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Reed Smith Faucets Ex-CFPB Enforcement Professional In San Francisco

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:44:24 +0000

By Emilie Ruscoe (October 20, 2022, 4:06 PM EDT) — Reed Smith LLP has added a partner who spent three years in enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau during the agency’s earliest days, the firm has announced….

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San Francisco 49ers Professional Bowl working again Frank Gore wins professional boxing debut by KO

Sun, 15 May 2022 16:03:28 +0000

Five-time Pro Bowl running back Frank Gore celebrated his 39th birthday by knocking out Yaya Olorunsola in his debut as a professional boxer.

He knocked down Olorunsola to the canvas unconscious in the fourth round with a powerful right hook in the co-main event of Gamebred Boxing in Jackson, Mississippi.

Frank Gore’s notable NFL numbers

The former rusher, who holds the NFL record for the most games played by a running back (241), participated in an exhibition fight as part of the undercard of the Jake Paul-Tyron Woodley showdown in December. He lost via split decision.

Gore is an NFL veteran who played for five teams in 16 seasons. He last played with the New York Jets 2020. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the third round in 2005, and stayed with the team until 2014. All his Pro Bowl selections were made during his time with the Niners.

Frank Gore: NFL fixture for 16 seasons

He played for the Indianapolis Colts from 2015 to 2017, for the Miami Dolphins in 2018, the Buffalo Bills in 2019, before moving to the Jets in 2020.

The 39-year-old is known for the longevity of his career, which is particularly noteworthy given the position that he plays. He has tallied a total of 16,000 rushing yards in his entire stint with professional football, a number that ranks third in the history of the NFL, trailing only Emmitt Smith who recorded 18,355 yards, and Walter Payton, who racked up 16,726.

Gore recently announced that he would hang up his cleats up soon, and that he intends to sign a one-day contract with San Francisco so that he could formally retire as a 49er.

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Titans GM shoots down concept of transferring Professional Bowl WR

Sun, 24 Apr 2022 13:05:16 +0000

Tennessee Titans general manager Jon Robinson on Thursday reiterated his hopes of keeping star AJ Brown on the team for years to come amid an eventful offseason surrounding wide receivers.

The market at the position has skyrocketed over the last month, with a slew of elite receivers – Stefon Diggs, Tyreek Hill and Davante Adams among them – receiving megadeals. And Deebo Samuel’s trade request from the San Francisco 49ers added another ripple in the discussion. If he’s dealt and immediately signs a new deal with the trading team, it could set a new bar for Brown’s extension.

Brown and Samuel are both represented by CAA’s Tory Dandy, who negotiated three-year deals worth $60 million earlier this offseason for two other big-name receivers: Chris Godwin (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) and Mike Williams (Los Angeles Chargers).

At the Titans’ pre-draft news conference, Robinson shut down any speculation that Tennessee could trade their star receiver before next week’s draft.

“I don’t foresee that happening,” he said.

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It falls in line with comments Robinson has previously made. He said at the NFL owners meeting last month that he wanted to keep Brown with the Titans for a “long time” and wanted to extend him “this offseason, or whenever that manifests itself.”

Brown, who’s entering the last year of his rookie deal, has 185 receptions for 2,995 yards and 24 touchdowns in 43 games with the Titans. He was named a Pro Bowler after the 2020 season.

Brown could command at least $20 million per year in a new deal, contracts expert Joel Corry told The Tennessean earlier this month.

“We’ve had some discussions with his reps,” Robinson said of contract negotiations with Brown. “He was here a couple weeks ago. I talked to him. We’re working through that. Not going to get into any details with contract negotiations; never really done that. But we’ve made it public about how we feel about AJ and how we want him to be apart of this football team.”

“AJ knows how we feel about him and how much he means to this football team.”

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From Kidd to Ligety, distinctive World Professional Ski Tour carries on

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:22:02 +0000

Most afternoons, Billy Kidd glides down the Heavenly Daze ski slope as he runs a free clinic with the guarantee – he always kids – that it will bring them closer to the Olympics or get their money back.

This weekend, the 1964 Olympic slalom silver medalist will reminisce when a pro racetrack he once raced regularly stops on his native snow in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Over 50 years ago, the charismatic Kidd, together with Jean-Claude Killy and later the Mahre brothers, brought momentum to an up-and-coming World Pro Ski Tour. It’s a tour that took root in the late 1960s, flourished for years before disbanding in 1999 and returning in 2017.

Kidd, easily recognizable in his distinctive cowboy hat, will definitely be a little nostalgic when the first races of the season – due to the global pandemic for the first time in a year – take place on Saturday and Monday.

For your information, Kidd won’t be taking part for the sake of the old days.

