San Francisco Chronicle Sports - Spoken Edition

Morgan Bertsch hit a jumper with a second remaining Monday as host UC Davis edged St. Mary’s 76-74 on Monday night. The Gaels’ Emily Codding had hit a three-pointer with four seconds left to tie the game. Bertsch contributed a game-high 22 points for the Aggies (7-5). Nina Bessolo added 14. Madeline Holland paced the Gaels (5-4) with 17 points and Sydney Raggio had 16. Megan McKay had 14 points and 14 rebounds.

Final 2018 Chronicle Top 25 football rankings RK Team Rec LW Comment 1. De La Salle 12-1 1 27th straight NCS title, just short at state 2. Liberty 13-1 2 No NCS title, but state 1-A champs 3. Menlo-Atherton 13-2 11 CCS D1 and state 3AA champions 4. Wilcox 14-1 6 State 3A champs, most wins in Bay Area 5. Valley Christian 11-3 7 CCS D2 champions overachieved 6. St. Francis 11-3 3 WCAL champs; 2 tough losses to finish 7. Clayton Valley 9-2 4 Hung with Liberty for a half 8.

OAKLAND — Michael Peters didn’t waste words. “A three-peat is hard,” the McClymonds football coach said after accepting the CIF 4-A Division State Bowl Championship trophy Saturday at Laney College. The journey may have been hard, but the Warriors made things look relatively easy on the field. After the McClymonds defense held Garfield-Los Angeles to 22 yards in the first half, the offense took over in the second half.

Congratulations Raiders fans. It’s official now. You are the most screwed-over fan base in American sports. Oh, sure, others have vied for the title in the past. Baltimore had a pity party for a time. Cleveland felt abandoned. Same with Houston. Old-time New Yorkers still like to talk about when two of their baseball teams left. Seattle still would like an NBA team, thank you very much. But nobody has it as bad as Oakland Raiders fans. Screwed over by not one, but two generations of the same family.

It’s hard to know what to believe these days. The 1969 moon landing and walk? If Stephen Curry doesn’t believe it, can it be true? Look closely at those pictures, in the background you’ll see a Starbucks. Now I hear Kevin Durant believes the Warriors faked their visit to the Hamptons three summers ago. Curry and the fellas didn’t really fly cross-country to court K.D. Those were holograms created in one of team co-owner Peter Guber’s movie studios.

Call it the Revenge of the Coliseum. Every Raiders game in Oakland feels like a wake these days, one final farewell to the memories and the moments that have filled Oakland Raiders history. With most of the recent ones being largely forgettable. For much of Sunday, it looked like Game 13 of the woeful 2018 season was also going to be just another ho-hum, losing affair. Until the Coliseum rose up and said: It shall not be so.

The band was back together. Finally. On Monday, the Warriors were, at last, their complete selves. For the first time in five weeks. Draymond Green? Check. Stephen Curry? Yep. Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson? Present and accounted for. “It’s good to get back to who we are,” Green said. Four All-Stars. On the floor together. The ones who went 8-8 when one or more were missing. And 10-1 when they all played together.

In the third quarter of Sunday’s Steelers -Raiders game, there was a sequence that seemed to reinforce everything that Oakland fans believe the league thinks about the two franchises, going all the way back to the Immaculate Reception in 1972: The Steelers get the breaks. The Raiders never do. On 3rd-and-19 from the 22, Derek Carr went back to pass but the ball slipped out of his hand. It looked to many like an incomplete pass, but was ruled a fumble, recovered by Pittsburgh.

Jill Ellis, the head coach of the U.S. women’s national soccer team, has made no secret of how much she enjoys her team’s appearances in the Bay Area. So, it’s no surprise that the U.S. team will make a local stop on its “Countdown to the Cup” tour in advance of the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France as the team sets its sights on a fourth World Cup championship.

Summer is going to sound different. Over the weekend, beloved cycling commentator Paul Sherwen died at his home in Uganda at age 62. The cause is suspected to be heart failure. Sherwen, a former British cycling champion and Tour de France domestique, became well-known to American audiences for pairing with Phil Liggett to provide commentary on the Tour de France.

ATLANTA — Five months after the Warriors’ David West alluded to some unreported adversity that the team had encountered on its way to a second straight NBA title, the issue in question finally has been revealed. According to the Athletic’s Sam Amick, Golden State dealt with a team-wide meningitis scare in mid-March. The concern stemmed from an outside vendor who prepared the team’s food daily.

PARIS — Luka Modric ended the long reign of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo by winning the Ballon d’Or for the first time Monday. Modric won the Champions League with Real Madrid and then guided Croatia to the World Cup final in July. The midfielder was voted player of the tournament. Messi and Ronaldo had won every Ballon d’Or since 2008, and usually competed with only each other for the greatest recognition among soccer’s elite. “As a kid, we all have dreams.

There are times when a habit never grows old. Stanford’s football program knows the feeling. No matter how often the Cardinal beat Cal — and that’s nine straight wins after Saturday’s 23-13 victory — there’s an exhilarating freshness to carrying the Axe around the field. And it’s all the sweeter if it happens in Strawberry Canyon.

Two running backs share the Cal record for touchdowns in a Big Game with four. Chuck Muncie did it first, in the Bears’ 48-15 rout at Stanford Stadium in 1975. The following year, New Orleans selected Muncie with the third overall pick in the NFL draft. He wound up spending nine seasons in the NFL. The man who tied his Big Game mark, Lindsey Chapman, didn’t play a down in the NFL.

The Warriors are on their longest road trip of the year. When they return to Oracle on Monday, Dec. 10, there will be only 28 regular season home games left to play at the junction of 880 and 66th Avenue. The sand is slipping through the hourglass. And while Chase Center will be dazzling, there’s no doubt that when the Warriors move something will have been lost forever. The fans know that. And, it seems, so do the players.