by Dave Zirin
When I was doing my book tour for Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love, I always had a joke in my back pocket about Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis that never failed to generate a laugh. I said that kids in Oakland wake up screaming in the middle of the night [...]
by Steve Sparks
Michoacan is the mostly rural Mexican State from which the vast majority of Hispanic people in this Valley originally hail from. They tell me that it is similar to Anderson Valley in many ways. As this community continues to maintain valuable links to its original culture, an aspect of that which remains of great importance [...]
I am nearly 32 and though I was raised by a die-hard Giants fan, but my affinity for them is recent. I am one of those terribly uncool folks who fell in love with them only last year. I know, you have loved them your whole life and think I am a poser. Whatever. Let [...]
Gravity dictates the truest mantra on Earth: What goes up must come down. But give me a bicycle and a mountain, and I’ll break that law or die trying. Whether by blessing or curse, I am drawn unstoppably to hills and the roads that go up them. I scorn horizontal distances, always looking to optimize [...]
by Ken Hurst
How did we all start to ‘luv de guy’ so fast? Buster Posey was a “throwback” kind of guy. He was humble, earnest, and hard working. He looked like a big boy. There was a softness to his body with small shoulders, and not a visible muscle anywhere. But his coordination was pure as was [...]
Many years ago while browsing the bookstore, I ran across a book which contained the addresses of famous sports legends. Well! It was the middle of winter and I had nothing better to do, so I bought the book, sat down and wrote letters to some of my favorite old ball players. Willie Stargell. Carlton [...]
by Ken Hurst
A few years ago our fine editor Bruce Anderson and I read the same article in a popular monthly magazine about steroids and competitive amateur bicycle racing. The article was written by a man in his early 40s who raced in age group classifications. He had average middle-of-the-pack finishes in his races. He was a [...]
by Todd Walton
Jon Miller, my favorite bard of baseball, recently used the words egregious, preposterous, cerulean, pro digious, and greensward whilst painting verbal pictures of our San Francisco Giants sweeping the Rockies and the Snakes
by Ken Hurst
The way I saw the NFL draft coming down for the SF 49ers was drafting Blaine Gabbert out of Missouri at #7 spot in the first round because Coach Jim Harbaugh has said he was going to install a pure West Coast offense. The West Coast offense quarterback’s skill requirement is accuracy with short to [...]
by Todd Walton
Though it may at first seem a stretch to compare the struggle to save the historic Ukiah Post Office with the current labor dispute between National Football League owners and the NFL players’ union, similarities abound.