“I don’t even try to keep up with them,” cracked the 77-year-old. “But I love everything about ski racing.”

Especially this unique tour with a format of side-by-side racing. Because the racing driver who is in the next gate could be a national team member, World Cup participant, college star, journeyman or even the two-time Olympic champion Ted Ligety, who is known to appear.

And this is how it works: 32 racing drivers earn a starting place in the field based on the time of the qualifying. From there, the racers are placed in a kind of bracket of the NCAA March Madness, who compete side by side on a super slalom course with jumps in pro style. One run each on the red and blue courses (to keep it fair), with the winners advancing due to the time difference.

“It’s an opportunity for some of these racers to justify their skiing,” said Jon Franklin, CEO of the World Pro Ski Tour. “To show that they belong to the world’s elite.”

Back then, Kidd was a driving force behind an idea from the late Bob Beattie, a former US ski team trainer who also helped create the World Cup ski circus. Beattie saw an opportunity to expand a pro route and started what would eventually become the World Pro Ski Tour.

Kidd won the first world title of this tour in 1970 and beat Egon Zimmermann from Austria – the Olympic champion in the 1964 Downhill – during an epic final race in Switzerland. They kept going to the starting gate – a dozen times in Kidd’s memory – to determine a winner, as one of them had to win twice in a row back then.

“Egon, who was a few years older than me, graciously let me win,” said Kidd, Steamboat’s longtime ski instructor. “That’s the nice thing about it: Anything can happen.”

Like last season when Max Bervy of the University of Colorado defeated Ligety in a head-to-head match at Eldora Mountain, Colorado. Ligety was Bervy’s idol who grew up. So much so that Bervy studied the video of Ligety who has 25 World Cup victories.

But no trace of nervousness, even after losing to Ligety in the first run. He beat Ligety in the second run and advanced to the next lap with a time difference.

“I knew where my skiing was and that I could do something cool,” said Bervy. “It’s always good to have someone like Ted in the back of your mind.”

Over the years many well-known ski racers have competed on the track: Kidd, Killy (the French standout who won three Olympic gold medals in 1968), the late Vladimir “Spider” Sabich, and Phil and Steve Mahre, who won gold and silver in the slalom of the Games 1984 in Sarajevo.

The track fell asleep around ’99 after a sale but reappeared after Ed Rogers, who oversaw the tour for many years, brought it back in ’17 with new sponsors and a television deal.

The prize pool is around $ 10,000 for a tour stop win. Also, about $ 150,000 is at stake during the World Championships on a date yet to be determined. This season’s schedule has been complicated by trying to secure venues during a time of strict COVID-19 protocols.

For now there are no separate men’s and women’s competitions – just one competition.

Memo to retired skier Lindsey Vonn: A permanent offer for her to show up should the most victorious alpine world cup racer of all time return. Vonn has long urged to compete in the World Cup against the men, but was never allowed.

“If Lindsey Vonn came out and competed against Ted, for example, that would be international news,” said Franklin.

Racing enthusiasts should be familiar with the names of the current tour. There are Nolan Kasper, three-time US Olympic champion, and Michael Ankeny, 2015 overall and slalom NorAm champion. In the shortened season of last year, Robert Cone took the overall title. Cone was the 2015 NCAA giant slalom champion for Middlebury College.

For some, the tour offers a chance to revive their careers. For others, it’s just a way to have fun.

Take Jake Jacobs, who is a summer chimney sweep in Glens Falls, New York so he can make money to scout the circuit. The 27-year-old makes his way from competition to competition in a blue van.

He hasn’t missed a scheduled event since returning to the tour in ’17.

“I just want to have fun and live freely,” said Jacobs.

He currently lives in Utah with his girlfriend and trains to race by imagining giant slalom goals when he goes freeskiing.

No doubt to introduce this first victory as well.

“Jake lives the dream for everyone – of all of the people who work on Wall Street and want to have the chance to qualify for a professional race and take on the best in the world,” said Franklin. “These are real Rocky Balboa stories.”

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L.A. story: Soccer passions run excessive, even with no hometown professional workforce

Sun, 26 Sep 2021 10:13:44 +0000

Notre Dame High School players finish warming up before the game against Centennial in Sherman Oaks, Calif. (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Washington Post)

THE ANGEL – Oh, you can play football here all weekend until your brain boils and your pupils dilate. Even without an NFL team, you can hear cheering crowds on Fridays and Saturdays and scatter them over the entire spread on Sundays. Even if the return of an NFL team remains speculation at this point – Rams? Raider? Charger? – You can still swim in Los Angeless’ futuristic patchwork quilt of pro football supporters. ¶ If you are looking for a Crisly Run Spread Offensive on a Prep Friday Night, you may see a Crisly Run Spread Offensive on a Prep Friday Night. If you catch the right Saturday, you might find two gigantic college stadiums that welcome a collective of 145,918 spectators on the same evening. On Sundays, drive like a devil, park a grouse, and hit 10 NFL team-themed bars – from the Cleveland Browns at Chimneysweep in Sherman Oaks to the Oakland Raiders crowd at the Killarney Pub & Grill in Huntington Beach the Washington Redskins at Joxer Daly’s in Culver City, somewhere in between.

