Winning the U.S. Open can make a career. It can also be a career. Just ask Geoff Ogilvy, who hasn’t won since last year’s U.S. Open at Winged Foot. What kind of pressure does he face? "More and less," Ogilvy said. "Sometimes I think I probably put too much expectations on myself. At other times, I’m like, ‘What do I care? I just won the U.S. Open.’ It’s a bit of both."GOLF STORYLINES
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So here they are, the Giants and A’s, clubs playing tag with .500 records, set to rekindle their fairly tepid rivalry Friday for the opener of a three-game interleague series at The Park That Isn’t AT&T. Time to contrast and compare, position by position, and give you a reason to feel good — or bad — about the bet you just laid down with the annoying neighbor who wears green to your orange, or vice versa.
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The whole country is yearning for its first Triple Crown winner since 1978. And if Street Sense can win Saturday’s Preakness Stakes, the colt will be two-thirds of the way there. Street Sense, who won the Kentucky Derby by 2¼ lengths, is a 7-5 favorite for Saturday’s race. He will be coming out of the No. 8 post. one spot farther out than Derby runner-up Hard Spun, the 5-2 second choice.
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USF women’s golf Josh Cupp announced his resignation after spending two seasons on the Hilltop. He plans to return to upstate New York to work at the family golf course in Rome, N.Y. Cupp led the program to its sixth NCAA regional berth this season. "I have enjoyed my time at USF and the program is set to compete at an even higher level," Cupp said.
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Giants legend and Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda should find out next week whether he faces charges stemming from his arrest last month. A Solano County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman said laboratory results on a white powder found inside Cepeda’s car are expected by May 22. A field test found the substance to be cocaine.
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After two slugfests resulted in 47 runs during two regular-season meetings, pitching dominated Tuesday’s Bay Counties League West baseball semifinal game.Fourth-seeded Stuart Hall beat Marin Academy 2-0 behind freshman Frank Duncan’s two-hitter. The Knights (16-8) move on to face top-seeded Lick-Wilmerding (16-6) Thursday at Big Rec-Nealon at 3:30 p.m. Fifth-seeded Marin Academy’s season ends at 6-14."This was a playoff game," Stuart Hall coach John Bertken said, "and it’s nice to play up here [at USF’s Benedetti Diamond]."
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Four months after being forced to consider the possibility that his high school baseball career could be over, Mike Andrick is now dreaming of a much more desirable scenario."All I want," Andrick said, "is to be right in the middle of another dog pile."
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In the interest of full disclosure, this column was written before Game 5 on Tuesday night. Even so, some things have become apparent over the past two months. A few observations:» Over the past few years, Warriors fans have concocted scenarios in which their team acquires a difference-maker such as Kevin Garnett, Pau Gasol or Paul Pierce, among others.But over the course of the playoffs, what has become apparent is that the Warriors already have this kind of elite player. And his name is Baron Davis.
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Washington senior Henry Weverka shot a 6-over-par 74 to win his second consecutive San Francisco Section boys’ golf tournament. But it was Wallenberg that came in lowest on the team side, winning its first team title and handing Washington its fourth straight second-place finish.Weverka edged Wallenberg junior T.J. Jang for the title on the back nine at Lincoln Park Golf Course after finishing the first nine down two strokes.
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The streak has reached71 matches in a row for the Lowell girls’ badminton team, but the key number to the Cardinals’ success could be 90.That’s how many girls tried out this year for a team that typically takes just 14 to 18 players — with only eight of those seeing court time in competition."It’s tough because we’d love to take all 90," Lowell coach David MacFarlane said. "But we’re very lucky to have such a deep talent pool to draw from and such a good mixture of folks coming into the program."
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