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Frantz: A’s are the best team you don’t care about
- Just more than a month ago, the obituaries were already being written for the Bay Area baseball season. You remember when the Giants and A’s were both mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, don’t you? It was about a week before opening day, right?
- Just more than a month ago, the obituaries were already being written for the Bay Area baseball season. You remember when the Giants and A’s were both mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, don’t you? It was about a week before opening day, right?
Frantz: Death of another horse raising more questions
- With all due apologies to Ernest Hemingway and John Donne: “Ask not for whom Eight Belles toiled; she toiled for greed.”
- With all due apologies to Ernest Hemingway and John Donne: “Ask not for whom Eight Belles toiled; she toiled for greed.”
Frantz: Raiders get their guy — but at what cost?
- It’s Sept. 14, second week of the NFL season — the Raiders are at Kansas City. Fourth quarter, 2:44 left, Oakland trails 24-20 and has a fourth down and 1 at the K.C. 37. A field goal does no good. Lane Kiffin sends Darren McFadden, his 6-foot-2, 215-pound prized rookie running back, into the middle of the line looking for a first down.
- It’s Sept. 14, second week of the NFL season — the Raiders are at Kansas City. Fourth quarter, 2:44 left, Oakland trails 24-20 and has a fourth down and 1 at the K.C. 37. A field goal does no good. Lane Kiffin sends Darren McFadden, his 6-foot-2, 215-pound prized rookie running back, into the middle of the line looking for a first down.
Frantz: Yankees-Red Sox rivalry taken to new heights
- A little of this and a lot of that ...
- A little of this and a lot of that ...
Frantz: Politics shouldn’t mean a thing in Beijing
- There’s a time and a place for everything, President Bush says, and this summer is not the time, the Olympic Games not the place. As unpopular as it may be to say it, he’s absolutely right.
- There’s a time and a place for everything, President Bush says, and this summer is not the time, the Olympic Games not the place. As unpopular as it may be to say it, he’s absolutely right.
Frantz: Don’t break Tiger’s silence or he’ll break something else
- Tiger Woods is on the tee. Now shut the $%!# up.
- Tiger Woods is on the tee. Now shut the $%!# up.
Frantz: Giants have right to clean house like everyone else
- Perhaps someone can explain this to me, to borrow a line from Denzel Washington in “Philadelphia,” like I’m a 6-year-old — because there’s an element to this that I just can’t get through my thick skull: Why exactly are so many people up in arms over the new-look AT&T Park? After all, it is springtime, right? So why should the San Francisco Giants not be permitted to do a little spring cleaning like the rest of us? You know, time to get out the scrub brushes and wash the layers and layers of filth away from our homes, so we can get a fresh start as a new season dawns ... right?
- Perhaps someone can explain this to me, to borrow a line from Denzel Washington in “Philadelphia,” like I’m a 6-year-old — because there’s an element to this that I just can’t get through my thick skull: Why exactly are so many people up in arms over the new-look AT&T Park? After all, it is springtime, right? So why should the San Francisco Giants not be permitted to do a little spring cleaning like the rest of us? You know, time to get out the scrub brushes and wash the layers and layers of filth away from our homes, so we can get a fresh start as a new season dawns ... right?
Frantz: Johnson’s brilliant 'mistake'
- Congratulations are in order today to the Stanford men’s basketball team for its first trip to the Sweet 16 since 2001, and a further tip of the cap is due to Coach Trent Johnson for his brilliantly executed scheme to inspire his players by getting ejected in the first half of Saturday’s second-round overtime win over Marquette.
- Congratulations are in order today to the Stanford men’s basketball team for its first trip to the Sweet 16 since 2001, and a further tip of the cap is due to Coach Trent Johnson for his brilliantly executed scheme to inspire his players by getting ejected in the first half of Saturday’s second-round overtime win over Marquette.
Frantz: Daly’s great talent — letting it go to waste
- It was a New York City bus driver in the Bronx by the name of Lorenzo Anello who said it best, while trying to teach his young son Calogero an important life lesson. “The saddest thing in life,” the blue-collar told the boy, “is wasted talent.”
Frantz: Mullin, Warriors leave well enough alone
- It’s not an original thought, but it’s a rather relevant one when looking at the NBA’s Western Conference with just 20 regular season games to play: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
- It’s not an original thought, but it’s a rather relevant one when looking at the NBA’s Western Conference with just 20 regular season games to play: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Frantz: New ‘Odd Couple’ would be a hit
- Ready to remake a classic? After all, re-creating time-tested movies with modern-day stars and 21st-century technology seems to be all the rage, with virtually zero imagination coming from Hollywood these days, so why can’t we play, too? Here’s what you do: First, take a look at the following opening voiceover, used on television’s “The Odd Couple” in the 1970s:
Frantz: Playoff format fine the way it is
- Among the more amusing responses to the dizzying flurry of trades in the NBA over the past two weeks was the nearly deafening call for the league to overhaul its playoff format to accommodate the plethora of strong teams in the West. The West was already best, the analysts say, and with the trade-deadline moves that brought help for the conference’s already elite teams, the balance of power is now so lopsided that the league must change the way playoff teams are selected.
- Among the more amusing responses to the dizzying flurry of trades in the NBA over the past two weeks was the nearly deafening call for the league to overhaul its playoff format to accommodate the plethora of strong teams in the West. The West was already best, the analysts say, and with the trade-deadline moves that brought help for the conference’s already elite teams, the balance of power is now so lopsided that the league must change the way playoff teams are selected.
Frantz: Some questions remain unanswered
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