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Mark Purdy: Olympic Club not a favorite's paradise for U.S. Open

Last updated Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 9:28pm

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- When the U.S. Open golf tournament tees off in June at the Olympic Club, we all know the preferred final day pairing. That would be defending champion Rory McIlroy walking down the 18th fairway alongside Tiger Woods, trophy on the line.

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Coughlin has the hunger for success and living life

Last updated Friday, April 27, 2012 - 4:58pm

"First we eat then we do everything else."

-- MFK Fisher

Olympic Sports, Sports, Swimming     Read more     Comments

Lawyers portray Thomas Kinkade's girlfriend as a gold-digger

Last updated Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 6:25am

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The girlfriend of the late artist Thomas Kinkade -- recently described by Kinkade's brother as a "good person, a sweet person" -- is now being portrayed by lawyers for the artist's estate as a ruthless gold-digger out to "tear down" Kinkade's reputation and do irreparable harm to his widow and children.

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Facebook uses 'hacker bootcamp' to train engineers

Last updated Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 9:44am

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Congratulations, recruit! It's time to learn the ropes of your Facebook engineering job.

Take a seat at one of Facebook's long, white desks and look at the piece of paper taped on your monitor: "Welcome to Facebook!"

Underneath, printed in big, bold, red letters, are slogans like: "We Hack Therefore We Are," or "Move Fast and Break Things." Within days, your software code will be in front of our more than 845 million users.

Business, Bootcamp, Employee training, Facebook, Hackers, Hacking, Silicon Valley     Read more     Comments
U.S. Coast Guard cutters Pike, right, and Sockeye, center, that were involved in the weekend search and rescue of yacht crew members thrown form their boat during a weekend race, are shown docked at the Coast Guard station on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco, Monday, April 16, 2012. The search for the missing sailors off Northern California was indefinitely suspended, with the Coast Guard saying the "window of survivability" had passed. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Crew members killed in yachting accident mourned by fellow sailors

Last updated Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 9:15am

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The crew of Green Buffalo was exhausted and seasick from being tossed in seven- to 10-foot swells and drenched by a wave that had crashed over their sailboat when the skipper spotted a fixed white pole sticking up from a rocky outcropping on the backside of the Farallon Islands, 28 miles from the Golden Gate.

Sailing, Fatal accident, Sailing accident, Yachting accident, Yachts, National     Read more     Comments

Google introduces 'Hangout' apps for video chats

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 4:36pm

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Christine Egy Rose realized she was on to something powerful. Instead of the awkward monosyllabic two-minute exchange her two-year-old son Jackson typically had over a video chat link with relatives, he spent a full 50 minutes happily working on a shared drawing with his grandmother in Florida, using the video chat's embedded drawing feature that Egy Rose was developing.

Business, Apps, Google, Mobile devices, Smartphones     Read more     Comments
Student taking a test.

Cheating just part of school for many teens

Last updated Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 10:08am

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The honest truth about cheating in high school lurks just below the veneer of virtue: A whole lot of students do it, regularly and with impunity.

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Stanford uses male stand-in to simulate Griner

Last updated Friday, March 30, 2012 - 3:35pm

Nneka Ogwumike says the male practice participant who plays the Brittney Griner role stands 6-feet-9.

College Sports, College basketball, Final Four, NCAA, Sports, Women's basketball, Women's sports     Read more     Comments

Sharks, Avs battling for playoff spot

Last updated Monday, March 26, 2012 - 3:55pm

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- As if the playoff stakes are not enough for the Sharks these days, Monday night's game at HP Pavilion features an added layer of competitive one-upmanship.

San Jose and the Colorado Avalanche -- each with 86 points -- are facing each other for the first time since the Feb. 27 trade that brought Daniel Winnik and TJ Galiardi to San Jose in exchange for Jamie McGinn.

The Avalanche has fared slightly better than the Sharks since then, going 7-4-2 while San Jose went 6-5-3.

NHL, Ice Hockey, Sports, Hockey     Read more     Comments

Final Four: A collection of Big Blue and bluebloods

Last updated Monday, March 26, 2012 - 4:31pm

Big Blue and the bluebloods have wrested control of the Final Four away from the insurgents.

College Sports, College basketball, Final Four, NCAA, Sports     Read more     Comments

Alex Smith reacting as could be expected

Last updated Monday, March 19, 2012 - 3:24pm

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Well, what did you expect Alex Smith to do? Sit around the caddie shack and wait for a phone call?

Hardly.

NFL, Pro Football, NFL Football, Sports, Utah Utes     Read more     Comments

Downturn continues in Pac-12

Last updated Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 3:12pm

The Pac-12 men's basketball tournament begins Wednesday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, capping perhaps the league's worst regular-season showing in a quarter century.

College Sports, College basketball, Pac-12 Conference, Sports, Utah Utes     Read more     Comments

Mark Purdy: Pac-12 tournament could be entertaining

Last updated Monday, March 5, 2012 - 3:56pm

STANFORD, Calif. -- Sunday at Maples Pavilion, we saw a splendid summation of this season's Pac-12 men's basketball competition.

College Sports, College baskteball, Pac-12 Conference, Sports, University of Utah, Utah Utes     Read more     Comments
The Bok Kai dragon Hong Wan Lung is coiled by the Beale airmen that carry it during the 132nd annual Bok Kai Parade in Marysville, Calif. on Saturday, February 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Appeal-Democrat, Nate Chute)

Does Year of the Dragon mean more 'dragon babies'

Last updated Monday, March 5, 2012 - 11:56am

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Brandon Li and Catherine Xi don't consider themselves superstitious. Both engineers, they have careers in Silicon Valley's tech industry. But the Santa Clara couple, like many other Asians in the Bay Area, are frantic to have a baby in the Year of the Dragon.

Features, Babies, Births, Chinese New Year, Year of the Dragon     Read more     Comments

Sharks' Thornton views himself as 'just a passer at heart'

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 8:32pm

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Whenever Wayne and Joe Thornton talk hockey, the advice from father to son is always the same.

Shoot the puck.

"Pretty much before every game I have to remind him," Wayne Thornton said. "But he doesn't shoot enough. He never has."

NHL, Sports, Hockey     Read more     Comments
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