Using a fan to circulate air seemed to lower the risk of sudden infant death syndrome in a study of nearly 500 babies, researchers reported Monday.
Aaron Rodgers has memories of the Dallas Cowboys, and they're not all bad. He stepped into the middle of a rout last year and brought the game down to respectable proportions. The Cowboys were on their way to a blowout, scoring on their first five possessions, knocking Brett Favre out of the box with a dislocated elbow, after they had held him to 5 of 14, with two interceptions.
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck east of Oakland, California, at around 9 p.m. ET Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Hundreds of gay and lesbian couples are securing marriage licenses on Tuesday, the first full day same-sex nuptials will be legal throughout California
Bob Hurley's boys continue their run toward perfection this week after setting a national record with their 25th state title. But the St. Anthony (Jersey City, N.J.) Friars (30-0) are not the only team seeking a record without blemish.
If you grew up playing basketball in the Bay Area in the late 1980s, you knew about Hook Mitchell. You might not have known his first name -- it's Demetrius -- or perhaps even his last. But you knew Hook.
Miscommunication was one of the factors that led to an incident in which U.S. troops returning from Iraq were not allowed to enter an airport passenger terminal, according to a report released Wednesday.
Running backs, running backs, running backs. What's a fantasy player to do about all these weird running back situations, where they're dropping like flies and even Patrick Pass finds a home? Runners dominate my fantasy tips of the weekend:
"Human error factors" probably were involved in a ship crash and oil spill that killed nearly 400 birds in San Francisco Bay and prompted a federal criminal probe, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday.
Federal investigators have launched a criminal probe into a cargo ship collision and oil spill, the Coast Guard said, which killed hundreds of birds in San Francisco Bay.
Using a fan to circulate air seemed to lower the risk of sudden infant death syndrome in a study of nearly 500 babies, researchers reported Monday.
Aaron Rodgers has memories of the Dallas Cowboys, and they're not all bad. He stepped into the middle of a rout last year and brought the game down to respectable proportions. The Cowboys were on their way to a blowout, scoring on their first five possessions, knocking Brett Favre out of the box with a dislocated elbow, after they had held him to 5 of 14, with two interceptions.
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck east of Oakland, California, at around 9 p.m. ET Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Hundreds of gay and lesbian couples are securing marriage licenses on Tuesday, the first full day same-sex nuptials will be legal throughout California
Bob Hurley's boys continue their run toward perfection this week after setting a national record with their 25th state title. But the St. Anthony (Jersey City, N.J.) Friars (30-0) are not the only team seeking a record without blemish.
If you grew up playing basketball in the Bay Area in the late 1980s, you knew about Hook Mitchell. You might not have known his first name -- it's Demetrius -- or perhaps even his last. But you knew Hook.
Miscommunication was one of the factors that led to an incident in which U.S. troops returning from Iraq were not allowed to enter an airport passenger terminal, according to a report released Wednesday.
Running backs, running backs, running backs. What's a fantasy player to do about all these weird running back situations, where they're dropping like flies and even Patrick Pass finds a home? Runners dominate my fantasy tips of the weekend:
"Human error factors" probably were involved in a ship crash and oil spill that killed nearly 400 birds in San Francisco Bay and prompted a federal criminal probe, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday.
Federal investigators have launched a criminal probe into a cargo ship collision and oil spill, the Coast Guard said, which killed hundreds of birds in San Francisco Bay.
Nearly 5,000 nurses in 15 Northern California hospitals began a two-day walkout Wednesday to protest what they said were inadequate contract offerings
Massachusetts State Police arrested a 19-year-old MIT student Friday at Boston's Logan International Airport after receiving a report that a woman had what appeared to be a bomb strapped to her chest.
Boston manager Terry Francona wants his starting staff to be well-rested by the time the playoffs begin.
Michael Sturtz is that rare speed freak who hates the idea of spitting carbon into the air. So he built a biodiesel motorcycle -- a really, really fast one. Sturtz and his team at the Crucible, an industrial-arts group in Oakland, California, started with a BMW diesel car engine and fitted it to an old motorcycle.
A 19-year-old man has confessed to killing a prominent African-American journalist, who was gunned down Thursday as he walked to work, Oakland police told CNN on Saturday.
Raids at an Oakland, California, bakery and three homes produced evidence that links the business to the killings of a prominent African-American journalist and two other people, police said.
