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BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER It was supposed to be the beginning of a return to grace with healthy bodies, but it turned out to just be another sloppy loss punctuated by emotional outbursts and a highly questionable ejection as the Warriors skid continued with a 116-107 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks ...

BY STEVEN LUKE When your starter doesn’t have his best stuff you’ve got to battle to win, and that’s what both the A’s and Los Angeles Angels did on Thursday in Oakland. It wasn’t the Opening Day sell out you get at most stadiums, but the 27,764 fans in attendance ...

BY ANTHONY SOSA Jerry Sands didn’t enter the game until the eighth inning, but he came through with a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the ninth inning during his only at-bat of the game to give the San Francisco Giants a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs on ...

The City and Republic Services are excited to let residents share in the success of the Organics Recycling collection program by providing another free “Compost Giveaway” to be held on Saturday, March 24th from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. near the Martinez Yacht Club at 111 Tarantino Drive. Just bring ...

BY STEVEN LUKE Expectations are low for the Oakland Athletics entering the 2018 season after back-to-back last place finishes, but a few key additions in the offseason and a young core could surprise the league. The 2017 season was not one that will be remembered for many Athletics fans, but ...

BY ANTHONY SOSA Over the past decade, the San Francisco Giants have established themselves as one of the best baseball franchises in the Majors. A big factor in that was winning three World Series titles in the span of five years. However, the Giants took a major step backward in ...

BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER For many seasoned fans of The Who, the iconic British rock band that has produced some of the most recognizable classic rock hits of the past half-century ceased to exist after bassist John Entwistle’s death in 2002, if not drummer Keith Moon’s drug overdose in 1978. But ...

BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull are coming to town on June 2nd as part of a 50th Anniversary celebration of the career of the Progressive Classic Rock band. Appearing at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, Anderson, a Scottish born singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known as the lead ...

For one night only, friends, former bandmates of David Bowie and other world-class players will perform a career spanning concert of nothing but David Bowie’s music in Bowie’s imitable style. Performing this Saturday March 3rd at The Regency in San Francisco and the following night at the Luther Burbank Center ...

BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER Looking to bounce back from a subpar road trip that saw them lose two out of three games to drastically inferior competition, Golden State instead returned home flat and played their worst game of the season, a 125-105 blow-out loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday ...