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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116472\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/redskins.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: Keith Allison/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"495\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Keith Allison/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pro-Football Inc., \u003ca href=\"http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=24082365\" target=\"_blank\">aka\u003c/a> the Washington Redskins to many NFL fans and \"that football team from Washington\" to others, today lost what could end up being an important battle in the fight over the controversial nickname. From AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A federal trademark board ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins nickname is \"disparaging of Native Americans\" and that the team's trademark protections should be canceled, a decision that applies new financial and political pressure on the team to change its name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2-1 \u003ca href=\"http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=92046185&pty=CAN&eno=199\" target=\"_blank\">ruling from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board\u003c/a> came in a case that has been working its way through legal channels for more than two decades. It doesn't force the team to abandon the name, but it comes at a time of increasing criticism of team owner Dan Snyder from political, religious and sports figures who say it's time for a change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redskins quickly announced that they will appeal, and the cancellation for trademark protections will be on hold while the matter makes its way through the courts. That process could take years.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's a \u003ca href=\"http://www.uspto.gov/news/USPTO_Official_Fact_Sheet_on_TTAB_decision_in_Blackhorse_v_Pro_Football_Inc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">fact sheet\u003c/a> on the case from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A \u003ca href=\"http://files.redskins.com/pdf/Statement-by-Bob-Raskopf-Trademark-Attorney-for-the-Washington-Redskins.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a> from the team's trademark attorney said the team was confident it would win on appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the decision is upheld, the team won't be legally required to change its name, but it will lose the protections afforded by registration of the contested trademarks. That could \u003ca href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/05/10/1994961/why-never-abandoning-redskins-as-his-teams-name-might-soon-cost-dan-snyder-a-lot-of-money/\" target=\"_blank\">end up costing it a lot of money in merchandise sales\u003c/a>. As AP puts it, Washington would \"lose a significant portion of its ability to protect the financial interests connected to it. If others printed the name on sweatshirts or other apparel without permission, it would become more cumbersome to go after such groups.\" (\u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2014/06/18/washington-redskins-business-unlikely-to-suffer-from-trademark-loss/\" target=\"_blank\">Not everyone agrees\u003c/a> with this analysis, however.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I don’t think there are very many people that can debate effectively that it’s not a patently racist term.'\u003ccite>— Audrey Cooper,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Chronicle managing editor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And if you're wondering, trademark law \u003ca href=\"http://www.bitlaw.com/source/15usc/1052.html#(a)\" target=\"_blank\">prohibits\u003c/a> registration of terms that \"\u003cspan style=\"color: #222222\">may disparage... persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, or bring them into contempt, or disrepute.\" Related to that standard,\u003c/span> ThinkProgress has a post called \u003ca href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2014/06/18/3450434/7-things-that-convinced-the-us-patent-office-to-cancel-the-redskins-trademark/\" target=\"_blank\">7 Things That Convinced The U.S. Patent Office To Cancel The Redskins Trademark\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One part of the mounting pressure on the team is that some reporters and media outlets \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/sep/09/washington-redskins-us-press-publishing\" target=\"_blank\">refuse to use the name Redskins\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/30/san-francisco-chronicle-washington-redskins/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle joined that group\u003c/a> last fall, and after the announcement, KQED's Mina Kim spoke about the decision with Chronicle Managing Editor Audrey Cooper. She said one of the paper's sports columnists first suggested considering whether use of the word was appropriate. The issue was taken up by the paper's style council, which then recommended avoiding the term whenever possible, short of obscuring clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\"If the story is about the controversy, obviously we’ll have to print the word so that people will know what we’re talking about,\" Cooper said. \"Absent that, we think it’s very easy to use the word 'Washington' to describe who, for example, won a football game.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Cooper said she considered the word offensive. \"I don’t think there are very many people that can debate effectively that it’s not a patently racist term. Not everyone has to be personally offended by a word to make it a racial slur.