SF News 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
SF News Those Moneyball 49ers What makes Marathe the center of the debate is because he is a big rectangular box in the Niners organizational flow-chart and he is most definitely not a football guy. What he is
SF News How To Get Bush Face it, Niners fans, you were torn last weekend. On the one hand, they had a pretty solid win over the Lambs and Alex Smith finally showed he's got a bit of game.
SF News American Football Spectacular: There Are Wins, And Then There Are Wins That Don't Help. This is the bear time of American Football, where the NFL's regular season gasps its last, college teams compete through the institutional irregularities of the bowl games, and high schoolers are home for
misc The 'Fisties: Favorite Athlete Truth be told, it's not that easy to choose our favorite Bay Area athlete these days. We don't think it's a stretch to say that twenty years from now, some barfly isn't going
SF News Week 15 TV note of the week- the Rai-duhs game is blacked out due, once again, to not enough ticket sales. Good for the TV viewer, right? Nope. We're getting the god-awful Bengals/Lions snooze-fest
SF News Week 14 NFL Preview The biggest, most compelling reason to watch is that it is now official--the Rai-duhs have a new QB. Yep, it's Tui time as Marvelous Norv Turner has announced that Marques Tuiasosopo will indeed
SF News SFPD Video Scandal We've never understood this phenomenon of encouraging disgruntled employees to film skits to screen before the whole office to "boost morale." The last time we were forced to do this, we filmed a
SF News American Football Spectacular: Vermeil's <i>Shun Goku Satsu</i> Gambit. Pain. Both of our Bay Area NFL teams fell last Sunday, beneath the weight of a precious few key plays falling to the opposing teams' favor. For our San Francisco 49ers, the game
SF News "Now that Gavin Newsom is single, who are you going to set him up with?" We had to go to the Television Without Pity recaps of The Bachelor to figure out which one new Niner Jesse Palmer was. Oh, yeah, that guy. We thought he was kinda hot
SF News American Football Spectacular: p0wned-ership has its privileges Horrid. There are nearly no positives that can be taken from the 17 - 52 whuppin’ that Washington's football club put on our San Francisco 49ers in Week 07. Washington's squad simply cut
SF News Not Quite Ready for Some Football Let the record show that we have serious issues with anything related to exhibition pre-season football. We hate how hyped they are, hate how seriously they're taken, and we especially hate how they
SF News How the Mighty Have Fallen Spending a day watching crappy television, we caught their new 'Faithful' ad, which was apparently being developed . Basically, the ad is an older character actor (we can't place him for an IMDB link,
misc Niners Apologize Long-time readers of this site may remember a certain, um, "so-best fixation" we had on a certain picture of our mayor and his then-wife, in happier times. Well, it looks like Niners PR
SF News The 49ers Gone Wild Ace public relations director Kirk Reynolds, pictured in the photo still of the video, created it and stars in it. Surprisingly, he is now currently looking for a new job and for the
Arts & Entertainment No Suit For You We have no idea if Mike Nolan will be a good coach or even if he can win with the 49ers, but he's already gotten on SFist's good side. Last week he petitioned
SF News Barry Switching To Football In a meeting with the press in the locker room today, Barry Bonds announced that, instead of retiring, he's going to switch sports and suit up with the 49ers this fall. "Are you
SF News Steve Young Enters the Hall of Fame Being from Philadelphia, SFist always thought 49ers fans had it too easy. After all, their team won Super Bowls, they had the model franchise, and they had the Sainted Joe Montana at Quarterback.
SF News Buh-Bye Rumors are already flying about possible replacements, with Pete Carroll, head coach of the National Championship winning USC, leading the fray. Sources say the Niners have already contacted him for an interview. Which
SF News 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
SF News Monster Park Update @ 11:35: We managed to get our grubby little hands on the press release about an hour before the conference - and it was sent out only an hour before we put