Scott Ostler

The future is here with robo umps deciding challenges on too few ball and strike calls in spring training games. The system is fast, easy and it works.

Reports involving Jimmy Butler before he got here were mixed. Now that he's with the Warriors, he could become another Bay Area star beloved despite his past.

After Sunday’s reinvented NBA All-Star Game, Stephen Curry called it “a step in the right direction.” Yes, they managed to inch the Titanic off the ocean floor.

If you thought NBA All-Star Weekend was about to jump the shark, thank Mac McClung for his readiness to jump cars en route to his third straight dunk title.

The Bay Area deserves to take a bow for its contributions to the rise of women’s sports, especially in basketball. It was an unspoken Hall of Fame theme Friday.

San Francisco gets ripped by talking heads like Charles Barkley while the NBA’s All-Star events have lost their luster. Could the two help each other another?

Before Chase Center, Joe Lacob and local pols were all-in on another S.F. site for the Golden State Warriors. Here’s how basketball got its jewel by the bay.

Brock Purdy and the San Francisco 49ers have a huge contract extension to sort out. Here’s why Super Bowl LIX's outcome should mean good things for the QB.

Hardy Nickerson, the former Cal and NFL great, now coaches football at Bishop O’Dowd-Oakland and recently brought his players to the S.F. Museum of Modern Art.

Jimmy Butler is at the core of the Golden State Warriors’ multi-team, multi-player transaction Wednesday. But the biggest beneficiary is Stephen Curry.