Despite dropping their first three games to start the Academic Athletic Association season, there was no panic among a core group of players on the Mission football team. They had experienced a similar back-against-the-wall scenario in their careers, albeit on a different playing surface.Four players who keyed Mission’s underdog run in the San Francisco Section basketball playoffs last winter are again playing big roles again for their school, only this time they’re doing it on the football field.
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Playing in front of his home crowd for the last time in his career, Lincoln senior running back David Henderson wasn’t about to go out quietly.
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More than 16 years ago, when she was in her early 20s and just barely out of art school, Jeanine Payer moved her fledgling company from a basement apartment in the Tenderloin into the Phelan Building at 730 Market St., historically the center of the jewelry industry in San Francisco.She viewed the decision as a necessary move to legitimize her business, but also one rife with unknowns.
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The tired sporting cliche about defense winning championships may still prove accurate, but, as evidenced by last season’s USF women’s basketball team, a little offense never hurt anyone. The Dons, who finished 10-21, averaged a West Coast Conference-worst 58.6 points per game, including three games in which they scored less than 40 points.
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After a disappointing 13-18 season, marked dolefully by senior guard Armondo Surratt’s ailments and the academic uncertainty of talented yet mercurial swingman Antonio Kellogg, there was hope entering this season that injuries and grade problems would be a remnant of the past for the USF men’s basketball team.Unfortunately for the Dons, that rosy scenario will not be a reality.
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El Camino interim football coach Mark Turner had a begrudging smile on his face and a related anecdote in mind when recalling the play that knocked out Colts running back Charles Truong last year with a broken collarbone.
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It may not quite be the Emmies or the Oscars, but the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce will pay tribute tonight to top performers at the annual Excellence in Business Awards, or Ebbies.Startup airline Virgin America and the financial services firm Charles Schwab Corp. (SCHW) have already been named as winners in their respective categories, while other winners will be announced tonight. Eleven San Francisco companies have been named as finalists in five business categories.
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In an emerging industry as exclusive as the clean-technology sector, the professional world is pretty small. So it was no surprise that Inside Greentech founder Dallas Kachan eventually met up with the industry’s leading investment organization, the Cleantech Network.Inside Greentech, the clean technology online trade publication Kachan created in October 2006, was bought up by the Cleantech Network, an interconnected group of technology companies and investors, in August of this year.
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While every player, coach and fan in attendance had a vested interest in the City College of San Francisco football game last weekend against College of San Mateo, one particular group of individuals had a little bit more on the line than the rest.That group, the players making up the CCSF defense, had just been shredded for 42 points, including 14 in a fourth-quarter breakdown that saw the Rams’ blow a 10-point lead.
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San Mateo-based pharmaceutical company NeurogesX’s search for treatments for chronic pain has led the company to look in some surprizing places.Presiding over the hunt for NeurogesX is Anthony DiTonno, a 25-year veteran in the medical industry who joined the company in April of 2003. Since being promoted to president and CEO in August of that year, DiTonno has helped oversee the development of NeurogesX’s top pain-relieving product, the NGX-4010 dermal patch.
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2001 was a year most businesses in the Bay Area would like to forget. The dot-com bust had just finished decimating the economy in Silicon Valley, and companies with even the loosest of working relationships with the technology world were feeling the cruel aftereffects.One Bay Area business, however, managed to defy the logic of that disastrous year. Traction, a San Francisco-based marketing and advertising agency, was born at a time when so many other companies met their untimely end.
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He’s 6-foot-4, 245 pounds, runs the 40-yard dash in 4.55 seconds, owns a 30-inch vertical leap and, on a personal note, has a handshake that could turn bone into chalk with the simplest of motions.He’s Gerald Williams, City College of San Francisco’s starting linebacker and resident tackling machine, and he’ll probably be the most talented football player on the field Saturday when his Rams (5-1) visit the College of San Mateo (5-1) at 1 p.m. CCSF enters the contest, which will take place in San Mateo, ranked sixth in the state, while CSM is a few spots back at No. 10.
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As a two-way star manning on both lines for Menlo-Atherton, Litani Moimoi has the capability of delivering crushing pancake blocks on offense or chasing down running backs on defense. But for the Bears’ senior captain, there is one moment on the football field that stands above all other plays."There’s no feeling in football quite like sacking the quarterback," Moimoi said. "That’s when you really know all the hard work has paid off."
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The temptation is a considerable one, but to compare Jerry Rice Jr.’s lithe frame, athletic explosiveness and recent football achievements to his famous father would be an unfair assessment.That’s because the Menlo School’s junior wide receiver has proven to be a player of his own unique mold.
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Consumer’s Checkbook may be based in Washington, D.C., but company founder Robert Krughoff says he had the Bay Area in mind when he created his upstart publication.The first of its kind when it debuted in 1976, Consumer’s Checkbook compiles data from the opinions and commentary of its 120,000 subscribers, who systematically rate the services of everything in their area from veterinarians to auto mechanics.
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