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Sportsball Monday: Giants still uneven, 49ers add WRs, Valkyries prep

We bring you up to speed on your favorite local teams.

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Welcome to <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Sportsball Monday" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2026/03/09/sportsball-monday-warriors-giants-49ers" data-vars-content-id="a52c16ef-1e94-430a-b7c1-de2feddaf7c5" data-vars-headline="Sportsball Monday: Giants still uneven, 49ers add WRs, Valkyries prep" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2026/03/09/sportsball-monday-warriors-giants-49ers" target="_self">Sportsball Monday</a>, where we bring you up to speed on your favorite local teams once a month.The big picture: The Giants remain on shaky ground; the 49ers expand their wide receiver room; and the Valkyries gear up for their second year.

Take our Friday SF news quiz

Think you're smart? Put some proof in that pudding.

The weekend is almost here — cue the cleaning, shopping, errands and clocking in Monday feeling like you didn&#x27;t get to chill at all.<ul><li>That <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="AI-enabled four-day work week" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/06/behind-the-curtain-sams-superintelligence-new-deal" data-vars-content-id="48f87aa6-bec1-4fbe-809d-2495fcbe3c9f" data-vars-headline="Take our Friday SF news quiz" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/06/behind-the-curtain-sams-superintelligence-new-deal" target="_self">AI-enabled four-day work week</a> can&#x27;t come fast enough. </li></ul>But hey, at least we&#x27;ve got our Friday news quiz to take the edge off.

What to know before mailing tax returns this year

A new IRS postmark rule means sending your return on time may not be enough to avoid penalties.

Money

Mailing your tax return this year comes with a key change: A new <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="postmark rule" data-vars-click-url="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/24/2025-20740/postmarks-and-postal-possession" data-vars-content-id="5b9aa411-d0b7-4398-a35c-f3b5ff84b2bc" data-vars-headline="What to know before mailing tax returns this year" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/24/2025-20740/postmarks-and-postal-possession" target="_blank">postmark rule</a> is redefining what qualifies as &quot;on time.&quot;Why it matters: The IRS treats the postmark date — not the day you dropped the envelope into the mail — as proof of filing, meaning delays in postmarking could trigger penalties even if you sent your return on time.

What San Franciscans have to say about unsafe driving

Axios SF readers pointed to drivers blowing through red lights amid weak enforcement and a slow city response.

Last week&#x27;s <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="newsletter on street safety" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-san-francisco-77c65ecd-74cc-4569-906b-47173cb6e89b.html" data-vars-content-id="ac2db2e3-ad77-4381-ba67-d028ad4b19f6" data-vars-headline="What San Franciscans have to say about unsafe driving" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-san-francisco-77c65ecd-74cc-4569-906b-47173cb6e89b.html" target="_self">newsletter on street safety</a> resonated with a lot of you, and you shared your thoughts.The big picture: <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="An Axios analysis" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2026/03/30/sf-10-streets-pedestrian-crash-hotspots" data-vars-content-id="ac2db2e3-ad77-4381-ba67-d028ad4b19f6" data-vars-headline="What San Franciscans have to say about unsafe driving" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2026/03/30/sf-10-streets-pedestrian-crash-hotspots" target="_self">An Axios analysis</a> found that 10 streets account for about a third of all vehicle-pedestrian <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="injury crashes" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2026/03/26/sf-most-severe-crashes-map-high-injury-network" data-vars-content-id="ac2db2e3-ad77-4381-ba67-d028ad4b19f6" data-vars-headline="What San Franciscans have to say about unsafe driving" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2026/03/26/sf-most-severe-crashes-map-high-injury-network" target="_self">injury crashes</a> in San Francisco — a pattern that hasn&#x27;t changed since before the pandemic.

How local archivists preserve Asian American history

"You have to remember on the community's behalf."