Chauncey Bailey, 57, editor of the Oakland Post was shot to death Thursday near a downtown courthouse in what police suspect was a deliberate hit
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake shook the San Francisco area Friday at 4:42 a.m. PT (7:42 a.m. ET), the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Let's get ready to rumble -- again. The San Jose Earthquakes are coming back for the 2008 season of Major League Soccer, this time as a new expansion team.
The nation's airlines experienced their worst delays in 13 years and posted a sharp increase in cancellations during the first five months of the year, according to figures released Tuesday by the Department of Transportation.
These are some of the facts from tonight's broadcast that you might find interesting. As of 2006, the murder rate was up by 6.7% in cities of a million or more. Some of the cities where that increase took place: • Phoenix • Miami • San Diego • Oakland, California • Corpus Christi, Texas • Grand Rapids, Michigan • Reno, Nevada • Little Rock, Arkansas Overall crime was up nationwide by 1.3% in 2006 Robberies rose 6% in 2006 Rapes dropped 2% in 2006 Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Who wouldn't want to work in Lance Winters's office? The co-owner and chief distiller at Hangar One has his own copper desktop still and uses it to invent many of the company's exotic vodka flavors...
In so many ways, the New England Patriots are the NFL's model franchise, perhaps the finest organization in all of professional sports. They have the 21st Century's highest winning percentage (.690), three Lombardi Trophies and a creative management philosophy geared toward short-term and sustained success.
You have flooded my email box with Randy Moss thoughts, from every angle. Even one of my fellow Hall of Fame voters, Frank Cooney, who lives in the Bay Area and runs a draft and scouting site called NFLDraftScout.com, had some good thoughts, which I'll share later.
Here he comes now, the Sultan of Small Ball, the Maven of the Mismatch, the Pioneer of the Point Forward, the hottest new old thing in coaching, a 66-year-old, white-haired man with a cup of coffee in one hand, a stubbed-out stogie in the other, a belly that spills over the lip of his khakis and only one nickname that will stick: Nellie. But what a nickname it is, one that can describe a style of play (Nellieball) or be inserted into a tired headline (whoa, nellie!) or, these days, be spit out like an epithet, at least around Dallas -- particularly, one imagines, in the lair of a certain hyperactive, media-savvy owner who just 25 months ago was paying Nelson to coach his team.
NEW YORK -- Musings, observations and the occasional insights from the two-day pick-fest still taking place in Radio City Music Hall:
Random thoughts, musings, and the occasional insight as the pick-fest known as the NFL Draft looms less than 24 hours nigh ...
In our seventh and final mock draft of the first round, we're getting bold, predicting a trade between No. 8 Atlanta and No. 2 Detroit for the rights to select Georgia Tech receiver Calvin Johnson, and laying out a scenario in which Oklahoma running back Adrian Peterson lasts all the way to No. 10 Houston.
It's 7:30 P.M. on a Saturday, and the front door of a Victorian house in Oakland, California, is wide open. The owner of the home directs arrivals through the kitchen -- where Louisiana shrimp stock simmers on the stove and delicate tomato-and-white-corn tarts are being assembled on a tiled table -- and out to the backyard. Guests are gathering under a canopy of trees, sitting on the colorful cushions that surround the low tables.
During the first four days of the season, 21 players made their major league debuts, including well-known names like Alex Gordon, Akinori Iwamura and Josh Hamilton. However, also included in the count are some less well known but equally interesting players who surprised many onlookers simply by making their respective teams. Here are this week's five new names to know:
It's one month to the April 28 draft, and good luck to anyone trying to figure out the first five picks. The men holding the top selections -- Raiders boss Al Davis and Lions general manager Matt Millen -- don't send out many smoke signals. "This is the kind of year where you pick third and you really don't know what's going to be there because you're not going to get any clues," Browns G.M. Phil Savage, sitting at No. 3, said on Sunday at the league meetings in Phoenix. Here's a look at what's going on in the minds of the decision makers with the prime choices.
This week's subject is backs, big backs, tough backs, greenbacks, kickbacks. Andrew of Cupertino, Calif., right down the hill from Ridge Vineyards, knowing my penchant for blood and guts runners, asks me if Frank Gore and Steven Jackson qualify. Yes, of course. I think I mentioned that these are the kinds of guys I root for. In fact, I've always liked runners better than passers, as silly as this might sound. Can't help it ... it's just an emotional thing, going back to my childhood.
With the deal that will send Atlanta backup Matt Schaub to Houston and install him as the successor to Texans starter David Carr, the NFL's quarterback carousel has again started to turn. Here's a look at eight quarterback issues worth keeping an eye on as the offseason progresses ...
