Flipping through the radio this morning, we caught an interview with Bill Romanowski on the Sarah and No Name show. No Name pretty much fawned over him while Sarah fawned not necessarily over him but over his new protein drinks. Callers, however, didn't just fawn over him but slathered over him too, mainly for what they kept on saying was for "bringing passion to the Raiders." The subtle dig, of course, being that the Raiders don't have any passion anymore and need another Romanowski type to step up and give the Raiders a swift kick in the patootie. more ›

Here's todays wrap up of the sports news more ›

During the pregame of Thursday's MIN/GB game, NFL.com's Adam Schefter reported that the Raiders will let Head Coach Art Shell go after the end of the season. No source was named to have given this statement. more ›

-Disaster strikes as a blackout affects the new Westfield shopping center. Luckily, Bloomies wasn't affected, but other stores were. The horror, the horror. more ›

--No one objected to the Peninsula Humane Society moving after all. more ›

Locally, the big news was the second best blog party last Friday thrown by TechCrunch down in Menlo Park. Scott Beale was commissioned to take the photos, including the one above featuring an uneasy handshake between Valleywag's Nick Douglas (left) and his favorite whipping boy, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. Nick had been bumped off the exclusive invite list, but Michel must have relented. If he had been dis-invited, apparently crashing the party was not an option. more ›

All East Bay edition! An elderly man walking to his daily mah-jong game was killed in Oakland's Chinatown last Thursday morning by a big rig racing through a turn to get onto 880. Heartrending details: his wife happened to see his body as she was running errands; she identified him by his baseball cap; and he was eagerly anticipating the birth of his first great-grandchild in two months. The big rig driver may not have realized what happened, since the truck paused briefly but then sped away. For once, the Raiders are trying to get out of a lawsuit -- the Silver and Black filed papers asking to be dismissed from the lawsuit between Marcus Williams and Bill Romanowski concerning Romanowski's possibly steroid-related attack on Williams during a training session last year. Romanowski had attempted to drag the Raiders into the suit, claiming that the team should also be responsible for his having pulled off Williams's helmet and breaking Williams's eye socket. And authorities are investigating charges that counselors in Alameda County's San Leandro juvenile hall have been forcing incarcerated teens into "unauthorized wrestling matches" with each other late at night. Wrestlers were reportedly rewarded with candy bars, drinks, and time outside of their cells. more ›