NBA Pacific Division

Bay Area Safe House Implicated in NBA Book Trafficking Ring

http://www.adonalfoyle.com'Ringleader' Adonal Foyle, who has peculiar ideas about literacy and democracy​According to the Wall Street Journal, the sleepy Bay Area community of Orinda is at the center of an international book trafficking ring led by foreign recruits to the National Basketball ... More >>

Warriors Rolling Ticket Prices Back to 1976 Levels Tomorrow

J.D. McCarthy basketball cardRick Barry was in his heyday the last time you could plink down eight bucks to watch the Warriors​The Golden State Warriors are losing two-thirds of their games, many of the team's most promising players are wearing business suits while sitting on the injured reserve, ... More >>

Amp Live Gets Radio Station, Films Video w/ Warriors

​2010 is gonna be a busy year for local producer whiz Amp Live. He has a new album coming out that I'm chomping at the bit to hear (check the first video, a great number about an android dude who steals styles called "Gary is a Robot," here). And he's just announced a new Internet radio station, B ... More >>

List: Do not open until Christmas

​2010 is gonna be a busy year for local producer whiz Amp Live. He has a new album coming out that I'm chomping at the bit to hear (check the first video, a great number about an android dude who steals styles called "Gary is a Robot," here). And he's just announced a new Internet radio station, B ... More >>

Rate the Warriors' Latest Panic Trade

Another lump of coal in the Warriors' stocking​Yesterday's unloading of malcontent guard Stephen Jackson was the latest installment of a longtime Golden State Warriors tradition: Sending talented and disgruntled stars out of town for mere cents on the dollar. But how bad was it compared to the tea ... More >>

Manute Bol-Like Man Arrested For Alleged Robbery and Extortion

If your physique reminds people of this man, a life of strong-arm robberies is not in your future​A man with a body type particularly ill-suited for blending into a crowd was arrested Sunday for allegedly attempting to rob and extort a club promoter in North Beach. The promoter said a pair of men ... More >>

Big Nate Serves Up So-So 'Cue, But at Least You Don't Have to Leave the Couch on Weekends

G. MiguelYeah, it's big.​Following a Hall of Fame-size career in the NBA, Golden State Warriors legend Nate Thurmond opened Big Nate's Barbeque in SOMA more than a decade ago, serving up a simple menu of Southern barbecue that hasn't really changed since then. The meat selection is straightfor ... More >>

Gavin Goes Hollywood

G. MiguelYeah, it's big.​Following a Hall of Fame-size career in the NBA, Golden State Warriors legend Nate Thurmond opened Big Nate's Barbeque in SOMA more than a decade ago, serving up a simple menu of Southern barbecue that hasn't really changed since then. The meat selection is straightfor ... More >>

Let Freedom Ring: Federal Judge Rules That, Yes, You Are Entitled To Mail Out Pictures of Your Enemies Altered to Look Like Hitler

No worries, Basil. It's 'fair use!' ​In the past few years, it seems the powers that be have found so many devious new ways to restrict our freedoms. They're reading our e-mails, listening to our phone calls, and calling up incessantly to try to get us to donate to their "Police Athletic Leagues" ... More >>

Full-Court Press: Flamboyant Former Warrior World B. Free Sues Nike

Don't name your shoes after this man without asking him firstAs a scintillating scorer with the Golden State Warriors and four other NBA teams, World B. Free was no stranger to knocking down seemingly impossible shots in the face of swarming defenders. Well, it's an apt metaphor for the retired bask ... More >>

Cryptogramophone attracts Left Coast jazz all-stars

Don't name your shoes after this man without asking him firstAs a scintillating scorer with the Golden State Warriors and four other NBA teams, World B. Free was no stranger to knocking down seemingly impossible shots in the face of swarming defenders. Well, it's an apt metaphor for the retired bask ... More >>

Going for Gold

Academy of Art’s new sports program is about spirit, marketing — and the chance to break even more rules.

The 12-year-old behind the Craigslist cockatiel scam

Academy of Art’s new sports program is about spirit, marketing — and the chance to break even more rules.

Blood, Sweat, and Tutus

Tear your knee, wrench your back, pirouette, and bow: dancing at the San Francisco Ballet.