Gold Rush-era anti-Asian violence and the destruction of San Francisco&#x27;s Manilatown are dark chapters in <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="local history" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/05/22/5-asian-american-legal-battles-that-shaped-us-civil-rights" data-vars-content-id="a9689fef-1355-4669-8b16-c5412f27bcc9" data-vars-headline="How local archivists preserve Asian American history" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/05/22/5-asian-american-legal-battles-that-shaped-us-civil-rights" target="_self">local history</a>, and they may have been lost to time if not for community archivists.The big picture: A new documentary by a third-generation San Franciscan explores these stories through the eyes of the people preserving them for future generations.<ul><li>&quot;<a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="From the Ground Up" data-vars-click-url="https://www.katiequanart.com/portfolio/fromthegroundup" data-vars-content-id="a9689fef-1355-4669-8b16-c5412f27bcc9" data-vars-headline="How local archivists preserve Asian American history" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.katiequanart.com/portfolio/fromthegroundup" target="_blank">From the Ground Up</a>,&quot; sponsored by the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund, premiered in March at the Manilatown Heritage Foundation and is showing again next week.</li></ul>Artist and activist Leon Sun, one of the film&#x27;s subjects, compares archving to traveling on a road through time.<ul><li>&quot;Archiving is sort of like the gas stations on the way to keep you going forward [and also] a trail that you can look back on to see what happened in the past,&quot; he told Axios.</li></ul>The 35-minute film follows four community archivists:<ul><li>Sun, whose photography captured the lives of everyday people in movements like anti-Vietnam War protests and Black-Asian solidarity.</li><li>Manilatown Heritage Foundation executive director Caroline Cabading, whose work preserves the legacy of <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="San Francisco&#x27;s Filipino enclave" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/10/28/mint-mall-cultural-landmark-filipino-community" data-vars-content-id="a9689fef-1355-4669-8b16-c5412f27bcc9" data-vars-headline="How local archivists preserve Asian American history" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/10/28/mint-mall-cultural-landmark-filipino-community" target="_self">San Francisco&#x27;s Filipino enclave</a> and its destruction after the <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="1977 International Hotel eviction" data-vars-click-url="https://www.foundsf.org/The_Battle_for_the_International_Hotel" data-vars-content-id="a9689fef-1355-4669-8b16-c5412f27bcc9" data-vars-headline="How local archivists preserve Asian American history" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.foundsf.org/The_Battle_for_the_International_Hotel" target="_blank">1977 International Hotel eviction</a>.</li><li>Barnali Ghosh and Anirvan Chatterjee of the South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, which touches on chapters like Gold Rush-era racial violence, the origins of <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="South Asian LGBTQ+ organizations" data-vars-click-url="https://www.instagram.com/trikone.bayarea/" data-vars-content-id="a9689fef-1355-4669-8b16-c5412f27bcc9" data-vars-headline="How local archivists preserve Asian American history" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.instagram.com/trikone.bayarea/" target="_blank">South Asian LGBTQ+ organizations</a>, and the life of activist <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Kala Bagai" data-vars-click-url="https://www.saada.org/explore/videos/kala-bagai" data-vars-content-id="a9689fef-1355-4669-8b16-c5412f27bcc9" data-vars-headline="How local archivists preserve Asian American history" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.saada.org/explore/videos/kala-bagai" target="_blank">Kala Bagai</a>.