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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

Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon, June 9

Giants blanked by Dodgers, 1-0, June 9

Giants fall to Dodgers, 6-2, June 8

San Jose Terrain Race, June 8

San Jose Earthquakes 2, FC Dallas 2, June 8

Madden-Mariucci Battle of the Bay Charity Bocce Tournament, June 6

NBA Cares Learn & Play Zone dedicated in Oakland, June 6

A's lose fifth straight with 6-4 defeat by Astros

The Spartan Race in Monterey

San Francisco 49ers 2nd annual Picnic on the Field

Steph Curry Pop Up Shop, 472 Ninth Street, Oakland

Hoodslam visits Oakland Metro Operahouse

108th Bay to Beakers

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

The Medium is the Message
By Andy Dolich
Sports Today - Issue No. 261

In 1964 Marshall McLuhan, the famous communication philosopher, said, "The medium is the message."

The sports fan of today is the medium and the messengers using whatever expanding customized media tools they choose. McLuhan proposed that a medium itself, not the content it carries, should be the focus. He said that a medium affects the society in which it plays a role, not only by the content delivered over the medium but by the characteristics of the medium..

I left my PhD at home but I do know that the sports communication continuum has progressed from cave drawings to smoke signals, town criers, ink on paper, radio, television, morphing into 24/7/365 cables which went streaming, mobile with a dash of HD, 3D and virtual reality to come. The 24-hour sports news cycle was squeezed into 24 minutes and now has no cycle at all. Today's sports fans are the media and the messengers.

The day we followed our favorite beat writer, columnist, electronic talking head, or sports addicted water cooler colleague is fast coming to an end. There is a kaleidoscope of .... Read More.