\" She said the newsroom staff was almost unanimously in support of the decision. \"When the announcement went out to our staff, I think in the first five minutes I received about 30 emails that said it's about time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">When asked whether the paper considered survey results last year that showed 90 percent of Native Americans did not find the terms offensive, Cooper said, \"We don’t make word decisions based on popularity contests. We have decided we believe that it is a racial term.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/30/san-francisco-chronicle-washington-redskins/\" target=\"_blank\">listen to the entire interview\u003c/a> here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/117860731&color=ff5500\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"AP\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full AP report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal trademark board ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins nickname is \"disparaging of Native Americans\" and that the team's trademark protections should be canceled, a decision that applies new financial and political pressure on the team to change its name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2-1 ruling from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board came in a case that has been working its way through legal channels for more than two decades. It doesn't force the team to abandon the name, but it comes at a time of increasing criticism of team owner Dan Snyder from political, religious and sports figures who say it's time for a change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redskins quickly announced that they will appeal, and the cancellation for trademark protections will be on hold while the matter makes its way through the courts. That process could take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the second time the board had issued an opinion on the case. A similar ruling from 1999 was overturned on a technicality in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen this story before,\" Redskins attorney Bob Raskopf said. \"And just like last time, today's ruling will have no effect at all on the team's ownership of and right to use the Redskins name and logo. We are confident we will prevail once again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling involves six uses of the \"Redskins\" name trademarked by the team from 1967 to 1990. If it stands, it would mean the team can continue to use the name, but it would lose a significant portion of its ability to protect the financial interests connected to it. If others printed the name on sweatshirts or other apparel without permission, it would become more cumbersome to go after such groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courts overturned the board's previous ruling in part because the plaintiffs waited too long to voice their opposition after the original trademarks were issued. The case was relaunched in 2006 by a younger group of Native Americans who had recently become adults and therefore would not have able to file a case earlier. The hearing was held in March of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chorus of critics against the use of the name has grown over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, a major sector of the United Church of Christ voted to urge its 40,000 members to boycott the Redskins. Half of the U.S. Senate recently wrote letters to the NFL urging a change, one of the letters stating that \"racism and bigotry have no place in professional sports.\" D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray suggested Wednesday the name will almost certainly have to change if the team ever wants to build a new stadium in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snyder, who has vowed repeatedly never to change the name, declined comment as he walked off the field after a minicamp practice Wednesday. Redskins players have mostly avoided the topic, aware of a potential conflict because they are employed by the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our job as players is to focus on what we can on this field day-in and day-out and let the legal people take care of that stuff,\" quarterback Robert Griffin III said after practice. \"And when it's the right time, then we can voice whatever it is we know about the situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redskins have responded to critics by creating an Original Americans Foundation to give financial support to Native American tribes. Suzan Shown Harjo, a lead figure in the trademark case, called the foundation \"somewhere between a PR assault and bribery.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of a name change quickly hailed the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Daniel Snyder may be the last person in the world to realize this,\" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor, \"but it is just a matter of time until he is forced to do the right thing.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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From AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A federal trademark board ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins nickname is \"disparaging of Native Americans\" and that the team's trademark protections should be canceled, a decision that applies new financial and political pressure on the team to change its name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2-1 \u003ca href=\"http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=92046185&pty=CAN&eno=199\" target=\"_blank\">ruling from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board\u003c/a> came in a case that has been working its way through legal channels for more than two decades. It doesn't force the team to abandon the name, but it comes at a time of increasing criticism of team owner Dan Snyder from political, religious and sports figures who say it's time for a change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redskins quickly announced that they will appeal, and the cancellation for trademark protections will be on hold while the matter makes its way through the courts. That process could take years.