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"Bernie": Black Excels in Weird, Affecting True-Crime Story

World Anti-Doping Agency Asked to Dump Marijuana From List of Performance-Enhancing Drugs

Among the Drug War's finer ironies is the treatment of marijuana by the world of sport, which has taken a deliciously schizophrenic view on the miracle/devil plant: It's a gateway drug that dooms its users to a lifetime of apathy, ignorance, and nonproduction. It's also a performance-enhancer, in th ... More >>

Mother Teresa Letter Defending Pedophile 'Authentic' and 'Disturbing,' Says Former Nun

Last month, SF Weekly published a cover story revealing that two candidates for Catholic sainthood -- including Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity order and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize -- had taken steps to protect convicted pedophile priest Donald McGuire after molestation al ... More >>

Tainted Saint: Mother Teresa Defended Pedophile Priest

Last month, SF Weekly published a cover story revealing that two candidates for Catholic sainthood -- including Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity order and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize -- had taken steps to protect convicted pedophile priest Donald McGuire after molestation al ... More >>

Did Mother Teresa Protect a Pedophile Priest?

Patron saint of predators?​That's the subject of the latest SF Weekly cover story, which examines Jesuit records suggesting that Mother Teresa of Calcutta, founder of the international Missionaries of Charity order and winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, asked Catholic Church officials to overlo ... More >>

State Election Monitors to Observe S.F. Voting Tomorrow

It's never a good sign when the state has to intervene​The California Secretary of State is sending election observers to oversee poll workers and voters as they cast their vote starting tomorrow morning. State officials would not confirm how many election monitors would be in San Francisco, but s ... More >>

"Tower Heist": Action Caper Is Funny, Fleet, and Inconsequential

It's never a good sign when the state has to intervene​The California Secretary of State is sending election observers to oversee poll workers and voters as they cast their vote starting tomorrow morning. State officials would not confirm how many election monitors would be in San Francisco, but s ... More >>

Sex Abuse Victims Seek International Criminal Court Charges Against Former SF Archbishop

Cardinal William Levada​Victims of clergy sex abuse have named a top Vatican official with roots in San Francisco as part of a small group of Catholic Church officials who should be investigated for crimes against humanity in a formal complaint lodged this week with the International Criminal Cour ... More >>

"Dr. Syed," Fake Dermatologist, Sentenced to Six Years in Prison

The many faces of Dr. Syed ​The San Francisco doctor best known to his patients as "Dr. Syed" was reportedly sentenced this week to six years behind bars for posing as a dermatologist and treating patients in the basement of his home. For years, Timothy Syed Andersson, 68, practiced dermatology ou ... More >>

Peninsula Priest Held in 'Private' S.F. Location As Abuse Investigation Moves Forward

​A Menlo Park priest placed on leave following improper conduct with a 17-year-old parishioner has been relocated to a "private" location in San Francisco while an internal investigation of the incident moves forward, according to the Archdiocese of San Francisco.Father William Meyers, pastor of S ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

​A Menlo Park priest placed on leave following improper conduct with a 17-year-old parishioner has been relocated to a "private" location in San Francisco while an internal investigation of the incident moves forward, according to the Archdiocese of San Francisco.Father William Meyers, pastor of S ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Doping Investigation: Leak Shows 60 Minutes Expose Was Right

Matt SmithIt's hard to stop a leak.​Attorneys for Lance Armstrong pivoted from demanding an apology for purported inaccuracies in a recent 60 Minutes doping exposé to lambasting the "leakers" who proved that the report was true. Last month, Armstrong hired a San Francisco law firm famed ... More >>

Lance Armstrong's Attorneys Demand Apology From CBS Over Doping Allegation Story

Is used to winning ​No sooner had Lance Armstrong juiced his legal team last week by adding the San Francisco firm famed for helping ballplayers battle leaks in the BALCO drugs case, than Keker & Van Nest came out swinging, making a public demand that CBS apologize for doping allegat ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Hires Famous S.F. Attorney, New USPS Sponsorship Details Emerge

It's all about who owned what and when.​Lance Armstrong has added two more San Francisco attorneys to his defense team to help ward off possible charges that he was doping while cycling the Tour de France. Additionally, SF Weekly has more details on the 1996-2004 U.S. Postal Service cycling t ... More >>

Vow of Silence: List of Priests Who Knew and Said Nothing

It's all about who owned what and when.​Lance Armstrong has added two more San Francisco attorneys to his defense team to help ward off possible charges that he was doping while cycling the Tour de France. Additionally, SF Weekly has more details on the 1996-2004 U.S. Postal Service cycling t ... More >>

Let Him Prey: High-Ranking Jesuits Helped Keep Pedophile Priest Hidden

It's all about who owned what and when.​Lance Armstrong has added two more San Francisco attorneys to his defense team to help ward off possible charges that he was doping while cycling the Tour de France. Additionally, SF Weekly has more details on the 1996-2004 U.S. Postal Service cycling t ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Doping Story Points Toward S.F. Company

