The San Francisco State Hall of Fame will induct eight new members Saturday in a ceremony at the Seven Hills Conference Center.Seven men and one woman will be part of the class of 2007, which will draw upon athletes that specialized in sports ranging from wrestling to swimming to basketball.Two wrestlers, Mario DeCaro (class of 1984) and John Monolakis (class of 1981), headline the list of inductees. DeCaro was a four-year letter winner at 134 pounds for the Gators, capping off his career with a selection to the All-Northern California Athletic Conference team as a senior. Read More

When Ami Arad first considered opening OnTheFly, a men’s specialty store, he looked into many marketing trends and consumer interest studies. But his main inspiration for the company may have been one fruitless day spent in downtown San Francisco."I was picking up some things for myself one day and I was all over the place looking for what I wanted," said Arad, who graduated from Cal with a degree in political science. Read More

It was the scenario USF’s baseball team had dreamed of when assembling one of the nation’s the toughest nonconference schedules — having Oregon State on the ropes, leading 2-1 in the bottom of the ninth, just one strike away from beating the defending national champs.Alas, the Beavers rallied against Dons left-hander Cole Stipovich, scoring two runs with two outs to cap off a three-game sweep of USF that left coach Nino Giarratano’s squad with a disappointing 9-12 record. Read More

In a matchup of the Academic Athletic Association top two girls’ soccer teams, Lowell sent to a reminder to the rest of the league that it is still the team to beat.Lowell scored all of its goals over a 25-minute span bridging the first and second half, keying the Cardinals on to a 4-0 winover host Washington. Read More

As a man who has managed to fit several different business ventures into one sweeping career picture, Norman Boone found an apt title for his company name.Boone is the president and founder of Mosaic Financial Partners, a Bay Area wealth-management firm with offices in Lafayette and San Francisco that handles more than $300 million in personal assets.The company has grown steadily since it was first established as Boone & Associates in 1984, due in large part to Boone’s work within the investment industry and from strong referrals generated by clients. Read More

While working on marketing campaigns over the last 15 years for a client base as diverse as Little Caesars, Discovery.com and Powerade, Roger Camp has made a career of finding the pulse of even the most eclectic of companies."We try to get into our clients’ history, and really find their soul," said Camp, who was recently named the chief creative officer for the firm Publicis and Hal Riney in San Francisco. "We look to send a postcard from our clients to the consumers of the outside world. Once you can find the voice of the company, then the campaign has its own life." Read More

The Lowell girls’ basketball team’s historical season included 29 wins and a San Francisco Section championship.But it’s safe to assume that the Cardinals never faced an opposing player quite like Kennedy of Sacramento senior guard Jazzi Johnson. Read More