SF News American Football Spectacular: Meet Your Oakland Raiders 2006 Draft Picks, "Mr. Irrelevant" With training camp opened and the whir of footballs in the air, SFist is going to take a look at some of the people who'll be hitting tackling sleds in ninety degree weather.
SF News American Football Spectacular: The First Mutinous Rumblings Of 2006. Ahh, signs of Summer in the Bay Area: Blackberries ripening at creekside. Long lines of cars headed to Stinson Beach. Warm evenings as the sun lingers above the Pacific. And fresh dissent rising
SF News 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,
misc Rat Trap Animal hoarding's always been a lurid fascination of ours, along with people who have sextuplets, and Chris Daly. So have you been following this story about the guy who had over 1000 rats
Arts & Entertainment Blame Canada: When Performance Art Goes Bad Last Friday, a performance art piece got ugly -- and we don't just mean because it failed to critically explore the (mis)/dissemination of the capitalist hegemony: Novato performance artist Joe Canada promised
SF News American Football Spectacular: Super Bowl 2006, "The Big Show, Detroit Style" Pittsburgh vs. Seattle (in Detroit) Sunday, February 5, 2006 The Battle For Proof The Pittsburgh Steelers have undergone the most dramatic testing of any NFL team ever, after squeaking into the playoffs as
SF News American Football Spectacular: Norv to the Niners, "Please Do Not Panic." Now, before anyone leaps to the logical conclusion that this is , let us consider the possibility -- however unlikely -- that this may be a good idea. Norv, much like Denver QB Jake
SF News American Football Spectacular: Wild Card Wknd 2006, 'You're In The Saddle Now' Tampa Bay's hella young Head Coach JonGruden (late of our Oakland Raiders) prefers to run a complex offense with veteran players he can count on, while his Defensive Coordinator Monte Kiffin runs their
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 American Football Spectacular: Bowl-tastic LIBERTY BOWL Fresno St vs. Tulsa Saturday, December 31, 2005 Fresno has been all slumpy since nearly upsetting USC in a monstrous toe-to-toe battle. Tulsa used to be in the same conference with
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
SF News 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
SF News American Football Spectacular: To A Frontier Town... There Came A Bowl Game. As pointed out by American Football Spectacular's religious consultant Ms. No, Mormons aren't supposed to gamble. Further, according to the BBC's write-up on Mormon ethical practices, "Gambling in any form is condemned as
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 American Football Spectacular: Or Else, Down We Go Together -- from the song "Winners Never Quit" by Pedro The Lion Friends, as we've said before, these are indeed dark time for American Football in the Bay Area. As both of our professional
SF News American Football Spectacular: Indy's Race Against Themselves When looking at the 2005 schedule of your San Francisco 49ers' season, the Week 05 matchup against the Indianapolis Colts didn't bode well. The Colts've had one of the most overwhelming offenses in
SF News American Football Spectacular: Regarding Adversity It was painful to watch. We knew this was an outsized match when we saw in ahead on the calendar. SF vs PHI. Crap. We knew. This is part of what being at
SF News American Football Spectacular: Hard Times Ahead or, Tackles Can Be Considered A Type Of Hug You sitting down? OK. Listen, we've gotta talk. Such is your Oakland Raiders' schedule in the forthcoming three weeks before their bye week, that when October 9 comes, OAK could be 0 -
SF News American Football Spectacular: Game On It was time. Your Oakland Raiders meant to contend with the two-time defending NFL Champion New England Patriots in the marquee 2005 NFL Kickoff game. No, let us begin again, the Raiders did
SF News American Football Spectacular: Your Bay Area Pillaging Preview Welcome again to American Football Spectacular, your guide to American football in the Bay Area, and all points beyond. After yesterday's 49ers preview, we turn our eyes Eastward, towards the trill of The
SF News 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
misc Domestic Partnership Law Affirmed Sunny day! The California Supreme Court affirmed without comment the state appellate court's decision that the California domestic partnership laws do not violate the "marriage is between a man and a woman" Proposition
SF News Bye, Janice! Well, now that fourteen moderates in the Senate managed to resolve the fili-bunker-buster impasse of the last two years, Bush looks like he's gotten his way, at least with conservative ladies. (Conservative office
