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The Ultimate Sports Guide publishes definitive baseball and football issues every year for avid San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California sports fans. Distributed free of charge, each seasonal issue provides extensive professional and collegiate team coverage through feature articles, player interviews and profiles, photo essays, schedules, seating charts and directories. Issues become invaluable sports reference guides throughout the season and the full-color, glossy, 120-page magazine is often referred to as the Bay Area's own Sports Illustrated.

Golden State Warriors Championship Parade

San Francisco 49ers are golden, trip up Denver Broncos, 20-14

Bears power past Aztecs, 89-83

Bears Prevail In Overtime Thriller, 81-78

Sharks send Canes reeling with 5-1 defeat

Rally falls short for Stanford Water Polo

Cal Falls To USF, 79-60

Spartan Race at AT&T Park

Warriors catch Magic at the finish, win 116-110

Cardinal outlasts Vikings, 79-67

Late run lifts Bears over Broncos, 78-66

Peaceful Warriors Summit, presented by Adobe

Hoodslam returns to Oakland's Operahouse

3BALL USA opens locally, top prize of $50,000 goes to the New Yorkies

Will Jon Gruden coach the Raiders for 10 years? "I don't have a guarantee to be alive for 10 years."

The Injury Tree
By Andy Dolich
Sports Today - Issue No. 246

Before the San Francisco 49ers began their 2018 season I attended an event at Levi's Stadium in August. While crossing the pedestrian bridge from the parking lot over San Tomas Aquino Creek, I turned to my left and spied a large tree looking deader than dead on the creek bank. I expected to see a bunch of hungry buzzards perched on its scrawny, leafless, barkless branches.

I don't picture myself as a sporting Nostradamus but this skeleton of sickly sticks jumped out as a dangerous omen for the 49ers. While at the event I mentioned to a stadium official that it might be a good idea to cut down this deceased deciduousness before the season kicked off.

In truth, the ominous omen should have been turned into kindling. Thousands of 49ers fans would have been spared from seeing its lifeless limbs as they entered the team's home turf with their optimism meter at ten for the new season.

I was informed that since the tree was on county land and part of the Aquino Creek watershed it would take significant .... Read More.