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Jason Collins Becomes First Openly Gay Male Athlete Playing in America's Major Sports

"I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay." So begins Jason Collins' essay in the upcoming issue of Sports Illustrated. And with that, Collins became the first active male athlete from America's major sports to come out as gay. We all knew somebody was going to do it sometime. It was j ... More >>

Chocolate Salami, Dairy Pushes Aspartame, and Justin Timberlake Brings it on Down to Veganville

Clearly the biggest story of the week is Justin Timberlake and his Veganville performance on SNL. Really, I should just post this and call it a day because it's all anyone is talking about. Have a look: Yeah, it's pretty good. And dang, he's cute. Sigh. But I will not end here! We will soldier on i ... More >>

Top 12 Moments of The Year of the Bay Area Sports Renaissance

With the New Year just hours away, we can finally say it without fear of a buzzer-beating jinx: 2012 marks The Year of the Bay Area Sports Renaissance. These things tend to come in cycles. The Bay's Age of Terrible Sports was a long, cold winter. Game Six in '02 was the first snow, and the blizzar ... More >>

Last Chance!

Warriors Arena: 13 Percent Interest Rates Assailed as "Outrageous"

For those without clear memories of the 1970s, the specter of double-digit interest rates on loans is something one would likely associate with a dead fish being left on your doorstep. There'll be no fish-based payment reminders in the ongoing effort between the city and Golden State Warriors to ere ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Whoa: Lil B Tries Out for Golden State Warriors' D-League Team

When Lil B tweeted last month that he was going to try out for the Golden State Warriors, it was met with the same skepticism as when he said he was Miley Cyrus or Paris Hilton or Matlock. But our Young Based God actually did it this past Sunday, when he suited up and got on the basketball court at ... More >>

Our Most Corrupt Tax Breaks: 10 Loopholes to Close Right Now

"The Other Dream Team": A Classic, Feel-Good Sports Doc

Warriors Coach Mark Jackson Was Allegedly Extorted By a Former Mistress

On April 3, a man walked up to Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson in a Memphis hotel, according to a criminal complaint filed this week in federal court in Oakland. The Warriors were in town to play the Grizzlies. The man showed Jackson a folder filled with "compromising pictures" of Jackson - ... More >>

Swoosh Dreams: How Nike Helped Turn the Oakland Soldiers Into Pros

Plenty of NorCal High School Kids Will Miss Graduation Because of Senior Pranks

It's that time of year: The Golden State Warriors are making a top-10 draft pick, tourists are under-dressed for the coastal breezes, and high-schoolers are being barred from graduation ceremonies because of senior pranks.This week, 51 seniors at Heritage High in Brentwood and 30 more at McClatchy H ... More >>

Yes, the Warriors Moving to S.F. Would Mean a Big New Concert Arena in the City

San Francisco is so tiny, dense, and developed that the only way to put a new stadium here is to build one on top of some piers over the bay. Okay, so that's not a huge surprise. But building a giant arena over the bay was the dead-serious plan announced yesterday by city officials and the owners o ... More >>

Warriors Fans Take Out 20 Years of Frustration on Owner Joe Lacob (Video)

​No Monta Ellis, no Jeremy Lin, no Dwight Howard, probably no playoffs, and possibly no lottery pick. So it's not surprising that there were no cheers for Warriors owner Joe Lacob last night during Chris Mullin's jersey retirement ceremony. There were plenty of boos, though.When Lacob took the mic ... More >>

Monta Ellis' (Alleged) Penis Waved Around by Lawyer

Dunk = good. Junk = bad. ​In a likely legal first, an attorney representing a former Golden State Warriors employee who claims she received unwelcome and explicit text messages from star guard Monta Ellis brandished an enlarged photo of a schlong for the gathered hordes of media. "We don't care if ... More >>

5 Real Reasons the Monkees Don't Belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Monkees: Where are their leather pants?​ Do the Monkees belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Of course they don't. But not for the reasons Jann Wenner and his cabal of ex-Rolling Stone interns have decreed, which add up to the charge that Micky Dolenz, Davey Jones, Michael Nesmith, an ... More >>

