stars at racket

stars shine bright with 20th-anniversary celebration

at racket on thursday night 

photo: ken grand-pierre

farewell wiggs

 

photo: Nell Redmond-Imagn Images

i've been so heatbroken about this news. i was anxious with the trade deadline looming and was praying the warriors would not do anything, but instead they made the worst (imo desperate) trade doling out andrew wiggins, kyle andersen, dennis schröder, and lindy waters for the problematic jimmy butler.  wiggs has been playing stand out basketball for the past month and probably the most consistent player on the dubs. he has improved his free throws this season and is ALWAYS our top defensive player. oh, and he is hardly injured because he plays through it. whhhhhy warriors?  it's evident that steve kerr loved coaching him. players did too with steph's diplomatic reaction to the trade and brandin podziemski's postgame interview. anyhoot, let's see if jimmy buckets delivers because he has some shoes and then some to fill.

congrats maddy

photo: Ng Han Guan/AP

this was a very long overdue win for madison keys. i always feel heartbreak thinking about how she lost the us open championship to good friend sloane stephens in 2017.  also, her loss in the us open semis against aryna sabalenka in 2023 made me feel more ache.  maddy's play down under was exceptional defeated both the #1 and #2 women to FINALLY get that grand slam championship.  

2025 warriors

 

photo: yahoo sports

well after my last post about the woes of being a bay area fan, the niners officially got eliminated from the playoffs and play their last game of the season today. the warriors, however, have strung together back-to-back wins. last night, without their leader steph curry the team got revenge on the memphis grizzlies, who previously beat by 51 points in their last meeting. it brought back memories of those strength in numbers games where we had production from multiple guys, especially andrew "maple jordan" wiggins (pictured above).  he started off slow but burst open with 18 points in the 3rd after teammate jonathan kuminga left in the 2nd quarter sadly not to return. :( i loved how we fought with huge bench assist from lindy waters III. buddy hield and dennis schroder finally got into their three point stroke, and a lot of warriors were hitting treys.  this was an amazing statement game though it's still very early in the year AND we have to play the kings tonight. we get steph back, but will be sorely missing jk. here's to some more wins.

woes of a bay area sports fan

gosh, it's been a rough fall and winter in bay area sports.  the sharks are under a 500. the niners up and down season has become a nose dive. the season hadn't felt right from the start and the heart of the team wasn't all there.  yes, we had a ton of injuries, but there were bright spots with folks off the bench - jordan mason, who eventually got injured. cmc returned briefly only to head back to injury reserve. what was most disheartening is deebo pushing a teammate and then barking about not getting the ball to drop a potentially game winning TD last thursday. that has been the niners season. do we ask too much of our stacked team? probably. niners could be better mentally because i think that's where we need to make the biggest strides. 

now to the warriors. i'm starting to think i'm bad luck because they only seem to win when i'm not watching. that loss to the rockets (image above of controversial game winning call) really hurt. then we got pummelled by the mavs and yes klay beat us. they were shooting lights out and we weren't too shabby keeping up with them.  just not enough. so tomorrow is the debut of dennis schroder and it couldn't come at a better time. here's to hoping for a little push before all star week.

empire of the sun at kings theatre

 empire of the sun close out american tour 
with over-the-top show at kings theatre

photo: samantha schraub 

slow pulp at webster hall

slow pulp leave sold-out webster hall spellbound

photo: hilary safadi