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Grant Marek

Grant Marek

Editorial Director at SFGate

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The NFL has once again screwed the 49ers - San Francisco - SFGATE

For the second straight year, the San Francisco 49ers got hosed by the NFL’s schedule makers. Last year, no team in the league had a greater net rest disparity compared to their opponents (-20) than the Niners, who were also the only team to play a game with a -8 rest disparity: a Week 8 game against the Bengals where the Niners were coming off a Monday night game and the Bengals were coming off a bye. San Francisco lost that contest 31-17. This year, the Niners will face four teams coming off b…
7 months ago
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After securing 100K nominations, Best of Bay Area names finalists -...

When we launched SFGATE’s first Best of Bay Area — our alternative weekly-inspired, reader-driven popularity contest — we said, “The only way to get this thing right ... is with your help.” And help you did: We finished with more than 100,000 nominations from readers in 119 categories ranging from best Mexican restaurant and best pizza to best dive bar bathroom and best place to cry in public. Now, we get to the fun part. On Monday, we revealed the five most-nominated places in every category —…
8 months ago
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Ex-Giants player is living his best life managing a team in Japan -...

You’ll be hard-pressed to find a former San Francisco Giants player enjoying his post-MLB life as much as Tsuyoshi Shinjo is. Shinjo, who played center field for the Giants during their 2002 World Series run, just started his third campaign as the manager of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters — a professional Japanese baseball team that Shinjo won a Japan Series with as a player in 2006. Since taking over as the Fighters’ skipper in 2022, he has: Worn a three-piece burgundy suit with a comically l…
9 months ago
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'It was just sand': How a mega lake with flamingos landed in the Ca...

The first time you turn onto lake-lined Desert Springs Drive, you’ll pass by a tiny island on your right with almost three dozen Chilean flamingos. And then you’ll spend a long time wondering what’s more surprising in the 120-degree heat of the California desert: the lake, or the flamboyance of flamingos? In the mid-1980s, Marriott took ownership of a field of sand dunes just outside of Palm Springs, leveled 450 acres of them and built both a hotel and a mega lake about the size of 500 Olympic-s…
9 months ago
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Celtics' TV guys are still mad about losing to the Warriors in Fina...

Let’s just say the Celtics’ 2022 NBA Finals loss to the Golden State Warriors didn’t go over super well in Boston. From salty “F—k Golden State” chants to fights, to having to read Drew Magary absolutely roasting the team and the city, the aftermath of the Celtics’ loss wasn’t pretty. And it certainly didn’t help that Warriors star Steph Curry went on an elaborate Rub It In tour for the ages after winning the title, or that he once again stole their souls in an overtime Dubs win in December that…
9 months ago
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I ate 100 breakfast sandwiches in San Francisco. These are the 37 b...

There’s probably no better way to really see San Francisco than zig-zagging on a bike across it looking for life-changing breakfast sandwiches. I did that for the past three years, racking up 300-plus miles biked, popping into beloved breakfast-all-day diners, adorable little coffee shops, breakfast sandwich windows, iconic SF corner stores and exactly one 1980s video game-themed cafe, before finally hitting the breakfast sandwich century mark last week. It felt like a good enough milestone to s…
9 months ago
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He opened a Mission-style burrito shop in NYC. Then came the angry ...

“I’m a little bit hesitant to take this interview,” Eugene Cleghorn admits on the phone. It’s hard to blame him. A little over a month ago, the 37-year-old’s Mission-style burrito shop in New York City (yes, New York City) was at the center of an internet firestorm over — of all things — a poster required by the health department that details what to do if someone is choking. Cleghorn, who opened Super Burrito in Rockaway Beach in 2020, decided to have a bit of fun with the poster requirement, r…
10 months ago
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Welcome to SFGATE's first-ever Best of Bay Area - SFGATE

Since 2021, the city of San Francisco has been without an alternative weekly. That’s the year SF Weekly ceased publication after four decades in the city, making it the last alt-weekly in the 7x7 to fall, joining the godmother of alt weeklies, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, which ceased printing in 2014. SF Weekly has since been resurrected online by the former political consultant and current real estate investor who bought it in 2020, but like so many of its contemporaries, it’s now just a pa…
10 months ago
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Six Cal softball players harassed in Louisiana during anthem protes...

Six Cal softball players were verbally harassed by fans at Lamson Park in Lafayette, La., on Friday while kneeling during the national anthem. The altercation occurred before the first of two games over three days the Bears played against the University of Lousiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns that included one six-inning mercy rule final and two ejections. “Stand up!” fans could be heard yelling repeatedly on the ESPN Plus telecast Friday. “Stand up, California!” “Liberal wokeness” was shouted multi…
11 months ago
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Family of 49ers' McCaffrey ends up with 'stupid expensive' suite vi...

LATEST Feb. 3, 8:28 a.m. Model and influencer Olivia Culpo, 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey’s fiancée said mid-day Friday that she purchased a Super Bowl suite for the McCaffrey family as a birthday gift for her future mother-in-law, Lisa McCaffrey, whose birthday is on Tuesday. Turns out “moneybags” Olivia could afford it. Feb. 2, 11:52 a.m. You know the Super Bowl is expensive when a guy making $12 million a year raises an eyebrow at suite prices. San Francisco 49ers running back Christ…
11 months ago
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The Ed McCaffrey commercial that made 49ers' Christian McCaffrey cr...

