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-A's 10 Tigers 2- The A's finished up a sweep of the bottom Tigers with yesterday's victory and, yes, go A's! but we have to admit to feeling a bit blue about the

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-Which is why there are a lot of rumors that the Niners are looking way south, a lot south, and are eyeing LA. -As are the Raiders -And what about Brisbane? Brisbane? -Barry

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Warriors 110 Trail Blazers104 - Okay, let's rattle off some numbers now. The Warriors were 4-1 on their just finished homestand and have won seven out of their last nine games. Since Jan

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-Shaun Hill got himself a spanking new three-year contract with the Niners at $2 million a year. Quite a deal for basically two and a half games worth of work. This means every

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So after all that, the Niners hired Mike Martz as offensive coordinator anyways. After just one interview and after not really talking to anybody else. The hiring has raised all sorts of questions

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Warriors 130 Spurs 121- In a game so big the Warriors brought out their old school jerseys and "PTI's" Michael Wilbon (call us, Mike-- first rounds on us!) and Jessica Alba checked out,

Nolan 2: Electric Boogaloo

Ending a few days of speculation, it was announced that as expected, Mike Nolan will once again be prowling the sidelines in his spiffy suit as head coach of your San Francisco 49ers.

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As we bid adieu to yet another playoff-less football season, SFist gives thanks for the return of "The Wire" to give them something to feel depressed about on Sundays. Browns 20 49ers 7-

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We went to see Walk Hard yesterday and we actually saw some homeless guy with a backpack walk into the movie, go to the very back of the theater, and sit himself down.

American Football Spectacular: Donohue's Deceit, Garcia's Return, And Delicious Garlic

With the perpetual rebuilding process that is the San Francisco 49er franchise, every so often an old part of old successes will cycle back through SF. This Sunday, Gilroy’s second-most-favorite export returns

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Man, what a big game that Steelers/Pats game was supposed to be. We woke up yesterday morning looking forward to sitting down and watching us some really good football between two really

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"Yes, it's true what they say, every dog has his day"- the Kinks 49ers 37 Cardinals 31- Now, that's what we call a game: back and forth scoring, a last-minute drive followed

A Tale of Two Quarterbacks

If there's anybody in the city taking more heat than Mike Nolan, it's his quarterback, Alex Smith. Smith stands accused by the Faithful of not very being good. The evidence? Overthrowing Receivers. Underthrowing

American Football Spectacular: "Momma Said Knock You Out"

After staunching out the Arizona Cardinals last week, the Niners head to St. Louis to try to get ahead at the expense of the reeling Rams and bolt further ahead in the race

American Football Spectacular: The 2007 49ers, "Nolan's Great Leap Forward"

The glaring problem with the 2007 San Francisco 49ers is that there are two 49er teams: the American football team that Head Coach Nolan II will put on the field of play this

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

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 to withstand the pounding

Everyone is A-Otay

Not that we'd want to give him any ideas, however. In the not-so-happy side are homelessness, crime, and housing, all of which were listed as concerns. According to the pollsters crime wasn't even

It's Tuesday-- Do You Know Where Your Football Teams Are?

Let's just say relations between the 49ers and San Francisco could be a bit better right now. The legal claim is basically saying the city of San Francisco was your everyday basic slumlord

It's Wednesday-- Do You Know Where Your Football Team Is?

And so Doctor Fatass commences the 49ers steady march to Los Angeles. Today Santa Clara, tomorrow King City, 2030 Los Angeles. Is nothing in this town sacred? The 49ers have been playing in

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 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

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

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