San Francisco Chronicle
Raiders cornerback DeAngelo Hall isn't afraid to man up. It's just not as easy as he supposed. Hall said it's been a struggle to learn the Raiders' way of playing defense, where the cornerbacks apply press coverage in man-on-man situations. If they're not in...
Fla. - Vivid contrasts abound in the American League Championship Series. Boston has masses of postseason tradition, quaint Fenway Park and "Sweet Caroline" in the eighth inning. Tampa Bay is an expansion team that put together its first-ever winning season...
Another week flew by, yours truly trying to figure out what it all means. Column? What column? Sadly, the meaning of life as it relates to this midlife port has yet to reveal itself. I was especially confused after I saw Fresno State gag away a home loss to a...
The NFL's review of Adam "Pacman" Jones' scuffle with his bodyguard won't be completed until next week. The Dallas Cowboys had already said they won't discipline Jones, so that means the cornerback will play Sunday at Arizona. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said...
Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis says quarterback Carson Palmer will not start Sunday's game against the New York Jets because of a sore right elbow but that he could play. Backup Ryan Fitzpatrick will get his second start of the season for the Bengals....
All-Pro running back Brian Westbrook will miss his second game in three weeks when the Philadelphia Eagles visit San Francisco on Sunday. Westbrook broke two ribs in the Eagles' 23-17 loss to Washington last Sunday, though he kept playing and finished the...
- Where did the tragedy end and the comedy begin? How blurred was the line? When was it proper to laugh, to cry, to revel, to bury one's thoughts in stone silence? When before did these questions creep onto a baseball diamond with such urgency? Maybe this...
Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a...
North Korea released pictures of leader Kim Jong Il on Saturday for the first time in nearly two months, showing the reclusive ruler looking generally well despite reports he recently underwent brain surgery. Wearing his trademark khaki jumpsuit and...
Fla. - Dan Johnson isn't on the Rays' playoff roster, but he's at Tropicana Field, working out before the American League Championship Series with the club he helped to get to the postseason. Johnson, who opened the season with the A's in Japan, was claimed...
No matter what the New Jersey Devils do to change the team in the offseason, the face of the franchise remains Martin Brodeur. Brodeur stopped a penalty shot and finished with 25 saves and the Devils spoiled Scott Gordon's NHL coaching debut with a 2-1...
Lorena Ochoa found a comforting routine Friday on a chilly, blustery day in Danville. She hit the ball, grabbed a lined jacket from her caddie and stuffed her hands inside the pockets. Then, when it was time to hit again, she removed the jacket and repeated...
Paula Creamer is not the only young, dynamic player with designs on chasing Lorena Ochoa into 2009 and beyond. The fastest-rising LPGA star is Yani Tseng, a 19-year-old from Taiwan who counts as the Rookie-of-the-Year favorite and a viable threat to Ochoa in...
The Giants took the first step toward restructuring their pitching staff Friday, severing ties with Tyler Walker, Kevin Correia and Brad Hennessey. They were among seven players the Giants removed from the 40-man roster and outrighted to Triple-A Fresno,...
- Had it happened in the rough-and-tumble Boston-Tampa Bay series, it probably would have exploded into a full-scale to-do, but nothing happened Friday after Phillies starter Brett Myers threw a fastball behind Manny Ramirez in the first inning of the...
General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC have held preliminary talks about a merger or an acquisition of Chrysler by GM, according to published reports Saturday. The Wall Street Journal, citing people it described as familiar with the discussions, said Cerberus...
In this fall's TV season, a secret agent speeds around in a Chevrolet Camaro, a man tries to save the world with the help of a Dodge Ram pickup, and a famous talking car returns to the streets in the form of a Ford Mustang. With auto sales at 15-year lows and...
Davey McKeever was down to his last bet slip of the night, crumpled in a sweaty fist, at the Shelbourne Park greyhound track. The remnants of McKeever's first unemployment check would rise or fall on the ironically named Nest Egg. When the jet-black greyhound...
This stretch of rolling dairy country has long been Milton Hershey's turf, where he first found success making chocolate more than a century ago and earned a name synonymous with chocolate in America. But M&M-making rival Mars has crept up on Hershey's...
On a bank of the Mohawk River, a windowless industrial building of corrugated steel hides something that could make floor lamps, bedside lamps, wall sconces and nearly every other household lamp obsolete. It's a machine that prints lights. The size of a...
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