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Andrew Luck, Trading Card Company Battle over Rights to H.S. All Star Game Photos

Andrew Luck, former Stanford quarterback and soon-to-be NFL draft pick, is about to become a multi-millionaire this week -- and he's already started trying to protect his business.Earlier this month, he filed a cease-and-desist letter against Leaf Trading Cards, which sells a card featuring an actio ... More >>

Bowling For Chumps: How the Bowl System Robs U.S. Schools

Andrew Luck, former Stanford quarterback and soon-to-be NFL draft pick, is about to become a multi-millionaire this week -- and he's already started trying to protect his business.Earlier this month, he filed a cease-and-desist letter against Leaf Trading Cards, which sells a card featuring an actio ... More >>

Bill Russell, NBA Legend, Sues NCAA and Electronic Arts

​He may be 77, but he's still up for a little legal one-on-one. William "Bill" Russell, the former USF basketball star and Celtics player from the late '50s and '60s, is suing the NCAA and Electronic Arts for using his likeness for a popular video game without paying him. Russell claims the compan ... More >>

NCAA, UC, Sued By College Football Players

City College could have plenty of Favres in the making ​A San Francisco football player is suing the NCAA, Cal State, and the University of California, claiming they are keeping him and other junior college athletes from playing Division I sports. Reginald Davis, a full-time student at City Colle ... More >>

Michael Savage Sues Talk Radio Network Over 'Indentured Servitude'

Michael Savage is an angry man. ​Conservative talk radio host Michael Savage is trying to dump Talk Radio Network, but claims in a federal lawsuit that the radio syndicate is not taking to the split nicely, threatening him with a $4 million lawsuit for breaking his contract. Meanwhile, Talk Radio ... More >>

Nudists find opposition in an unlikely place: The Castro

Michael Savage is an angry man. ​Conservative talk radio host Michael Savage is trying to dump Talk Radio Network, but claims in a federal lawsuit that the radio syndicate is not taking to the split nicely, threatening him with a $4 million lawsuit for breaking his contract. Meanwhile, Talk Radio ... More >>

Quintin Dailey, Troubled USF Basketball Star, Dies at 49

By 1990, Quintin Dailey openly pined for his basketball career to be over​Quintin Dailey, the basketball savant who led the University of San Francisco to its last glimpse at national prominence before, literally, killing the program, has died in his sleep. He was just 49 years old. Dailey was, st ... More >>

Head Case

Experts say ex-football players with head injuries often end up in the criminal justice system. Former USC lineman Chris Brymer is exhibit A.

Keith Bechtol Wins San Francisco Marathon -- First He's Ever Run

College of William and MaryKeith Bechtol, marathoner and astrophysicist ​While stranded Muni riders grumbled, Keith Bechtol cruised to victory on yesterday's San Francisco Marathon -- the very first marathon he's ever run. But don't chalk up the 25-year-old Stanford astrophysicist's unofficial cou ... More >>

The Blind Side: Whitey comes to the rescue

College of William and MaryKeith Bechtol, marathoner and astrophysicist ​While stranded Muni riders grumbled, Keith Bechtol cruised to victory on yesterday's San Francisco Marathon -- the very first marathon he's ever run. But don't chalk up the 25-year-old Stanford astrophysicist's unofficial cou ... More >>

Former 49er Craig Newsome Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against NCAA

Courtesy of Harmann Studios and the Green Bay Packers. Used with permission. Craig Newsome celebrates the Green Bay Packers' victory in Super Bowl XXXI following the 1996-97 NFL season​Former Green Bay Packers and San Francisco 49ers defensive back Craig Newsome has joined the ranks of U.S. athlet ... More >>

Hidden Clauses in 49ers' Pact With Prodigal Receiver Michael Crabtree

Yes, that is Michael Crabtree on the cover of NCAA Football​Insiders have whispered to ESPN that holdout wide receiver Michael Crabtree has opted to finally ink a contract with the San Francisco 49ers, curtailing a months-long holdout that extended through training camp and the team's first four g ... More >>

Hut, Hut, Suit: Yet Another Little-Known College Football Player Sues EA Sports for Allegedly Stealing His Image

