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SF Giants suddenly kick KNBR out of longtime Oracle Park studio It isn't clear why the Giants need the tiny studio's space from KNBR.

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'We're huge and people see it': Wealthy Bay Area town nears Little League dream The team's star player is 6 feet tall at 12 years old.

Down 1-0 going into the last inning, Menlo Park’s Alpine Little League scores 5 runs in to win their West regional opener 5-1. They move on to the semifinals, which will be 6pm Monday on ESPN.

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Spectator arrested after throwing sex toy during Valkyries’ game in Atlanta, WNBA says The person who threw a sex toy onto the court during Tuesday’s Golden State Valkyries game at Atlanta has been arrested, the WNBA said in a statement after a similar incident happened Friday.

Breaking: the person who threw a sex toy onto the court during the Valkyries game at Atlanta on Tuesday was arrested, a WNBA spokesperson told the Chronicle | @sfchronicle.com

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'We're huge and people see it': Bay Area suburb chases Little League dreams The team's star player is 6 feet tall at 12 years old.

The best baseball team in the Bay Area right now? That's Alpine Little League of Menlo Park and Portola Valley, the freshly-crowned NorCal champs who are one tournament away from Williamsport.

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YouTube video by SFGate Has America ruined Yosemite?

New long form video!

With reports of Yosemite being overrun—littered trails, burning mountains, even scientists stuck cleaning toilets—we sent our delightful and comfortably suburban @sfgate.com columnist @drewmagary.bsky.social to see for himself.

A life-changing visit to a national park in peril SFGATE columnist Drew Magary road-tripped to the national parks' ailing crown jewel.

What happens when a grown man camps outside for the first time in 34 years? My big Yosemite report: www.sfgate.com/california-p...

SFGATE columnist @drewmagary.bsky.social road-tripped to the national parks' ailing crown jewel.

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I went to see if America had ruined Yosemite and ended up reborn SFGATE columnist Drew Magary road-tripped to the national parks' ailing crown jewel.

We sent @drewmagary.bsky.social to Yosemite to assess the national parks' ailing crown jewel. He returned with a satchel of goosebumps:

"Get your hands dirty on these rocks and you feel, quite literally, what the prospect of losing places like this would really mean."
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San Francisco man opens ultimate side hustle below his apartment Finally, a tribute to The Freak.

Located in a two-story mixed-use building with an adobe-orange paint color, it would otherwise be a nondescript SoMa building if not for the two signs directing people to the batting cage’s entrance in the alleyway around the corner.

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'They didn't have any money': NBC Sports Bay Area drops ex-49ers fan favorite "I don't know how it ended the way it did."

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‘They didn’t have any money’: NBC Sports Bay Area drops ex-49ers fan favorite Donte Whitner
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Famously elusive SF Giants legend gets a conspicuous tribute near Oracle Park Finally, a tribute to The Freak.

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Famously elusive SF Giants legend gets a very conspicuous tribute near Oracle Park
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The top 50 San Francisco Giants of all time SFGATE columnist Dave Tobener ranks the best Giants to ever play in San Francisco.

SF Giants columnist Dave Tobener has had season tickets for over 30 years. He’s been lucky enough to never miss a World Series game in SF in his lifetime. There's no one I trust more with this story than him (even if I think Jeff Kent is too high).

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The top 50 San Francisco Giants of all time SFGATE columnist Dave Tobener ranks the best Giants to ever play in San Francisco.

Didn't expect Ryan Vogelsong to be #1 here but I respect it. www.sfgate.com/giants/artic...

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Allow us to reintroduce ourselves…we are The IX Basketball. As part of @theixsports.bsky.social rebrand, The IX Basketball is built to deliver breaking news, exclusive stories, and constant coverage from the world of women’s basketball.

Huge news for us. Providing clarity on all the ways we are the destination for women's sports coverage — with much more to come.

The top 50 San Francisco Giants of all time SFGATE columnist Dave Tobener ranks the best Giants to ever play in San Francisco.

SFGATE columnist Dave Tobener has written about the Giants for two decades and is a fourth-generation fan

Here's his list of the 50 greatest Giants in the SF era

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Can you imagine losing Big Game, having Cal storm your field, and then having to PAY $50,000?

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The divide over California's most popular nickname Among native Californians, this nickname is not acceptable.

Among native Californians, this nickname is not acceptable.

'Business is not easy here': In-N-Out's owner is leaving California Burger billionaire Lynsi Snyder is saying goodbye to the West Coast.

Burger billionaire Lynsi Snyder is saying goodbye to the West Coast.

The drunk mistake in a Bay Area bar that sent Apple into a frenzy A Bay Area German bar ended up forever tied to the most infamous iPhone security breach in Apple’s 47-year history.

Haus Staudt, which turns 50 years old this week, was involved in probably the most infamous security breach in Apple’s 47-year history.

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San Francisco votes to end free parking in Golden Gate Park SFMTA has already made painful cuts to make up a massive deficit.

SFMTA has already made painful cuts to make up a massive deficit.

How SFGATE is making local news pay and filling California's news gaps SFGATE has the largest audience of any purely local news site in the US.

4/4 And we're not planning on stopping there. We've got more big things already in the works as we continue to try to fill local news holes across the state and the American West.

Thanks to everyone who continues to read and care about being informed, none of this happens without all of you!

The Fisherman Who Wants to Transform SF's Fisherman’s Wharf Giuseppe ‘Joe’ Pennisi, a third-generation fisherman based out of the San Francisco Bay, is reconnecting Bay Area eaters with local seafood.

3/ But ALSO we were just awarded a fellow from the Calif. Local News Fellowship, which means two whole years of science and climate reporting from Anna Guth, who is a total rockstar who's written for KQED, Point Reyes Light and Civil Eats.

Absolutely love her stuff: civileats.com/2017/05/10/t...

Gen Z is spying on each other "My generation has opened the Pandora's box of location sharing."

2/ And Summer Maxwell, who is tackling a really unique internship for us writing about trends in Gen Z and Gen Alpha, a beat that she is absolutely dominating.

This story was phenomenal: www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

🚨 EXPANSION NEWS 🚨

A short 🧵 with some MAJOR staffing updates for @sfgate.com:

1/ We added two interns this summer: Our first-ever Audience intern, Nathan Kuczmarski, who's doing some absolutely phenomenal long-form video for us, check this out: bsky.app/profile/sfga...

A's botch yet another simple Las Vegas step It's hard to call something a livestream when it isn't streaming live.

New from @sfgate.com : A's botch yet another simple Las Vegas step:

“It's hard to call something a livestream when it isn't streaming live.”

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Bill Neukom, top SF Giants exec from 2010 World Series team, dies at 83 Neukom was the Giants' general managing partner from 2008 to 2011.

Sad #SFGiants news:

Bill Neukom, the SF Giants managing general partner for the 2010 World Series team, has died. He was 83.

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Butler was already five coffees deep when he spoke with SFGATE about his coffee ah-ha moment, mental toughness and the one thing the Warriors need to make it back to the finals.: https://bit.ly/44Rqk5L

Jimmy Butler appeared in the San Francisco Mission District on Monday at his pop-up coffee shop BIGFACE, which launched last week in the former Lucca Ravioli space with lines around the block.