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An obscenity

xensen — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:00:48 +0000

We’ve all read the stories about the University of California’s budget problems. High adminstrator salaries. Tightening the screws on the grunt laborers who do all the actual work. Furlough days for teachers. Raising student fees. Etc.

Okay, now guess how much just one of the schools in the system is paying to just one athletic coach. The coach in question is Jeff Tedford, who coaches men’s football on the Berkeley campus.

Okay, I won’t make you guess. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Tedford is paid $1,850,000 per year. If I know Cal, and football, he probably gets a bunch of perks on top of that.

If that’s not obscene I don’t know what is.

Image from by Tracy O’s photostream

Stepbrothers

xensen — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:00:53 +0000

Two hoopsters with Bay Area ties — Baron Davis and Steve Nash — appear in this spoof of the movie Step Brothers. Nash outshines Diddy in this one.

NBA playoffs

xensen — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:46:26 +0000

The Warriors got bounced, despite winning more games than any modern team that failed to make the playoffs. It didn’t help that they lost every big game down the stretch.

Under my nom de forum of Ali Hoop, I am, however, doing a little better than the Dubs did. Midway through the first round I’m still within striking distance of the coveted Prix WarriorsWorld.Net for the most dead-on playoff predictions.

UPDATE, 5/04, beginning of second round. Moved up to the four spot.
UPDATE, 5/08, near midway of second round. Now in no. two spot.

The crookedest big wheel race

xensen — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:00:28 +0000

I don’t mean the race is fixed. Certainly not! But it’s down Lombard Street, which is renowned, hyperbolically but conventionally, as the crookedest street in the world. Apparently every Easter the big boy and girls come out and challenge the hill on their big wheels. Hills! Thrills! Spills! Well, just have a look …

Friday Roundup

xensen — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:14:18 +0000

Notes from a week of travel in virtual NoCal.

Bonds media frenzy

xensen — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:00:05 +0000

Coming into work very early on Friday, before the sun was up, I couldn’t miss a swarm of broadcast media setting up their lights and cameras around the old federal building on Golden Gate St. I asked a cameraman what it was all about. “Bonds,” he said.

Entering my building I mentioned this to the security guard. “Everyone knows he’s guilty,” he said.

Later a squadron of helicopters joined the circus.

What a lot of uproar about some steroids. Ironically, our governor is this guy (image from www.governorsteroid.com):

Warriors practice

xensen — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:00:04 +0000

The team looks loose for today’s game against the Knicks.

Warriors World

xensen — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:00:28 +0000

Okay, here’s a rare FriscoVista sports post. The only sport I really follow is professional basketball, and my team is the Golden State Warriors. The Warriors forum I like is warriorsworld.net. This recommendation comes with a warning: a lot of these guys are quarrelsome, obnoxious, boorish, ignorant, sophomoric, and crude. Several posters are homophobic, and occasionally some idiot will post racist or misogynistic content. And the mood of the board swings wildly: after every loss they want to fire the coach and trade all the players, and after every win they expect to go to the NBA finals. But the board should not be judged on the basis of a few loose canons. These guys are avid about their team, and I like this site better than the more antiseptic Golden State of Mind. There are some contributors here who are pretty knowledgeable about the NBA. Click the screenshot to visit the site.

Congratulations, Cardinal

xensen — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:57:58 +0000

The Stanford football team, a 40 point underdog, just upset the number one ranked team, USC.

My Bad

xensen — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:00:20 +0000

You hear it all
the time now.
But, believe it
or not, there
was a time when
people said “my
fault” instead
of “my bad.”
Where did the
new phrase begin?

Maybe Oaktown.
I first heard the
phrase spoken by
GW Warriors center
Manute Bol. And
it just sounded
so like Manute,
it was perfect.

Well, it says here
that Manute may
indeed have coined
the phrase (or
maybe not).

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