we tried to think about when we had a worse year and came up with maybe 1995 or 1996 when both baseball teams kind of sucked and the Raiders still in

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Christopher's Best From The Past 365 Days

* Album Of The Year: Mogwai -- "Mr. Beast" The mostly-instrumental music of Glasgow's Mogwai has been described as big instrumental rock music for a soundtrack. The soundtrack of your whatever-you're-doing. If whatever-you're-doing really

American Football Spectacular: Around The World Again On A Boat That Sinks As It Sails

No source was named to have given this statement. There are no postings on SFGate.com or the Oakland Tribune's website regarding this rumor yet. A bit of context: Schefter covered the Broncos

American Football Spectacular: It's Likely You Won't See This But It Will Happen

Plenty of tickets still available for the game. Well, there must be, since the NFL is blacking the game out on TV. * St. Louis vs. Oakland Sunday, December 17, 2006. 1:00 PM,

American Football Spectacular: Fleeing Father Time, The Police, And Derrick Burgess

* Green Bay vs. San Francisco Sunday, December 10, 2006. 1:15 PM, PST. Week 14 The Battle Of Brett's Retirement Tour It doesn't matter that QB Brett Favre is a hero, plays like

American Football Spectacular: The Raiders Might Finish 2006 As Number One!

After losing horrifically to the Houston Texans 23-14 in a home game where the dauntless Raider Power Mullet defense limited Yoostun to 32 yards passing yards and -5! Negative five yards net passing

Fantasy Football: Not Just For Losers Anymore

Or so says a professor out there who developed a curriculum on teaching fantasy football to students as a way of learning math. The curriculum was then picked up by a math teacher

(Doo Wop) That Play

Okay, let's go into the wayback machine to look back at the big play in yesterday's Raiders/Chargers game. And yes it's another sports story but look at this as one more story

American Football Spectacular: Hope And Tragedy

* San Francisco vs. St. Louis Sunday, November 26, 2006. 10:00 AM, PST. Week 12 The Battle Of Momentum Wow, after beating the Seahawks last weekend, the Niners are riding a wave of

It's Thursday-- Do You Know What Your Football Team is Wearing?

Okay, now let's get to the bad stuff. The city is doing more to press the Niners other than saying they can't use the name San Francisco. Basically, they're talking about playing a

American Football Spectacular: Modern Ruins

Our capable and attractive SFist Editor Jon has been all over this story like Sara Lee on cherry pie. Bless him. Here at American Football Spectacular, we've been watching this story build with

"The Genius" Has Leukemia

It was announced today that 49ers coach Bill Walsh, the architect of the Niners glory years (remember them?) has been battling leukemia for the past three weeks. Walsh said that a fungus was

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

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Takes a Look at 7 X 7's Hot 20 Under 40

So who are these hot people? Do we know any of them? How does one become hot? Are we hot? So we took a looksee and read through just who was hot. There

American Football Spectacular: AFC West Beatings Ahoy!

* San Diego at San Francisco Sunday, October 15, 2006. 1:15 PM, PST. Week 06 The Battle Of The Sans OK, after battling back against the Raiders and winning the Battle Of The

American Football Spectacular: The 2006 Battle Of The Bay Preview

* Oakland vs. San Francisco Sunday, October 8, 2006. 1:15 PM, PST. Week 05 The 2006 Battle Of The Bay Raider versus 49er matchups in the NFL regular season are a thing to

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

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've given up a

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--

American Football Spectacular: <a href=http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blackalicious/shallowdays.html>"I Just Keep Movin' On, Movin' On..."</a>

* St. Louis vs. San Francisco Sunday, September 17, 2006. 1:15 PM, PST. Week 02 The Battle Of The Incompletes And no, we're not referring to a glance at our college transcript. These

The SFist NFL Preview: We Break the Season Down a Day Late And a Dollar Short

There's usually two ways we go about doing this. One of them is to compare something in sports to something in pop culture. Like "What Member of the 2006 Yankees is Like a

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, musical acts from each NFL team's

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 will clamber over

The SFist NFL Preview: What the Experts Say

So this year, as we approach NFL '06, we read through the experts to see what they have to say about our two local teams. This year, they all pretty much said the

Who Loves the 90's? The Raiders Do!

Let's go to the rap sheet, shall we? At his first stop in Indianapolis he was let go after making obscene gestures at the coach during a game. At his next stop in