Darvocet Pulled From Shelves

Propoxyphene, better known by the names Darvocet or Darvon will no longer be available as a painkiller, according to The New York Times.

SmartAboutHealth.com reports that the main reason the drug is no longer available is for the serious side effect that includes heart rhythm problems that could prove to be fatal if the body reacts to it negatively.

The site also states that the FDA advisory panel recently voted in favor of the drug being taken off the markets due to the belief that there are other drugs out there that can help patients in the same way without the harmful side effects.

Oakland News: Oakland Baseball Stadium Cost Is $600 Million

Oakland News goes baseball. The Oakland Planning Commission unveiled it's the City of Oakland's plan for a new baseball stadium at a location called "Victory Court." (And replacing the "baseball-use" part of the Oakland Coliseum - in photo.)

 But the plan, with 39,000 seats, 700 units of housing, and 186,000 square feet of retail, comes out to around $600 million to build according to my Oakland Baseball Simworld runs.

The Oakland Baseball Simworld is a simulation i originally created for the purpose of evaluating the fiscal behavior of the Oakland A's after then-Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris dispatched me to find buyer teams for the organization in 1997. After I left the City of Oakland, I turned what was a 47-equation model into one with 2,600 variables in 956 equation sets.

The Oakland Baseball Simworld is currently used in five colleges nationwide.

The problem for the City of Oakland is in how to finance the ballpark. In the sim, the most effective solution involves the baseball team contributing $150 million. The problem for the team is such a contribution cuts into its ability to land star players, but the San Francisco Giants' World Series success proves it's still possible to build a champion with such financial constraints.

The other problem is that the City must use redevelopment money to build the stadium, but the stadium itself must be 51 percent owned by the private sector. Otherwise, the deal will not work; the City Council will not go for it. The housing units, alone, add a large cost to the development. 400 units is more affordable that 700 units.

So, you may ask, why did the City of Oakland know about this? Hubris. This effort to build a new stadium is led by Senator Barbara Boxer's son Doug Boxer, who's on the Oakland Planning Commission. The problem with Doug is, and I state this publicly, one of ego. His less-than-desirable behavior in not bringing all of the parties together when we had four different groups meeting about the A's issue at once, including Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums sports task force, that I was on, and Dellums lack of interest in solving the problem, is the reason why Oakland's taken so long to get to this point.

Oakland, the City of Oakland, is personality-driven, and lacking an organization that the public can identify that is out there leading the charge to get a stadium built. Like a sports commission, for example. Instead, what we get are people who think they know what they're doing, refusing to listen to those who do because of experience, and making a ton of mistakes along the way.

That's why Oakland's government fails. And unless this Oakland stadium issue stops being a one - person show, it will fail too. I can tell you from personal experience, one - person - shows don't work in Oakland unless it becomes a real team of people open to the public.

Erin Barry Broke NBA Wife Code Says Jennifer Williams

Did Erin Barry (photo at left), the soon-to-be ex-wife of former NBA San Antonio Spurs star Brent Barry, break the NBA Wife? NBA wife Jennifer Williams, married to former San Antonio Spurs Tony Parker teammate Eric Williams (2006-2007), thinks so.

Williams is quoted in Hollywood Life - interesting in that it's not a Hollywood-based story - as saying this:

"When you hear that it’s another wife that is the cause of a divorce, it surprises me. I know that Eva and Erin, I don’t want to say [had] a close relationship, but Brent and Tony were on the team for a while together, so they were pretty friendly. So when you hear something like that, it’s definitely shocking!"

"[NBA Wives] stick together. It's just something that’s not really spoken, but it's understood that we have this sisterhood of women. When you’re on a team with these players and you become close with the wives, you can call them up for whatever. We're all in the same situation, so everyone understands we have a common bond."

No word from Erin Barry on this, or the allegations that she cheated on Brent Barry with Tony Parker. Indeed, one People Magazine source claims there was nothing physical, but does that make it OK?

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5 Reasons why the Mighty Cal Bears will beat Stanford Again Posted: 19 Nov 2010 11:32 AM PST Tomorrow the Might Cal Bears.. aka UC Berekely aka my alma mater play the silver spoon kids from Stanfurd University in our annual Big Game. It will be the 113th time these two teams meet and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Breakdown FM on All day Play #38-Music for a Rainy Day/ 5 Videos to Remind U.. Posted: 19 Nov 2010 10:33 AM PST This week we came with heat by digging in the crates and unearthing a series of ragga-muffin songs from the 90s..  Cuts by artists like Burro Banton, Cutty Ranks, Sluggy Ranks and Bounty Killer were... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Erin Barry, Eva Longoria's Friend, Just Flirted With Tony Parker?