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's a \u003ca href=\"http://www.uspto.gov/news/USPTO_Official_Fact_Sheet_on_TTAB_decision_in_Blackhorse_v_Pro_Football_Inc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">fact sheet\u003c/a> on the case from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A \u003ca href=\"http://files.redskins.com/pdf/Statement-by-Bob-Raskopf-Trademark-Attorney-for-the-Washington-Redskins.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a> from the team's trademark attorney said the team was confident it would win on appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the decision is upheld, the team won't be legally required to change its name, but it will lose the protections afforded by registration of the contested trademarks. That could \u003ca href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/05/10/1994961/why-never-abandoning-redskins-as-his-teams-name-might-soon-cost-dan-snyder-a-lot-of-money/\" target=\"_blank\">end up costing it a lot of money in merchandise sales\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full AP report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal trademark board ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins nickname is \"disparaging of Native Americans\" and that the team's trademark protections should be canceled, a decision that applies new financial and political pressure on the team to change its name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2-1 ruling from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board came in a case that has been working its way through legal channels for more than two decades. It doesn't force the team to abandon the name, but it comes at a time of increasing criticism of team owner Dan Snyder from political, religious and sports figures who say it's time for a change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redskins quickly announced that they will appeal, and the cancellation for trademark protections will be on hold while the matter makes its way through the courts. That process could take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the second time the board had issued an opinion on the case. A similar ruling from 1999 was overturned on a technicality in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen this story before,\" Redskins attorney Bob Raskopf said. \"And just like last time, today's ruling will have no effect at all on the team's ownership of and right to use the Redskins name and logo. We are confident we will prevail once again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling involves six uses of the \"Redskins\" name trademarked by the team from 1967 to 1990. If it stands, it would mean the team can continue to use the name, but it would lose a significant portion of its ability to protect the financial interests connected to it. If others printed the name on sweatshirts or other apparel without permission, it would become more cumbersome to go after such groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courts overturned the board's previous ruling in part because the plaintiffs waited too long to voice their opposition after the original trademarks were issued. The case was relaunched in 2006 by a younger group of Native Americans who had recently become adults and therefore would not have able to file a case earlier. The hearing was held in March of last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chorus of critics against the use of the name has grown over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, a major sector of the United Church of Christ voted to urge its 40,000 members to boycott the Redskins. Half of the U.S. Senate recently wrote letters to the NFL urging a change, one of the letters stating that \"racism and bigotry have no place in professional sports.\" D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray suggested Wednesday the name will almost certainly have to change if the team ever wants to build a new stadium in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snyder, who has vowed repeatedly never to change the name, declined comment as he walked off the field after a minicamp practice Wednesday. Redskins players have mostly avoided the topic, aware of a potential conflict because they are employed by the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our job as players is to focus on what we can on this field day-in and day-out and let the legal people take care of that stuff,\" quarterback Robert Griffin III said after practice. \"And when it's the right time, then we can voice whatever it is we know about the situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Redskins have responded to critics by creating an Original Americans Foundation to give financial support to Native American tribes. Suzan Shown Harjo, a lead figure in the trademark case, called the foundation \"somewhere between a PR assault and bribery.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of a name change quickly hailed the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Daniel Snyder may be the last person in the world to realize this,\" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor, \"but it is just a matter of time until he is forced to do the right thing.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Ben Nuckols\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/498331.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-136633\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/498331-640x421.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Jeremy Newberry, No. 62, in a 1999 NFL game. Newberry is one of the plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit alleging NFL teams misuse powerful painkillers to keep injured players on the field. (Tom Hauck/Allsport-Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Jeremy Newberry, No. 62, in a 1999 NFL game. Newberry is one of the plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit alleging NFL teams misuse powerful painkillers to keep injured players on the field. 