href="http://torontoist.com/2008/02/phototo_snowbal.php">photographing a big, organized snowball fight.
Week Around the -ists
Your Perfunctory Super Bowl Post
Just some random scribbling on a game that is still reverberating through our hungover, overstuffed brains....
Moss to Pats
Now here's some more interesting news that came out of yesterday's draft-- Randy Moss has been traded to the Patriots. For a measly fourth round draft pick. The team then traded one of their fourth round picks to the Lions for Josh McNown and WR Mike Williams, both of whom can be described by the phrase "whatever."
American Football Spectacular: Two Bad Ideas
Stumbled across two bad ideas while walking through the Powell cable car area.
American Football Spectacular: Time For Cold Weather American Football
The National Football League's Week Nine of the 2006 regular season is upon us here in the Bay Area, as well as the first tinge of wet weather. Curl up on the couch with a mug o' soup and a blanket: it's time for American football.
Week Around The -Ists
You know who's going to be upset about those Bikini Bandits? The Houston school system. Houstonist also reports on some redevelopment shenanigans over a landmark theater.
Who Should Coach the Raiders?
Now that the Super Bowl is over, the big question in the NFL is no longer "Seahawks: Screwed Over or Screwed Up?" but who will the Rai-duhs choose as their new head coach. The reason for all the intrigue goes way beyond the fact that in an off-season in which eight teams were looking for a head coach and so many candidates were interviewed that even the towel boy for the Patriots got a courtesy call, the Rai-duhs still haven't really made that much of an effort. No, the reason for all the intrigue is because once again trying to figure out the impenetrable mind of the Alster is an adventure. It's so mysterious that whenever Al chooses a coach, reporters have to camp themselves out in front of Raiders HQ to see what color smoke emanates out from the chimney.
So with that in mind, we thought we'd take a look at the potential candidates and a few of our own.
American Football Spectacular: Desperation And Reckoning
Happy Whatever-You-Want from all of us at American Football Spectacular! Let's have a look at the games on TV this wknd, shall we?
Monday Morning Quarterback
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!
Monday Morning Quarterback
Jackson is out this week, face-down on the floor somewhere after drinking too much egg nog.
Monday Morning Quarterback
Weekly wrapup of local football action.
Conservative Pundit to Brave Berkeley
One of Rush Limbaugh's pet pundits Michelle Malkin has been invited by California Patriots, the politically conservative campus group at Cal, to speak about her book In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror. Her talk is likely to focus on criticism of her book from the left, the role of racial profiling in our current War on Terror and her experiences as an author, New York Post columnist and television personality. Some readers may remember the heated exchange between Ms. Malkin, Chris Matthews and our own Willie Brown on MSNBC's Hardball, which Ms. Malkin posted about on her site.
1115.org has made their feelings known by featuring Ms. Malkin in one of their biting STFU pieces, and Ana Marie Wonkette has also weighed in on the issue. EssEffist also wants to point out that the children and grandchildren of interned Japanese Americans will have a hard time swallowing some of her arguments - and Muslim students at Cal, who by her own account should be viewed with suspicion as potential terrorists based on their ethnic background, are probably none too pleased with her appearance. EssEffist remembers reading Farewell to Manzanar in grade school and thinks the camps and their justifications were truly regrettable. We thought we were all clear on this when Reagan apologized for it, but Ms. Malkin disagrees.
The speech will be tomorrow night at 7:00pm in 145 Dwinelle Hall on campus.

