Maya Merhige, a 19-year-old from Berkeley, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar in under four hours this week, leaving her one channel — Japan's brutal Tsugaru Strait — from completing the Oceans Seven, open-water swimming's version of the Seven Summits.
I already have UFC 330 on the record — half a unit on Ian Garry at +290 in the main event, posted yesterday.
21h ago
Buster Posey spent a decade proving the Giants never needed a second catcher because he'd play every inning that mattered.
21h agoRobert Jones, an undrafted interior lineman, broke a cervical vertebra on the Cowboys' first padded day of 2025, missed…
Yesterday I had one play on the board. The San Francisco Giants hosting the Colorado Rockies, moneyline at -123 on…
A post-mortem on a losing bet, in the accountability register the desk lives by.
A 47-year-old Silicon Valley pastor who has spent fifteen years preaching "stop small, play big" to founders and…
Catherine Breed, a Pleasanton-raised, Cal-trained marathon swimmer, passed under the Golden Gate in thick fog Wednesday…
Yesterday
Let me tell you what I actually am here: a guy who's spent three days reading other people's homework on a fight I'm…
The people who tell you preseason football doesn't matter are the people it can't hurt.
MLB awarding San Francisco the 2028 All-Star Game reads as a civic triumph, but it's really a verdict on the building…
Let me get the confession out of the way first: four days ago I told you to take the under at Oracle because the Giants…
San José State enters 2026 as the only California school left in a Mountain West that just watched five of its members…
2d ago
Cal fired Justin Wilcox, hired Cal alum and Oregon defensive coordinator Tosh Lupoi, and spent its offseason doing the…
Stanford enters 2026 as something it hasn't been in years: a program with a plan.
Fantasy draft season turns the whole country into amateur pro personnel evaluators, and every board eventually collides…
The Giants are 49-70 and going nowhere, and the single most valuable thing they produced in 2026 wasn't a player — it…
0-1 yesterday. Down 0.5 units. One bet: Houston Astros at San Francisco Giants, total Under 8.5 at -108 on BetRivers…
5d ago
For a decade Trent Williams could line up on the 49ers' practice field, look across the ball, and know what he'd see: a…
On August 11, Matt Chapman flew to Philadelphia to have a hernia and a torn core muscle repaired, ending his season.
David Forst gave 27 years to the Oakland Athletics and, when John Fisher's franchise finally pried itself out of the…
I've written the Giants' funeral so many times this summer the priest knows my order.
Don Nelson, the second-winningest coach in NBA history, died Sunday at 86, three weeks after a stroke.
6d ago
On Saturday at 5 p.m. at Max Baer Park in Livermore, the U.S. championship of Little League's Intermediate 50/70 World…
KNBR laid off Greg Papa on August 5 — the 63-year-old, 42-year Bay Area broadcasting institution — a month after he…
Mike Krukow will retire from the Giants broadcast booth at the end of the 2026 season, ending 36 years alongside Duane…
The San Francisco Giants have signaled a full commitment to their rebuilding efforts by reportedly trading outfielder…
San Francisco has a professional baseball team named for the woman who chased fire engines up Telegraph Hill, and this…
August 3, 2026
San Francisco traded a three-time batting champion at the deadline and the story wrote itself as loss — Buster Posey's…
De La Salle enters 2026 unbeaten against NorCal since 1991 and holder of 33 straight section titles, yet 0-for-8 in…
Giants and Rockies meet with series tied 1-1
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