Each week SI.com will select the athlete who displays excellence on and off the field as the Primetime Performer.
There was only one word that crept into my mind upon hearing that the Patriots reportedly were interested in trading for Raiders wide receiver Randy Moss: Madness. I realize that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady misses his former favorite targets, Deion Branch and David Givens. I also understand that New England head coach Bill Belichick helped transform running back Corey Dillon from a troubled bad boy in Cincinnati to a valuable contributor on the Patriots 2005 Super Bowl championship team. But Moss redeeming himself in New England? I just don't see it happening.
If Jake Plummer follows through on his intention to retire and scuttle the reported trade that would have sent him from the Broncos to Bucs in exchange for a 2007 fourth-round draft pick, the move will have an effect on the quarterbacking landscape in the NFL beyond just Denver and Tampa Bay.
Now that I'm on my sabbatical, Andrew has seen fit to feed me a diet of international cuisine. Kiwis, Brits, a Scot who plays American football; this is really a treat. Of course, for those of you who want hard news from the gridiron, I'd suggest you visit the sites of some of our more intrepid reporters at this point, while I float dreamily on the air currents of my sabbatical.
Conventional wisdom as it currently exists regarding the top of this year's NFL Draft took its first hit Thursday when the Detroit Lions agreed to a trade that will send cornerback Dre' Bly to Denver in exchange for running back Tatum Bell, offensive tackle George Foster and a fifth-round pick.
Start saying goodbye to Styrofoam containers and plastic cutlery. Since these polystyrene products are nonrecyclable and nonbiodegradable (unlike other plastics), West Coast cities are voting them ...
Lane Kiffin, offensive coordinator at Southern California, agreed Monday night to a five-year contract to replace Art Shell as head coach of the Oakland Raiders, SI.com has learned.
Now that it's done, and the two-win debacle of Art Shell's second stint as Raiders head coach has mercifully ended, there's only one little remaining problem on the horizon in Oakland: Now what?
1356: English defeat French at Poitiers in a landmark battle of the Hundred Years' War.
The best time to buy commercial real estate, it seems, is always a few years ago. That's especially true today, with interest rates and inflation rising and consumer spending expected to sag.
With interest so high in all things home, no wonder house tours are booming in both number and popularity.
California's Jerry Brown, age 68 and ageless, is running for statewide office this year, 36 years after he did it the first time, and the question you have to ask is, Why doesn't he give it up? It's Thursday morning, and Brown, mayor of Oakland, is standing in incandescent sunshine outside the renovated Sears store he calls home. Not much is going smoothly this morning: the city had its 50th murder the night before, adding to a huge spike above 2005; his opponent in the race for California attorney general has just called him soft on crime; one of the two charter schools he helped start is in need of cash; and now Fox television wants him to go on camera as a commentator and defend a new text-messaging service being marketed to teens that offers information on sex. "I am a little stressed today," he says.
Baseball fans love to blame players' multi-million dollar salaries for rising ticket prices. They're wrong.
Since gracing our cover in March 2005, sunken-treasure recovery firm Odyssey Marine Exploration has been working toward a huge payday: the exploration of the HMS Sussex, sunk off Gibraltar in 1694 ...
Some Oakland, Calif. residents are sick and tired of tripping over burger wrappers and soda cans, and the city is ready to do something about it.
The Coast Guard said Thursday evening that it had suspended the search for two children allegedly tossed by their mother off a San Francisco pier.
Sybil Pryor thought she was getting a deal.
Hightone records has been serving up a rich gumbo of blues, country, gospel, and Texas swing for the past two decades. The Oakland-based label hit the national scene in 1986 with Robert Cray's cros...
I currently contribute 5 percent of my salary to my company 401(k) plan, enough to get the maximum match from my employer. I don't contribute more because our plan has investing options like "Aggressive Lifestyle" and "Moderate Lifestyle," and I'm not sure how the money that goes into such options is actually invested.
Sometimes having it all can be a burden. That's not to suggest that the bike you see above is, on its own merits, a heavy cross to bear. The Tarmac, from Specialized Bicycles, is a wondrous racing ...
Those who argue that money is the key to winning in baseball are only half right.
Rudyard Kipling once pointed out San Francisco's one drawback: 'Tis hard to leave. That's still true today, even after the Internet bust that hit the Northern California economy so hard.
