The Bay Citizen today brings you a numerical snapshot of the Ed Lee phenomenon. It wasn’t long ago that San Francisco’s interim mayor was sitting in our conference room, vowing unequivocally that he would not enter the race. As our Bay Citizen/USF Poll indicates, Lee is now poised to become the first elected Chinese-American mayor in the city’s history. For better and often worse, polls have become a force in ......

Less than three weeks before the start of the season, the A’s were treated to this image Monday: All-Star closer Andrew Bailey, sitting on the mound as a trainer gingerly pokes his surgically repaired right elbow. Bailey walked off the field, out of the stadium, en route to an emergency visit with Dr. James Andrews, surgeon to the stars. Details to come. It’s been fashionable to say the A’s – ......

The Texas Rangers trotted out — or actually carted out — two native sons to throw out the first pitch before Game 4 of the World Series: George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.  The two former presidents wheeled themselves to the mound in a golf cart — W. driving — accompanied by stirring patriotic music and thunderous applause from the crowd at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. The scene raised ......