Erin Barry, Eva Longoria's friend, just flirted with Tony Parker? That's all?

Apparently, Eva Longoria made too much of the text messages sent between Erin and Tony, the San Antonio Spurs basketball star, thinking there was more going on.

But People Magazine is quoting a source that says there was nothing going on. Who the source is, is not known.

Eva Longoria filed for divorce, apparently without really checking out the story. Perhaps there was something more to her efforts? Maybe she was't as relaxed about the relationship as she should have been?

Whatever the case, People Magazine's standing by its source and the story, claiming that Erin Barry, the former wife of former San Antonio Spurs teammate Rick Barry, did not have sex with Tony Parker.

Colt Brennan: Ex-Raiders and Hawaii QB In Car Accident

Colt Brennan, the former Hawaii QB once considered the most dangerous quarterback in college football with his mastery of the Run-And-Shoot Office, was in a car accident, a two-car-crash on the big island of Hawaii. Colt is in serious condition.

According to Brennan's agent Ryan Tollner via the San Francisco Chronicle, Colt Brennan was transported to Honolulu for more medical treatment after he was placed at Kona Community Hospital on Friday. He was a passenger in an SUV.

While at Hawaii, Colt Brennan became the NCAA leader in touchdowns with 131. Brennan seemed unstoppable until a 2007 Sugar Bowl date with Georgia made the Colt and his team look mortal.

Colt Brennan never quite hit his stride in the NFL, mainly because teams didn't use the Run-And-Shoot or offenses with elements of that system built it. He played one preseason with the Oakland Raiders and was drafted by the Washington Redskins, but waved this year.

Wesley Snipes Goes to Jail

TMZ reports that Wesley Snipes has been taken into custody and will begin his 3-year sentence at a federal prison.

The 48-year-old actor is serving time for tax related crimes for which he was convicted of in 2008 on three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file his income tax returns according to FloridaToday.com.

CNN reports that the prosecutors argued that for almost a decade Snipes avoided paying income taxes - which resulted in over a million dollars.

The judge of the trial wrote:


"The Defendant Snipes had a fair trial; he has had a full, fair, and thorough review of his conviction and sentence by the Court of Appeals; and he has had a full, fair, and thorough review of his present claims, during all of which he has remained at liberty. The time has come for the judgment to be enforced."


This story is still developing and another post will be made once more information is released.

Tiger Woods Cursed At 2009 Cal Stanford Big Game

Tiger Woods, on a new PR-friendly media tour, said he's a better man after the incident on Thanksgiving 2009. On that evening, he drove his Cadillac SUV into a tree, his wife tried to free him using a golf club, and it was revealed that he had a mistress. And we all know where that led Tiger Woods and pop culture.

But Tiger Woods trouble really started the weekend before Thanksgiving, at the 2009 Cal Stanford Big Game. Newly inducted into the Stanford Sports Hall of Fame and feeling his oats, Tiger Woods got up to the mic and famously said "The second half is ours."



And got booed by Cal fans. I don't care what anyone says, Tiger got it coming to him for that.

Stanford proceeded to lose, 34 to 28.

If Tiger had just accepted his induction with class and left Cal out of his comments, Cal fans would not have cursed his mojo by booing him. But he did, and we did, and we know what happened after that.

Tiger, this year just zip it and you'll do fine. Well, on second thought..

GO BEARS!

Nick and Jessica are Engaged

Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson are engaged, again. This time they are both engaged to different people. Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo's engagement was previously blogged about, but it's strange that within the next week Jessica Simpson is also married. That's a strange irony or coincidence.

(Drunk?) Harrison Ford on Conan Says Shit and Die

Morning Glory star Harrison Ford, better known as Han Solo in the Star Wars series and as Indiana Jones in the Indiana Jones movie series, appeared on TBS's Conan show Tuesday night, and looked completely either hammered or high. Or maybe just drunk.

Whatever the case, Ford was out of it.

Conan asked Harrison if it was true he'd developed a friendship with Captain Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger, the hero of the US Airways Flight that crash landed in the Hudson River in New York City, Ford said "I've met him. Spent some time with him. Very. Very nice man."

