SANTA CLARA — At last, the home opener for the 49ers in front of a full house.

Unless you like the other green and gold team, the Green Bay Packers, you did not go home happy.

Aaron Rodgers was 23-of-33 for 261 yards with two touchdown passes and completed a 17-yard strike to Davante Adams with...

OAKLAND — For one night, everything went right for the Athletics.

If you had to describe the 2021 season to an outsider in one word: frustrating would be the most appropriate. But on the final Friday home game, everybody was happy. A good crowd was on hand for fireworks night and the A's pounded t...

SAN FRANCISCO — In the world of professional sports, owners are just thought of as the rich folks who sit in the seats closest to the field with money to pay the players. There are a few celebrities fans acknowledge such as the Dallas Cowboys' Jerry Jones or the late Jerry Buss who controlled the La...

SAN FRANCISCO — Gabe Kapler has only been with the Giants less than two seasons but he's done something that the legendary John McGraw and every other skipper that preceded him had not accomplished.

Kapler clinched a playoff spot faster than any other manager in the 138 year history of the franchi...

OAKLAND — The A's are in a stretch drive where they know every game remaining has playoff implications.

With the Yankees and Red Sox having lost their games on Friday, the green and gold took advantage with a 10-5 win over the last place Texas Rangers.

Although Paul Blackburn struggled for the s...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants have been the surprise baseball team of 2021. Certainly nobody, not even the most ardent Giants fan would have predicted the orange and black would have the best record in baseball tied with their long time rivals, the Los Angeles Dodgers in early September.

Despite havi...

The last time the Warriors had a first round pick at number 7 they picked a guard from unknown Davidson University named Wardell Stephen Curry II. Everyone today knows that Curry revolutionized the game and made his 3-point shot a deadly weapon just as Michael Jordan used his fadeaway jumper to scor...

SAN JOSE — Instead of those damn Yankees, it's those damn Golden Knights.

Alex Tuch scored a pair of goals in a 4-0 win over the San Jose Sharks. Marc Andre-Fleury made big saves when he had to. The Vegas goaltender stopped all 24 shots on goal for his fourth shutout of the year, improving his rec...

SAN FRANCISCO — The 2020-2021 Warriors are a team that is best described as consistently inconsistent. While it sounds like an enigma, it is accurate. To be consistently inconsistent is to do something often enough without establishing a pattern or an identity. Case in point, Golden State has yet to...

SAN FRANCISCO — Stephen Curry has been called the best shooter in the NBA and it's hard to argue against that.

He's a two-time MVP and the owner of three NBA championship rings. But since he only played in five games last season for a Warriors team that was 15-50 (which is the fewest wins in fran...