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Your choices in San Francisco hotels are overwhelming. The prices can be too. So during our staff visit to the City by the Bay, we looked for reasonably priced hotels that had charm, location or both. We came back with 14 ideas on places to bed down. It's not a complete list, but it is eclectic, like the city itself. Mystic Hotel. This property, which opened in April, stands on a tunnel-adjacent block of Stockton Street that you'll never see on a picture postcard, yet it has style, as do the Burritt Tavern bar and restaurant downstairs.

Arden Hayes is 5. He loves Legos and running so fast across the living room to flip onto the couch that his feet end up pointing at the ceiling. He also loves the presidents - especially 11 and 33. Arden knows all 44 U.S. presidents. In order. Ask him who was 29 and right away he'll say Warren G. Harding. As for 11 (James K. Polk) and 33 (Harry S. Truman), they're his favorites, he says, because "they're dark-horse candidates. " Also, Polk got us California, which happens to be Arden's home.

What Woody Hayes liked most about coming to the Rose Bowl was winning it, which meant he didn't always like it. He often left at screaming-mad war with California and all its distractions and niceties. On Hayes' last trip west, he left out the back door. The legendary Ohio State coach broke even in eight Rose Bowl appearances, starting in 1955. His Buckeyes defeated USC, 20-7, in conditions complicated by the bane of rain. The headline in the next day's Los Angeles Times: "Hayes Belittles Trojans, Mad at Marching Bands."

Helen Hayes won the first Tony Award for actress in a play in 1947, the inaugural year for Broadway's biggest honor. Her prize for her performance in "Happy Birthday" is currently being sold in an auction that will end Tuesday. But bidders expecting the traditional Tony medallion may be surprised at what is being offered for sale. In the first two years of the Tonys, winners didn't receive the medallion that has come to symbolize the prize. Instead, they received a scroll as well as a money clip, a cigarette lighter for the men and a makeup compact for the ladies.  Hayes' makeup compact is being offered for sale by Nate D. Sanders auction house in Los Angeles, with the auction scheduled to end on Tuesday.

A public memorial service for former Los Angeles County Supervisor James A. Hayes is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Sept. 7, at the Centre at Sycamore Plaza, 5000 Clark Ave., Lakewood. Hayes, who died Aug. 10 in Lomita at age 78, served on the Long Beach City Council from 1962 to 1966, in the state Assembly from 1966 to 1972 and on the Board of Supervisors, representing the beach communities' Fourth District, from 1972 until 1979.

Jack Hayes has the usual goals of someone assuming corporate leadership: Improve communications, set long-range goals, and encourage cooperation among the departments. He's going to have to add selling. A quick course in real estate might help too. Hayes, introduced as CIF executive director Friday in Irvine, spoke of learning the people and groups involved in high school athletics and getting them to talk with one another and with him. But he inherits an organization that is still developing its first long-range plan, and one of his missions is figuring how to finance it. Another is determining where it will be administered.

Charlie Bauman invaded the enemy sideline, a punch was thrown and, sure as there was going to be a sunrise, there was going to be a firing. It was as simple as that. Twenty-five years ago tonight, Dec. 29, 1978, during the final seconds of a second-rate Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla., legendary Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes lost his head and lost his job. "Who could you compare him to now?" Hayes biographer Alan Natali wondered recently. "There's no one left." The final act in Hayes' brilliant, yet contradictory, college football career came with an ironic twist.

State Treasurer Thomas A. Hayes released a poll Wednesday giving him a 24% edge over Angela (Bay) Buchanan of Irvine, his only rival so far for the 1990 Republican nomination for the post of California's chief financial officer. But Buchanan's political consultant said the poll was skewed in favor of Hayes. "You can always structure a questionnaire to show your candidate in a stronger position, but it ignores the human side of politics," said Roger Stone, the Washington-based consultant who is advising Buchanan in her challenge of Hayes.

America! Love it or leave it. And take your guns and bombs with you. KENT W. HAYES San Diego

Your article on the UCLA-Houston game in the Astrodome was far wide of the mark factually. You state that "Hayes consistently beat Alcindor down the court" for layups. In fact, Alcindor wasn't guarding Hayes; Edgar Lacey was. Alcindor was guarding Ken Spain, Houston's center. Most of Hayes' points were 18-foot jumpers from the corner. He made very few layups. Hayes had 29 at the half, not 25. But he scored 16 in the first 10 1/2 minutes when Lacey was pulled from the game. Jim Neilsen took over and held Hayes to only 10 points in the second half.

MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes is going from working weekends to working weeknights. Hayes, who had hosted a weekend morning show for the the cable news channel, has been tapped to take over its 8-9 p.m. time slot starting April 1. Ed Schultz, who had hosted that hour, is now moving to weekends. For MSNBC, the hope is that Hayes can attract younger viewers and will be a better fit with Rachel Maddow, whose show runs in the 9-10 p.m. time slot. Hayes has often been a guest host on Maddow's show.

