As baseball enters its final month, pitching becomes more scrutinized than ever. A versatile pitcher who can assume a variety of roles becomes crucial for managers locked in a battle for the postseason.As important as these pitchers may be for their major-league teams, they are equally as perplexing for fantasy baseball owners. A starter or closer is a whole lot more valuable than a middle reliever, so it’s up to fantasy users to keep a close eye on the pitchers who yo-yo between the bullpen and the rotation.
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The College of San Mateo football team struggled through a tough 2006 in the competitive NorCal Conference, going 1-4 — including three games in which the defense surrendered 44 or more points — while winning fewer than eight games for just the second time since 2000.This season won’t get any easier as the Bulldogs must contend with the losses of several key contributors, but there still remains a solid group of veterans coming back for coach Larry Owens.
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As a team that is consistently in the running for the junior college national championship, the expectations entering every season are typically quite bold for the City College of San Francisco football team.But the hopes entering this season may be even higher than usual."There is certainly more talent here than last season," said coach George Rush, whose 2006 team went 10-2 and played in the state title game, where it lost 49-35 to El Camino of Torrance. "This may be the most athletic team we’ve had here since 2001."
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On Aug. 13, with the regular-season opener still four weeks away, Lane Kiffin was already in the hospital, suffering from the exhaustive effects of mononucleosis. Thus is the life of a Raiders coach.
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Coming off a surprising 7-9 season — highlighted by a star-making performance from running back Frank Gore and some assuring signs of improvement by second-year quarterback Alex Smith — the 49ers enter this season as a legitimate division title contender for the first time in recent memory.
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With his Texas-style name and his Texas-sized game, Dallas native Colt Knost capped off a memorable summer and joined an elite list of golfers by winning the U.S. Amateur Championship at the Olympic Club in San Francisco on Sunday.
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David Verhoef, the recently hired director of integrated productions at San Francisco-based advertising agency Publicis and Hal Riney, originally had plans to make a lifelong career out of acting, until a little Hollywood-style divine intervention paved the way for an occupation change. "I was acting as an extra on the set of ‘Highway to Heaven’ in 1986, and I saw this huge sign on a trailer on the set — Michael Landon Productions," Verhoef said. "That’s when I said to myself, ‘Hey, maybe I should give this production thing a shot.’"
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On July 31, the Pittsburgh Pirates made some trade-deadline headlines — a surprising and rare occurrence for a team perennially out of playoff contention by June — but the debate around the league concerning the trade did not arise from the usual postseason ramifications, but mostly out of bizarre curiosity.Pundits around the league were mystified as to why the Pirates would acquire Matt Morris, a pitcher not only clearly past his prime, but one with a fat contract. While everyone was questioning the merits of Morris, few people noticed who he was traded for.
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In 1997, when Larry Bearg and his then-wife, Lorene Reed, first took over Planet Organics — an organic food delivery service with a customer base of just 75 people — they had little idea of what to expect, but they have since seen their investment steadily grow. They attribute their success to a rudimentary, yet effective business model. "We’ve grown to 5,000 customers, in large part to good old sweat equity and credit-card debt," said Bearg, who acts as the CEO of the company while Reed retains the title of president.
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This season has been marked by a mysterious drop in the power numbers of nearly all of baseball’s premier sluggers (perhaps not too mysterious actually, considering the increased steroids testing in place).
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The founding editor of financial-news behemoth MarketWatch has launched a second news venture, this time targeting the aging baby boomer demographic. Called RedwoodAge.com, Tom Murphy’s online news site is already up, running and reporting."People over 40 don’t really care at all about the Paris and Lindsay stories," said Murphy, a longtime San Francisco resident who now resides in Marin County. "We care much more about other things, like the war situation, education and health care issues."
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With the trading deadline passed, and nearly half the teams in baseball out of legitimate playoff contention, August is the time lineups begin to be shuffled in favor of seeing whether young players and prospects can handle a prominent role in the bigs.Late-season call-ups could be an important boon for fantasy owners, who could benefit from these unheralded players’ additional playing time and increased productivity.
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With the highly anticipated Tuesday trading deadline provoking a bevy of moves aimed at improving the playoff chances of contenders around the league, many players involved in the transactions could see their statistics altered greatly by the different roles they will play on their new teams — an alteration that will have quite an impact with fantasy baseball owners.
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To say that left-hander Oliver Perez suffered through a tough year last season would kind of be like saying George Steinbrenner has a slight penchant for spending freely on baseball players.Perez’s 2006 numbers — split between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the New York Mets — were inexcusably awful, as the Mexico native went just 3-13 with a 6.55 ERA, leaving many people wondering whether he would ever return to the pitcher that went 12-10 with a 2.99 ERA for Pittsburgh in 2004.
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When the weak-hitting Los Angeles Dodgers called up highly touted prospect James Loney in early June, they were looking for some much-needed offensive pop. Unable to contend for a National League West title on just a formidable pitching staff, Los Angeles was in desperate need of a jolt to boost their anemic run support (even now, no Dodger has more than 11 home runs).
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