It’s hard to imagine a McDonald’s commercial making anyone cry, but that’s exactly what left 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey in tears. The ad in question featured his dad, former Super Bowl champion Ed McCaffrey — then a member of the Denver Broncos — being stuffed into a locker (an exhaustive internet search couldn’t turn up the commercial in question, but it was apparently very funny). Christian McCaffrey was 2.5 years old at the time and instead of laughing, he sobbed. “All he knew was…
11 months ago
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49ers win, 'blue cocktails' didn't mix well at Lions' watch party -...

A raucous Detroit Lions watch party at Ford Field took an extremely sad turn for the worse Sunday night, both because the 49ers turned a 24-7 halftime deficit into a 34-31 NFC championship win, and because of something almost as dreaded: “electric blue cocktails.” An estimated 20,000 fans filled the Lions’ home stadium in Detroit to see the Lions jump out to a 14-0 lead, warranting a live look-in from the Fox broadcast that showed thousands of fans going absolutely wild: But things went downhill…
11 months ago
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Super Bowl merch is already out at Vegas' NFL shop, and it's terrib...

Hours after the San Francisco 49ers punched their ticket to the Super Bowl with a come-from-behind NFC championship victory against the Detroit Lions, merchandise was already on shelves at at the NFL Las Vegas Store at the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace. And somewhat predictably for an organization that gave control of its entire NFL Shop to Fanatics (which SFGATE columnist Drew Magary once described as “an awful company run by an even worse man”), the merchandise is not good. Well, not good if y…
11 months ago
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Former 49ers QB Alex Smith says Brock Purdy is too good for his 'cl...

A lot has been written this week about the discourse surrounding 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy, who is either one of the best quarterbacks in the entire NFL or a simple “game manager” who’s lucky to be on a team with a lot of talent — depending on which polarizing pundit you’re listening to. For his part, ex-49ers quarterback Alex Smith (among many, many other former players) has been a bit of a cheerleader for the first group, defending Purdy at every turn this season, including during the long…
11 months ago
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Billboards for 49ers' Brock Purdy just popped up all over Arizona -...

“Let’s go Brock Purdy” billboards were spotted all over Arizona on Saturday ahead of the 49ers’ NFC championship game on Sunday against the Lions. Somewhat confusingly, two local injury attorneys are behind them. The Lerner and Rowe law group — which pumps millions of dollars into billboard, radio, TV and internet advertising — converted their entire digital billboard inventory in Arizona to the head-turning, all-caps message on Saturday in support of the Queen Creek, Ariz., quarterback, who pla…
11 months ago
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The internet was so mad that Fox cut to commercial during 49ers-Lio...

Before things even kicked off between the San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions in the NFC championship at Levi’s Stadium on Sunday, the internet was already blasting Fox for its broadcast of the game. Why exactly? Because the broadcast didn’t show enough of the pre-game military flyover, which included two F-35s and two F-16s: A rousing national anthem performance from Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Luis Fonsi was punctuated by the quartet of planes roaring over the Santa Clara home of the Nine…
11 months ago
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Ahead of 49ers matchup, Packers host sad pep rally at infamous Stan...

The Green Bay Packers hosted a pep rally on Friday ahead of Saturday’s divisional playoff game against the 49ers that can only be described as sad. Billed as the Pack’s “San Francisco Pep Rally,” the fan event was actually hosted 33 miles south of San Francisco all the way down in Palo Alto at one of Stanford’s most infamous bars — The Patio. Described on Yelp just last week as “one of those places that you laugh at because it’s so awful before you even enter it,” the longtime student hang turns…
11 months ago
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Fox accidentally shows 49ers' George Kittle making NSFW gesture - S...

During one of the final 49ers-Packers pre-game segments on FOX Saturday evening, a split screen of Green Bay wideout Romeo Doubs and Niners tight end George Kittle accidentally showed the gregarious Niner flash the middle finger to someone off-screen. Kittle has been no stranger to NSFW incidents during his career — just this season Kittle flashed a “F—k Dallas” undershirt beneath his jersey after a 49ers touchdown cemented a 42-10 rout of the Cowboys in October. That stunt earned the Iowa produ…
11 months ago
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Things got so bad, Cowboys fans were calling for former 49ers QB Tr...

Things got so bad for the second-seeded Cowboys in their blowout home loss to the seventh-seeded Packers that fans were calling for former 49ers quarterback over Trey Lance to replace Dak Prescott. Yeah, the same Trey Lance who didn’t win the back-up quarterback job in San Francisco or the back-up quarterback job in Dallas after the Niners traded him for a fourth round pick. Cowboys superfan/Fox Sports hot take artist Skip Bayless made the call with Dallas down 34-10 with 3:50 to go in the 3rd q…
11 months ago
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Former NFL MVP roasted by former 49er for calling Brock Purdy ... -...

A little less than one year after creatively describing 49ers signal-caller Brock Purdy as a system quarterback during a national NFL broadcast, former San Francisco defensive back Richard Sherman is now surprisingly among Purdy’s staunchest defenders. And he sounds exhausted. Appearing on FS1’s “Undisputed” Wednesday with former NFL wideout Keyshawn Johnson and hot-take juggernaut Skip Bayless, Sherman responded to a now viral, week-old YouTube clip of former NFL MVP Cam Newton calling Purdy a…
about 1 year ago
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They leased a restaurant in a Bay Area forest. Next up: Michelin st...

It’s empty and it’s quiet. There are no cars, no people, and the only sound is white-knuckled hands squeaking on the steering wheel as I make my way down Skyline Boulevard in Woodside, California. I’m currently in the middle of a redwood grove high above the bay, 7 miles away from the nearest sign of civilization, save for a few banks of mailboxes huddled on the side of the road — the absolute last place in the Bay Area you’d expect to find a Michelin star contender. But trudge far enough along…
about 1 year ago