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When he came up with the A's, he grew into a genial homespun hero.

Then he left, and became a steroided diminishing-returns disgrace.

Now he's back in Oakland?

What-th'-hell for?

Couldn't he have signed with LAD or LAA?

Get you gone, prodigal douche.

Three of the privileged youths who protested the removal of the Berkeley oak grove were sentenced in Berkeley on Monday. Kingman Lim and Zachary RunningWolf Brown, both ground supporters, and Michael Schuck, a tree-sitter, were handed five-day jail sentences and "found to be in contempt of court." Judge Marshall Whitley in Alameda County Superior Court also ordered them to pay an undetermined amount toward the University of California's attorney fees. Six other tree protesters were sentenced to 50 hours of community service. (Oakland Tribune)

Charming. The spoiled children high atop the Berkeley redwood have, of course, resorted to (allegedly) throwing their urine and fecal matter at arborists trying to get them down. (Yeah. Fight the power. Idiots.) If you recall, some people under the false impression that they're making a difference have quickly turned an attempt to save a patch of trees into one of Berkeley's most massive protest fails to date. They are scheduled to get ripped from said trees any moment now.

Whether pro or con saving the oak tree grove on the UCB campus, it's safe to say that we're all looking forward to seeing just how how the last few tree-sitters are extracted. This morning, cherry pickers and scaffolding have been fashioned around redwood tree where the last few remaining protesters sit. (And below? Protesters this morning are benignly screaming like children, banging drums, and burning sage. Jesus.) While campus authorities decline to say when or how they plan on getting them down, we're going to go ahead and say tranquilizer darts sometime this afternoon. Stay tuned! (Oh hey, there are 20 some odd magnolia trees ready to be ripped out on Third and Harrison streets in San Francisco, activists. Just so you know.)

Oak tree advocates and a neighborhood group be damned! A state appeals court gave UCB the go-ahead to put up the sports training center next to Memorial Stadium, effectively hammering the final nail in the Save the Oaks coffin. This is yet another ruling in favor of hacking down the old oaks, and a win for "more than 400 student athletes who will now have the safe and suitable facilities they deserve," according to Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour. And the project will finally -- finally! -- start sometime....well, no one knows yet. The few remaining protesters will remain up in the trees until further notice. Hrumph. (SFGate)

Last night 24-year-old Memorial Oak Grove tree-sitter Nate Hill fell on his tushie after plummeting 40 feet out of the tree. He suffered both a broken wrist and ankle, but is in fine, fighting, camera-ready condition. He was trying to get out of the tree, via a traverse line, to visit his poppa waiting down below. But it seems that he was not, in fact, on the line, and then took a nasty fall...

After a 10-month protest atop an oak grove next to Memorial Stadium, a judge ruled on Monday that UC Berkeley can now start removing up-in-a-tree protesters, as well as their ground support, even if police can't identify the protesters by name. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Keller amended his ruling from a month ago. At that time, his decree gave authorities the power to strip the environmental activists off of the UC-owned land,...