Then Conan asked what Ford would have done if he were in that situation, on the same US Airways Flight that wound up in the Hudson River. Ford said he would "shit and die," bringing the house down.

What was wrong with Harrison Ford?  Given his stature, it probably doesn't matter; he probably was both drunk and high, and knew it would give Conan more publicity for his show.  It did.

Maybe it's a sign that, at 68, Ford has mellowed and figured, you know, why not?   Who cares.  What the fuck?

And so he did.  Allegedly.  Get.  Drunk.  Stoned.  Or something.

JFK Assassination Deathbed Confession to be Aired

According to Infowars.com TruTv's television show Conspiracy Theory will feature former Governor Jesse Ventura who will be discussing John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination.

The site reports that for the first time ever on television viewers will withness a confession in one of the most controversial murders:

"In the course of the episode, Jesse Ventura, a former Navy SEAL and Underwater Demolitions expert, attempts to recreate Oswald’s alleged shooting that day. He tracked down the exact make and model, as well as ammunition stock that the Warren Commission claims Oswald used. But despite the fact that Ventura qualified as an expert shot while in naval special forces training, and qualified again as an expert during his term as Governor in Minnesota, he could not duplicate the time and accuracy of Oswald’s fateful shots. Yet Lee Harvey Oswald only qualified as a “marksman,” two grades lower than Ventura. (Witnesses who shot with Oswald have said for years that he had “Maggie’s drawers”—that he frequently missed the target and generally did not meet the high standards of a serviceman.)"


The program will air November 19, 2010 at 10 PM/EST on TruTv.

5 Reasons why the Mighty Cal Bears will beat Stanford Again

Tomorrow the Might Cal Bears.. aka UC Berekely aka my alma mater play the silver spoon kids from Stanfurd University in our annual Big Game. It will be the 113th time these two teams meet and tomorrow promoises to be huge.

Yes, I’m well aware Stanfurd is 9-1 and ranked number 6.. but Cal routinely beats the tar nickens out of this team of spoiled misfits who attend a school where students pay 200 thousand dollars a year in tuition. This is why you never saw Stanfurd students protesting student fee hikes. Cal students have long ways to go to catch up with the boys on the farm in terms of fees..All I know is when I graduated I owed like 500 bucks in student loans. My homeboy Kevvy Kevowed 378 thousand.

Anyway we play Stanfurd tomorrow and here’s

5 Reasons why Cal Will Beat Stanfurd Again

Condi Rice

1-Condi ‘Yes I lied about the War’ Rice was provost there.. Not a good look. This why we are at war in Iraq spending millions on our military effort and not education.. Who do we blame? Yes you guessed it-Stanfurd University

2-The Hoover Institute is located there.. Wanna know where places like Fox News and all these right wing nut jobs get their over the top talking points? Yes down on the farm

3-The team is called the Cardinal.. and its mascot is a tree.. How confusing. Most people think the team is named after the nice bird..but alas its named after a color that you can’t find in any crayon box.. To top it off there’s no such thing as a Cardinal Tree.. These folks spend all that money on education and can’t figure out a team name that co-ordinates with its mascots..

4-Tiger Woods is from Stanfurd.. He was a cool guy until he tried to be Mr Gigilo and run around with every single waitress who worked at Dennys or I-Hop. That wouldn’t have been so bad, but his game was super weak and he got caught and got a serious beat down from his wife who looked 10 times a good as the people he was hollaring at..

The US Gigilo/ Playas Association was upset with Tiger. They felt he gave their profession a bad name. Tiger not being a good player solidly aligns itself with the MO of the football team.. They are not good playas..Nuff said..

Rachel Maddow is more Cal bear than Stanfurd Cardinal

5-The best thing about Stanfurd is Rachel Maddow. She went to school there.. But really her swag and politics is more aligned with Cal Berekely..You never see Stanfurd brag about this incredible journalist.. They don’t even have a statue or plague giving her props.. That’s a big fail on their part..

Let the record showCal always acknowledges its famous alumini. We should also mention Taje of Hiero/ Souls of Mischief went to Stanfurd as well as DJ Kevvy Kev..None of them are honored by their school…In fact true fact.. Hiero and Souls have done more shows at Cal than Stanfurd.. Need I say more?

Finally here’s the real reason why Stanfurd will lose to Cal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aCDfJH6eRY