</li></ul><figure><img alt="Triptych collage: left vintage poster with illustrated portraits; center grayscale scene of people around a table with coins; right mural of a woman holding a framed photo beside a child and Civil Rights imagery." height="720" id="1cee6fcf-d616-445a-b06a-69d4ac987de0" src="https://images.axios.com/3nOT0lf_cNFvBq5zd_4EKeuixn8=/2026/04/06/1775509012628.jpeg" width="1280" srcset="https://images.axios.com/-yqCUMxnlHS-bd5oY_1SPaZDnYI=/0x0:1280x720/1920x1080/2026/04/06/1775509012628.jpeg?w=1920 1920w, https://images.axios.com/rDjcdqdyPpby0WNfwE9hHVaZxHM=/0x0:1280x720/1600x900/2026/04/06/1775509012628.jpeg?w=1600 1600w, https://images.axios.com/j0yI4jf1XIc17hx602LC5nCX2Xk=/0x0:1280x720/1366x768/2026/04/06/1775509012628.jpeg?w=1366 1366w, https://images.axios.com/4fyfxNoOp6mNmqn8LaE3V0nXxrQ=/0x0:1280x720/1024x576/2026/04/06/1775509012628.jpeg?w=1024 1024w, https://images.axios.com/06FUy0i7YLI3sTqgX1mba9aFM40=/0x0:1280x720/768x432/2026/04/06/1775509012628.jpeg?w=768 768w, https://images.axios.com/49jNQaCprtGXZWPaIxeh9ebWVj0=/0x0:1280x720/640x360/2026/04/06/1775509012628.jpeg?w=640 640w, https://images.axios.com/BVYbnBPLPZZ5nxHr4nZdEAb8AkU=/0x0:1280x720/320x180/2026/04/06/1775509012628.jpeg?w=320 320w"/><figcaption>A flyer, photo and mural documenting different moments in Bay Area Asian American history. Photos: Courtesy of Katie Quan</figcaption></figure>Behind the scenes: Director Katie Quan started working on the film a few years ago while delving into archives like the Bay Area hip-hop collection at the <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="African American Museum and Library at Oakland" data-vars-click-url="https://oaklandlibrary.org/aamlo/" data-vars-content-id="a9689fef-1355-4669-8b16-c5412f27bcc9" data-vars-headline="How local archivists preserve Asian American history" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://oaklandlibrary.org/aamlo/" target="_blank">African American Museum and Library at Oakland</a>.<ul><li>&quot;Giving credit to archives doesn&#x27;t really come naturally,&quot; Quan told Axios, noting that people often &quot;pick and choose things&quot; without thinking through how the materials are preserved.</li><li>But they are crucial to filling in gaps for marginalized communities, she said, especially as <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="attacks on DEI" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/05/13/sf-pride-corporate-sponsors-anti-dei-lgbtq" data-vars-content-id="a9689fef-1355-4669-8b16-c5412f27bcc9" data-vars-headline="How local archivists preserve Asian American history" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/05/13/sf-pride-corporate-sponsors-anti-dei-lgbtq" target="_self">attacks on DEI</a> continue to escalate. &quot;If we don&#x27;t save our own history, no one else is going to do it,&quot; she said.</li></ul>Case in point: Many people today are shocked to learn that there used to be a thriving, 10-block-long Filipino neighborhood adjacent to Chinatown, Cabading told Axios.<ul><li>But Manilatown is where her grandfather first found solace as an immigrant in the early 1900s. Her aunt and uncle were also part of the human chain that <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="defended the I-Hotel" data-vars-click-url="https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2017/international-hotel/" data-vars-content-id="a9689fef-1355-4669-8b16-c5412f27bcc9" data-vars-headline="How local archivists preserve Asian American history" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2017/international-hotel/" target="_blank">defended the I-Hotel</a> against urban renewal plans.</li><li>&quot;You have to remember on the community&#x27;s behalf,&quot; Cabading told Axios, noting that young Filipinos often feel empowered when they find out they are part of &quot;at least two generations of warrior stock.&quot;</li></ul>Between the lines: For the four subjects of Quan&#x27;s film, archiving is more than just preserving — it&#x27;s honoring Asian American resistance.<ul><li>&quot;Our traditions are not just about like Bollywood or samosas,&quot; Ghosh says in the documentary. &quot;We wanted to push that narrative to show folks that organizing is as much part of our culture as anything else.&quot;</li></ul>What&#x27;s next: Watch &quot;From the Ground Up&quot; at its <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="next screening" data-vars-click-url="https://www.katiequanart.com/events" data-vars-content-id="a9689fef-1355-4669-8b16-c5412f27bcc9" data-vars-headline="How local archivists preserve Asian American history" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.katiequanart.com/events" target="_blank">next screening</a> at 7:30pm on April 16 at Clarion Performing Arts Center.

