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New SF Giants Promotions Include VIP Cuervo Seats, Plus $1000 Championship Jackets

There’s a new contest where you could win four VIP seats into Giants games from Cuervo tequila, and the Giants are also pushing commemorative jackets from their last World Series title, for about a thousand bucks.

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Brandon Aiyuk Reports to 49ers Training Camp

The football pre-season intrigue continues as various reports claim that potentially departing receiver Brandon Aiyuk did report to 49ers training camp today.

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Video: Stars Come Out for Willie Mays’s Celebration of Life at Giants Ballpark

Everyone from Spike Lee to Bill Clinton to Barry Bonds and plenty more came out Monday for a star-studded two-and-a-half-hour tribute to the late Giants great Willie Mays at Oracle Park, paying a joyful homage to the “Say Hey Kid.”

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Steph Curry Posts Emotional Instagram Story After Klay Thompson Departure Announcement

Klay Thompson's fellow Splash Brother, Steph Curry, laid his emotions bare Tuesday morning posting a series of photos commemorating his time together with Thompson on the Golden State Warriors.

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Klay Thompson Is Leaving the Warriors, Heading for the Dallas Mavericks

We’ve seen the last splash of Klay Thompson in a Golden State Warriors uniform, as the beloved and prolific shooting guard is ending his 13-year career with the Warriors and taking his talents to Dallas.

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SF Giants Cracking Down on Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog Carts Outside Oracle Park

Isn’t the unpermitted sale of bacon-wrapped hot dogs the most victimless crime imaginable? The SF Giants and the city’s Department of Public Health feel otherwise, and have launched a new wave of enforcement against the hot dog carts.

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Spike Lee Pops By Willie Mays Shrine at Oracle Park: ‘I Had To Pay My Love And Respect In Person’

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee was among the many who paid homage to the late Willie Mays at Mays’s Oracle Park statue Wednesday, so who knows, maybe Spike Lee will show up at the ballpark for Thursday night’s free showing of Giants’ Negro Leagues tribute game.

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Giants to Screen Commemorative Rickwood Field Game at Oracle Park for Free, In Honor of Willie Mays

The game commemorating baseball's Negro Leagues that is being played Thursday at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, which Giants legend Willie Mays had intended to attend in person before he passed away Tuesday, will be screened at Oracle Park for free.

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SF Giants Legend Willie Mays Has Died at 93

The “Say Hey Kid” and all-time greatest Giant Willie Mays passed away Tuesday at the age of 93, leaving a legacy of 24 All-Star appearances, countless broken racial barriers, and a statue at the SF ballpark by which he will always be remembered.

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Oakland Ballers Introduce New Mascot, Which Is a Possum, as Another Way to Troll the Oakland A’s

The Oakland B’s new mascot “Scrappy the Possum” is an obvious troll of the carpetbagging Oakland A’s, whose dilapidated stadium has a well-known possum problem.

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Steph Curry Delights Folsom Teens by Showing Up Unannounced for Pickup Basketball Game

It was a dream come true for some Folsom, California youth who got to watch Steph Curry show up for a pickup basketball game, but a nightmare for the poor amateur guy who was tasked with guarding him.

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83-Year-Old Golden Gate Fields Has Run Its Last Race, Closed Permanently on Sunday

The Berkeley-Albany horse-racing track Golden Gate Fields, the last full-time horse-race track in Northern California, ran its last race ever on Sunday as the facility is now closed permanently. And no one has any idea what will happen next to those 140 acres.

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Oakland Ballers Have First Woman Pitcher to Start Game in League History, Which Results In Win

Anything you can do, yadda yadda yadda… Oakland Ballers pitcher Kelsie Whitmore became the first woman to start a game in the history of the club’s minor-league Pioneer League, and the end result was a 9-8 victory.

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Brand New Baseball Team the Oakland Ballers Play Their Debut Home Opener Tonight

Play ball, Ballers! Oakland’s new minor-league baseball team is causing some major excitement in West Oakland, as the Oakland Ballers prepare for their Tuesday night home opener at Raimondi Field.

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Surging Giants Now in Thick of Wild Card Race, Nearly Come to Blows as Benches Clear Against Phillies

We almost got a good brawl in Wednesday’s Giants game against the Philadelphia Phillies, but more importantly, the slow-starting Giants have now won 10 of their last 13 and are right in the Wild Card hunt.

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49ers Settle Ongoing Lawsuits Against Santa Clara, But Santa Clara’s Mayor Says It’s ‘a Loan-Shark Type Deal’

The San Francisco 49ers organization agreed to cough up more money to the City of Santa Clara by settling two lawsuits, but the city bizarrely must still pay for “buffet service” for 49ers fans in the most expensive seats, and there’s a new $4 charge on Levi’s concert tickets.

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City of Oakland Sells Off Its Stake in Oakland Coliseum for a Reported $105 Million

With the Oakland Raiders long gone and the Oakland A’s having one foot out the door, the deficit-strapped City of Oakland just struck a deal to sell their 50% stake in the Oakland Coliseum to the African American Sports & Entertainment Group for more than $100 million.

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SF's New WNBA Team, the Golden State Valkyries, Just Hit 10,000 Season Ticket Deposits, Will Host Block Party Saturday

It's been just three days since we learned the name of the WNBA expansion team that is coming to San Francisco next year, and interest in the women's league and this SF team seems very, very high.

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Steph Curry Just Bought a Building in Dogpatch That Will Serve as His Business Headquarters

Warriors all-star Steph Curry is single-handedly trying to reverse SF’s commercial real estate doom loop, paying six times the 2021 sale price for a building at 20th and Illinois streets that will be his business headquarters.

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SF’s WNBA Team Now Has a Name and Logo: They’re the Golden State Valkyries

Tuesday morning’s unveiling of San Francisco's WNBA expansion team name and logo did not disappoint, as we learn that the team will be the Golden State Valkyries, with a kick-ass Bay Bridge-inspired purple logo.

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Klay Thompson’s Disastrous 0-10 Night Ends Warriors’ Season, and Possibly His Warriors Career

Your Golden State Warriors will miss the playoffs after getting blown out in their Play-In Tournament game against the Sacramento Kings Tuesday night, and Klay Thompson going 0-10 on shooting and completely scoreless does not bode well for his Warriors future.

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49ers-Branded CA License Plates Are Coming, and You Might Be Able to Get One for Free

A drive to get the California DMV to produce a 49ers logo-license plate looks likely to be successful, and you might even be able to get yours free, but you’ll have to act fast.

SF News

FYI: OJ Simpson’s Father Was an Out SF Drag Queen Known as ‘Mama Simpson’

As many are remembering the complicated (mostly terrible) legacy of the late OJ Simpson today, we look back on his father, who came out as LGBTQ and was apparently a known SF drag queen called “Mama Simpson.”

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OJ Simpson Has Died at Age 76, His Family Announces

While known for a stellar football career and a bizarre high-profile murder trial that gripped the nation, OJ Simpson was also a San Francisco native who attended Galileo High and City College. He died Wednesday of prostate cancer.

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Big Warriors Win Effectively Clinches Playoff Spot (Well, Play-In Tournament Spot, At Least)

Your Golden State Warriors’ sixth win in a row Thursday night all but ensured they will make the playoffs, or rather, squeak in as the No. 10 seed for the Play-In Tournament.

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