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[Translate] The San Francisco Super Bowl L Bid was successful. It, really, if you think about it, surprisingly, beat back a formidable Miami and South Florida Super Bowl Bid, where Miami has hosted the game a record ten times. After the press conference, where San Francisco 49ers Owner John York, his son Jed York, and bid head Daniel Lurie talked about how the win was good for the San Francisco Bay Area. Here.. And we all went outside for more interviews, Lurie said that they “got help from a number of host committees, even...

[Translate] Stephen Ross, the owner of the Miami Dolphins, and Rodney Barreto, the Chairman of the South Florida Super Bowl Host Committee, gave a press conference after they lost the Super Bowl L Bid Competition to San Francisco on Tuesday at the NFL Spring Owners Meeting in Boston. If you didn’t see that press conference, as it wasn’t televised, here it is: Stay tuned. ...

[Translate] Chad Johnson’s out of jail and back to Twitter. No, this hasn’t been announced anywhere but here first. And that’s because media today doesn’t do a good job of following up on good news, after the bad news about, in this case, Chad Johnson’s arrest for a probation violation. You can’t Twitter tweet from jail, I don’t think. To learn that Chad Johnson is out of jail, all you have to do is read his Twitter account @ochocinco. You will also learn he’s still obsessed with...

[Translate] David Glover was one of the first mentors I had after I started work in the City of Oakland after grad school at Berkeley. I got the word the former Oakland Citizens Committee For Urban Renewal (OCCUR) Executive Director passed on Wednesday and at the young age of 60, after a battle with cancer he waged for quite a while. David is not someone you “remember,” but someone you experience. A man with a deep, melodic baratone voice, David was always equal parts warm, instructive, focused, thoughtful, entertaining,...

[Translate] FRO, or Football Reporters Online has a well-stocked show this evening at 6 PM on Blog Talk Radio. First up is Steve Burkett of Eye-Scout, on to talk about his innovative football scouting data service “in the clouds” and how he claims SAP and the San Francisco 49ers worked to take his business concept. This blogger interviewed Mr. Burkett two weeks ago and for Zennie62 on YouTube.com. Here’s the video from that 37 minute conversation: Did SAP take the Eye-Scout product model? Time will tell. Next...

[Translate] Tioki.com is not a virtual tiki bar. The Linkedin model is an undoutedly successful one, so would be just a matter of time before someone developed a site that has the same intent, but is focused on one industry, like education. That startup company, backed by Mitch Kapor (Lotus fame) and 500 Startups, has been around for about two years and was founded by Brian Martinez and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge. It’s called Tioki.com and it’s based in Downtown Oakland. What Tioki.com does is allow people in the education...

[Translate] While winning Super Bowl XLVII is still fresh in the minds of the Baltimore Ravens, they are looking ahead to the 2013 season with the start of their Organized Team Activities (OTAs) this week. The Ravens hope to answer some questions this week. Who will replace wide receiver Anquan Boldin, traded to the San Francisco 49ers this offseason? Torrey Smith and Jacoby Jones are the leading receivers, who will be No. 3? The Ravens have several prospects including LaQuan Williams, Tandon Doss, David Reed, Deonte Thompson and...

[Translate] The San Francisco Super Bowl L Bid Press Conference took place at the NFL News Conference Room at the Hyatt Harborside Hotel Boston and just less than 15 minutes after the announcement that San Francisco won the right to host Super Bowl L in 2016, the 50th Super Bowl. Of the San Francisco Super Bowl L Bidding Committee group that made the trip, San Francisco 49ers Team Chairman Jed York, Chair and Tipping Point CEO Daniel Lurie, Former SF Giants Enterprises Executive Director Pat Gallagher, San Francisco Travel Authority...

[Translate] San Francisco and Houston won the right to host Super Bowl L and LI, respectively. Congratulations are in order and for to Dr. John York, his son Jed York, SF Super Bowl Bidding Committee Chairman Daniel Lurie, as well as to Houston Texans Owner Bob McNair and the Houston Super Bowl Bidding Committee for their win as well. How those two groups handled their wins on video stood in dark contrast to the the sad press conference that was given by Miami Dolphins’ Owner Stephen Ross, South Florida Super Bowl Committee...

[Translate] As of this writing, it’s just one hour before the NFL announces the winner of the right to host Super Bowls L an LI, and the tension and excitement here is thick. But with that, it feels like a win for the San Francisco 49ers and the SF Bay Area, especially if the smiles on the faces of Jed York and his father John York as they walked by me are any indication. As of this writing the NFL Owners are having lunch, having finished the presentations. Now, it’s a matter of time – just a few more moments....

[Translate] Stephen Ross is much more trim a figure in person. For reasons that can only be tracked to God, as this blogger walked into the Hyatt Harborside Hotel for the Boston NFL Owners Meeting that will decide who gets to host Super Bowl L and LI, Miami Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross was standing at the hotel’s concierge table, and surrounded by a small group of colleagues. So, I went over and introduced myself. It’s hard to tell what Mr. Ross is thinking. The media’s betting his South Florida Super Bowl L...

[Translate] Nicolas Zambrano Lozada, the now-former Ecuador judge who was found to have taken a large, half-million dollar bribe in the Chevron (TexPet) Ecuador case, avoided showing up to court to testify about whether he really wrote the judgement for the $19 billion award the Ecuadorian judge slapped on Chevron for alleged claims of environmental damage during the operation of the mostly-Ecuadorian-owned TexPet oil organization until 1992. Now that he’s skipped court, it kinda looks like he did. According to Fortune Magazine,...