Chauncey Bailey, former editor of the Oakland Post who was murdered last August while investigating Your Black Muslim Bakery and the Muslim splinter group's shady dealings, received the prestigious George Polk Award last week for local journalism. Congrats, Bailey! His alleged killer, Your Black Muslim Bakery handyman Devaughndre Broussard, was also interviewed by 60 Minutes, which aired last night. According to CBS 5: In the interview, Broussard repeated his claim that he was coerced......

You know how in all this steroid hullabaloo, Tony LaRussa has been running around adamantly saying there was nothing going on, nothing happening, and nothing to see? Well, it turns out there was. Last night on the Wednesday night’s edition of 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes 2, Electric Boogaloo, LaRussa claimed that they knew Canseco was juiced all along. He’d even brag about it in front of everyone and joked around about how he didn’t need......

It’s looking like the pre-season favorite for MVP of the 2005 Giants season might not be trainer Stan Conte after all, but Barry Bonds’ publicist. Because today a story is breaking that can’t be any good as it involves two things that give any publicist nightmares: mistresses and Geraldo Rivera. Yep, the mustached-one scored a hot news story as he interviewed some woman claiming to be Bonds’ alleged mistress. In the interview, she not only discussed their affair, but also said that Barry was using steroids as far back as 1999. The alleged mistress, Kimberly Bell, was on Geraldo because she’s been trying to peddle a book for years about the affair which supposedly lasted for nine years and ended with Barry offering a mere $20,000 in hush money. ...

So if you're a nerd, then you were probably snickering over the blatant lack of understanding and glaring innaccuracies in Sunday's 60 Minutes web-themed episode. Snicker, glurck, hehehehe. Kottke called local search guru John Batelle out -- the sweet image from Geekly Obsessions here may or may not represent Ben Affleck's bling in the Google parking lot -- and A Whole Lotta Nothing provides the video evidence. We totally feel that John is right......

One good thing about the election being over is that we no longer have to be submitted to political ads. Oops. Strike that. Two weeks after the election, a "grass-roots" organization (meaning a rich, Silicon Valley mutual funds manager) is about to start running an ad calling for a change in the U.S. Constitution that will allow foreign-born citizens to become President. Hmmm… we wonder what foreign-born politician could that organization be thinking of? If......

SFist can't get enough of our local bookstores. When we've blown all our money on beer, we've also been known to reserve books from the San Francisco Public Library. That's how much we love that reading thing. Sfist Emily has been burning the midnight oil with The Social Contruction of Reality: a reatise in the sociology of knowledge by Berger and Luckmann (and a book so esoteric that even the venerable SFPL doesn't have it......