Posts Tagged ‘football’
Oakland Tech Bulldog fans pack the bleachers at first home game of the season
The Oakland Tech Bulldogs lost 22-16 during their first home game of the season, but their home fans were loud and proud throughout the game.
Read MoreRaiders in familiar territory at season’s end despite measured success
The first round of the professional football playoffs kicked off this weekend, and for the eighth consecutive year, the Oakland Raiders were nowhere to be found. In perhaps a symbol of a franchise fallen on hard times, the local Oakland bars lacked any noticeable presence from the generally boisterous fan base as well.
Read MoreJim Harbaugh leaves Stanford, signs on with S.F. 49ers
The San Francisco 49ers officially announced the hiring of highly sought after candidate Jim Harbaugh, formerly of Stanford University, as their new head coach on Friday afternoon.
“It’s the perfect, competitive opportunity for me and the rest of the San Francisco organization to be a part of a team,” said Harbaugh at the midday press conference.
Read MoreWith only 22 players, McClymond’s football aims for state championships
McClymonds High varsity football players have had one of the most successful seasons in school history, during which they earned a perfect 12-and-0 record on their way to winning the Oakland Athletic League championship this fall and are now making a serious bid to play in a state championship game.
Read MoreThis weekend in Oakland
Weekend Events Calendar Friday, 11/26 Macy’s Great Tree Lighting 2010 6 to 8 pm Union Square: Geary Street and Powell Street, San Francisco Santa will throw the switch to light up the 80-foot Shasta White Fir in San Francisco’s Union Square on Friday. Macy’s Great Tree will be the centerpiece for performances from American Idol…
Read MoreThis weekend in Oakland
Weekend Events Calendar: Friday, 11/19, 8 p.m.: Season Opening of Oakland East Bay Symphony, featuring guitarist Carlos Santana and composition for full orchestra by multi Grammy-winning songwriter Narada Michael Walden. Performances both Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.(Paramount Theatre, 2025 Broadway, Oakland) Friday, 11/19, 8:30 p.m.: San Francisco Bay Area International salsa congress, a salsa dancing…
Read MoreRaiders ruin homecoming for Oakland Tech’s Lynch
Marshawn Lynch, the often written and talked-about NFL player who graduated from Oakland Tech High School, made his hometown pro football debut during a trip to Oakland this weekend as a member of the Seattle Seahawks.
He was fresh off a trade that sent him from the Buffalo Bills to the Seahawks. But the visit home didn’t go quite as he had expected.
Read MoreLaney College running back shows why he’s number one
On the stat sheet, the play looks like any other four-yard gain, a positive but unremarkable advancement on the football field. But it was how Laney College running back C.J. Anderson gained those four yards last Friday night that shows why he is one of the best junior college running backs in the state.
Read MoreOakland Tech’s “Coach D,” 15 years in charge, pushes his players on football and family
Oakland Tech head coach Delton Edwards, or Coach D, as he is warmly known among his program, is always around. 24-7 and 365 days a year, he likes to say. “Always,” says the 48-year-old. “You know how you bond with something? A lot of those coaches, they were a big influence on my life.”
Read MoreRaiders switch quarterbacks, stave off Rams 16-14
With coach Tom Cable making a quarterback change for the second half, the Oakland Raiders pulled off their first victory of the season against the St. Louis Rams Sunday afternoon.
Read MoreWith key players off to college, Oakland Tech football team starts new season tonight
Delton Edwards, or “Coach D,” as he has affectionately been known over his 15-year career as the head football coach at Oakland Technical High School, has a tough act to follow. It’s his own.
Read More“Nation Celebration” pumps hopeful Raiders fans
To the untrained eye, Friday evening’s Raider Nation Celebration in Frank H. Ogawa Plaza was just another glorified salt-and-pepper-colored pep rally for the local professional club, stringing longtime supporters along for what could be yet another disappointing season.
Read MoreWith hiphop & iPods, Tech’s Homecoming is both classic and new
Oakland Tech’s Homecoming combined the old standards with the new — cheerleaders did their routine to a hip-hop beat and football players listened to iPods to get ready for the game. In this audioslide, ON’s Becky Palmstrom, who’s from Wales, gets a lesson in an American tradition.
Read MoreEagles’ Michael Vick protested by animal rights group at Oakland Coliseum
An hour before kickoff at the Oakland Raiders football game Sunday, many silver-and-black clad Raiders fans did something that on any other day might peg them traitors – they showed support for the opposing team’s new quarterback, Michael Vick.
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