The San Francisco 49ers’ woeful offseason has a belated, ugly new chapter with the arrest of owner Jed York on prostitution charges. Can the team or the NFL abide this misconduct?

“Forever Grateful, Golden Gate Park” is set to open at the County Fair Building, honoring the Grateful Dead’s music, legacy and community.

OPINION: The U.S. men’s team got help from FIFA and President Trump, but that didn’t matter in a 4-1 loss to Belgium’s veteran World Cup team that was cheered by the world.

Tickets to the U.S. men’s national team’s match against Bosnia and Herzegovina at Levi’s Stadium had cost more than $4,000 less than two weeks ago, but have now fallen below $1,000.

Oakland Genesis uses free soccer, tutoring and transportation to reach children often shut out of expensive club sports.

The last U.S. World Cup fueled a soccer boom. But 30 years later, youth sports is broken: Costs are skyrocketing, private equity is buying up clubs, and youth clubs are “marketing fear” to...

The U.S. Men’s National Team shrugged off any pressure, taking the lead early en route to a 3-0 halftime lead as it beat Paraguay 4-1 in a World Cup opener at SoFi Stadium on Friday night.

The U.S. team from the last time their country hosted the World Cup had something to prove in 1994. The 2026 team does, too. Will this year’s tournament mark a step forward for the USMNT?

Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark wanted to find new ways to improve, so she turned to a “basketball scientist” famous for his work with Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry.

Before her Indiana Fever take on the Golden State Valkyries on Thursday, WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark took in a bit of San Francisco Giants baseball on Wednesday afternoon.

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said conversations with his wife and daughter helped him see that extending his stay with the team was the move that made the most sense.

Olympic gold has transformed Alysa Liu into a global celebrity. Before Stars on Ice in San Jose, Liu opened up about the surreal moments and safety concerns in a life that no longer feels normal.

The Giants’ decision to sell a minority stake to a firm with a connection to the Trump family has set off alarm bells with some supporters and employees in deep blue San Francisco.

WNBA All-Star forward Gabby Williams chose to sign a free-agent deal with the Golden State Valkyries after being wowed by Chase Center’s atmosphere. She is confident she made the right decision.

Steve Kerr gave it a 50-50 chance that he would return as the Golden State Warriors’ head coach, but sentiment is building that he won’t — and that change will be coming.

OPINION: After the Golden State Valkyries’ magnificent first season, GM Ohemaa Nyanin’s unwillingness to explain trading away top 2026 draft pick Flau’jae Johnson was an unexpected stumble.

Mayor Daniel Lurie, a lifelong San Francisco Giants fan, put some good-natured pressure on Buster Posey and new manager Tony Vitello at Tuesday’s Play Ball luncheon, Ann Killion writes.

All of baseball will be watching the San Francisco Giants, not just in the opener but for the entire season, because the Tony Vitello experiment should be compelling theater.

McKenna Woliczko will leave the Bay Area as the top basketball prospect to go to Iowa since Caitlin Clark. The Mitty star overcame expectations and injury. Now she’s headed for the national stage.

The San Francisco Giants expect fans to pack Oracle Park, providing some things that might be reason to cheer. But the most important thing they could do is snap their recent run of mediocrity.

The WNBA avoided the damage a protracted labor war would have done to the league’s huge recent gains in fans and revenue, as the Golden State Valkyries demonstrated best in just their first year.

San Francisco Giants right-hander Hayden Birdsong sounded cautiously optimistic Friday that he might avoid a long absence with the forearm issue that surfaced this week.

Already looking light in the pitching department, the San Francisco Giants now might be losing one of their most talented young starters for an unknown stretch, the Chronicle has learned.

Kristi Yamaguchi was reminded of her journey to Olympic gold in 1992 while watching Alysa Liu seize the moment. Both are East Bay born and raised, growing up in towns less than 40 miles apart.

Richmond’s Alysa Liu, 20, capped her improbable comeback Thursday by becoming the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in singles figure skating in 24 years.

Macklin Celebrini, the first teen to join NHL players on Team Canada for the Olympics, is expected to help end the country’s gold medal drought. “In Canada all we really have is hockey.”

Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

The Jonathan Kuminga trade finally closed the chapter on “two timelines” and the sad saga of how the Golden State Warriors botched the greatest draft assets they had in their dynastic run.

AMC’s new docuseries unearths details of the San Francisco 49ers dynastic era that had been forgotten in the NFL’s 21st century explosion of popularity.

New San Francisco Giants manager Tony Vitello made an appearance Tuesday at the red-carpet premiere of an upcoming documentary about the 49ers dynasty, AMC’s “Rise of the 49ers.”

ANN KILLION: The Seahawks and Patriots won trips to Super Bowl LX. Now the San Francisco 49ers might have to watch their biggest NFC West rival earn a Lombardi Trophy in their house.