Exclusive: AI music generator Suno opens SF office

The AI music startup is coming to downtown.

An <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="AI startup" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2023/12/20/suno-gen-ai-music-microsoft" data-vars-content-id="c87bb51f-5f0c-4aaf-9bce-d30cd3c87038" data-vars-headline="Exclusive: AI music generator Suno opens SF office" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2023/12/20/suno-gen-ai-music-microsoft" target="_self">AI startup</a> that lets users make music from prompts has opened an office in downtown San Francisco, Axios has learned.The big picture: Suno&#x27;s expansion is another sign of the AI boom fueling downtown&#x27;s comeback, and brings to the city a company at the center of recent fights over using copyrighted music to train AI models.

This week's Friday news quiz

Looks like Axios SF readers are getting smarter. You all did better on last week&#x27;s quiz — only about 31% of respondents got a score of 1/3.<ul><li>To our surprise, the question people did best on was about April Harper Grey&#x27;s new album.</li></ul>

How to keep your dog safe during coyote pupping season

Pupping season brings more sightings and defensive behavior.

Environment

It&#x27;s peak pupping season in San Francisco, which means more visible and territorial coyotes guarding their baby-filled dens.Why it matters: Pupping season can lead to more sightings — especially in and around parks — and tense encounters with dogs, which coyotes see as potential threats.

We ranked BART station bathrooms so you know where to go

You're lying if you've never found yourself scrambling for a toilet at the most inopportune times.

Though I usually try to avoid public restrooms, I found myself bracing to use one at BART&#x27;s Daly City station before the Chinese <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="New Year Parade" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2024/02/23/lunar-new-year-parades-chinatown-origin-story" data-vars-content-id="e50581d0-535d-4e56-8e54-82508e2e319b" data-vars-headline="We ranked BART station bathrooms so you know where to go" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2024/02/23/lunar-new-year-parades-chinatown-origin-story" target="_self">New Year Parade</a> in March.<ul><li>It was surprisingly clean — which got me wondering: Just how well-maintained are BART&#x27;s toilets?</li></ul>Why it matters: You&#x27;re lying if you&#x27;ve never found yourself scrambling for a toilet at the most inopportune times.

What Bay Area travelers should know about their rights before flying

A guide to questioning, searches and delays as immigration enforcement at airports increases.

Immigration

Air travel across the U.S. now comes with a new variable: <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="ICE agents" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2026/03/24/ice-airports-tsa-dhs-rules" data-vars-content-id="4cb9228c-149d-4ffe-b790-83cc9dd09dce" data-vars-headline="What Bay Area travelers should know about their rights before flying" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2026/03/24/ice-airports-tsa-dhs-rules" target="_self">ICE agents</a> in airports. State of play: Security checkpoints are becoming convergence points for screening, data sharing and immigration enforcement.

Behind the street safety fix SF advocates say could save lives

It'd involve inserting physical barriers in the road space next to curbs that are within 20 feet of a crosswalk.

&quot;Hardened daylighting&quot; might not be a term most people know. But in San Francisco, street safety advocates want it to be a priority as the city weighs competing projects to <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="curb aggressive driving" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2026/03/30/sf-10-streets-pedestrian-crash-hotspots" data-vars-content-id="b2210545-4fd7-4d09-9d56-0c8fc2f86858" data-vars-headline="Behind the street safety fix SF advocates say could save lives" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2026/03/30/sf-10-streets-pedestrian-crash-hotspots" target="_self">curb aggressive driving</a>.The big picture: Hardened daylighting involves inserting physical barriers including planters, bike or scooter racks in the road space next to daylighted curbs (within 20 feet of a crosswalk), to force drivers to round corners more carefully.

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