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To stay competitive in the NFL, this is something we have really needed for a long, long time, and I think it's going to be awesome.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000205086/article/super-bowl-l-awarded-to-san-francisco-li-to-houston\">NFL.com\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The news helps cap a thrilling four-year run for the 49ers franchise. In 2010, Santa Clara voters approved plans for the stadium. Jim Harbaugh took over the reigns of the team in 2011, swiftly bringing them back to the top of the league. 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Sports)\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=Am1f1uzvgWZ63CDSO1Sfn2A5nYcB?slug=ys-greene_remembering_al_davis_100811\">Mean Joe Greene remembers Al Davis\u003c/a> (Yahoo! Sports)\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/blog/los-angeles/nfl/post/_/id/253/shelley-smith-excerpt-elusive-davis\">Unauthorized bio excerpt\u003c/a> (ESPN)\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23aldavis\">Reaction on Twitter\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Al Davis, the renegade owner of the Oakland Raiders who bucked NFL authority while exhorting his silver-and-black team to “Just win, baby!,” died Saturday. He was 82.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hall of Famer died at his home in Oakland, the team said. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis was one of the most important figures in NFL history — a rebel with a subpoena. That was most evident during the 1980s when he went to court — and won — for the right to move his team from Oakland to Los Angeles. Even after he moved the Raiders back to the Bay Area in 1995, he sued for $1.2 billion to establish that he still owned the rights to the L.A. market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Davis’ willingness to take on the establishment that helped turn the NFL into money-making giant that it is — the most successful sports league in American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Al Davis’s passion for football and his influence on the game were extraordinary,” commissioner Roger Goodell said. “He defined the Raiders and contributed to pro football at every level. The respect he commanded was evident in the way that people listened carefully every time he spoke. He is a true legend of the game whose impact and legacy will forever be part of the NFL.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Davis was hardly an NFL company man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not in the way he dressed — usually satin running suits, one white, one black, and the occasional black suit, black shirt and silver tie. Not in the way he wore his hair — slicked back with a ’50s duck-tail. Not in the way he talked — Brooklynese with Southern inflection. Not in the way he does business — on his own terms, always on his own terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elected in 1992 to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Davis was a trailblazer. He hired the first black head coach of the modern era — Art Shell in 1988. He hired the first Latino coach, Tom Flores; and the first woman CEO, Amy Trask. And he was infallibly loyal to his players and officials: to be a Raider was to be a Raider for life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coach Hue Jackson told the team of Davis’ death at a meeting in Houston on Saturday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis was charming, cantankerous and compassionate — a man who when his wife suffered a serious heart attack in the 1970s moved into her hospital room. But he was best known as a rebel, a man who established a team whose silver-and-black colors and pirate logo symbolized his attitude toward authority, both on the field and off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until the decline of the Raiders into a perennial loser in the first decade of the 21st century he was a winner, the man who as a coach, then owner-general manager-de facto coach, established what he called “the team of the decades” based on another slogan: “commitment to excellence.” And the Raiders were excellent, winning three Super Bowls during the 1970s and 1980s and contending almost every other season — an organization filled with castoffs and troublemakers who turned into trouble for opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Al was a football man — his entire life revolved around the game he loved,” said Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams, an original AFL owner of the Houston Oilers. “He worked his way up through the ranks and had a knowledge of all phases of the game. That experience aided him as an owner. He was quite different from every other owner in that way. As an AFL guy, he was in that group of people who pushed our league forward. I didn’t get to see him over the last few years and I know many, including myself, will miss him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Born in Brockton, Mass., Davis grew up in Brooklyn and graduated from Erasmus Hall High School, a spawning ground in the two decades after World War II for a number of ambitious young people who became renowned in sports, business and entertainment. Davis was perhaps the second most famous after Barbra Streisand.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a reunion in Los Angeles and 500 people showed up, including Bah-bruh,” he once told an interviewer in that combination of southern drawl/Brooklynese that was often parodied among his acquaintances within the league and without.