The Franchise Recap: The Boys Are Back

AuntJuli/Flickr​Last night, Showtime aired the first installment of The Franchise: A Season with the San Francisco Giants, a look inside the lives and clubhouse of our defending World Series champions. The 30-minute premiere acted as preview for the series, which doesn't technically start until Ju ... More >>

Find the Best of San Francisco on Your iPhone

If you've ever been out and about and wondered where's the best place grab a good gin and tonic or get your bike fixed ― as chosen by seasoned pros like ourselves ― you're in luck. We've just launched a completely free iPhone app that takes all the goodness of our Best Of... issues and crams i ... More >>

Find the Best of San Francisco on Your iPhone

If you've ever been out and about and wondered where's the best place grab a good gin and tonic or get your bike fixed -- as chosen by seasoned pros like ourselves -- you're in luck. We've just launched a completely free iPhone app that takes all the goodness of our Best Of... issues and crams it ... More >>

Did Blake Griffin Dunk at Specchio?

Liam PassmoreL.A. Clippers rookie dunking phenom Blake Griffin (in blue sweater) with teammates at Specchio.​In town last week to play Golden State, the L.A. Clippers ― including human highlight reel and latest cheap-shot target Blake Griffin ― slipped into Specchio for dinner (not the fir ... More >>

Woah, Nellie: Warriors Coach Don Nelson Reportedly Pushed Out

The Don is gone...​When the Golden State Warriors' once and future coach, Don Nelson, won his record 1,333rd game, SF Weekly congratulated him. And urged him to retire. Nelson is the source of just about every fond pro basketball memory any Bay Area fan too young to remember fashionable plaid jack ... More >>

Matt Barnes, Former Warrior, Booked for Domestic Violence

Matt Barnes, self-described 'victim'​Matt Barnes, the former Golden State Warriors team captain -- and San Francisco Pro-Am champ -- has notified his Twitter followers he's not guilty of felony domestic violence. The current Los Angeles Laker claims, rather, that he is the victim in a confrontatio ... More >>

Warriors Sold -- But Not to Larry Ellison

Meet the new boss, Joe Lacob​Billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's quest to buy his favorite basketball team has been stuffed. The long-awaited sale of the Golden State Warriors was announced today, for a record $450 million -- but the winning bidder was Joseph Lacob, a part-owner of the Boston C ... More >>

Reports: Larry Ellison's Purchase of Golden State Warriors Imminent

Oracle Corporate CommunicationsHave you come to rescue us, Larry Ellison? ​Larry Ellison, the richer-than-Croesus CEO of Oracle and yachting enthusiast, is reportedly in the final stages of purchasing the Golden State Warriors. The move would likely be greeted with glee by fans of the NBA franchis ... More >>

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 >>

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

You Know All Those Corks You're Saving? You Could Be Wearing Them Someday

Gare and Kitty/FlickrThe makings of a kickass pair of wedgies?​If you want another option for your used champagne and wine corks -- beyond using them in bad art projects -- there are fashion-forward options in the works. Cork is one material that's migrating from the recycling bin to the shoe ... More >>

Gavin Goes Hollywood

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Self-abused: Missed it last week, but Line Cook's meditation on the ways restaurant cooks abuse themselves is worth musing over: Everything hurts. Your hands creak. Your knee has a nasty kink in it, and when your boss asks you why you've b ... More >>

Seen In San Francisco: Proof Positive That Psychic Powers Do Not Enable All-Seeing Grammar Usage

A couple of things caught our eye when we walked past this sign on Powell Street right by the Cable Car turnaround. First off, if you've got a stubby palm like this, you don't need an oracle to break the news that there's no future for you in the National Basketball Association. Unless you're Kevin ... 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 >>

Personal Foul

Will Ferrell's umpteenth sports comedy is only half bad. His half.

C-Webb Reunites with Nellie and the Warriors

LastNight: Stones Throw at the Independent

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

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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