Here's a roundup of sports news...

A sad week for LAist as they lose their trusted and amazing editor Tony Pierce to the LA Times, but what a blast his last week was. He shared his 25 Favorite CDs of 2007 and wrote a great review of just a good movie, No Country For Old Men. At UCLA, thousands of students celebrated the end of their quarter by running around campus in their undies (lots of photos in a two-part......

Our hockey correspondant Ian continues his look at the Sharks season with player reviews....

In Part I, we discussed just how good the Giants would be this season. Then, when it was agreed we were looking at a .500 team, we tried to figure out how okay we were with it. Today, we try to assess blame and then make some predictions. And away we go.... ...

What to make of this year's Giants? We have no clue. No Giants team has been this much of an enigma since maybe 2003. After last year's soul crushing of a season, Giants management vowed to get younger and to change things up. They didn't. In fact, you could describe this season as the same but different. There is a new manager, a new corner infield, a new catcher and centerfielder but the team still......

SFist Christy, our Oakland A's correspondent, gives it to you American League style! Read SFist Christy's Part I analysis of the A's catchers and infield here. You want wild cards? We’ve got wild cards. Just about every player in this category is a wild card; by that we mean you would have to be an awfully good seer to predict, with any certainty, their upcoming numbers for the season. Eric Chavez - 2006 Stats:......

We continue with our raging discussion on this year's upcoming baseball season. The rest of the award-winning SFist sports desk will join in as soon as their stupid day jobs let them. Oh, how we long for the days when we were merely crack monkey's chained to computers in Jackson's basement dungeon. Anyways, part I can be seen here and Part 2 here. SFist Chris

The National League West?

[Ed. note: we were out of the office yesterday afternoon, so the blog pulse is a day late this week. Sorry!] We start this week with a pictoral ode to our fair city, compounded with a pretty scathing dissection of Windows Live Search functionality, courtesy of the uber-tech-photohound, Thomas Hawk. There's more interesting San Francisco photos over at Elaine Castillo's Flickr feed. It's very much a family photo album of the first year of her......

We continue and conclude our interview with Dan Leone, San Francisco icon and food writer extraordinaire at the Guardian. If you haven't read it yet, Part I is here. Part II is where we ask our fav food reviewer about food. And the butter song. Since Last Tango we have been oddly fascinated with butter, so you know we had to ask. And we were not disappointed, oh no. Butter my brother, mmmm... Any......