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 fall (they're not sure
SF News Le Tour de France: Who's Watching Who? After a day off, the 2006 Tour de France is heading into its second week today, unbeknownst to most Americans. According to the Chronicle, only 280,000 Americans watch the Tour on TV.
SF News Gavin Goes for the Gold Actually, the Mayor has a plan. See, the key isn't necessarily to pass muster with the US Olympic Committee, but the International Olympic Committee since they are the one's who have the final
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Combing the Beard's Results. Our side of the country still hold its own in the award count. Running in the 100m dash of these Olympics, Thomas Keller won a gold medal for Outstanding Restaurant. That means the
SF News Not Too Late to Catch Olympic Fever "We are honored to have been selected as a candidate for the 2016 Summer Games. San Francisco embodies the Olympic ideals of peace, friendship, universality and tolerance. This is a testament to the
SF News Cuz It's the O.G. D-O-Double-G, W-B-C In short, SFist's official stance is this: Play ball! And onto the conversation: SFist Jon: World Baseball Classic-- brilliant idea or dumb-ass idea? SFist Jake: Brilliant idea. Are you kidding? When I watch
SF News Bay Area Hardware The Olympics are done -- the last broom has been swept by the curling team, the snowboarders are done Fakey McTwistying, or whatever their jumps are called, the last ice skater has fallen
SF News Fourth Runner-Up Gavin's number five! Gavin's number five! Mayor Newsom came in fifth in this year's World Mayor Awards -- a markedly better showing than last year, where he came in "less than 1500 votes
SF News SFist Mary-Lynn Remembers 2004 Hot (Hiltonian "That's Hot", not climatologically. Because... you know...) Country: Canada. I hope it remains hot in 2005 because that passport about the only cred I've got these days. Political Hanger-on/deadweight: Michael
SF News Olympics Roundup It's finally time to get off the couch and get back to work. That's right, the Olympics are over, nothing went horribly wrong, everybody was smitten with being at the sites of the
SF News Synchronized Swimming Back Story Well, heres a weird Olympics story. Team USA synchronized swimmer Tammy Crow, based out of Santa Clara, will be competing on tonights taped telecast. (No, we wont spoil it for
SF News Bay Gold SFist loves us some women's beach volleyball. Sand, sun, world-class athletes and hot girl-on-girl action [Ed. Note: We really hope this doesn't get us filtered out of our own site at work.]. Our
SF News Can Finally See TV The FCC has finally come to the rescue of those of you who haven't succumbed to the Comcast cable juggernaut San Jose's Channel 11 has been given approval to build a new transmitter
misc The Sweet Science Andre Ward, born and raised in Oakland, is currently in Athens, Greece getting ready to take on the world in the boxing ring. America's best shot for gold as a pugilist, he is
