Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson raised yet another trophy late Thursday night.
Despite legions of cynics who thought the exit of Kevin Durant ended things, the trio extended the Warriors’ dynasty, writes
@annkillion
.
#SJSharks
winger Evander Kane — who has been away from the team for more than two weeks — announced via Twitter on Thursday that he and his wife recently lost a child during pregnancy.
Mayor Sheng Thao has informed MLB there is a price for a Coliseum lease extension that could include leaving the A’s name in Oakland and an expansion guarantee.
@scottostler
column:
Here's your 2020 NBA MVP.
@Warriors
star
@StephenCurry30
held a 40-minute question-and-answer on Instagram with
#coronavirus
expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, a powerful and beautiful use of social media and a celebrity platform, writes
@AnnKillion
Nearly a half-hour after the Warriors pushed their record to a league-best 17-2, Klay Thompson sat alone, with a towel over his head, as the jubilant buzz of fans at Chase Center gave way to intermittent clatters from the cleaning crew.
Stephen Curry has given us so many remarkable performances in his career, that sometimes they all begin to blur together in a montage of 3-point shots and joyful shimmies.
But Friday night at TD Garden may have been his very best, writes
@annkillion
.
San Francisco Giants ownership has to realize that the five-year plan has failed and it's time to think about moving on without president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi and manager Gabe Kapler.
@Bruce_Jenkins1
The Giants announced Tuesday they’re inducting Jeremy Affeldt, Santiago Casilla, Javier Lopez and Sergio Romo onto their Wall of Fame in a July 13 ceremony.
After managing his last road game Sunday, Bruce Bochy joined the
@SFGiants
on one more flight home for his final six games. It's a homestand that will begin and end with his most trusted arm — and friend — on the mound, reports
@HankSchulman
.
The Warriors aren’t getting what they hoped for when they signed Andre Iguodala last August as a low-price free agent. They’re getting way more, writes
@scottostler
.
Oakland Athletics closer Trevor May announced his retirement Monday and in the process called for owner John Fisher to sell the team, which made the pitcher a huge hit among A’s fans.
Renel Brooks-Moon held the San Francisco Giants accountable at a time when Black representation in MLB is in steep decline. Sources say the front office did not always appreciate her outspokenness.
Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Andrew Wiggins won’t travel with the Warriors for Monday’s make-up game in Denver, head coach Steve Kerr said after Saturday’s loss to the Lakers.
Major League Baseball’s website posted a clip from the A's game Friday that appeared to be edited to remove a glimpse of fan signs criticizing the team’s ownership and potential move to Las Vegas.
George Watsky (
@gwatsky
), an S.F.-born poet, author and rapper, will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the Longest Continuous Rap Performance today. He's asking fans to donate to coronavirus relief funds.
“Before I played for the Golden State Warriors, I was an Oakland native. … I’m a black man. I’m half black and half Mexican, but I’m still a black man.”
-
@Warriors
player Juan Toscano-Anderson (
@juanonjuan10
), who helped organize Wednesday's protest.
An extended shooting slump to start his
@Warriors
tenure made Kelly Oubre Jr. an easy scapegoat. Oubre tried to keep his focus on what he could control: arriving early to practice, listening to coaches, cheering on teammates, writes
@Con_Chron
.
The Oakland Athletics lost for the 108th time Sunday, but 2023 won’t be defined merely by numbers. It will go down as the season when baseball gave the middle finger to its fans, and its heritage.
@scottostler
Nearly 28,000 Oakland Athletics fans packed the Coliseum on Tuesday to repudiate claims they don't support the team, and saw the A's win their seventh straight game.
Starter Logan Webb worked seven-plus innings in the San Francisco Giants’ 11-4 victory over the Padres on Sunday and he hit a two-run homer and scored three runs to help the Giants win the NL West crown for the first time since 2012.
The investment made in the Oakland Athletics by their fans across decades has been wasted by owner John Fisher’s stadium shenanigans and insulted by MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s attempts at deflection, writes
@annkillion
San Francisco Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford won his fourth Gold Glove award, tying him with J.T. Snow for third-most by a Giants player behind Willie Mays and Barry Bonds.
BREAKING: Stephen Curry is not expected to need an MRI and will be in practice today with the expectation he’ll play Friday at TD Garden, a league source confirmed.
Stephen Curry needs to make just 24 more 3-pointers to pass Reggie Miller (2,560) for second on the NBA’s all-time list behind Ray Allen (2,973), writes
@Con_Chron
Mike Yastrzemski hit three home runs as the
@SFGiants
outlasted the
@Dbacks
10-9 in 11 innings. It was Bruce Bochy's 1,988th win as a manager. Watch for game story by
@HankSchulman
.
Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher’s effort to relocate his franchise to the Las Vegas Strip is now facing the prospect that it could be put up to Nevada voters.
“I like to help people when I go to the ballpark,” Mays said. “Help the Giants. Do what you can do. That’s all. That’s my goal." -- Willie Mays at 90 in an exclusive conversation with
@JohnSheaHey
#SayHey90
The
@Athletics
have clinched the American League West title with Houston's loss in Seattle.