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Over three days and portions of 13 games, you could have about 50 sports talks in Los Angeles. You could hear Los Angeles swell without the NFL, but wouldn’t that make it even better? You could hear an entire generation grow from infancy to adulthood without ever knowing a local team from the country’s top division. You might even hear the classic Los Angeles sports talk that goes like this:

Two footballers sit in the stands at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks on Friday night. One is a youth coach, the other helped him. They watch their 16-year-old sons play for the Southland’s top-ranked team, according to the Los Angeles Times: the Centennial Huskies from Corona, 45 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

Youth coach Larry Reed said, “I think you’ve been here for so long without the NFL. You have some people, yes they are hungry, but most people, it has been 20 years . . .”

And the other man, Troy Spencer Jr., said, “Was it that long ago?”

It has, but not exactly. It’s been 21 years since Christmas Eve 1994 when the Raiders at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum lost to Kansas City 19-9 and the Rams lost to the Redskins 24-21 on Freeway 5 at Anaheim Stadium, and both left after that.

“Sometimes you go so long that we know how to go without it,” Spencer said before pointing to the horde of other options in the area. “I mean, it’s Southern California.”

Any new team “is well received as long as the team wins,” said Pat Haden, the Southern California athletic director who once played quarterback at the school and later for the Los Angeles Rams. “But I don’t think it’s a necessary part of the Southern California landscape, anymore.”

Raiders fans cheer at the Killarney Pub & Grill on Sunday. (Patrick T. Fallon / For the Washington Post)
Former raider John Vella signs an autograph. (Patrick T. Fallon / For the Washington Post)

Sight and sounds

This landscape is teeming with sounds, from the public address near halftime in Notre Dame on Friday evening (with Centennial 42: 0) leading – “As a reminder, there are snacks on both sides” – to the three-part, Spanish-speaking, tuba-including band, some ladies for a tailgate in front of the Los Angeles Coliseum to the disc jockey (!)

On a single Sunday in this unusual football city, at 11:11 am in Santa Monica you can hear Patriots fans groaning because Julian Edelman cannot handle Tom Brady’s passport to Redskins fans in Culver City singing, “DCD! DCD! ” as the defense stop the Rams in third place, to the Raiders fans in the south roaring in a packed crowd as Seth Roberts caught Derek Carr’s winning touchdown pass in Oakland, and then cheered again when the bar manager announced, “One fancy little tradition that we love to do here in Killarney when we win is shots!”

The landscape is also full of sights – from the last orange sunlight of the mainland as teams warm up next to a busy boulevard in Notre Dame, to the magically lit Rose Bowl from a hillside while UCLA has its third neighborhood in Arroyo Seco in. plays Pasadena, to the clipboard Victor Acosta holds with a list of Bears table reservations at 9:30 a.m., 30 minutes before kick-off, at the Tinhorn Flats Saloon & Grill in Burbank.

On a single Sunday, you might see a sign in O’Brien’s Irish Pub in Santa Monica – “All tables are reserved for the New York Giants Meetup Group only” – for enough Ravens fans to grab the happy ending up on Sunset Boulevard Baltimorean tourists Shavone Green and Jessica Gaither looked upbeat when Green said to a gathering of Seattle Seahawks fans down on Costa Mesa in a bowling alley bar, “We came up here and it felt like home.”

And there are tons of different feelings, not least the piping hot patch in the tailgate area at USC while 2Pac and NWA and J. Balvin boom in your ears, or the urgency on the Rose Bowl floor while UCLA and Brigham Young get ready and UCLA -Fans are booming in their ears, or the claustrophobia in Sunday bars with a hundred thick walls.

At the end of a football weekend in a city without professional football, the brain remembers so many jerseys from so many teams, so many years: a black Jerome Bettis # 32 (Steelers), a brown Gerard Warren # 94 (Browns), the obligatory one blue Rob Gronkowski No. 87 (Patriots), a blue Phil Simms No. 11 (Giants) with a blue Michael Strahan No. 92 (Giants), a Heath Shuler No. 5 (Redskins), a number of old Rams (Haden, Jack Youngblood, Leroy Irvin) and Ravens Purple on all four Baltimore women sitting upstairs front (Justin Forsett, Terrell Suggs, the still-loved Torrey Smith, and Anquan Boldin).

