The weekend in sports was shaping up to be a historic one for the Bay Area. Almost every team playing won their games with the great exception of one.

Over the weekend, the Sharks were beginning to wrap their exhibition season by winning their last two games against Anaheim and Los Angeles. Tonight, Queen Elizabeth II dropped the puck tonite before the game against Vancouver. Who knew she was a hockey fan? But anyway, the season starts on Thursday against the defending champion Detroit Red Wings.

Friday night was another Oak Grove high school football game and colorguard performance. According to my sister, she did slightly better this time, actually taking off her jacket when she was supposed to and joining in on the flag throwing. There was only the problem of being fast enough with the walking. After all, she almost hit a band member the first time. I didn't attend but the team did beat the Gunderson Grizzlies 55-0.

Then on Saturday was college football day. Cal beat the 12th-ranked Washington Huskies 34-27 in a great day for quarterback Kyle Boller, who threw 5 touchdown passes. San Jose State won too, after falling behind at the half. They beat winless Southern Methodist by a score of 34-23. Finally, Stanfurd lost! That's all you need to know about that.

Then today. It started out early with the Raiders. My dad's a really big fan. They won in another high scoring affair, 49-31. Then the Niners beat the Rams, who are slumping really bad right now, 37-13. After this, the day got ugly.

The Oakland Athletics. Woe is them. For two years, they've been eliminated by the Yankees in the first round. This year, the Twins did it to them. There was a small spark at the end when they scored 3 runs in the ninth, but they were down by 4 after Koch gave up 3 in the top half of the ninth. In the end, they lost 5-4. So now A's fans, as few as there are, will have to wait another year. On a brighter note, the Giants won 8-3 tonite to stretch their series against the Braves to a deciding 5th game tomorrow.