Word: candlestick
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...Dodgers, meanwhile, will be in Candlestick Park. That's the same place where San Francisco fans chanted, "Sweep! Sweep! Sweep!" during a three-game series in mid-August that the Giants indeed did sweep...
...doing it again to the Dodgers. They beat them in 1951 on Bobby Thomson's home run in the playoffs, knocked them out again in a three-game playoff in 1962 and denied them an NL West title in 1982 when Joe Morgan homered on the last day--at Candlestick--to give the Braves the championship...
...worked my way along the street toward Rudenstine's office at the Mellon Foundation. No luck at the butcher. Likewise at the baker. There didn't appear to be a candlestick maker in the neighborhood, but, with my luck, that wouldn't have mattered. No one seemed to recognize Rudenstine's picture. A cashier at the greengrocer on the corner of Lex and 52nd said she had seen Rudenstine's wife buy groceries once. But she couldn't remember when or what...
Memo to football fans: forget Super Bowl XXV in Tampa next Jan. 27. The real National Football League game of the year will be in San Francisco's Candlestick Park on Dec. 3, when the defending Super Bowl-champion 49ers collide with the New York Giants. When they met a year ago, the 49ers won 34-24; expectations about the battle to come have been climbing alongside the win-loss statistics of both teams, which have achieved historic heights...
...49ers head into Candlestick with their eyes on Threepeat, the name Niners fans have given to the team's goal: an unprecedented third straight Super Bowl victory in January. That victory would give them a record five Super Bowl wins in as many tries and confirm the 49ers under quarterback Joe Montana as perhaps the greatest football team of all time. But this year the Niners are scrambling their way to the top. In half of their games they have had to come from behind to win. The good news, says inside linebacker Matt Millen, is that "this team never...