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Obsessive Compusive Disorder Sufferers Rejoice -- Ritualistically -- At News Nomar Garciaparra May Join A's

The photographer methodically adjusted his lens five times before snapping this shotThere are two great certainties whenever Nomar Garciaparra steps up to the plate. The first is that the former Boston Red Sox star will be greeted with a chorus of Beantown-inflected yelps of "No-MAAAAH" -- no matter ... More >>

Potential Savior of South Bay Baseball May Be Politically Conflicted

Tick, tick, tick...As we noted earlier this week, hope springs eternal on Opening Day -- but the Oakland A's tenure in the East Bay may not be nearly as perpetual. For those of you who were unaware that Oakland owner Lew Wolff and the South Bay -- a region that craves Major League sports franchises ... More >>

Yankin' Our Chains

A list of the aliases N.Y. Yankees players use at their hotel when they come to town

A Very Good Year

We look back on the big news stories of 2006 and ask the tough question: Are you an apologist for the year that was?

Sports Flight

The 49ers and the A's are on the move. Is their flight to the 'burbs a seismic shift in the Bay Area sports scene?

Player's Club

Which Oakland outfit will hit superstardom first?

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Stealing bases and talking balls at Thieves Tavern

Week of Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Ballpark of a Future Past

The new A's ballpark in Oakland may inject a dollop of real design innovation into baseball's wrongheaded fixation with nostalgia

The A's Have It

Dog Bites proclaims the A's to be the official team of the Bay Area

Say-It-Ain't-So Joe

Why does Joe Morgan -- the best second baseman in history and a prominent TV broadcaster -- hate Moneyball? And Billy Beane and his Oakland A's? And you, too, if you think the statistical revolution that's overwhelmed Major League Baseball has any

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Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice gets freaky with you; Rogue Wave dabbles in baseball analysis

Best Baseball Series

Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice gets freaky with you; Rogue Wave dabbles in baseball analysis

Best General Manager

Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice gets freaky with you; Rogue Wave dabbles in baseball analysis

Best Baseball Team

Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice gets freaky with you; Rogue Wave dabbles in baseball analysis

Best Sports Blog

Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice gets freaky with you; Rogue Wave dabbles in baseball analysis

Best A's Bar in S.F.

Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice gets freaky with you; Rogue Wave dabbles in baseball analysis

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on Dec. 22, 2004

A Portrait of Hope

On the eve of the A's big loss, we learn why the Oakland team is to baseball as indie rock is to mainstream music

The Chair From Abu Ghraib

When a Texas Rangers reliever threw a chair at a fan, the response was outrage. But was the outrage overdone?

Best Baseball Series

When a Texas Rangers reliever threw a chair at a fan, the response was outrage. But was the outrage overdone?

Best Rookie

Bobby Crosby

Extreme Stunts

Thrills on wheels at Supercross

Flex Appeal

S.F.'s own Gay Games

Aloha, Yay!

Party like the islanders in S.F.

First Purposes

Forget Ring Lardner and Roger Angell. When it comes to sportswriting, what Glenn Dickey starts, no one can finish.

Summer Events a Go Go!

What to do, all summer long

The Freeloaders' Handbook

If you ask, they will give. Really.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Billy Beane's work with the Oakland A's is more of a science than an art

Best Baseball Series

Billy Beane's work with the Oakland A's is more of a science than an art

Best General Manager

Billy Beane, Oakland A's

Best Starting Nine

Billy Beane, Oakland A's

The Closer

He's fallen off a third-story balcony, survived tuberculosis, and come back from four arm surgeries to lead the Oakland A's to the brink of post-season play. His name is Jason Isringhausen, and he IS the closer

Former Oakland A's Fan Fave Eric Byrnes Earning $11M to Play Beer-League Softball

Now batting for the Dutch Goose softball squad...​You could say Eric Byrnes was demoted -- but that's a very un-dude way of looking at things. The former Oakland Athletic-turned journeyman left his pro baseball career with both a bang and a whimper this week. After, for lack of better words, fucki ... More >>

If You Didn't Get Tix to Giants Brewfest, There's Always Next Week in Oakland

francobobfred II/FlickrSummer essential: Chugging beer in some stadium parking lot.​The only thing more exciting than the prospect of a series the Giants can actually sweep (vs. the cellar-dwelling D'backs) is great, free-ish beer beforehand in the form of Saturday's first annual Giants Brewfe ... More >>

Clumsy Attempts to Smuggle Booze Into A's Games Actually Benefit Needy Kids

​The other day, we queried the San Francisco Giants about the fate of the cans and bottles of libations seized by stadium employees from hapless fans entering the stadium. It turns out the answer is about as thrilling as the team's play of late: They pour them out and recycle them. Across the bay ... More >>

Wanna Star in 'Moneyball' Alongside Brad Pitt? Here's Your Chance.

