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Here's the good news: there really isn't any news. Then again, who would know in the midst of the wall-to-wall Anna Nicole coverage? Oh, there was a staff shakeup and Gavin made a joke, but there really is nothing out there. No earth-shaking revelation, no new story of Gavin's lonely life living a Frank Sinatra tune, no clash with reporters. We guess that'll happen tomorrow for Fake Question Time II. That should be fun.

The latest involving the Niners is that yesterday Aaron Peskin jumped into the fray. Peskin had dinner with the accidental John York Thursday night and on Friday, he, along with Sophie Maxwell, said they'd introduce a resolution to move forward with the development at Candlestick Point and the Hunters Point shipyard. The idea being, of course, that instead of waiting for the Niners to figure out what they're doing, the city should move ahead and just do it. There's two reasons for this. One is that everyone wants to build stuff there anyways so why not just get the ball rolling. The other is that if things fall apart in Santa Clara, things will be all ready to go here.

While most of us were either not working or goofing off at work last week, Gavin stepped up and sent the 49ers yet another proposal to keep the team from moving. This proposal? How's about building a new stadium at the Hunters Point Naval Yard. The Niners were nonplussed.

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We're not sure whether or not this a good thing, but San Francisco just pulled itself out of Olympic consideration. For which you can thank John York and his pulling the plug on Candlestick II: Football Bugaloo. According to Scott Givens, managing director of the 2016 SF Olympic committee, they were sitting down at dinner with the USOC when word came down that York was moving the 49ers to Santa Clara and there went that dinner. We sure hope the USOC picked up the bill. Givens went on to say that it wasn't necessarily what the announcement was but more like the surprise and suddenness of the announcement and that it made us look flaky. Who us? The 49ers said they told the USOC not to base their bid on what happens to the 'Stick but, oh well.

The after-shocks of the announcement on Friday that the 49ers were thinking of heading south continue to reverberate. Niners fans in the city are pissed, the Olympics in 2016 movement are stunned, Diane Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi stopped celebrating to pitch in, and Gavin and John York are throwing spitballs at each other. It's gotten so bad, John's wife, Denise DeBartolo, had to ride in and come to her hubby's rescue.

Dr. John York, the accidental owner, met the press to detail the whys and whats of his announcement that he's leaving San Francisco and taking the team to Santa Clara. The reason? It's too expensive here, the schools are falling apart, and it's better to raise a family in the Peninsula and not the city.

The Prairie War raging in baseball between the Statheads and the Seamheads leaped into the world of football over the weekend as the Chron's Ira Miller and Ray Ratto tag-teamed the SF Weekly over it’s cover suck up on the Niners' Billy Beane Wannabe, Paraag Marathe. Marathe is the Niners' Director of Football Operations and would be Public Enemy #1 to Niner fans if it weren't for the fact John York got that well-deserved assignment years ago.

Let the record show that we have serious issues with anything related to exhibition pre-season football. We hate how hyped they are, hate how seriously they're taken, and we especially hate how they put the games on TV when we want to watch something else. All this for a game primarily played by a bunch of people fighting to not be cut. Nevertheless, this week features the debut appearance of both Bay Area teams, the Raiders and the Niners. Of even more interest is that they're playing each other Saturday night at the 'Stick which actually works out for football fans because they only have to waste three hours of their life this weekend instead of six. But if you want any clue to how over-hyped and over-done preseason football is, check this out-- both KPIX and KTVU will be showing the game. Not to mention showing pre-game shows AND post-game shows. All we can say is thank God for Tivo.

Long-time readers of this site may remember a certain, um, "fixation" we had on a certain picture of our mayor and his then-wife, in happier times. Well, it looks like Niners PR man Kirk Reynolds was similarly inclined! No one's laughing about the mea culpa hat-in-hand tours that the Niners' owners are making around the various offended groups in town. Last week, John York and Reynolds met with members of the gay community in the LGBTQ headquarters in the Castro to apologize for mocking gay marriage in the infamous training video, and yesterday, they went to Chinatown to apologize to Asian-Americans for depicting a buck-toothed accented Asian character in the video too. One 18-year-old Asian-American Niners fan told York, "You guys are like our heroes. So when I saw that video, I don't know how to describe it -- it was heartbreaking." And sitting sternly in attendance too -- the Asian-American who paid for the renaming of Monster Park, Noel Lee. Lee told the Examiner that the video reminded him of "ridicule" he faced growing up in the Richmond and that "I thought that was behind me until I saw this video." Quite a lot of damage to do for a lame joke about l's and r's, huh? Hey, here's an idea: Lee and the gay community should get together and rename Candlestick B.D. Wong and Margaret Cho Field! Lee paid all that money, didn't he?

In another big split-up, albeit one not nearly as suprising as Gav & Kim, the Niner's divorced themselves today from coach Dennis Erickson and GM Terry Donahue. None of this should be shocking as this is the sort of thing that happens when once proud franchises totally embarrass themselves with 2-14 seasons. While some people thought the miserly John York would hold onto both men as a way of pinching pennies (both men are under contract so York still has to give them money even if they do nothing but lie around the house in pajamas and eat cheetos all day), general consensus was that both would go. See above comment about what happens to teams that go 2-14. Most importantly, York made the move somewhat quickly as every day he dithered was another day of limbo for the team, Donahue & Erickson, and Niners fans. With the clock already ticking away on the #1 pick in the NFL draft, whoever is in charge of the Niners has to start scouting and getting prepared.

Well, we're damn glad this season is over. Best performance of the year goes to Cal, even if they did get upset by Texas Tech in San Diego last week. Fact is, this is Cal we're talking about here. Why is nobody accusing them of choking, of not being able to handle the pressure of big games? Because they have no history of big games to compare with! The fact that Cal got to the Holiday Bowl, even if they were then somewhat embarrassed by the Red Raider's run-and-gun attack, means that the program is twenty times better than it has been for the last thirty years. What SFist finds ironic is that this season for Cal has been nearly a mirror image of the Texas Longhorns' season last year -- snubbed by a bigger bowl, Texas went to the Holiday Bowl only to lose to the underdog -- and since we're superstitious to the extreme, we're willing to bet all comers one expired AC Transit transfer that Cal wins the Rose Bowl next year. Stanford, well...good luck, boys!