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The Golden State Warriors made an inspiring return to the NBA Finals, giving Bay Area fans something they didn’t know they’d see again for Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green.
@annkillion
The Oakland Athletics say they are conducting an internal investigation after fans wearing "SELL" t-shirts were escorted from the suite level during Sunday's game at the Coliseum.
The
@SJEarthquakes
are one of the hottest teams in soccer. The coach pulling off this trick is
@peladoalmeyda
of Argentina, who doesn’t speak much English, but talks of his love for the samurai Bushido code, the way of the warrior.
@TomGFitzgerald
story >
In wonderful news for fans so concerned about his 2022 year of torment, Duane Kuiper will work more Giants road games while retaining his partnership with Mike Krukow, who will play the analyst’s role from a studio in S.F.,
@Bruce_Jenkins1
writes.
Oakland sweeps the Yankees to move a season-high 21 games over .500 and the A’s 38-17 (.691) record since June 17 is now the majors’ best, topping the Yankees’ 40-19 (.678) mark.
@SusanSlusser
reports from the Coliseum:
Some people think Oakland A’s fans are to blame, which nicely fits the John Fisher-Dave Kaval narrative for leaving town. It’s a fallacy, of course,
@JohnSheaHey
writes.
Coco Gauff had to withstand Naomi Osaka’s furious rally but held on to win 6-4, 6-4 and advance to the quarterfinals of the Silicon Valley Classic in San Jose on Thursday.
The Mavericks came out like a team that just got embarrassed two nights prior, dominating the first half. The Warriors responded like a true championship contender.
Here are the key takeaways from Golden State's Game 2 victory.
The real stars of the Oakland Athletics' season are the fans who put up with more than any fan base should endure. They’re the MVPs. They’re the team’s best story of the season.
@JohnSheaHey
The
@SFGiants
and their fans have gotten to see both sides of Alex Dickerson in his short time with the team -- his fearsome power at the plate and the injuries that marred his career.
@HankSchulman
reports.
Former Giants third-base coach Tim Flannery was released from a San Diego-area hospital Friday and said in a statement that he underwent seven surgeries over the past three weeks as he fought a life-threatening staph infection, writes
@HankSchulman
The
@SFGiants
beat the
@RedSox
7-6 in 15 innings on a night that Mike Yastrzemski homered while being celebrated in the city where his grandfather Carl was an icon.
Final story by
@hankschulman
to follow.
If Trevor May felt angry enough to use his retirement to unleash on John Fisher, plenty of other guys in that A’s clubhouse probably felt and feel the same way.
@annkillion
column:
Brandon Crawford for NL MVP? His case is pretty strong when you take a look at his numbers as well as his importance to the Giants' run to an NL West title.
The Oakland Athletics are hiring Mark Kotsay, the former outfielder who held multiple coaching roles on their staff in recent seasons, as their new manager.
Stephen Curry long had to live with his mother’s gentle jabs that his siblings earned their degrees, and the Golden State Warriors star had not. Here’s how he completed his coursework and his responsibilities to his team.
Logan Webb shut down the Dodgers with an epic performance backed by big home runs and spectacular defense for a 4-0 win to get Giants up 1-0 in the NLDS.
Madison Bumgarner treated Sunday like just another game, and maybe it was. He pitched seven innings, and the
@SFGiants
beat the Padres 7-6 to win the weekend series and create momentum for their next stop in Philadelphia.
@JohnSheaHey
story >
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao flew to Seattle and secretly met with MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred after he blamed her city last month for not striking an A’s deal.
Here's
@scottostler
's Q&A with the mayor detailing her visit.
A's manager Mark Kotsay has evolved into a face of the franchise, someone who doesn’t hide from questions that often have nothing to do with his daily chore of running a baseball team.
Oakland native Amelia Schimmel will fill in as the team’s public-address announcer this season while Dick Callahan is out for health reasons. She is the first woman public-address announcer at the Coliseum, reports
@SusanSlusser
.
If Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob works his magic in Oakland with the MLB and WNBA, it will be time to start thinking about where to put his statue.
@scottostler
column:
As the debate about transgender athletes reshapes politics and sports, pro wrestler Gisele Shaw enters one of the most combative spaces any athlete can compete in — by coming out as trans.
Leave it to the Oakland Athletics. After all their “commitments” to various Bay Area ballpark proposals — that all collapsed — now John Fisher and Dave Kaval are pulling the same shenanigans in Southern Nevada.
@JohnSheaHey
Arkansas coach Eric Musselman doesn’t exactly hide his connections to the Warriors and the Bay Area, where he long ago landed his first head-coaching job.
Musselman and his Razorbacks face Gonzaga in the Sweet 16 on Thursday in San Francisco.
Could Marcus Semien be the American League MVP? “I would give him the No. 1 vote,”
@Athletics
teammate Matt Chapman said. “He’s that good to me.”