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A graduate of Syracuse University, he became an assistant coach with the Baltimore Colts at age 24; and was an assistant at The Citadel and then Southern California before joining the Los Angeles Chargers of the new AFL in 1960. Only three years later, he was hired by the Raiders and became the youngest general manager-head coach in pro football history with a team he called “the Raid-uhs” in 1963.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">He was a good one, 23-16-3 in three seasons with a franchise that had started its life 9-23.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Then he bought into the failing franchise, which played on a high school field adjacent to the Nimitz Freeway in Oakland and became managing general partner, a position he held until his death.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">But as the many bright young coaches he hired — from John Madden, Mike Shanahan and Jon Gruden to Lane Kiffin — found out, he remained the coach. He ran everything from the sidelines, often calling down with plays, or sending emissaries to the sidelines to make substitutions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">In 1966, he became commissioner of the AFL.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">But even before that, he had begun to break an unwritten truce between the young league and its established rivals, which fought over draft choices but did not go after established players.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Although the NFL’s New York Giants’ signing of Buffalo placekicker Pete Gogolak marked the first break in that rule, it was Davis who began to go after NFL stars — pursuing quarterbacks John Brodie and Roman Gabriel as he tried to establish AFL supremacy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Davis’ war precipitated first talks of merger, although Davis opposed it. But led by Lamar Hunt of Kansas City, the AFL owners agreed that peace was best. A common draft was established, and the first Super Bowl was played following the 1966 season — Green Bay beat Kansas City, then went on to beat Davis’ Raiders the next season. By 1970, the leagues were fully merged and the league had the basic structure it retains until this day — with the NFL’s Pete Rozelle as commissioner, not Davis, who wanted the job badly.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">So he went back to the Raiders, running a team that won Super Bowls after the 1976, 1980 and 1983 seasons — the last one in Los Angeles, where the franchise moved in 1982 after protracted court fights. It was a battling bunch, filled with players such as John Matuszak, Mike Haynes and Lyle Alzado, stars who didn’t fill in elsewhere who combined with homegrown stars — Ken Stabler, another rebellious spirit; Gene Upshaw; Shell, Jack Tatum, Willie Brown and dozens of others.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">After lengthy lawsuits involving the move to Los Angeles, he went back to Oakland and at one point in the early years of the century was involved in suits in northern and southern California — the one seeking the Los Angeles rights and another suing Oakland for failing to deliver sellouts they promised to get the Raiders back.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Personally, I was fond of him,” Bengals owner and president Mike Brown said. “He battled with the NFL, and a lot of us wished that had not been where things went, but under all that was a person I respected. It saddens me to hear that he is gone.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Davis aged, his teams declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">The Raiders got to the Super Bowl after the 2002 season, losing to Tampa Bay. But for a long period after that, they had the worst record in the NFL, at one point with five coaches in six years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">It is fitting that this year’s Raiders team is built in typical Raiders fashion with a bevy of speedsters on offense capable of delivering the deep-strike play Davis has always coveted, a physically imposing defensive line that can pressure the quarterback and an accomplished man coverage cornerback in Stanford Routt.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Once a constant presence at practice, training camp and in the locker room, Davis was rarely seen in public beyond the bizarre spectacles to fire and hire coaches where he spent more time disparaging his former coach than praising his new one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">He did not appear at a single training camp practice this summer and missed a game in Buffalo last month, believed to be only the third game he missed in 49 seasons with the franchise. Davis did attend Oakland’s home game last week against New England.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Although he was no longer as public a figure, he was still integrally involved in the team from the draft to negotiating contracts to discussing strategy with his coaches. Jackson has said Davis was unlike any other owner he had worked for in his ability to understand the ins and outs of the game.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“I’ve never had the opportunity to sit and talk football, the X’s and O’s and what it takes to win in this league consistently on a consistent basis, and there’s nothing like working for coach Davis,” Jackson said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">While other owners and league executives branded Davis a renegade, friends and former players find him the epitome of loyalty.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">When his wife, Carol, had a serious heart attack, he moved into her hospital room and lived there for more than a month. And when he hears that even a distant acquaintance is ill, he’ll offer medical help without worrying about expense.