It's about the EPO.​CBS' 60 Minutes shook the sporting world Sunday with extraordinary doping accusations involving the seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong. According to Armstrong's former teammate Tyler Hamilton, Armstrong dosed his own teammates post-race with droppers-full of st ... More >>

Bill Laddish, Victim of Steroid-Cheating Cyclist, Gets Revised Race Results

Laddish's put in hard training miles, only to be beat in 2008 by a doper.​Earlier this month we told you about how antidoping authorities penalized Oakland journalist and amateur cyclist Andrew Tilin after he released The Doper Next Door: My Strange and Scandalous Year on Performance-Enhancing Dru ... More >>

News Media Continues Its Slow Decline

Laddish's put in hard training miles, only to be beat in 2008 by a doper.​Earlier this month we told you about how antidoping authorities penalized Oakland journalist and amateur cyclist Andrew Tilin after he released The Doper Next Door: My Strange and Scandalous Year on Performance-Enhancing Dru ... More >>

Andrew Tilin, Local Journalist, Gets Busted for Steroids After Writing Tell-All Book

If aging duffers want to get caught doping, they must publish books like this one.​The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has announced a two-year athletic competition ban for Andrew Tilin after the 46-year-old Oakland journalist and amateur cyclist released a book titled The Doper Next Door: My Strange and ... More >>

Barry Bonds' Testicles to Get Their Day in Court

Will this photo find its way into evidence as well? ​Four years ago, just one of Barry Bonds' balls sold for $752,467. Well that was then and this is now. These days, the focus is on both of Bonds' balls -- and their diminished state. Exhibits Nos. 1 and 2 at the Bonds perjury trial will be the sl ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Will this photo find its way into evidence as well? ​Four years ago, just one of Barry Bonds' balls sold for $752,467. Well that was then and this is now. These days, the focus is on both of Bonds' balls -- and their diminished state. Exhibits Nos. 1 and 2 at the Bonds perjury trial will be the sl ... More >>

Dickens Done Right

Will this photo find its way into evidence as well? ​Four years ago, just one of Barry Bonds' balls sold for $752,467. Well that was then and this is now. These days, the focus is on both of Bonds' balls -- and their diminished state. Exhibits Nos. 1 and 2 at the Bonds perjury trial will be the sl ... More >>

Fantasy Voter Fraud

Will this photo find its way into evidence as well? ​Four years ago, just one of Barry Bonds' balls sold for $752,467. Well that was then and this is now. These days, the focus is on both of Bonds' balls -- and their diminished state. Exhibits Nos. 1 and 2 at the Bonds perjury trial will be the sl ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Case Takes BALCO Investigator Jeff Novitzky To France

Look what you've done!! I'm melting, melting. ​Jeff Novitzky, the USDA investigator famed for pursuing Barry Bonds in the BALCO steroids case, was in Lyon, France this week chasing evidence that cycling star Lance Armstrong doped in violation of multimillion dollar sponsorship agreements with the ... More >>

Feds Say Fuck No to Lincecum-Themed T-Shirts

ICE Fucking Took It​The federal government is not your friend. Barry Bonds knows this -- the home run king will be in federal court next year not for using steroids, but for allegedly lying to a federal grand jury about using them (this after a federal agent rooted through BALCO kingpin Victor Con ... More >>

Pigeon John: Show Preview

ICE Fucking Took It​The federal government is not your friend. Barry Bonds knows this -- the home run king will be in federal court next year not for using steroids, but for allegedly lying to a federal grand jury about using them (this after a federal agent rooted through BALCO kingpin Victor Con ... More >>

Lance Armstrong-Gavin Newsom Meeting Great Distraction From Doping Investigation

What, Lance worry?​Lance Armstrong's whirlwind publicity tour of San Francisco this week was a textbook example of a damage control strategy in which a public figure faced with scandal strenuously seeks to act as if there aren't any problems, according to PR experts quoted by the Associated Press. ... More >>

Freddie Gibbs shows gangsta rap's limitations

What, Lance worry?​Lance Armstrong's whirlwind publicity tour of San Francisco this week was a textbook example of a damage control strategy in which a public figure faced with scandal strenuously seeks to act as if there aren't any problems, according to PR experts quoted by the Associated Press. ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Lawyers Up; Doper Teammate Tyler Hamilton Spills to Feds

What's in the cup, Lance? ​The criminal investigation into the U.S. Postal Service-sponsored team of cycling champion Lance Armstrong took a vast leap forward today with reports that former teammate Tyler Hamilton has agreed to speak with federal investigators. Hamilton, an Olympic gold medal ... More >>