This was to be a year of watching and learning for Utah quarterback Travis Wilson. He was ticketed for a no-stress freshman season in which he could become acclimated to the altitude of Salt Lake City and the competition in the Pac-12 Conference. But Utah's quarterback of the future could be the Utes' quarterback on Saturday against UCLA at the Rose Bowl. At the very least he is on call. Wilson, who this time a year ago was throwing passes for San Clemente High, is Utah's second-string quarterback.

The Los Angeles Police Department took the unusual step Thursday of urging homeless people to get off the street and seek shelter at night after three transients were stabbed while they slept by an assailant who left behind rambling "death warrants. " Detectives said the attacks, none fatal, all occurred this month and involved middle-aged homeless people who were stabbed in the back. The attacker left signed pieces of paper that he labeled "death warrants" at the scene of each crime.

EUGENE, Ore. -- After Joanna Hayes tore her patellar tendon at the 2008 U.S. Olympic trials and couldn't defend the 100-meter hurdles gold medal she had won at the Athens Games, she figured her athletic career was over. She rehabbed slowly, well enough to run alongside the kids she coaches at Studio City Harvard-Westlake but with no goal other than to live a “normal” life. Giving birth to her daughter, Zoe, in December 2010 seemed to cement her retirement. But then her knee stopped hurting during her cross-country runs with the Harvard-Westlake kids, and her boyfriend, Eric Thomas, triggered her competitive instincts by suggesting she could probably still compete on an elite level.

Why should you follow the Twitter feeds of athletes? Because sometimes you'll see some amazing things. Take the Twitter feed of Miami Marlins catcher Brett Hayes. On his Twitter page Thursday , he tweeted the following: "Sitting in traffic on the turnpike and a man with a gun just walked by our car. Not good. " What? A guy with a gun? It turns out he was witnessing the man who shot two Miami police officers , then shot himself. "He and I made [eye] contact, and he looked like he was up to no good," Hayes told the Miami Herald.

There is an appealing nyuk, nyuk nostalgic spirit to"The Three Stooges. "To fully appreciate this paean to slapstick and silly nonsense simply requires that cynicism be temporarily shelved and the thinking side of the brain shut down. Starring Sean Hayes, Will Sasso and Chris Diamantopoulos as Larry, Curly and Moe, this affectionate update is a love letter to the Stooges from the filmmaking Farrelly brothers, Peter and Bobby. Though they may be best known for the R-rated "There's Something About Mary," there is a Stooge streak a mile long running through their work - the bumbling misfits with a heart of gold in their first film, "Dumb & Dumber," for starters.

Hazardous-materials teams investigating a cargo container that arrived at the Port of Long Beach on Wednesday marked with black graffiti saying "Anthrax a gift from Osama" found no signs of contaminants, authorities said. "Everything we've been able to test does not indicate any kind of a contaminant, including anthrax," said Long Beach Fire Battalion Chief Frank Hayes. The local teams turned over test samples to FBI investigators, who will need at least 72 hours to process the results, Hayes said.

EUGENE, Ore. -- After Joanna Hayes tore her patellar tendon at the 2008 U.S. Olympic trials and couldn't defend the 100-meter hurdles gold medal she had won at the Athens Games, she figured her athletic career was over. She rehabbed slowly, well enough to run alongside the kids she coaches at Studio City Harvard-Westlake but with no goal other than to live a “normal” life. Giving birth to her daughter, Zoe, in December 2010 seemed to cement her retirement. But then her knee stopped hurting during her cross-country runs with the Harvard-Westlake kids, and her boyfriend, Eric Thomas, triggered her competitive instincts by suggesting she could probably still compete on an elite level.

USC linebacker Hayes Pullard III looked forward to being a part of the USC-UCLA rivalry. And for most of his time at Crenshaw High, he envisioned doing it as a Bruin. Former Crenshaw stars Reggie Carter and Brian Price had made their way to Westwood. Pullard was on track to follow. "I was always up there and supporting them," Pullard said. "I kind of felt a vibe. " That changed after former Trojans linebackers coach Ken Norton invited Pullard to a USC workout.

Reporting from Eugene, Ore. -- Crenshaw High was well represented Saturday in USC's 38-35 victory over Oregon at Autzen Stadium. But, in something of an upset milder than the final score, the biggest Crenshaw star was USC linebacker Hayes Pullard , not Oregon's De'Anthony Thomas . Thomas, last year's Los Angeles City Section player of the year, had a good game. He had three yards rushing in three carries, 49 yards and a touchdown in three receptions and 162 yards in three kickoff returns — including a 96-yard sprint for a touchdown in the third quarter.