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Ok, lovers of Women’s Tennis (it’s the legs) here’s an update from the 2013 French Open. Serena Williams, the number one women’s tennis player in the World, beat number 15th ranked, Roberta Vinci of Italy, 6-1 6-3. Now, Compton, California’s amazing star and half an awesome sister sports act, has won four matches, winning all … Read more
Hope Solo and Jerramy Stevens, her husband as a result of their marriage last October, were spotted by ESPN at today’s U.S. vs. Germany World Cup Soccer Qualifier Match at RFK Stadium in Washington DC (which the USA won 4-3). And you may wonder how this blogger came to know this? The answer is a … Read more
The Nokia Lumia 928 Phone promises to change the smartphone conversation, and to prove it, this blogger’s co-hosting an online Twitter Party with Microsoft representatives on this coming Tuesday, June 4th – you can follow me on Twitter, @Zennie62, at 2:00 PM EST. The Nokia Lumia 928 Phone has a main camera sensor of 8.7 … Read more
Pro Football Weekly. After 46 years, Pro Football Weekly has published its last issue. The publication I read religiously when I was a teenager, and because it had the only reliable and detailed account of the 1975 Dallas Cowboys Offense, and their employment of pre-shfting, is no longer. According to its Publisher and editor, the … Read more
SF Carnival 2013. It was its usual mix of girls, food, fun, dancing, and something new: dudes videobombing. I was all set to talk about how long the SF Carnival 2013 Street Festival was when three dudes came up and videobombed me – or interrupted my recording of comment to make one of their own. … Read more
The American Association Of Retired Persons or AARP, sent this blogger a letter containing a fancy membership offer. That’s not cool. I thought AARP was for people who were over 65, not 50. At 50, I’m not done living. AARP is trying to tell me to get out. Quit. Give up the ship. Why? I … Read more
Oklahoma is being tormented by more bad weather, just one week after a massive storm and killer tornado ended the lives of 50, insured many more, and destroyed schools and much of the town of Moore, Oklahoma. Today, all of Northern Oklahoma is under a severe thunderstorm warning condition, and there have been reports of … Read more
The Chicago Sun-Times, facing ever declining revenues in an age of camera-equipped smartphones, camcorders, and bloggers and vloggers, held a meeting with its photography staff to announce they’ve been fired. And, according to AdAge, that means 20 people will lose their jobs, but including freelancers, the number comes to about 30 people. The Chicago Sun-Times … Read more
On Friday May 31st, the Asteroid 1998 QE2, said to be as large as the City of Emeryville, is set to fly close to Earth, and the Chabot Space and Science Center Oakland at 10000 Skyline Blvd, invites you to watch it there at 1:59 PM (but Chabot says to come at 9:30 PM). Afterward, … Read more
SportStars and Athletes First, two leading NFL player agent companies, were numbers one and two in having their clients signed by NFL teams, with 39 players in total, according to the Sports Agent Blog’s Darren Heitner. That list includes Athletes First clients Cordarrelle Patterson, WR, Tennessee, selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the 1st round, … Read more
Adam Goodes’ was the target of a racist taunt by 13 year old, and a Papa Johns Pizza Employee in Sanford, Florida goes on a racist rant: Two racist incidents that have captured pop culture view, and provided a lesson for us all. First, Adam Goodes is an excellent soccer player, who plays professional Australian … Read more
The AT&T Park Concession Workers have voted to strike, and walk off their jobs of serving food to the customers. Reportedly, they haven’t got a raise in four years. At first, I wasn’t going to wade into this issue until I saw this text at the website: Centerplate has told us that the Giants take … Read more
UPDATE: GODZILLA WILL ATTACK SAN FRANCISCO! In this Godzilla 2014 Update, we find more set pictures that, put together, reveal many plot details. First, the filming action is still in Canada, but has moved to Steveston, BC from Vancouver. There, the first set of picts that caused a ton of buzz came from a depiction … Read more
Maurice Jones Drew has done nothing wrong, folks. There’s a story from St. Augustine, Florida that the Jacksonville Jaguars’ star running back has been charged with misdemeanor battery, but it’s not true. In fact, according to TMZ.com, the St. Augustine Police admit they screwed up. It seemed something was fishy with the story because the … Read more
Fast And Furious 6, the action movie starring Vin Diesel and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, has topped the $100 million mark, already, and it was just released last week, on May 24th. The sixth installment of the fast cars battle between cops and criminals, also has two African American entertainment stars Ludacis, and Tyrese. I … Read more
The Osso Steakhouse San Francisco Movie proves that the good life inspired by such movies as The Great Gatsby is in affordable reach at the The Osso Steakhouse at 1177 California Street, at Jones. The Osso Steakhouse San Francisco Movie stars Tim Allen, The Great Gatsby, Jerry and Jennifer Dal Bozzo, JC the Bartender, and … Read more
President Obama is rocking Jersey Shore and Twitter with the historic declaration “Jersey Shore is open for business” today. And stop for a moment and consider that Barack Obama has presided over more natural and social disasters than any American President in our history. From the Economic Crisis, to Sandy Hook, and the Oklahoma Tornado, … Read more
Serena Williams, the star champion half of the greatest hot sister act in sports, is threatening to burn-up the French Open, and has certainly made sponsors like Moet Champagne happy. But Serena’s got another surprise for us: She has a son, named Chip. My son Chip is about to have his nap with his toy… … Read more
The San Antonio Spurs beat the Memphis Grizzlies, sweeping them in four games, to head to the NBA Finals and make the NBA boring in the process. At least the Golden State / Oakland Warriors can hang their heads high and say ‘At least we took them to a six game series.’ Now, the San … Read more
Memorial Day 2013 has come and gone, but not without remembering my fathers. I originally wrote this in 2009, and it’s worthy of being reprinted, again, and again: At first I wasn’t going to do this, because it’s too hard. But I just knew I could not let the Memorial Day go by without honoring … Read more
The Indianapolis 500 the 12th time around was the charm for Tony Kanaan. Mr. Kanaan won the Indy 500 on his 12th try, and by taking the lead from Ryan Hunter-Reay on a restart with just three laps to the end. A Dario Franchitti crash froze the race due to a caution flag, and allowed … Read more
Oakland’s New Racism Must Be Stopped. Oakland is being victimized by a new racist element that thinks it’s OK to yell out at and taunt people because they’re black. The last straw for me was at The Alley, which wasn’t the bar’s fault, but it happened there. A guy named Colin was with his wife … Read more
Amanda Bynes, the famed actress who has had run ins with the law in Hollywood and in New York City, now claims sexually harassment by the NY Cop who arrested her after reports of possession of marijuana, and possession of a bong. The judge threw out the charges and the bong was never found. Now, … Read more
Blake Shelton, country singer and star of The Voice, is planning a benefit to help victims of the Oklahoma Tornados on May 29th at 9PM. The event, called “Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert” will be held at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, and will be televised live at 9 p.m. EDT … Read more
Here’s the latest in the weekly update of the San Francisco TransBay Terminal Contruction Activities News: 10 Day Look Ahead: Construction Activities Friday, May 24, 2013 – Sunday, June 3, 2013 This week at Transbay… What to Expect This Weekend (5/25/13 – 5/26/13): Western Transit Center Site (Between First and Second Streets): This weekend there … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more