Warriors: How an astounding team gets better

The Golden State Warriors won the NBA championship last season and are better this season. The Warriors won 67 games and only lost 15 last season. This season it’s 73-9, sett... Read More

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A fourth Giants World Series in 2016?

By Steve Hermanos

Little kids know the San Francisco Giants always win the World Series in even-numbered years, right? The Giants won in 2010, 2012, and 2014. And look, the calendar says 2016, so le... Read More

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Yay, super void

By Steve Hermanos

How we fill the voids in our lives tells volumes about who we are. There’s the void in our heart — the person filling that space is a living manifestation of our essence. T... Read More

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Little League coach: What would Bruce Bochy do?

By Steve Hermanos

The little league team that I coach won 8, lost 0, and tied 1. The kids had a ton of fun. The parents chipped in money and surprised me with a gift card and some thank-you cards si... Read More

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Crowning the champs

By Steve Hermanos

Three World Series trophies glittered in the sun. Canons fired metallic streamers from the second deck. Stunt jets ripped the sky. Madison Bumgarner mounted a police horse while, o... Read More

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Besting the boys

By Steve Hermanos

Kate scott rolls out of her Panhandle-area apartment at 3 a.m., commutes through the Broadway Tunnel, and at a studio near the Embarcadero joins KNBR hosts Brian Murphy, Paul McCaf... Read More

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The curse of Candlestick?

Should San Francisco fans keep mourning the moving of their team or keep hoping for a better season?

By Steve Hermanos

Like a jilted spouse whose significant other abandoned us for a South Bay Sugar Daddy or Sugar Momma, we sat on our stools in San Francisco bars this football season, taking a modi... Read More

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Nice guys finish first

By Steve Hermanos

Madison Bumgarner asked a cop if he could mount a horse and ride up Market Street, where confetti canons were set to blast black, orange, white strips of paper, and all the while r... Read More

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Giants highs

By Steve Hermanos

With San Franciscans relishing our third Giants World Series championship in five years, I wanted to share the following baseball poem that reminds us of the personal heroics, unli... Read More

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Wicked seesaws for the Giants & A’s

By Steve Hermanos

Let’s look at the bright side: As of this writing, the Giants will make the playoffs. They’d play Pittsburgh in a one-game playoff game at our ballpark by McCovey Cove ... Read More

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Down but not out in Fresno

By Steve Hermanos

If watching a mid-summer baseball game at Candlestick Park was an arctic experience, watching a few miles north at the ballpark at McCovey Cove is as often subarctic. It’s a ... Read More

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American soccer cleans up

By Steve Hermanos

American soccer was like a drug-addicted guy who lived on a ratty boat in a shabby marina. For decades, it seemed as if American soccer would never get its life together. But at so... Read More

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Great expectations for the Giants in 2014

By Steve Hermanos

Finding myself in the Giants clubhouse on Friday afternoon, the day after TV cameras zoomed in on the glistening hand of Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda, I asked some Giants about t... Read More

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He’ll blow your doors off: An interview with local Indy car racer J. R. Hildebrand

By Steve Hermanos

J. R. Hildebrand was leading the 2011 Indianapolis 500 in the final turn when he swung wide around a slow car and skidded into the wall. Though the side of his car was destroyed, H... Read More

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Mainstream media misses changes to Cuban sports

By Steve Hermanos

Only the L.A. Times and National Public Radio, of our plethora of major media outlets, reported the recent policy changes the Cuban government announced regarding its professional ... Read More

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