So what happened over the weekend in sports? The Raiders looked impressive, the 49ers not so much. In baseball, the Giants played some of their best baseball of the season while the A's played some of their worst. We, however, missed it all as we got suckered into the Lord of the Rings Trilogy on TNT and spent most of the weekend online debating the question of who would win a fight between Dumbledore and Gandalf. For the record, Gandalf totally would--Dumbledore just helped defeat some wizard who looked like a snake. Gandalf helped defeat a giant, flaming eyeball. Now onto the sports ...

-- Giants vs. Brewers: Shouldn't beer be half-priced when we play Milwaukee? Alas. Game starts at 7:15 p.m., AT&T Park, King and Third Streets; $20-$98. -- Graphic Content -- T-Shirt Exhibit: DJ Centipede operates the decks while you buy a nifty one-of-a-kind shirt. Wee! Reception starts at 7 p.m. at Space Galley, 1141 Polk. -- Maureen McVerry: Cabaret star (and one-time Full House guest star according to her IMDB profile) sings songs saluting love......

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-- Temporary victory is ours: Giants 8, Brewers 0. [Chron, Examiner] -- Four people -- Contra Costa County Fire Protection Captain Matt Burton, Fire Engineer Scott Desmond, Delbert Moore, and Gayle Moore -- die in early morning San Pablo fire. [Chron] -- Farewell, Pete. [KGO] -- Bizarre staging of Taming of the Shrew gets lots of love from Chloe Veltmen. [ASD] -- Scott Beale snaps shots from today's blogger-littered WordCamp 2007. [Laughing Squid] Image: Michael......

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Let the PR horns boldly announce it from the highest rafters: The second Don Nelson era is off to a flying start.

Eagles 38, 49ers 24- You can look at this game several ways. Some people will spin it and say the 49ers showed some gumption and were several mistakes away from being in this game. Other people can look at the game and see that the Iggles were basically toying with the 49ers. Whenever they needed a big play on offense, they did it. Whenever they needed a big play on D, they got it. Case in point, in the third quarter when the 49ers were on the one and unable to get in and only . On the third down play, Frank Gore fumbled and 292 pound Mike Patterson returned it for a 98 yard touchdown. The Eagles scored on their first two possessions and looked like a pretty smooth running machine for the rest of the game, or at least they did when it appeared they weren't cat napping. ...

Man, there's a lot of sports going on right now. First up, baseball. Angles 6, A's 2- There was no champagne spilled in Oakland last night as the A's were held to a mere four hits and two runs, all in the fifth. The rest of the game, they did bupkus. Don't worry, A's fans, it's normal for a team about to clinch to tighten up a bit. The players get so excited at the thought of ending the game by piling on top of each other that they get too nervous to actually get into position to jump on top of each other. Today is not only the last game against the Angels of this series, but the last home game for the A's. So if they don't win today, the A's will have to do it on the road. Go A's! ...

“Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything..." Gregg Eaterbrook A's 5, Angels 4- Marco Scutaro hit an 0-2 pitch from Angels relief ace Francisco Rodriguez to score Bobby Kielty in the 12th inning to lead the A's to victory over the Angels. The A's magic number is now 2, as in can clinch the division today with a win. How about that? Very quietly, the A's vs. the Angels has become one of the best rivalries in sports and this game was another one to add to it. The game was tied 3-3 going into the 8th when Milton Bradley hit a solo-home run to take the lead. Houston Street came in to pitch the ninth, his fourth straight appearance, and made it to two outs before giving up a double to Maicer Izturis that Jay Payton had but lost after making a diving attempt to catch it. Itzuris got to third after a throwing error by Street (fans around the East Bay must have been dying about now) but Street got Orlando Cabrera to strike out to end the inning. Phew. ...

A's 7, Indians 4- Rich Harden looked sharp in his first start in 3 1/2 months and Jason Kendall had three hits as the A's beat the Indians again. Your magic number is 4 with the Angels coming to town for a three game series. It's pretty simple, actually-- all the A's have to do is take two and champagne will be spilled at home. No scoreboard watching, no waiting around. Destiny, as they say, is for the taking. Oh yeah, Oaktown, get ready with some Montel Jordan cause you better be ready to party. ...

It looks like Bud Selig's Barry Bonds voodoo doll is working as last night, before the Giants 2-0 victory over the Brewers, Barry was bonked on the head by a foul ball in batting practice. After all, having Barry hit 715 in the Home of Bud would be the worst possible PR debacle, not to mention total karma. The ball was hit by rookie Kevin Fransden, already making a name for himself with his bone-headed base-running blunders and propensity for being hit by pitches, who joked that he was expecting his locker to be cleared out after batting practice was over. The whole thing was so weird and out-of-nowhere that nobody reacted or did anything until Barry went down on the ground and was treated by the Giants' trainers. ...

Yeah, the Giants lost the season opener last night 6-1 as Jake Peavy shut the Black & Orange down, but that, of course, isn't what everyone is talking about. In something that should be par for the course this season, anything the Giants do will have two components to it-- how the Giants do and what happens to Barry. Barry lined the first pitch he saw for a double and scored the first Giants' run of the season (brought in by Lance Niekro, hopefully a good omen) but didn't do much else...

Let's just come right out and say it: the Giants, now 8-10, had a crappy week. They went two-and-five against teams that, even without Barry Bonds (whose return is still shrouded in steroid-enhanced mystery) and Moises Alou (who returned to action on Friday night and hit his first homerun as a Giant on Sunday), they should have won at least four games. Until this point, the Giants' offense had been the bright spot of the......

SFist fully admits to being a fantasy sport geek, although just how big of a fantasy geek we are, we will never let anyone know. Suffice to say that our in-depth knowledge of the Brewers farm system ranks us pretty high. We also have to admit that for whatever reason, we've been having trouble getting into fantasy baseball this season. Early spring weather? An actual job? Too much time posting on SFist? Who knows. We......

Whether you like Barry Bonds or not as a person, you have to respect him (actually, be in awe of him) as a ballplayer. And since you probably don't ever have to have lunch with the guy, it seems best to reserve your judgment of him to what he does on the field. So in case you aren't a big seamhead, SFist wants to point out that Bonds hit the 699th home run of his......