SF News Day Around The Bay: Rally Possum Driven by tech, Bay Area wages are rising twice as fast as those in any other major metro region in the country. [Oakland Tribune] A possum that wandered into the field during Monday
SF News America's Cup To San Francisco: Bye With all the formality deserving of the oldest international sporting trophy, America's Cup point man Russell Coutts confirmed yesterday's rumors when he sent a letter to Mayor Ed Lee letting him know San
SF News San Francisco Likely Eliminated As Potential Host For Next America's Cup Though Larry Ellison and his reps at Oracle Racing might love (and live in) San Francisco, their threats to move the race to San Diego in 2017 were real. Negotiations with potential host
SF News $40 Million Raised For Super Bowl 50 Expenses, SF Gets Bupkis Though the host committee for Super Bowl 50 has touted $40 million in private gifts to support the event, none of that money will go to pay San Francisco's costs as (ostensible) hosts
SF News Gay Sailor Sues America's Cup For Wrongful Termination Openly gay boat captain Larry Jacobson, who was employed by the America's Cup from June to September of last year, is suing the Cup's organizers for discriminatory treatment and wrongful termination. Jacobson, who
SF News Larry Ellison Threatens To Move America's Cup To San Diego It's getting closer to the moment where Larry Ellison cuts another deal with San Francisco for the next America's Cup. But he knows he won't get the sweetheart deal he got the first
SF News S.F. A Glutton for Punishment, Bids For Next America's Cup The ink is barely dry on the $5.5 million lost in taxpayer dollars incurred in the just-concluded America's Cup, but hindsight is 20/40: San Francisco is already entering a new bid
SF News America's Cup Cost S.F. $5.5 Million, Organizers Call It A 'Pay Off' In Tuesday's Chronicle, the paper of record finally got to crunching the numbers on cheating billionaire Larry Ellison's lavish yacht race. And they're not quite the rosy projections the event organizers had promised.
Arts & Entertainment America's Cup Press Is Now Glowing, But Larry Won't Commit To Another In S.F. In the aftermath of yesterday's historic and showy win for Oracle Team USA, everyone in the local media is generally doing a mea culpa and saying, "OK, Larry. Good show." Yes, this thing
Arts & Entertainment Bon Voyage: Photos From The Finale Of The America's Cup On Wednesday, September 25th Oracle Team USA beat out Emirates Team New Zealand in a winner-take-all race to bring the 34th America's Cup to a close. For more coverage of Wednesday's racing and
Arts & Entertainment Oracle Team USA Wins the 2013 America's Cup Larry Ellison got what he wanted, ladies and gentlemen, and Oracle Team USA retained the America's Cup with a wide lead in today's final, deciding race. We think this might mean that we
Arts & Entertainment We're Live From The America's Cup, The Greatest Contest In The History Of Sports [Updates] After months of largely ignored racing on the bay, the America's Cup comes down to one final race. The stakes are high: on the line are one bajillionaire's inflated ego and the honor
Arts & Entertainment The Impossible Made Possible: Oracle Ties It At 8-8 In The America's Cup We really didn't expect ourselves to be getting so excited about the sailing (and we were, seriously, rooting for NZ), but here we are, riveted. It was a windy day out there, and
Arts & Entertainment America's Cup Extending Into Tuesday As Oracle Wins Again Oracle/Team USA took another race today, bringing the score to New Zealand 8, U.S.A. 6, and meaning that the America's Cup is still not over. And, had they not cheated,
SF News America's Cup Sailing Postponed Another Day; *Might* Wrap Up Sunday Sailing fans had their hopes frustrated once again today as yet another day of America's Cup sailing was called off due to unfavorable wind conditions. We don't understand the specifics, but basically the
SF News Larry Ellison's House Flag-Bombed By Kiwi Ninjas This is funny. Even though we don't understand how the America's Cup is still going, given the wide lead the New Zealanders had as of Sunday, it is still going. And the other
Arts & Entertainment Hungover Thoughts On The America's Cup, From The Deck Of The Princess Aside from bed and couch, there are no optimal places to be very hungover. However, there are some locations that will make matters worse: the backseat of your parent’s car, for instance,
SF News New Zealand Still Closer To Clinching America's Cup, But U.S. Scores One It was a beautiful but windy day on the Bay yesterday, though not as windy as Saturday when Team New Zealand almost toppled their boat and the second race had to get called
SF News Yachtenfreude No More? America's Cup May Not Be A Wholesale Disaster Just as we learn that Oracle Racing will be docked 2 races as a penalty for that cheating scandal, the Chron is now saying that the whole America's Cup will actually still be
Arts & Entertainment Yachtenfreude Redux: America's Cup Remains A Joke To Everyone But Larry Two more editorials today, one on Gawker and one from Mother Jones, succeed in eviscerating Larry Ellison and his great big, ultra-expensive, no-good boat race in which there's barely anyone competing at this
SF News Billionaire Yachtsman's Cheating Team Ordered To Return America's Cup Trophies Oracle Team USA, the prized group of boating enthusiasts funded by bajillionaire Larry Ellison, has been accused of cheating in last year's America's Cup World Series races and ordered to return their prized
Arts & Entertainment Psst: Hyde Street Pier Is The Best Place To Watch America's Cup Thanks to a friend, we've discovered perhaps the best place to view the America's Cup sailing competition, and despite his fervent objections we hereby share it with you: the Hyde Street Pier. A
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tom Cruise Checked Out America's Cup, Waiheke Island Yacht Club Tom Cruise was in San Francisco on Sunday. (No, not for that.) The actor/Scientologist promoter caught Sunday's America's Cup race wth his son. He later dined on the tasting menu at Waiheke
SF News Meanwhile, In The Bay: Sweden's Back Artemis Racing, of Sweden, sails during a training session for the America's Cup. On May 9th, if you recall, the team's catamaran capsized resulting in the death of crew member and Olympic gold
SF News Another America's Cup Problem: Lawsuit From Disqualified African-American Team Presenting yet another (probably minor) hurdle for Larry Ellison's moment of yachting glory, a lawsuit has bubbled up for the second or third time from a North Carolina-based sailing team that sought to