@JohnSheaHey
explores the possibility.
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@SusanSlusser
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The Oakland Coliseum included actual fans for the wild-card series this week: the team’s wives, girlfriends and children, who found creative ways to cheer the A’s, including shaking boxes of macaroni and cheese and bottles of vitamins.
@SusanSlusser
story.
Mike Yastrzemski, grandson of Red Sox great Carl Yastrzemski, heads to Boston with the
@SFGiants
with thoughts of his greatest coach while growing up: his dad.
@hankschulman
offers a personal look at how Mike got where he is >
Giants off today
Jon Miller, the
@SFGiants
broadcaster and 2010 Ford C. Frick Award winner, will be featured at 5 p.m. April 4 in “The Sounds of Baseball,” a series on MLB Network paying tribute to the game’s renowned announcers.
@JohnSheaHey
story.
“Say Hey, Willie Mays!” is a new documentary about the San Francisco Giants’ all-time great that will be released on HBO on November 8, featuring interviews with Mays, Barry Bonds, Vin Scully and more.
The Giants plan to honor former catcher Buster Posey, who retired in November, with a ceremony before their May 7 game at Oracle Park, the team announced.
Former
@SFGiants
third-base coach Tim Flannery, who has battled a dangerous and persistent staph infection since mid-October, said in an Instagram post Wednesday night that he has been discharged from his second hospital stay. Via
@HankSchulman
.
Raheem Mostert (
@RMos_8Ball
), who began training camp pegged as the
@49ers
’ No. 4 running back, is now hanging with a Hall of Famer,
@Eric_Branch
reports.
San Francisco Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford put up numbers that warrant MVP consideration, especially his role in helping the team earn a surprise NL West title and franchise-best win total.
James Wiseman is likely to make his long-awaited return to the court Sunday for the Warriors’ summer-league game against the San Antonio Spurs, league sources confirmed to The Chronicle on Saturday.
The
@SFGiants
lead all of baseball with 94 runs in July. They tallied eight on Tuesday night in a 10th-inning win over the host
@Rockies
.
@HankSchulman
story >
After fans said they were barred from the suite level of an Oakland Athletics game for wearing “SELL” shirts, columnist
@scottostler
put his on and went to work.
Stephen Curry has given us so many remarkable performances in his career, that sometimes they all begin to blur together in a montage of 3-point shots and joyful shimmies.
But Friday night at TD Garden may have been his very best, writes
@annkillion
.
Alameda County officials have asked the A's to pay the $45 million they still owe for their purchase of the Coliseum site, holding the clause that the team has announced an intention to leave Oakland fulfilled.
San Francisco Giants pitcher Logan Webb is up against the ghosts of Third and King. Of championships past. Of October clinchings and celebrations. Of Lincecum, Cain and Bumgarner. And Webb is the perfect choice to pitch Game 5 against the Dodgers.
Giants owner Greg Johnson reiterated to
@susanslusser
what he’d told the Chronicle last month: President of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi and manager Gabe Kapler aren’t going anywhere.
Dave Stewart, the former
@Athletics
pitcher, has submitted a $115 million bid to buy Oakland’s share of the Coliseum site, with a goal of developing it and potentially building a new stadium if the A’s Howard Terminal ballpark doesn’t materialize. .
Barry Zito admits in new book that he actually was rooting against the
@SFGiants
, who left him off the playoff roster, in the 2010 World Series. Columnist
@annkillion
sits down with the pitcher who bares his soul and shares his journey >
#Curveball
#MLB
Mayor Sheng Thao has informed MLB there is a price for a Coliseum lease extension that could include leaving the A’s name in Oakland and an expansion guarantee.
@scottostler
column:
It’s time for San Francisco 49ers fans to let go of some fantasies and embrace reality: Barring a seismic jump by Trey Lance — and a shocking regression by Brock Purdy, or an unfortunate injury — Purdy is the team’s starter in 2023.
@MikeSilver
Speculation that Aaron Judge is en route for the Winter Meetings is hitting a fever pitch with an increasing number of suggestions that he might be headed to the San Francisco Giants and not the Yankees.
The
@Athletics
have let no single injury bury them. They’ve rebounded from setbacks to Olson, Davis, Piscotty and Laureano. The common denominator is Mark Canha, the super utility player who has filled in for all four teammates.
@JohnSheaHey
story >
Stephen Curry’s Underrated Golf Tour for minority youth finished its season at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco on Tuesday, where the Golden State Warriors guard’s commitment to gender equity was on display.
Ray Fosse, the longtime Oakland Athletics broadcaster and former All-Star catcher, died Wednesday following a long battle with cancer, the team confirmed. He was 74.
Longtime Oakland Athletics broadcaster Ray Fosse announced Thursday he has been battling cancer for 16 years and will step away from that role to focus on treatment.
The
@Athletics
are bringing back reliever Yusmeiro Petit and adding another experienced right-hander to their bullpen in longtime former
@SFGiants
reliever Sergio Romo, reports
@MatthewKawahara