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Published June 9, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

For some, the Giants County Fair is ironic: You’re 31 and in a bumper car? But that’s okay. Nobody can eat cotton candy after a ride in a Super Swing and not feel like the world has gone upside down just a tiny bit. But at today’s Urban Eats food competition, smirkless authenti ...

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Fantasy Football Forecast: Week 17

Published Jan. 1, 2010 at 1:02 p.m.


For fantasy football owners, it all comes down to this weekend: will you win bragging rights amongst friends, or cry in your beer? The RapidDraft.com gang is here with its final installment of advice and a look back at the year in review.

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Barry Bonds' Son Arrested

Published Dec. 8, 2009 at 12:36 p.m.
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Not to outdo his father, who has his own share of legal troubles, Nikolai Bonds, 19, the son of former Giants great Barry Bonds, was arrested on Saturday night, booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and vandalism ... Police spokeswoman Nicole Acker tells Associated Press that Nikolai Bonds "was taken into custody after allegedly throwing a door knob at his 45-year-old mother," Sun Bonds. The little rapscallion also allegedly "smashed pictures and vases, causing about $400 worth of

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And if they’re still repairing the Bay Bridge in 2043…

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Published Dec. 8, 2009 at 9:46 a.m.

…East Bay residents might consider commuting into the city on a spiffy Water Taxi.  Plans are moving forward for funding some San Francisco coastline taxies that would speed between the Giants stadium and our beloved tourist traps along the northern waterfront - and in the future, they’d get you to Los Angeles in just over [ ... ] ...

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Tim Lincecum Wins the 2009 Cy Young Award

Published Nov. 19, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
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Tim Lincecum nabbed his second Cy Young Award in two years. This is what Lieberman is reporting, as is The Splash ... The first pitcher ever to win the Cy Young in his first two seasons in the majors -- the fourth National League pitcher to win consecutive Cy Youngs, along with Sandy Koufax, Greg Maddux, and Giants colleague Randy Johnson -- FanIQ says, "He also has arbitration coming soon, and I have a feeling he's going to get paid ... A LOT ." ... Lincecum comes in ahead of the St. Louis

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Giants' Lincecum wins second consecutive Cy Young

Published Nov. 19, 2009 at 2:29 p.m.

Giants ace Tim Lincecum has won the NL Cy Young Award, becoming the first repeat winner since Randy Johnson in 2002 ...

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The Storm: She Has Passed

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Published Oct. 14, 2009 at 12:30 p.m.
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Your backyard may not look like this until tomorrow ... Are you receiving us? Do you have electricity and such? Apparently 10,000 Bay Area residents still do not, and some major power line connecting Northern and Southern California was knocked out near Monterey and total power coming our way has been cut by a third ... And this was apparently the worst October storm on record since at least 1962, when storms interrupted a World Series between the Giants and the Yankees ... Car accidents

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Bochy, Sabean, SF Giants

Published Oct. 1, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
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Brian Sabean and Bruce Bochy, according to John Shea at SF Chron , "will be re-signed and return to the 2010 Giants." Good news, right? And now for some bad news: the Giants, as of yesterday, are no longer wild-card contenders. Sigh ...

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Bonds prosecutors seek to admit tests at trial

Published Sept. 17, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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A prosecutor in the Barry Bonds perjury case asked a federal appeals court Thursday to remove the government's biggest obstacle to winning a conviction: the refusal of Bonds' trainer to testify about drug tests that might show the former Giants star lied to a ...

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Death and the Giants

Published Sept. 20, 2009 at 8:15 p.m.

ineteen-year-old Giants prospect Angel Villalona, a first baseman who hit .267 for the minor-league San Jose Giants this year, is the prime suspect in a killing last night in his home country of the Dominican Republic, the Associated Press and other news organizations reported today. Villalona, a 2006 draft pick, turned himself in to police [ ... ] ...

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