Flogging Molly to Play Two Nights at the Fillmore

Tear your knee, wrench your back, pirouette, and bow: dancing at the San Francisco Ballet.

Reports from the Road: Bun B's "II Trill" release party

Tear your knee, wrench your back, pirouette, and bow: dancing at the San Francisco Ballet.

We tell What Not to Wear locals who need wardrobe overhauls

Tear your knee, wrench your back, pirouette, and bow: dancing at the San Francisco Ballet.

C-Webb Reunites with Nellie and the Warriors

Tear your knee, wrench your back, pirouette, and bow: dancing at the San Francisco Ballet.

My Tunes: Kelenna Azubuike

Warrior and music lover

Beastie Boys Q&A: B-Boys Visit Bay Area For Rhymin', Stealin', B. Diddy and Warriors Basketball

Warrior and music lover

News of the Hour -- The Lethal Injection Cocktail, Mike Webb Found Dead, Ted Nugent Found Irritating

Warrior and music lover

Full Nelson

Can pro basketball's second-winningest coach put the Warriors back on the warpath? Don't count him out too quick.

Posterizing EA

NBA 2K7 towers over the competition

Hustle & Flow

He can defend and fly with the best of them. But can the rookie straight out of high school stick in the NBA?

Best Reason for Warriors Fans to Remain Skeptical

He can defend and fly with the best of them. But can the rookie straight out of high school stick in the NBA?

Best Reason for Warriors Fans to Have Hope

He can defend and fly with the best of them. But can the rookie straight out of high school stick in the NBA?

Best Reason to Go to a Warriors Game

He can defend and fly with the best of them. But can the rookie straight out of high school stick in the NBA?

Yao? Yow!

Basketball's big guy

Not Don Yet

Under new basketball coach Jessie Evans, USF quickly exits the NIT. But it looks like there's more -- and better -- to come.

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on March 2, 2005

Stealing the Scene

When the mayor doesn't show for his acting debut in the Tenderloin, the TL steals the scene

Return of the Legend

"Hook" Mitchell -- the best there ever was, before he went to prison -- and the redemptive power of basketball

Best Ribs With Free Delivery

Big Nate's BBQ

On Grime

We look beyond the buzz to get to the bottom of British MC Dizzee Rascal's phenomenal rise to fame

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Examiner De-Fanged

"We'll analyze without prejudgment ... and reject ideologues of whatever stripe."

He Stats! He Scores!

Aptos statistics geek Roland Beech just might change how the NBA plays -- and you watch -- basketball

Nice Guys Finish First

The Positive Coaching Alliance asks hard-bitten coaches to fill out workbooks and recite management jargon. It also has them saying things like, "I want to go back and relive my childhood and be coached like this."

Best Coach

Eric Musselman, Golden State Warriors

Best Warriors Fans

Bob Fitzgerald and Jim Barnett

More At 11:00

An Exclusive Look at Secret Plans for Revolutionary Change in San Francisco Television News

Read It and Weep

In answer to the Chronicle, we submit our own list of things that make us cry

Best Lovable Loser

Garry St. Jean

General Manager,

Golden State Warriors

House of Race Cards

Willie Brown to S.F.: You're racist. Racist racist racist racist racist racist racist. Biased, too.

This is NOT a story about L.A. Lakers star Kobe Bryant

Meet John Cox, a USF swingman who is a cousin and friend to Kobe -- and quite at home with his own game and his own life

Daydream Believers

In the middle of another catastrophic season, the Golden State Warriors refuse to face the probability that they're as bad as they seem

Apocalypse, Now and Then

A measured look at the serious policy implications of recent changes in San Francisco newspaper ownership

Still a Beautiful Mess

Once considered just another L.A. rock casualty, former Thelonious Monster leader Bob Forrest returns to the land of the living with the Bicycle Thief

Riff Raff

Once considered just another L.A. rock casualty, former Thelonious Monster leader Bob Forrest returns to the land of the living with the Bicycle Thief

Hook, Line, & Stinker

Everyone loves the 49ers. But even love has its limits. Are taxpayers willing to subsidize millionaire owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr.'s dreams of a new stadium when economists say it's a bad deal