That's Brad on the right...​You know what? The Curious Case of Benjamin Button kinda sucked. Here's your chance to potentially relay just this information to Brad Pitt while appearing in a movie that may well not suck. The makers of the forthcoming Moneyball, the big-screen adaptation of Michael L ... More >>

U2 Reschedules Oakland Concert to 2011

"See you in 2011, Oakland"​You may resume breathing, disappointed Bay Area U2 fans: Bono and company are coming back. But not until next year. As you no doubt remember, U2 had to cancel last month's Oakland show due to the sunglassed singer's emergency back surgery. Tour promoter Live Nation annou ... More >>

KTVU Goes Low-Tech to Solve 'Clockgate'

What time is it? ​Back when Charlie Finley owned the Oakland A's, an underling was often tasked with keeping the legendarily unpleasant executive abreast of the team's progress. This was accomplished via the low-tech, but effective, method of attaching a telephone to a radio with a rubber band so ... More >>

Jean Quan: 'Plum Purple Is My Color'

Jean Quan loves the color purple...​Last week we noticed that Oakland Mayor-to-be Jean Quan seemed to be wearing the same purple suit in just about every photograph. Is this her lucky suit? Or is purple just her thing? The answer: Yes. Quan confirmed to SF Weekly that "plum purple is my color." Bu ... More >>

Will Hideki Matsui Bring Porn Collection to Oakland?

Here's a Hideki Matsui-related image we can show you...​The imminent possibility of the Oakland A's signing Hideki "Godzilla" Matsui could certainly fill some holes in the Athletics' lineup. We'll refrain from recycling the above phrase to make the obvious pun regarding Matsui's other claim to fam ... More >>

Sunday: Oakland Rapper Too $hort Makes His Fillmore District Debut at Yoshi's

Tamara PalmerMartin Luther and Too $hort.​Too $hort March 6, 2011 @ Yoshi's SFBetter than: Listening to a studio gangster who's behind closed doors getting his booty all spanked up.He staked a permanent place for Oakland on the international rap map over a more than 25-year career, but T ... More >>

It Takes a Lot of Balls

Tamara PalmerMartin Luther and Too $hort.​Too $hort March 6, 2011 @ Yoshi's SFBetter than: Listening to a studio gangster who's behind closed doors getting his booty all spanked up.He staked a permanent place for Oakland on the international rap map over a more than 25-year career, but T ... More >>

Win Barbecue and Baseball Tickets in Our Haiku Contest

​We've got three $48 tickets to the Bay Area BBQ Championship on Saturday, July 16, and we're going to give them away! The 'cue will be cookin' at the Oakland Coliseum before a doubleheader between the Oakland Athletics and the Los Angeles Angels of Disneyland. The lucky winner gets three pas ... More >>

Barbecue Championship Haiku Contest Winners

​San Francisco knows haiku. We had 41 entries in our haiku contest to win tickets to the Bay Area BBQ Championship on Saturday, and many of them were great. No wonder, with a great prize: three $48 tickets, which include five food/drink tickets for each person at the BBQ championship, and thr ... More >>

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie Stop in Oakland Tonight

​Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, the Hollywood power couple better know as "Brangelina," will be in downtown Oakland tonight for Pitt's premiere of Moneyball, a flim based on the Oakland A's 2002 season.

"Moneyball": Formula Works for Sabermetrics Sports Flick

​Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, the Hollywood power couple better know as "Brangelina," will be in downtown Oakland tonight for Pitt's premiere of Moneyball, a flim based on the Oakland A's 2002 season.

Sorry, Simba Moneyball is King of the Jungle

Jackpot​Back in 1994, The Lion King's Simba gave his competitors fair warning via song -- "I'm gonna be a mighty king, so enemies beware" -- but that didn't stop Moneyball from dominating San Francisco's box office this weekend. In fact, you could say it was a home run for the Oakland A's baseball ... More >>