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  • Get to Know Nick Kasa

    Kasa met the Raiders coaching staff at the Senior Bowl in January and believes the relationships he built there have been helpful in his transition to the NFL. "I think it helped out a ton because I know them all already," said Kasa. "I love all the coaches too. I think they're all great guys, great coaches, and so it was definitely helpful to meet them all before I got here. ...

  • 49ers Sign 4th-Round WR Quinton Patton

    preseason contest between the two teams, with Denver holding an 18-16 edge over San Francisco. During last year's preseason matchup in Denver, the 49ers defeated the Broncos 29-24.-This will mark Denver's first preseason trip to Candlestick Park since 2009 when the 49ers edged the Broncos ...

  • Economic impact from Super Bowl 50 will be

    Super Bowl 50 organizers are not tossing around any precise economic impact figures for the 2016 event -- and that is probably a smart PR tactic. As the Bay Area saw with the America's Cup, when precise figures are bandied about, it can be a recipe for disappointment. When San Francisco was trying to attract the America's Cup, a widely-touted study estimated that the region could see ...

  • UC San Franciscos Joseph Castro tapped as Fresno State president

    John Welty , who has been Fresno State's president since 1991, in August. He has been vice chancellor at UCSF since 2010, and was vice provost before that from 2008 to 2010. From 2006 to 2008, Castro was associate vice chancellor for student academic affairs. Before coming to UCSF, Castro worked all over the University of California system at campuses in Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa ...

  • With No Legs or Arms Craig Dietz Completes Treacherous Alcatraz Swim

    SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 22. LAST Sunday, Craig Dietz swam the treacherous 1.5 miles from Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay to the mainland, placing 689th out of 817 competitors.Dietz is becoming a notable name in the open water swimming community, traversing some of the toughest waterways without arms or legs. Born limbless in Pennsylvania in 1974, Dietz has become an inspiration ...


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Megamind

Megamind

The superhero genre has been turned inside out so many times at this point that you would think there is nothing left to do with it, but first-time screenwriters Alan Schoolcraft and Brent Simons have managed to pull off a clever coup in the computer-animated comedy Megamind by avoiding ... ...

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  • TiVo loses only $10 million in first quarter

    Thomas Rogers, TiVo TiVo Inc. saw its stock price jump this week even after it reported a loss of $10.3 million in the first quarter. How is that possible? It's because the television recording technology company didn't lose the $16 million to $19 million it had expected to lose. TiVo also added some 277,000 subscribers in the quarter, the most in any quarter for seven years. The San ...

  • Oakland man who posed as an FBI agent arrested for violating probation

    SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal authorities recently arrested a Hayward man for violating his probation after he impersonated an FBI officer and want to know if the public has ever come into contact with him while he pretended to be an agent.Max Joseph Plog-Horowitz, 21, who often goes by the alias "Max Heartmann" was convicted of charges including impersonating a federal officer on March 25 ...

  • Family friends search for Emeryville man who vanished after Bay to Breakers race

    SAN FRANCISCO -- The mystery surrounding an Emeryville man who vanished after running Bay to Breakers on Sunday only deepened Tuesday, as family and friends from as far away as Oregon and San Diego arrived to hunt for clues but found no sign of the 27-year-old.No John Does at hospitals matched Beau Rasmussen. A search of jails turned up nothing, as did an extensive search of the coastline from ...

  • Thieving U.S. postal worker delivered to drug rehab

    A former U.S. Postal worker in San Carlos who stole thousands of pieces of mail was sentenced Tuesday to a year in County Jail, three years probation and ordered to enter a drug rehabilitation program, according to prosecutors. Romeo Maniulit Natan, 39, of San Bruno, stole mail mostly from Devonshire Avenue in San Carlos and gave the credit cards he found inside them to accomplices who made ...

  • Shooting after Bayview park drug spat

    A 48-year-old man was shot at a Bayview park on Tuesday following an apparent argument over drugs, police said. The shooting was reported at about 7:15 p.m. in a small park at Palou Avenue and Phelps Street. The victim suffered gun shot wounds to the buttocks, leg and hand, police said. He was treated at San Francisco General Hospital and is expected to survive. The shooter, described only as ...

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