The East Palo Alto Greyhounds preserve culture and community through sport
In East Palo Alto, a sports club helps to preserve community and culture.
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As sports journalism landscape shifts, reporter Howard Herman keeps his footing in local news
For over 32 years, Howard Herman has interviewed sports talent ranging from high school standouts to rising professional baseball stars for the Berkshire Eagle. And as the sports media landscape has morphed to favor massive sports sites like The Athletic or Bleacher Report, Herman’s laser focus on the local makes him a unique source for a region’s sports news.
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The Ever-Growing Fuentes Family
For the past nine years, the Fuentes Family in San Jose has been hosting players for the San Jose Giants, the Single-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. The relationships that players and host families build last of years beyond the hosting arrangement.
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Connor Letourneau aims to set himself apart as SF Chronicle’s Warriors beat writer
Being the Golden State Warriors beat writer for the San Francisco Chronicle is a responsibility Connor Letourneau doesn’t take lightly. He often brings his laptop to a bar when he goes out to meet friends and has left many social events early to cover a breaking news story. Letourneau treats every day like Game 7 of the NBA Finals.
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For author John Gierach, the best fishing stories aren’t really about fishing
Author John Gierach, who is best know for writing about his fly fishing adventures, can easily tell fishing stories. But his ability to capture the essence of a day on the water, the significance of the event from a greater perspective, is what separates him from other writers.
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‘Everybody Has a Story to Tell’: John Feinstein’s unique life as a sportswriter
Over the decades, John Feinstein has exploded into one of the most successful sports authors ever, but he still seeks out the story that nobody else notices.
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Casey Toohill’s unique profile stands out ahead of N.F.L Draft
While American life slips into hibernation, Casey Toohill sharpens his focus on April’s NFL Draft. The Stanford linebacker has reached peaks in academic and athletic realms, but his stellar performance at February’s combine swung his fate further toward the National Football League.
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Visualizing the Super Bowl in Legos
It’s Super Bowl Sunday. To bring the big game into context, Peninsula Press reporters used Legos to help visualize certain aspects of this annual sporting event.
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When fewer people watch the Super Bowl on TV, will the ads survive?
In the last two years, advertisers spent less on Super Bowl advertisements than they had in previous years. To understand this trend, we turned to data on game viewership and time spent watching only Super Bowl advertisements on YouTube.
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Money on the field during 2020 Super Bowl
During the 2020 Super Bowl, the net income of players and performers on the field will change throughout the game.
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If California’s Homeless Attended the Super Bowl
A comparison of local government spending on homeless services versus American consumer spending on Super Bowl Sunday.
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Behind the plate: The life of a Bay Area umpire
Wayne Yoshitomi knew only English and his grandfather mostly spoke Japanese, but they didn’t need to talk on summer nights in the mid-1960s when the San Francisco Giants were playing. At the kitchen table or in the backyard of their family’s Richmond neighborhood flat, 6-year-old Yoshitomi and his grandpa would tune in a Zenith transistor radio. Shigeo Ogawa would play solitaire as Russ Hodges narrated the game, yelling “Bye Bye Baby!” to call a home run. Their shared love of baseball is the only strong memory Yoshitomi has of his grandfather, who passed away in the 1980s. Baseball has since taken Yoshitomi around the country, meeting others who share his…
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