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[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...

[Translate] The Cannes Film Festival’s starting to read like Oakland, California with reports of a jewelry theft and now shots fired while actors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil were in the middle of a live interview. Makes you wonder what’s next? According to Reuters, A man fired a gun as actors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil were in the middle of an interview during a live TV broadcast along the sun-drenched, palm-lined waterfront, sending the pair, and many others, running for cover. Reuters reporter said that...

[Translate] Kanye West turned away from the duty of being Kim Kardashian’s husband-to-be long enough to record a new album called New Slaves. And the time he spent was well-invested as Mr. West used locations in 66 spots at the following 10 cities around the World for a really cool introduction of the album mating locations, event planning, marketing, and social media: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, New York, Miami, London, Berlin, Paris, and Sydney Australia. The setup is such that a projector has Kanye West...

[Translate] The Philadelphia Eagles under Chip Kelly are a different team, more like, well, the Oregon Ducks. There are two obvious differences from the looks of the video embedded here from the Eagles practice and by Tom Moore: the loud music and the use of the Read Option Offense. Some have said that Chip Kelly will use a “different” offense from the Read Option – well, folks, he’s not going to do that. The Read Option can be used with almost any formation, and mixed with any other kind of system. But...

[Translate] The IRS’ political targeting allegations are just plain scary, especially as one who wonders just how the Internal Revenue Service comes to focus on celebrities of a major or minor level. And not just the IRS, but the California Franchise Tax Board, which I believed was targeting me in a similar fashion. Regardless of politics, it should be against the law for a government revenue collection organization to pick on people for political or religious reasons. If the organization comes to the attention of the IRS via...

[Translate] The Oakland City Auditor Report that alleged that Councilmembers Larry Reid (District 7) and Desley Brooks (District 6) were acting in violation of the City Charter in various ways was to be introduced at the Oakland City Council meeting of Tuesday night. But, it never saw the light of Oakland legislative day. Why? While the story Oakland City Council President Pat Kernighan (District 2) gave to the media was that it was because the report which in a racist way zeroed in on Oakland’s two black councilmembers,...