Computer NERDS appear to have won in the end, Ogre​ Every couple of months, it seems to happen. No, we're not talking about Oakland Raiders victories (though we bet that'll be an accurate assessment). Yet another obscure former college football player has graduated from football to the full court ... More >>

Method Man vs. Redman: tale of the tape

Computer NERDS appear to have won in the end, Ogre​ Every couple of months, it seems to happen. No, we're not talking about Oakland Raiders victories (though we bet that'll be an accurate assessment). Yet another obscure former college football player has graduated from football to the full court ... More >>

More Football Players -- Including Ex-Cal QB -- Sue EA Games Over Likenesses

U.C. Berkeley Media RelationsAppropriate Troy Taylor's likeness at your own perilLast month we wrote about how a somewhat underachieving former Arizona State University and University of Nebraska quarterback named Sam Keller sued EA Games and the NCAA, alleging the videogame company is blatantly ste ... More >>

'Road Rules'-Like Group of Christian College Students Rolling Through San Francisco

Tom Green would have been available for this 'road trip' as well...Hey, here's an idea for some great television. Take 10 young people -- and make 'em all good-looking and no older than 22. Give some of 'em an ethnic and big-city background, but make sure to get some country mixed in with that rock ... More >>

Jocks Vs. Nerds: Former College QB Sues NCAA, Videogame Company Over Use of Athletes' Names and Likenesses

Those videogame nerds stole your likeness, Ogre... The plot of many a 3 a.m.-caliber movie has featured the put-upon nerd matriculating to vast wealth in the computer industry -- while the bullying quarterback peaks before age 22. Yet in San Francisco Federal Court you could call it "Revenge of the ... More >>

Are We All Metalheads? S.F. Scientists Test Magnet-Based Migrane Therapy

Hey, Magneto! Do me a solid and cure my migraine. An experimental procedure involving magnetic pulses fired into the brain and headache-addled rats -- the combo goes together like chocolate and peanut butter, no? -- could be the answer migraine sufferers worldwide have been praying for while banging ... More >>

Academy of Art's Early Volleyball Practice Caught on Video

Hey, Magneto! Do me a solid and cure my migraine. An experimental procedure involving magnetic pulses fired into the brain and headache-addled rats -- the combo goes together like chocolate and peanut butter, no? -- could be the answer migraine sufferers worldwide have been praying for while banging ... More >>

Going for Gold

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

An Inconvenient Plant

One of the world's rarest plants grows in the Presidio. Plans are under way to save it — and ax thousands of trees in the process.

The USF Dons Have Gone from National Champs to National Chumps

One of the world's rarest plants grows in the Presidio. Plans are under way to save it — and ax thousands of trees in the process.

Full Nelson

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

Our top DVD picks for the week of May 2.

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

Bet on Black

Glory Road relives the season college hoops smashed the color barrier

Full Court Pressure

College Hoops 2K6 will bring out your inner Bobby Knight.

You So Lazy

Martin Lawrence in a crappy kid movie? Whassup with that?

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, June 15, 2005

The World on a String

As the San Francisco Conservatory of Music moves to fancy new digs, its students struggle with a shrinking professional marketplace.

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.

Horse Pay

An enterprising volunteer gives Sonoma State University a unique solution to its athletics-funding problem: a stable of thoroughbreds

Best Collapse

Six-Way Tie

The Rush of Victory

Under coach George Rush, City College regularly wins national football titles. But is community college really the place for big-time sports?

This Is Your Sport, on Dope

State Sen. Don Perata's bill on drug testing for pro athletes isn't nearly tough enough on doped-up athletes or their enablers

The Snore of the Crowd

Does the world need another college football bowl game? Some San Francisco boosters are banking on it.

Best Local College Basketball Player You've Never Heard Of

Darrell Tucker

Forward, University of San Francisco Dons

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

Unsportsmanlike Conduct

The chaotic, unsuccessful, and utterly charming first year of the San Francisco Tsunami of the Women's American Football League

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

Inner Demons

They're S.F.'s new pro football team. They've got second-rate players, an untested product, and a concept with a history of failure. But that's OK -- they have a great marketing plan.

Craps

A gambling site operator rolls the dice in court, and loses

Online Pirates of the Caribbean

Three San Francisco men found riches in Antiqua with their Internet gambling site. Now they're federal fugitives. Caribbean