Cyclist Tammy Thomas' Perjury Conviction Upheld by 9th Circuit Court

​Back in 2008, professional cyclist Tammy Thomas was found guilty of perjury for lying to a grand jury about using steroids. Today, San Francisco's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling. Although Thomas has long denied that she used steroids -- urine samples beg to differ. In 2003, T ... More >>

Interpol, World Anti-Doping Agency Launch Investigations of Lance Armstrong

No, no, not that way. This way...​At this point, who isn't investigating Lance Armstrong? The World Anti-Doping Agency has joined the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Attorney's office to look into allegations that directors of Armstrong's former U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team conducted ... More >>

Wall Street Journal Planning Lance Armstrong Doping Bombshell

Might this affect Lance's concentration?​The Wall Street Journal, which for a week has been rumored to be preparing a Game of Shadows-style story detailing doping allegations against seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, announced in Friday's paper that it plans to release just such ... More >>

Feds' Case Against Bonds Evaporating

Feds Losing Their Heads​The quest to incarcerate home run champion Barry Lamar Bonds took a perhaps fatal twist on Friday, when a judge ruled that prosecutors cannot use key evidence in their case to prove the 45-year old slugger lied about using steroids.

Kamala Harris Takes A Stand on Internet Pedophiles, Coddles Pedophile Catholic Priests

As long as the pedophile is online, Kamala Harris is there to protect you​Matt Smith's column this week revealed how District Attorney Kamala Harris is essentially protecting Catholic pedophiles in her refusal to turn over the San Francisco Archdiocese files on clergy abuse. Oddly, she's also come ... More >>

A Secrecy Fetish

District Attorney Kamala Harris is going too far in protecting Catholic pedophiles.

Floyd Landis doping scandal: The S.F. connection

District Attorney Kamala Harris is going too far in protecting Catholic pedophiles.

Hometown Papers Claim Local Hero Cyclist Levi Leipheimer Never Doped. Oh Really?

Hometown papers are ardently defending Levi Leiphimer from accusations of drug use. But those accusations may not be so far-fetched.​When disgraced 2006 Tour de France champion Floyd Landis last week confessed to doping and fingered other cyclists, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat was quick to jump t ... More >>

Disgraced Cyclist Floyd Landis Says Lance Armstrong a Doper

Dennis BuddLance Armstrong and two other Tour of California participants have been accused of being dope-users​Sigh of relief for race sponsor Amgen: Drugs Lance Armstrong accused of using made by competing company.The Amgen Tour of California bicycle race was rocked Thursday by accusations from 2 ... More >>

Hannah Montana gets upstaged by sea turtles in "The Last Song"

Dennis BuddLance Armstrong and two other Tour of California participants have been accused of being dope-users​Sigh of relief for race sponsor Amgen: Drugs Lance Armstrong accused of using made by competing company.The Amgen Tour of California bicycle race was rocked Thursday by accusations from 2 ... More >>

Scorsese's head-trip Shutter Island is the good kind of insane

Dennis BuddLance Armstrong and two other Tour of California participants have been accused of being dope-users​Sigh of relief for race sponsor Amgen: Drugs Lance Armstrong accused of using made by competing company.The Amgen Tour of California bicycle race was rocked Thursday by accusations from 2 ... More >>

Bright Lights, Big, Buttery Chardonnay

Dennis BuddLance Armstrong and two other Tour of California participants have been accused of being dope-users​Sigh of relief for race sponsor Amgen: Drugs Lance Armstrong accused of using made by competing company.The Amgen Tour of California bicycle race was rocked Thursday by accusations from 2 ... More >>

Rachel Kramer Bussel

Dennis BuddLance Armstrong and two other Tour of California participants have been accused of being dope-users​Sigh of relief for race sponsor Amgen: Drugs Lance Armstrong accused of using made by competing company.The Amgen Tour of California bicycle race was rocked Thursday by accusations from 2 ... More >>

VideoGate cop injured on duty at his desk job

Dennis BuddLance Armstrong and two other Tour of California participants have been accused of being dope-users​Sigh of relief for race sponsor Amgen: Drugs Lance Armstrong accused of using made by competing company.The Amgen Tour of California bicycle race was rocked Thursday by accusations from 2 ... More >>

Jay-Z's New Title: Most Overrated Rapper Ever

Dennis BuddLance Armstrong and two other Tour of California participants have been accused of being dope-users​Sigh of relief for race sponsor Amgen: Drugs Lance Armstrong accused of using made by competing company.The Amgen Tour of California bicycle race was rocked Thursday by accusations from 2 ... More >>

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House of the Accused

When priests within the Salesian order based in San Francisco were accused of sex abuse, the leaders chose to keep quiet.

See No Evil

S.F. Archbishop William Levada styles himself as a leading advocate for openness among Catholic leaders on the clergy sex-abuse issue. So why doesn't he practice what he preaches?