Frisco Vista

Two hoopsters with Bay Area ties — Baron Davis and Steve Nash — appear in this spoof of the movie Step Brothers. Nash outshines Diddy in this one.

The Warriors got bounced, despite winning more games than any modern team that failed to make the playoffs. It didn’t help that they lost every big game down the stretch.
Under my nom de forum of Ali Hoop, I am, however, doing a little better than the Dubs did. Midway through the first round I’m still [...]

I don’t mean the race is fixed. Certainly not! But it’s down Lombard Street, which is renowned, hyperbolically but conventionally, as the crookedest street in the world. Apparently every Easter the big boy and girls come out and challenge the hill on their big wheels. Hills! Thrills! Spills! Well, just have a look …

Notes from a week of travel in virtual NoCal.

Emeryville mayor, leaving meeting about pedestrian bridge, runs over and kills a pedestrian
Warriors: crazy, beautiful, dangerous
J-Pop store to open in Japantown
Dining with mom
Andy Ross resigns from Cody’s Bookstore
Exploring the ghost ship SS Independence (*don’t miss)

Coming into work very early on Friday, before the sun was up, I couldn’t miss a swarm of broadcast media setting up their lights and cameras around the old federal building on Golden Gate St. I asked a cameraman what it was all about. “Bonds,” he said.
Entering my building I mentioned this to the security [...]

The team looks loose for today’s game against the Knicks.

Okay, here’s a rare FriscoVista sports post. The only sport I really follow is professional basketball, and my team is the Golden State Warriors. The Warriors forum I like is warriorsworld.net. This recommendation comes with a warning: a lot of these guys are quarrelsome, obnoxious, boorish, ignorant, sophomoric, and crude. Several posters are homophobic, and [...]

The Stanford football team, a 40 point underdog, just upset the number one ranked team, USC.

You hear it all
the time now.
But, believe it
or not, there
was a time when
people said “my
fault” instead
of “my bad.”
Where did the
new phrase begin?
Maybe Oaktown.
I first heard the
phrase spoken by
GW Warriors center
Manute Bol. And
it just sounded
so like Manute,
it was perfect.
Well, it says here
that Manute may
indeed have coined
the phrase (or
maybe not).
Frisco lingo!

City Tennis has a page that lists the city’s public courts. It includes Google Map of the courts as well as pictures. Handy!
The image at left is of Anne White at Wimbledon in 1986. See what ESPN had to say about her unitard here.
UPDATE: Looks like the “related posts” program is having trouble with this [...]

Thanks to Eruthros for pointing out these two Bay Area-related videos. They may at first seem unrelated, but both are calls for respect. First, a music video for Zion I’s “The Bay.” In the video the hip hop group drives around the Bay Area, through many of the locations referenced in the song.

The second video [...]

The Bay Area’s NBA team, the Golden State Warriors, must be contending for some kind of record for futility. They’ve missed the playoffs 25 out of the past 30 years. Despite this record, they somehow have retained a rabid fan base.
Of the five times the Warriors have made the POs in the past three decades, [...]