Arts & Entertainment Attention Soccer (Er, Football) Fans: Arsenal FC Is Coming To San Jose Hey there soccer fans, exciting news: Arsenal FC is coming to sunny California to play in the MLS All-Star Game. The much-loved team will challenge the best of Major League Soccer at San
Arts & Entertainment Nascent SF Soccer Club Gains Some Respect, Will Face Off With USF This Weekend Remember last summer? You know, the one when, for a few weeks, we all cared about soccer? When names like Mascherano and Altidore and Schweinsteiger and Neymar became household and we all believed
SF News Mission Soccer Bro And Dropbox Both Apologize For Soccer Field Scuffle; Protest Planned For Thursday [Updated] Assuming you saw the video that spawned another million gentrification conversations over the weekend, you'll be relieved to know that one of the guys involved, who is apparently a Dropbox employee and may
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mexican World Cup Players Return From Brazil, Dine At Papalote Popular Mission Mexican spot Papalote (3409 24th Street) took to Facebook today to shout out the news that members of Mexico's World Cup team Carlos Alberto "Gullit" Peña and José Juan "Gallito" Vázquez
Arts & Entertainment What Not To Wear To Watch The U.S.-Germany World Cup Game In the unlikely event that you have today off, or that your employer is such a huge soccer fan that you're given a free pass to go to a bar at 9 a.
Arts & Entertainment Video: McTeague's Deafening Reaction To The U.S. Win Over Ghana If you weren't watching yesterday's tense USMNT game at McTeague's then you probably still have your hearing this morning. If you were at the home of the S.F. chapter of the American
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Watch The World Cup, According To Everybody Ask a hundred people which bar is best for watching the World Cup and you'll likely get as many answers as there are soccer bars in San Francisco. With that in mind, we've
SF News S.F. Wants To Cure Homelessness With Street Soccer [UPDATE] [UPDATE: After receiving an ostensibly bizarre press release Tuesday about helping the homeless via street soccer, we scoffed. Many did, in fact. Perhaps too soon and, for worse, inaccurately. In an effort to
Arts & Entertainment Women's World Cup Finals Jumbotron Screening Happening at Civic Center Right Now For those in the Civic Center area, stop through the Plaza and take a gander at the Women's World Cup final game -- USA versus Japan -- on the big jumbotron screen, happening
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sunday: Watch Women's World Cup Finals at Public House This Sunday is the Women's World Cup Finals featuring the USA versus Japan, which will be screened at Public House on their 27 massive TVs. Perfect, right? Also, Sunday brunch will be served.
SF News Soccer Player Iker Casillas Comes to San Francisco Iker Casillas, a noted Spanish soccer player and World Cup winner, was in San Francisco this past week. And, to be frank, we have no idea who he is. Because, well, he's a
misc Ask SFist: World Cup On Sunday? A tipster writes to SFist wanting to know where they could catch the Would Cup game on Sunday. Can we see an article today about good places to watch the World Cup on
SF News YouTube Adds Grating Vuvuzela Button Much like 'fetch,' vuvuzela wasn't supposed to happen. Stop trying to make it happen, we bitched. It's Jay Leno territory. Regrettably, the plastic horn heard at soccer games turned into this year's
SF News USA World Cup Reaction at Civic Center San Francisco was gripped with early morning World Cup fever after team USA won their sporting match. USA was tied with Algeria for most of the game, but then they managed to get
SF News <i>Hot Bay Area Olympians:</i> Aly Wagner Early tomorrow morning, when San Jose's Aly Wagner goes in to the U.S. Women's big match against Canada, she will be [playing in her 120th international game. For comparison purposes, she's got
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Girls soccer coach suspended after mooning (i.e.., "exposing his buttocks to" [hee]) his opponents. [SFGate] -- Niners' Nolan stands by his QB, Alex Smith. Aw. Also, "at least the Niners didn't
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Cammerin Boyd killed by reasonable force, says jury. [Chron] -- Behold: the 54 million dollar SF home. Bow down before it, plebeians and renters! [CurbedSF] -- Argentina hosts the gay World Cup
Arts & Entertainment Chronicle's Etiquette Tips While Abroad We found Thomas Swick's traveling-abroad tips in this Sunday's Chronicle both cute and informative. But since we're stricken with a crippling fear of any existence east of (the) 5, we were left starving
SF News Golf Dorks March In all the marches in of the cities in all the world, a march to City Hall is taking place today for one of the most noble causes in San Francisco to date.
misc Week Around the -ists Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily
SF News Day Around The Bay -- 756. [SFist for links] -- Bonds' ball chasers. [Chron, The Snitch] -- Steve Jobs' pretty new iMacs and more. [eWEEK, Chron] -- Schwarzenegger forces the fuzz to patrol more Oakland streets. [Chron]
Arts & Entertainment Kangaroo-Based Shoes (and More) Banned...for Now Viva (Vegetarians International Voice for Animals) filed the suit against the makers of the aggressively-colored sports shoes, claiming that they "oppose kangaroo products because...hunters mistakenly shoot endangered species" while going after the
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After And in other Bonds news, his alleged ex-mistress is doing her best to come off as a credible witness by taking it all off for Playboy. A's 12 Angels 6- We have to
SF News Say Hello to Your New Soccer Friend Wolff is planning on getting a soccer only stadium built in San Jose by 2010 but up until then, he's thinking of barnstorming the team around the Bay. If they had a friendly
misc Week Around The -ists Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into
