misc Your Perfunctory Super Bowl Post Just some random scribbling on a game that is still reverberating through our hungover, overstuffed brains.... -One of our pet peeves in any sort of sports movies/TV show is that no matter
SF News Day Around the Bay This Sunday is that football championship tournament known as the Super Bowl. And with it comes its array of advertising amusement. (Please, pray for no Burger King commercials. "People freaked" is the single
misc Week Around the -Ists Gothamist learned that actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his SoHo apartment, cause of death unknown so far (but apparently the masseuse who found him called Mary-Kate Olsen before 911). Bostonist considered
misc Cosco Busan Update: Hearing for Pilot Skedded for April 2. The Incident Specific Preparedness Review team is finally done with its 112-page report regarding the first two weeks of response after the accident. You'll get a chance to read it before Super
SF News American Football Spectacular: Kill The Head And The Body Will Die Joe Frazier was once quoted as sayin' "Kill the body and the head will die." For an NFL offensive unit, the opposite is the case. And here comes the context: it's your American
SF News RIP: Dick Nolan Dick Nolan, former coach of the 49ers, died yesterday at the age of 75. While battling Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer, according to the Chronicle, he passed away in an assisted-living facility in
SF News We Knew Raiders Fans Were Hard Core, But Not This Hard Core So why do we bring up this story? Because Comer's last words upon being executed were "go Raiders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Comer's actually not the only death row inmate to show their allegiance to their favorite
SF News American Football Spectacular: Calendaring The Raiders' (Fraught) 2007 Regular Season iously, how can this be so? The Raiders -- owners of the worst record in the NFL last season at 2-14 -- have been saddled with the most difficult schedule in 2007? Huh-whaah?
misc Now Tell Us Something We Don't Know First, there's a new study out saying that, yes, marijuana does help ease pain. It is also pretty good for "Lost" and listening to Tool but we don't think the study measured that.
SF News American Football Spectacular: Super Bowl XLI, "From Florida, To Florida" * Indianapolis vs. Chicago (in Miami) Sunday, February 4, 2007. 3:25 PM, PST. Super Bowl XLI The Battle of the Tampa 2 What's this, then? A Cover -the-what, now? Well, it's a form
SF News GooTube vs. Viacom the Sequel First Viacom didn't want its stuff on YouTube. Then it did. Now, once again, it doesn't. So some poor schmos at YouTube are looking at missing the Super Bowl as they have to
misc Week in -Ists Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by
SF News American Football Spectacular: The Best Wknd It's the best American football wknd of the year. The four still-standing franchises slug it out for a slot in the Super Bowl. Awesome. Oh sure, that whole Super Bowl thing is great
SF News American Football Spectacular: Two Bad Ideas Stumbled across two ideas while walking through the Powell cable car area. First up, no. Just no. Yes, Jeff was good. He is good. It is hard to watch him now making the
SF News Your SFist 2006 Sports Year In Review In fact, we tried to think about when we had a worse year and came up with maybe 1995 or 1996 when both baseball teams kind of sucked and the Raiders still in
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 Hate is Such a Strong Word Now that our long, national nightmare is over and Brett Favre has announced that he's both playing this season and maybe next season, it's time to check in with our Bay Area teams
SF News Your Commute: AC Transit No. 1 Well, now we feel guilty for taking BART to get to Oakland: the good drivers of the AC Transit won first place at the American Public Transportation Association "Bus Roadeo" event. AC Transit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zed to Zed Twenty five restaurant visits and over a year after we first began eating our way around San Francisco in alphabetical order on a bi-weekly basis, we have reached the end of the road.
SF News This Is Not the QB You Are Looking For The Rai-duhs got themselves a shiny new QB today, signing ex-Saints QB Aaron Brooks to a two year deal. The Silver & Black faithful are doing much rejoicing. Settle down, Raiders fans. This
SF News Joe Montana Under Siege: Day 5 To recap, the NFL did this thingy before the game where they brought out all the MVPs from all the previous thirty-nine Super Bowls. Noticeably absent were two-time Super Bowl MVP Terry Bradshaw
Arts & Entertainment Reef Madness That force was the "Super Bowl of Surfing." On one of the most beautiful days ever seen along the often foggy and windswept San Mateo County coastline, thousands of spectators and 24 of
SF News Who Should Coach the Raiders? So with that in mind, we thought we'd take a look at the potential candidates and a few of our own.
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
