A public memorial is all set to honor Bill Walsh. It'll be held at Candlestick at 11 AM on August 10th and among the speakers will be Joe Montana and Eddie De Bartolo. A private ceremony will be held on August 9th at the Stanford Memorial Church. Speakers there will not only include Montana and DeBartolo, but NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Dianne Feinstein. Rumored to attend are Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Secretary of State George Shultz who were friends of the Genius. Current owners of the 49ers, John and Denise York have also asked that the Governor declare a Bill Walsh Day. ...

And now, onto the big rumor, that Libby wasn't actually on the plane and that she's part of the Hanso foundation. Oops, wait, not that one (sorry, we have "Lost" on the brain and did "American Idol" really do double the ratings and is it one of those decline of Western Civilization type things or should we just roll with it?)No, we're talking about the story in this week's Sports Illustrated saying that former 49er owner Eddie DeBartolo and former 49er head honcho Carmen Policy are thinking about buying the Raiders and moving them to LA. ...

The Gavster reemerged from hobnobbing with Scientologists to announce that he was going to try and have a court rule whether or not a 1997 measure calling for the building of a new Candlestick park and other development still holds. The measure was passed back then, but was put on hold after Eddie DeBartolo got in trouble with the Feds and after people realized that the measure was just as sucky as most people thought. If it can be sent to court and if the court says "yay", speculation is that the city will start building the sucker, despite the fact the measure is almost ten years old and, as everyone seems to be pointing out, goes against the normal process of city governance. ...