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disease is the one thing — boy I tell you, it’s tough to lick,” he said in 2008, talking about the leg ailments that had restricted him to using a walker. “It’s tough to lick those diseases. I don’t know why they can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years earlier, he said: “I can control most things, but I don’t seem to be able to control death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis is survived by Carol and their son Mark, who Davis has said would run the team after his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"columns\">\u003cem>Columnists\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/raiders/ci_19070932\">Al Davis was all about winning\u003c/a> (Mark Purdy, SJ Mercury News)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/raiders/ci_19070916\">Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, a man for all seasons\u003c/a> (Cam Inman, Bay Area News Group)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/raiders/ci_19070911\">Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, life to the fullest\u003c/a> (Tin Kawakami, SJ Mercury News)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/raiders/ci_19070900\">Gary Peterson: Al Davis did it his way\u003c/a> (Gay Peterson, Bay Area News Group)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/raiders/ci_19071056\">Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis had loyal friends, sworn enemies\u003c/a> (Monte Poole, Bay Area News Group)\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/ann_killion/10/08/al.davis/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_t11_a5\">Davis’ death robs NFL of an iconic, one-of-a-kind presence\u003c/a> (Ann Killion, Sports Illustrated)\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/peter_king/10/08/al.davis/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_t11_a2\">Davis impacted football history, and did it on his own terms\u003c/a> (Peter King, Sports Illustrated)\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AlM2cTcENXkTTymgQSAzl8w5nYcB?slug=jc-cole_al_davis_respect_100811\">Brash, combative Davis made his mark on the game\u003c/a> (Jason Cole, Yahoo! 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Davis was hardly an NFL company man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not in the way he dressed — usually satin running suits, one white, one black, and the occasional black suit, black shirt and silver tie. Not in the way he wore his hair — slicked back with a ’50s duck-tail. Not in the way he talked — Brooklynese with Southern inflection. Not in the way he does business — on his own terms, always on his own terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elected in 1992 to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Davis was a trailblazer. He hired the first black head coach of the modern era — Art Shell in 1988. He hired the first Latino coach, Tom Flores; and the first woman CEO, Amy Trask. And he was infallibly loyal to his players and officials: to be a Raider was to be a Raider for life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coach Hue Jackson told the team of Davis’ death at a meeting in Houston on Saturday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis was charming, cantankerous and compassionate — a man who when his wife suffered a serious heart attack in the 1970s moved into her hospital room. But he was best known as a rebel, a man who established a team whose silver-and-black colors and pirate logo symbolized his attitude toward authority, both on the field and off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until the decline of the Raiders into a perennial loser in the first decade of the 21st century he was a winner, the man who as a coach, then owner-general manager-de facto coach, established what he called “the team of the decades” based on another slogan: “commitment to excellence.” And the Raiders were excellent, winning three Super Bowls during the 1970s and 1980s and contending almost every other season — an organization filled with castoffs and troublemakers who turned into trouble for opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Al was a football man — his entire life revolved around the game he loved,” said Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams, an original AFL owner of the Houston Oilers. “He worked his way up through the ranks and had a knowledge of all phases of the game. That experience aided him as an owner. He was quite different from every other owner in that way. As an AFL guy, he was in that group of people who pushed our league forward. I didn’t get to see him over the last few years and I know many, including myself, will miss him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Born in Brockton, Mass., Davis grew up in Brooklyn and graduated from Erasmus Hall High School, a spawning ground in the two decades after World War II for a number of ambitious young people who became renowned in sports, business and entertainment. Davis was perhaps the second most famous after Barbra Streisand.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a reunion in Los Angeles and 500 people showed up, including Bah-bruh,” he once told an interviewer in that combination of southern drawl/Brooklynese that was often parodied among his acquaintances within the league and without.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A graduate of Syracuse University, he became an assistant coach with the Baltimore Colts at age 24; and was an assistant at The Citadel and then Southern California before joining the Los Angeles Chargers of the new AFL in 1960. Only three years later, he was hired by the Raiders and became the youngest general manager-head coach in pro football history with a team he called “the Raid-uhs” in 1963.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">He was a good one, 23-16-3 in three seasons with a franchise that had started its life 9-23.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Then he bought into the failing franchise, which played on a high school field adjacent to the Nimitz Freeway in Oakland and became managing general partner, a position he held until his death.