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[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,...

[Translate] San Francisco is not the first SF Bay Area NFL city to bid for the right to host a Super Bowl Game. Oakland was in 2000 and as that bid effort was headed by the author of this blog post, what follows is a kind of short memoir. On On November 3, 2000, in Atlanta, Georgia, Oakland came to within just eight NFL Owner votes of hosting the 2005 Super Bowl. Here’s how Oakland got to that point. Oakland Went After San Francisco’s Failed 2003 Bid The entire story started with the San Francisco 49ers Owner Eddie...

[Translate] The NFL Owners meet Tuesday at the Hyatt Harborside in Boston to conduct league business, including voting to determine which city hosts the 50th and 51st Super Bowl, or Super Bowl L and LI. (Follow Zennie62 on Twitter to keep track of what’s happening as I will be there.) The San Francisco Bay Area Super Bowl Bid appears to have the upper hand as it is buttressed by an incredible new stadium that will open in 2014, and was built in part with a municipal bond issue. By contrast, the media has had a field day making...

[Translate] Kanye West gay? That’s the rumor that is being unfairly spread by In Touch Magazine, who’s editors have no shame in admitting that their only source for the information are, get this, online commenters. In other words, In Touch Magazine based an entire accusation about a celebrity entirely on what someone like you or someone else would write in the comment section of their publication. That’s it. Well, from that perspective, you could comment that Kanye West was a space alien and In Touch Magazine...

[Translate] TOSCA Cafe, the bar in San Francisco with a colorful history that’s apparently not known to some media people, is closing this weekend – Sunday is it’s last day. Reported, it is falling to new ownership, as Jeannette Etheredge has elected to sell it to Ken Friedman and chef April Bloomfield, who have made names for themselves at The Spotted Pig in New York, and saw TOSCA as the plan for their West Coast expansion. This weekend marks the end of an era which saw the bar as the unofficial home of the...