First The Super Bowl, Next The 2024 Olympics In The Bay Area?
San Francisco, and by extension, the entire Bay Area is on the short list of cities being considered by the U.S. Olympic Committee for the nation's official bid for the 2024 summer games.
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San Francisco, and by extension, the entire Bay Area is on the short list of cities being considered by the U.S. Olympic Committee for the nation's official bid for the 2024 summer games.
Olympian Missy Franklin set a record in winning her first NCAA title for California on Friday and Georgia stretched its lead in the team standings on the second day of the NCAA women's swimming and diving championships.
Harlick Skates in San Carlos has been making custom boots for Olympians for decades. 15-year-old Polina Edmunds will be wearing a pair of them on Wednesday when she represents the U.S. in competition.
New plans by the National Park Service to retain Yosemite Valley's natural wonders show a 180-degree shift from Prohibition-era plans to host the Olympic games and bring huge crowds to the national park.
If you're tuning into the Sochi Winter Olympics this year, it's hard not to wonder what these Olympic venues will look like in ten years. While we wait for the answer, check out these abandoned Olympic venues you can still travel to.
A Silicon Valley firm is providing state-of-the-art facial recognition technology currently being used at the international airport in Sochi, Russia to identify athletes, fans, and dignitaries attending the Olympics.
Like many sports fans around the world, John Madden is enjoying the Olympics.
South Lake Tahoe's Jamie Anderson made America 2 for 2 in slopestyle's colorful and treacherous debut on the Olympic stage.
NorCal slopestyle snowboarder Chas Guldemond thinks it might be time for Olympic judges to go back to school. He says it's tough to get a handle on what the judges want.
Olympic athletes from the Bay Area have been looking forward to Friday's opening ceremonies in Sochi, Russia, but while some admit to being worried about security, there are others who aren't over thinking it.
After anti-gay laws, anti-gay statements, and concerns about the safety of gay athletes, Google makes a political statement with a change of its search engine logo on the eve of the 2014 Sochi Games.
As people from all over the world are gathering in Sochi, Russia for the Winter Olympics to watch top athletes, it is also apparently a gathering spot for hackers. There are reports that people are being hacked the second they log onto a Russian network.
As Team USA gears up for the biggest sporting events of their lives in Sochi, they need some motivation to push themselves in ways they never have before.
After earning a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team for next month's Winter Games in Sochi, figure skater Polina Edmunds received a thunderous sendoff at her school in San Jose Friday morning.
Over the weekend a 15-year-old from San Jose was named one of three female figure skaters who will make up the U.S. Olympic team.
Brian Boitano decided to keep his sexual orientation private until he was appointed to the delegation that will represent the United States at the Sochi Olympics.
Olympic and world champion Missy Franklin is among the leading nominees for USA Swimming's Golden Goggle awards. Franklin, a freshman at Cal, is up for five awards, including Female Athlete of the Year.
Missy Franklin strolled into the room at Memorial Stadium and offered a cheery, "Hi, everybody!" Yet she is far from a typical 18-year-old college freshman beginning the first day of her fall semester Thursday.
Give your kids a summer day filled with friends, fitness and fun! Organizing a Backyard Olympics can be as simple or complex as you want to make it, so don't be afraid to dive in and indulge your kids with a field day of their own!
Julius Menendez, who coached Muhammad Ali to the gold medal at the 1960 Olympics, has died. He was 90.
Twenty-five cities, including San Francisco, San Jose, and Sacramento, have been invited by the U.S. Olympic Committee to submit bids for the Summer Olympics in 2024.
As we celebrate these women's victories we must remember that Title IX created the opportunities for women to succeed in sports. When progressives push for public policy changes, that is what we seek: not guaranteed outcomes but guaranteed access.
Maggie Steffens was the team's best player at these Games, scoring 21 for the tournament and five in Thursday's final. She gave the team the go-ahead score, at 3-2, with 5:36 left in the half. The U.S. would not relinquish that lead.
New York Jets coach Rex Ryan ordered players to run sprints following a 20-player brawl at training camp this week. "It's stupid," John Madden told the KCBS morning crew. "They don't even know what you do in a football training camp fight."
