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Joe Frazier was once quoted as sayin' "Kill the body and the head will die." For an NFL offensive unit, the opposite is the case. And here comes the context: it's your American Football Spectacular preview for lucky Week 13 of the 2007 NFL season....

To honor Barry Lamar as he approaches the exalted numbers 725 and 726, Gavin announced yesterday that City Hall will be lit up in Orange until he breaks the record. There will also be a pennant hung in front of City Hall to count off each and every home run he hits on his way to 726. Quoth the Gavster: "I think I speak for all San Franciscans when I say,''Go Barry.'" ...

Here's todays sports news...

We've looked at the A's and the Giants this season, now let's take a look a look at what other people are saying about our hometown teams. And coming tomorrow, we'll have a very special baseball preview from our newest baseball contributor, Leon Trotsky. A quick lookthrough of the predictions has the A's losing out to the Angels in their annual season-long dogfight as Sports Illustrated even has the Halos winning the whole thing. As......

Hey now-- the Warriors are on a bit of a roll as they won their second game in a row, beating the Nugs 110-96. Sure, Carmelo didn't play, but for the Warriors, they have to be happy with the game as it's the first time this season the exact same Warriors mentioned in the Warriors press guide actually all appeared in a game. All of this is making Bruce Jenkins and Tim Kawakami drink from of the very same sippy cup of Kool Aid SFist Chris drank from as they are all now having visions of being crushed by the Mavs in the first round of the playoffs. And hey, if that doesn't add some shine to your day, the Warriors, East Coast Edition, are sucking up the joint these days. ...

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. ...

A couple of days ago, the Niners announced that they finally had their front office football guy and hired him. The new honcho: Lal Heneghan. Heneghan, 42, worked for seven years with the NFL and was vice president of football operations for the Cleveland Browns 2.0 from 1999-2004. Heneghan is supposedly a whiz at contract negotiations and the whacky world of the NFL salary cap, a job that has become one of the most important in the NFL. He will work directly under head coach Mike Nolan and VP of Player Personnel Scot McCloughan....

Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: Bottom Feeder asks a good question, which is: why did Sports Illustrated run an excerpt of the Barry Bonds book and not the Chron? He doesn't say, but we're going to guess money. In a separate story, the value of Bonds baseball cards has dropped. Hey, EBX, shouldn't you be focusing on your own baseball team instead of SF's? Cover article: E (aka, "thizz") stops being a raver......

The arms race between Sports Illustrated and ESPN the Magazine heated up as ESPN the Mag took Sports Illustrated taking excerpts of the Barry Bonds bombshell book and raised them a biography of the Barry. Ha! And for those wondering why all these revelations came out around this time of the year, there you have it. ...

>Barry's reality TV show got off to a big start today with news that a new book written by the Chronicles' Steroid Beat reporters, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, detailing the Barry's steroid intake over the years is set to be released. The book is already being excerpted in the upcoming issue of Sports Illustrated. The information detailed came from evidence collected by investigators during the BALCO trial as well as the usual Woodward and Bernstein methods. And, oh it's bad. Very, very, bad. ...

So it's been kind of a weird season for the A's, and it has never been weirder than last weekend, when the trading deadline came and went without incident at the corner of 66th and Hegenberger. The A's made no deadline moves; Billy Beane, who says he spends April and May figuring out what the A's need, June and July going and getting it, and August, September and as much of October as possible......

Bay Area crime roundup...

Gary Sheffield dishes on BALCO and Barry Bonds....

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