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">But as the many bright young coaches he hired — from John Madden, Mike Shanahan and Jon Gruden to Lane Kiffin — found out, he remained the coach. He ran everything from the sidelines, often calling down with plays, or sending emissaries to the sidelines to make substitutions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">In 1966, he became commissioner of the AFL.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">But even before that, he had begun to break an unwritten truce between the young league and its established rivals, which fought over draft choices but did not go after established players.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Although the NFL’s New York Giants’ signing of Buffalo placekicker Pete Gogolak marked the first break in that rule, it was Davis who began to go after NFL stars — pursuing quarterbacks John Brodie and Roman Gabriel as he tried to establish AFL supremacy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Davis’ war precipitated first talks of merger, although Davis opposed it. 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It was a battling bunch, filled with players such as John Matuszak, Mike Haynes and Lyle Alzado, stars who didn’t fill in elsewhere who combined with homegrown stars — Ken Stabler, another rebellious spirit; Gene Upshaw; Shell, Jack Tatum, Willie Brown and dozens of others.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">After lengthy lawsuits involving the move to Los Angeles, he went back to Oakland and at one point in the early years of the century was involved in suits in northern and southern California — the one seeking the Los Angeles rights and another suing Oakland for failing to deliver sellouts they promised to get the Raiders back.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“Personally, I was fond of him,” Bengals owner and president Mike Brown said. “He battled with the NFL, and a lot of us wished that had not been where things went, but under all that was a person I respected. 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But for a long period after that, they had the worst record in the NFL, at one point with five coaches in six years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">It is fitting that this year’s Raiders team is built in typical Raiders fashion with a bevy of speedsters on offense capable of delivering the deep-strike play Davis has always coveted, a physically imposing defensive line that can pressure the quarterback and an accomplished man coverage cornerback in Stanford Routt.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Once a constant presence at practice, training camp and in the locker room, Davis was rarely seen in public beyond the bizarre spectacles to fire and hire coaches where he spent more time disparaging his former coach than praising his new one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">He did not appear at a single training camp practice this summer and missed a game in Buffalo last month, believed to be only the third game he missed in 49 seasons with the franchise. 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Jackson has said Davis was unlike any other owner he had worked for in his ability to understand the ins and outs of the game.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">“I’ve never had the opportunity to sit and talk football, the X’s and O’s and what it takes to win in this league consistently on a consistent basis, and there’s nothing like working for coach Davis,” Jackson said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">While other owners and league executives branded Davis a renegade, friends and former players find him the epitome of loyalty.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">When his wife, Carol, had a serious heart attack, he moved into her hospital room and lived there for more than a month. 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"content": "\u003cp>The 49ers yesterday trotted out a scale model for their proposed new Santa Clara stadium. From Bruce Newman in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/southbayfootball/ci_18610675\">\u003cstrong>Merc\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(T)he 49ers unveiled another set of drawings and a new scale model of the stadium they hope to build in Santa Clara next to Great America. According to the $987 million project's two lead designers from the architectural firm HNTB, the building itself will be a dazzling showplace of sustainability, and so rich in metaphor that the seats will not be Niner Red, they'll be zinfandel and Bordeaux.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>What's the metaphor, playing like you've had one too many?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cDuOYCVtBs\">video\u003c/a> the team posted showing a \"flyover\" of the model. The little stadium is so realistic you can almost see a miniature Alex Smith throwing a tiny football into the arms of an opposing player in the fourth quarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/4cDuOYCVtBs\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nThe one thing you won't spy in the model is a Raiders' banner, even though the NFL has strongly suggested the two teams, both in the market for a new home, combine their aspirations and play in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/southbayfootball/ci_18516390\">same stadium\u003c/a>. (For more on this, listen to Cy Musiker's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201107211730/a\">discussion\u003c/a> last month with sports economics academic Roger Noll.) \n\u003cp>San Francisco still \u003ca href=\"http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-07-17/news/29783347_1_stadium-consultant-stadium-site-49ers-president\">wants to keep\u003c/a> the Niners in town, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/warriors/ci_18578965\">Oakland\u003c/a> doesn't want to part ways with the Raiders. But, as Mercury News columnist \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/southbayfootball/ci_18516390\">Mark Purdy wrote\u003c/a> a couple of weeks ago, those plans may be suited more for fantasy football than any three-dimensional season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(T)he 49ers' stadium project in Santa Clara is well along the path. Voters there have approved it. The team has begun selling luxury suites at a nearby \"preview center.