AFTER THE FIRE
Here's how stubborn I am. I still believe in Webvan.
Ever wonder if Matt Drudge smells as bad as his name suggests? This December, TriSenx unveiled Senx e-Scent ($269), the first device to add odor to the Internet. The mouse-like gadget plugs into yo...
Stock-option fever continues to sizzle, but this year it's not only the dotcoms that are making headlines. Dramatically more Old Economy companies are sharing the wealth with employees up and down ...
Richard White, a 52-year-old Oakland trial attorney, had everything going for him--a newborn son and a partnership offer at his law firm--when he was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor of the spinal ...
You may never have thought, "Wouldn't it be cool if I could smell this website?" And that is why you are not creating a paradigm-busting Internet start-up like DigiScents, a tiny Oakland company.
Everyone knows that you can use the Net to hunt down rare books, find a scrumptious date, or engage in a gazillion other activities once limited to the telephone or (shudder) personal interaction. ...
Ken Grunski, a 29-year-old information analyst at Electronic Data Systems in McLean, Va., thinks he knows a good deal when he sees one. In this case, it's his company's stock-purchase plan, which l...
Americans love the idea that a flat-tax return would allow them to file on a postcard. Problem is, that's nonsense for the 35% to 40% of filers who fill out Schedules C, D and E. Based on my analys...
RAISING TWO-YEAR-OLD Rebecca Schuchat of Oakland has been a journey of discovery for her parents, Ilana DeBare and Sam Schuchat. This year, for example, they discovered that their 1985 Toyota Corol...
Say farewell this summer to tie-throttled necks and blazer-burdened shoulders. More corporate types are exchanging their formal business suits for casual khakis and cotton culottes. General Dynamic...
60-MINUTE SPA Used to be you had to spend megabucks at remote resorts for a one-spot revitalizing week of massage, body treatments and workouts. Not anymore. New urban "day spas'' cater to today's ...
FIRST you hear the pulsating thunder of three dozen unmuffled Harley-Davidsons snaking around the bend. Then you see them. An outlaw motorcycle gang, maybe Pagan's or even Hells Angels, overlords o...
Ever since the summer, when hurricanes Andrew and Iniki caused more than $9 billion in damage, some storm victims in South Florida, Louisiana and Kauai have complained about the sluggishness of ins...
LOS ANGELES -- You've probably heard the one about the dumb blonde . . . But what about the man? Any man. Men are the latest targets for jokesters these days, under the heading ''dumb men jokes.'' ...
6 Planning for a Lifetime by Kevin McKean Here's how to get started now on a financial program to achieve your life goals.
The first Jean Malik heard of the fire was when the telephone rang at 11 o'clock on a peaceful Sunday morning last Oct. 20. ''It was a neighbor asking if I had seen the black smoke pouring from the...
Holding back from buying that first house because the down payment would leave you too broke to renovate it? Next month, lenders in 11 major cities will begin combining first mortgages with home re...
When David Weingarten and Margaret Majua first laid eyes on the house that eventually became their home, they hardly noticed the ramshackle plywood and fiberglass siding that previous owners had ta...
BASEBALL IS A GAME of statistics, right? So how about these: In 1980, Walter A. Haas Jr., patriarch of the family that owns blue jeans maker Levi Strauss, bought the Oakland Athletics professional ...
At cocktail parties in the early Eighties, people bragged about the killings they were going to make with real estate limited partnerships. At family barbecues in the sober Nineties, they lament th...
Vivid and terrifying images linger long after disasters like Hurricane Hugo or the California earthquake: roofless homes, burning buildings, grim tallies of injured and dead. Yet if you're like mos...
Computers blinked, cash machines were muted, elevators stopped. The morning after, traders at the Pacific Stock Exchange, which was still darkened by power outages, worked in candlelight. Some comp...
You might say that management has gotten the workers' goat at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. The ((union complaint)) involves the graveyard's plan to bring in 75 hungry goats to clear its groun...
Oh, how was your trip? Are you kidding? When I got to the terminal, the line for tickets stretched all the way out to the sidewalk. Every seat was taken, and a lot of people got left behind. The gu...
A SMALL CALIFORNIA biotechnology company is battling for the right to be first in the world to test genetically engineered bacteria outdoors, where the mutants might be free to roam. Advanced Genet...
A RAGS-TO-RICHES entrepreneur named William H. Millard was secluded in his elegant home on a hillside above Oakland, California, when a middle-class jury in a tiny courtroom downtown dealt him the ...
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