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[Translate] The Golden State Warriors win over the San Antonio Spurs has excited Oakland and helped place the city, and the San Francisco / Oakland Bay Area, in the eyes of America. Indeed, the search term “Golden State Warriors” was number one in Google Trends on May 13th. That’s the first time such an event has happened, but the City of Oakland and Oakland-based businesses did nothing at all to take advantage of the moment, and have not done anything on this Tuesday. Today is the 5th game of the series, played...

[Translate] The Minnesota Vikings unveiled their long-planned new stadium in animation form on Monday, and it’s something else. In trying to come up with an alternative to a retractable-roofed stadium, HKS Architects created an elegant solution that will set the tone for NFL Stadiums in the future. The roof of the $975 million venue in downtown Minneapolis is glass, while giant french doors serve to bring outside air, in. It’s that simple. the one question that does come up is what happens to the air conditioning in...

[Translate] “How I Met Your Mother” prevented an awful use of social media in giving fans a spoiler look at who the mother is prior to the start of Monday’s show. The producers forgot that the best use of platforms is as a call to action. In short, the people who put together the plan just threw up a hashtag and slapped the mothers photo on the “How I Met Your Mother” Facebook page without a thought, pissing off fans in the process, as the video shows. (And the mother is the cute Cristin Milioti.)...

[Translate] Tiger Woods is officially back. The World’s Best Golfer won the Players Championship on Sunday in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, scoring his fourth win in six starts this year, and after going for two years without a win, in the wake of Woods’ now-almost-forgotten episodes of being caught cheating on his now-ex-wife Elin Nordegren. Famed Sports Agent Leigh Steinberg was right about Tiger Woods: he has come back and is loved once again: In fact, he’s loved most of all by Lindsey Vonn, the equally-famed...

[Translate] Say, NFL, looks like Senator Tom Coburn may be pissed you’re not giving enough money to the GOP. The NFL is a private, non-profit organization. Repeat: the NFL is a private, non-profit organization. Once more: the National Football League is a private non-profit organization. You can tell we’ve reached a point where a certain group of people have passed on or gotten older and given way to a new group of folks who just discovered the NFL’s a non-profit. And so, here we go again, with another generational...

[Translate] Happy Mother’s Day, everyone! I’m with my Mom here in Atlanta, agan this year, but I created this video on Mother’s Day last year: Again, Happy Mother’s Day, everyone! Stay tuned. ...

[Translate] Washington Redskins name change? Ah…Talk to Mom on Mother’s Day, first. Count this blogger’s mother as a staunch supporter of the name Washington Redskins, and she has never met Mr. Snyder, whereas I have. Good guy in my book. But my Mom’s main point is that she thinks the Redskins name is positive, and while she doesn’t think of Native Americans when she hears it (football is what she thinks of), to her, it’s a positive image, and not a negative one. In our debate, I said that...

[Translate] The words “Amy Trask Of Oakland Raiders Resigns” are ones I just can’t see as real. For 25 years Amy Trask has been the Oakland Raiders, and the Oakland Raiders have been Amy Trask. Yes, I can say I know Ms. Trask as kind of part of Oakland’s community furniture: people you see so much you feel like your kin to them in a way. That’s how it goes in a town like Oakland, and that’s how it was for me with Amy. No, we were never buddy, buddy, and for a good, long time our relationship...

[Translate] Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has a terrible habit of operating the Office Of The Mayor Of Oakland as if it’s Mayberry RFD: a small town where she drives herself around, or has her husband Dr. Floyd Huen do it. All of that would be fine for a town of 5,000 people, but Oakland is not that; it’s a city of 400,000 and within it contain some people who don’t always conduct themselves with the Mayor’s best interests in mind. Under such circumstances, a mayor needs a driver / bodyguard, and her husband can’t...

[Translate] Carrie Underwood was named the next singer of the NFL, NBC Sunday Night Football Game theme “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night” on Tuesday of this week. During the press conference call, Ms. Underwood, an American Idol legend said that she would make a new version of the tune that was originally sang by Faith Hill until she decided she didn’t want to do it anymore, this year. “Musically, it’s our first step” Carrie said. “We definitely wanted to make it sound different and sound...

[Translate] The Dallas Cowboys continue to look like two organizations, the one Jerry Jones runs and the one Jason Garrett operates. There’s Dallas Cowboys Owner Jones making the personnel decisions off the field, but then making comments regarding what players will do on it. And there’s Dallas Cowboys Head Coach Jason Garrett playing media defense, saying in perfect bureaucratic style, ‘We’re already doing that.’ That’s what has happened over the month of May, as Jerry Jones got this whole mess...

[Translate] The National Football League wants the Miami Dolphins to remain a going concern in the South Florida region. That message was communicated via NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell while on the NFL Network for a wide-ranging interview on Thursday. But the topic that some in the media have bungled is that the Miami Dolphins are planning to move the team. While Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross and Dolphins CEO Mike Dee certainly sent the wrong message with last weekend’s political rants, they stopped short of saying they would...