\" Former 49er quarterback Joe Montana is part of a consortium that has been greenlighted to develop a hotel complex across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One sure thing: San Francisco is not a viable option, despite what you may hear. Former 49ers executive Carmen Policy is being paid by a development company to spin positive pap about a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/07/49ers-stadium-san-francisco-still-play-say-backers\">potential stadium\u003c/a> at Hunters Point Naval Shipyards, a windblown promontory where radioactive waste was once buried. Not surprisingly, York has put the Hunters Point option on the back burner and informed people that if the Santa Clara project ever collapsed, Oakland was the 49ers' next option, not San Francisco.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For more \u003ca href=\"http://www.49ersnewstadium.com/49ers.html#/page-2a1\">\u003cstrong>visualizations\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of the proposed stadium, fumble on over to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.49ersnewstadium.com/49ers.html\">49ers New Stadium web site\u003c/a>, where you'll be treated to a soundscape reminiscent of a coming attraction for a Michael Bay film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Almost nothing about the 49ers 2010 season makes sense. The 0-5 start. The fact the team was still—somehow, with its embarrassing 5-9 record—a playoff contender going into yesterday's game against the Rams in St. Louis. The odd shuffling of two mediocre quarterbacks named Smith. The firing of the offensive coordinator after a debate over whether he enunciated his play calls clearly enough for the quarterback to understand them. Coach Mike Singletary's disconnected, unfocused, often irritable post-game analyses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this morning, with Singletary's firing, we can add one more hallmark moment to the team's Year of Stumbling and Fumbling. Far be it from us, who can only sometimes throw a nice tight spiral, to tell the folks who run the 49ers how to run their business. But you gotta wonder how getting rid of the coach now, far too late to make a difference in the season but just in time to complete the impression of an organization in disarray, will help things. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Singletary himself had this to say as he left the team's headquarters in Santa Clara last night: \"They have their reasons. And for me, they want a figure that can figure out the chemistry,\" the coach said. \"I want everybody to know that I'm extremely appreciative of the opportunity. The people I'll miss will be the players.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now let's turn over the commentating and football reporting to people who do it for a living:\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/27/SP961GVSHS.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">Singletary fired after 49ers eliminated\u003c/a> (San Francisco Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/27/SP961GVSHU.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">Gwen Knapp: York looking for a GM—several months late\u003c/a> (Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/49ers/ci_16946908\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers fire Mike Singletary as head coach\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/tim-kawakami/ci_16948971\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Kawakami: It's time for Jed York to make tough decisions\u003c/a> (Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/blog/NFCWest/post/_/id/30138/singletary-out-reflections-and-projections\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Sando: Singletary out: reflections and projections\u003c/a> (ESPN)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2010/12/27/3282870/singletary-is-sacked-following.html\" target=\"_blank\">Singletary is sacked following crucial loss \u003c/a>(Sacramento Bee)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.stampedeblue.com/2010/12/27/1898090/49ers-fire-mike-singletary\" target=\"_blank\">49ers Fire Mike Singletary\u003c/a> (Stampede Blue blog)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.ninersnation.com/2010/12/27/1897947/mike-singletary-fired-jim-harbaugh-jon-gruden-etc-please-pick-up-the\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Singletary Fired: Jim Harbaugh, Jon Gruden, Etc, Please Pick Up the White Courtesy Phone\u003c/a>(Niners Nation)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/peter_king/12/26/week-16/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Illustrated's Peter King\u003c/a> offers this valedictory observation: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mike Singletary gets put out of his misery, and someone named Jim Tomsula gets his one moment of glory Sunday at Candlestick. Imagine how bad the 49ers are, and how disgraced the Yorks, the owners, feel. And they open up their USA Today this morning to see Tomsula will coach his one game as a seven-point favorite Sunday against Arizona. Singletary had to go. He's a wonderful man, but he'd become a caricature of himself, yo-yoing quarterbacks and his one final sideline argument, with Troy Smith in St. Louis Sunday, seemed fitting. Last day, last reaming.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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