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Today's NCS girls soccer title game: Tamalpais-University
The oldest high school in the North Bay is celebrating its 100th anniversary this school year, but other than a Division IV boys state basketball championship in 2000, Tamalpais-Mill Valley High has not had many top Bay Area teams in any sport in several...
Chicago Is My Kind of Frown
Friday brought some uncommon happenings to China Basin, from Peter Magowan's retirement announcement to the Chicago White Sox making their inaugural regular-season visit to San Francisco. Then the game began, and an all-too-familiar scenario unfolded for the...
Giants How they scored 5/16
White Sox 7th: With two outs, Swisher singled to left. Ramirez homered to left. White Sox 2, Giants...
Street closures
The Bay to Breakers footrace on Sunday will necessitate closures of some streets. Here is the schedule, which may change: Steuart, Spear, Main, Beale, Fremont, First, Second, New Montgomery streets and Hawthorne Alley between Mission and Folsom streets:...
3-Dot Lounge: All Hail Henin
Justine Henin's retirement was little more than a footnote on ESPN's "SportsCenter." They finally got around to it some 44 minutes into the prime-time show, a quick in-and-out, featuring no comments from Henin or anyone else. Nice to have known you, Justine,...
Barreling Big Brown
Before the Kentucky Derby, trainer Rick Dutrow insisted he had the best horse, and Big Brown proved it with a dominant victory. Going into today's Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Dutrow remains confident he has the best horse, and there...
Coughlin: A Record, And A Loss
It's not often that Natalie Coughlin breaks an American record and does not win the race, but that's what happened Friday afternoon on the first full day of the 41st annual Santa Clara Grand Prix swimming meet. In tuning up for next month's Olympic trials,...
Knapp: Another sad goodbye in Giants land
Peter Magowan's farewell should have been prettier, but his Giants rarely do sweet partings. In Magowan's 16-year reign as the team's managing general partner, the most prominent men in uniform invariably left with bad feelings. Matt Williams went away sad...
Magowan's Bittersweet 16
Peter Magowan announced Friday he will retire as the Giants' president and managing general partner at the end of this season, ending a 16-year reign that brought to San Francisco a new ballpark, Barry Bonds, a World Series and ultimately scorn for the team's...
Giants On deck 5/16
TONIGHT Opponent: White Sox Time: 6:05 p.m. TV: Channel: 11 Pitchers: Buehrle (1-5) vs. Zito (0-7) SUNDAY Opponent: White Sox Time: 1:05 p.m. TV: CSNBA+ Pitchers: Danks (3-3) vs. Cain (2-3) MONDAY Opponent: At Rockies Time: 5:35 p.m. TV: CSNBA Pitchers: Misch...
A's On deck 5/16
TODAY Opponent: At Braves Time: 4:10 p.m. TV: Channel: 36 Pitchers: Harden (1-0) vs. Hudson (6-2) SUNDAY Opponent: At Braves Time: 10:35 a.m. TV: CSNBA Pitchers: Duchscherer (3-2) vs. Reyes (1-1) MONDAY Opponent: Rays Time: 7:05 p.m. TV: CSNBA+ Pitchers:...
Notebook: Booing Pierzynski
The fans booed when A.J. Pierzynski was announced as the White Sox's starting catcher Friday night. They booed even louder when Pierzynski stepped to the plate in the top of the first (he grounded out). And they seemed to cheer with added zeal when he air-...
A's How they scored 5/16
A's 2nd: Suzuki singled to center. R.Sweeney doubled to center and took third when Suzuki was out trying to score. Murphy walked. Eveland safe on a sacrifice plus pitcher Jurrjens' throwing error, R.Sweeney scored, Murphy to third. Hannahan grounded out to...
Ratto: Some advice for the new owner
Bill Neukom has Kenesaw Mountain Landis' white hair, Branch Rickey's bow tie and nothing but open space between him and his legacy. Which, in a dramatic shift from company policy, he seems less obsessed upon than his predecessor. But this is D-Day minus-137,...
A time line: Magowan and the Giants
A time line of Peter Magowan and the Giants Compiled by Johnny Miller, Chronicle Research Librarian. November 10, 1992 Major League Baseball rejects Giants' owner Bob Lurie's $115 million deal with Florida investors which would have moved the Giants to St....
Bay to Breakers: Sausalito veterinarian can't quite quit the running game
As an elite field of runners converges on San Francisco for Sunday's ING Bay to Breakers, Chris Lundy finds herself at a crossroads of her racing life. In one breath, the 37-year-old Sausalito resident and full-time veterinarian in San Francisco says her...
Metro Area track & field leaders
Boys 100 meters - Travis Carrie (De La Salle-Concord) 10.83, Deante Purvis (Pinole Valley) 10.90, Kendall Spencer (San Mateo) 10.96. State leader: Randall Carroll (Cathedral-Los Angeles) 10.49. 200 - George Atkinson (Granada-Livermore) 22.04, Spencer (San...
NFL questions steroid felon
A steroids dealer in Texas said Thursday that NFL investigators questioned him in an effort to learn the identities of players he had said he provided with performance-enhancing drugs. The dealer, David Jacobs, was sentenced to probation May 1 for felony...
Big Brown hits Pimlico / No surprises in autopsy report on Eight Belles
Before anointing Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown the next coming of Secretariat, consider this: The colt enters Saturday's Preakness off a two-week turnaround, the shortest of his career; he's got problem front feet; and there are 12 horses with connections...
Magowan answers Giant questions
Giants managing general partner Peter Magowan has found himself in the middle of many controversies during his 16 seasons at the helm, drawing praise on some fronts and criticism on others. In an interview with The Chronicle, and during a news conference, he...