While absolutely everyone agrees that the country’s second largest metropolitan area can work without the NFL – it’s proven – it’s Los Angeles or Southland, so the angles vary from hope to desire to whatever.

She sold the high school memorabilia she created on a Friday night – Notre Dame Ladies Bling Shirts: $ 40, Scarves: $ 20, etc. – Stephanie Morgan-Russell of the San Francisco Bay Area who Affectionately reminiscent of the ’49s days of the 1980s and 1990s, said, “What’s the problem? There are two teams up there with 6 million people! 22 million people live here. And a lot of soccer fans. I do not get it.”

The Centennial Huskies enter the field before facing Notre Dame. (Patrick T. Fallon / For the Washington Post)

Matt Logan, the trainer at Centennial, a Seahawks fan because he likes Coach Pete Carroll, said, “I think it would be good. I do. However, I don’t know if I would like a team to move. I want a start-up team. I want an LA team. You know, when the Raiders come back, the Rams come back, the Chargers show up, everything’s kind of ‘been there, done that’. ”

Anthony Catalano, Centennial quarterback, a Buffalo Bills fan born in 1997, said, “I look at things when there’s an NFL team in LA, when it gets good it could be like the Lakers. It could be like a. be [shining] Franchise like that because that’s LA. I mean, everyone wants to live in Southern California. “

Southern California Trojans fan Danny Talamentes, 22, born and raised, believes a team could hold the region together, saying, for lack of a better word, walk through the Colosseum right there if you show up early enough. You see this person come in and say, ‘Oh my god this is my boy! I want to do that well! ‘ You don’t see them [now] regularly. I find it easier to identify with someone, for example Matt Leinart, than with Russell Wilson. Because Matt Leinart played here [in college]. Russell Wilson doesn’t. ”

He says, “If I had an NFL team that had the history or half the history of the Dodgers, I would be a huge NFL fan no matter which team was here.”

Members of the Southern California Rams Booster Club pose with their Return of the LA Rams scarves. (Patrick T. Fallon / For the Washington Post)
Young Rams fans spin a wheel to win a raffle prize at half time at Maggie’s Pub. (Patrick T. Fallon / For the Washington Post)

A generation not lost

They all point to a unique reality for a huge metropolis: a generation of children grew up locally without the NFL. In fact, at the big Rams meeting where fan club officers wear badges and lanyards, President Ralph Valdez discovers two such generations: the guys of today and those in their twenties, like his son, also Ralph, 28, who only talks to Tony recalls Banks playing quarterback in the final days of the Rams in Los Angeles.

“It still means the same thing because of the name ‘Rams’,” said the elder Valdez. “The St. Louis thing, they play in St. Louis, but we all feel the same. Rams fans feel no matter where the Rams are, whether it’s Greenland, Idaho, Virginia. As long as they are the Rams, we will follow them. ”At the same time:“ When you grew up as a Rams fan, you are missing something in your heart. It’s not here. “

Back under the high school lights on Friday night, Reed and Spencer marvel. Spencer says his son is missing an NFL team, but he likes the Rams because of Tavon Austin, whom he loved to watch when Austin played for West Virginia, a kind of random semi-andom that may be particularly typical in Los Angeles. “Lots of Cowboys fans, lots of Chargers fans, Seahawks fans, 49ers fans, Pittsburgh fans. . . . The diversity of fans makes it really scary to an NFL team. My thing is you’ve been away for so long, the young fans like my son, they don’t really have a team from LA, so are they really going to choose a team that lives here? “

It’s true, everyone seems to know if there’s a Packers bar on this boulevard, a Jets bar over there on this street. There is of course iron solidarity among the Raiders.

“You can’t come in here with a different jersey,” said Roland Lujan, 55, who had to watch the Raiders come and go in Los Angeles in his day. “You refuse. They don’t want fights or anything. Raider fans don’t fight against Raider fans. So you are not allowed. ”

Lujan remembers a lot of fans who long for one team, but not two, please. He thinks the Chargers should definitely stay in San Diego. His own father, 80, took him to the Raiders, lived next door, and later enjoyed his son’s daily call at 5:30 p.m. to enjoy the victory over the Ravens. At the end of a Sunday, when the last sun leaves the mainland, that is the second most touching story.

In the first, Rams Club Vice President Ernie Almeida told of that final game day against the Redskins in 1994. He remembered players lining up and high five fans saying goodbye to the Bend railings. Almeida didn’t quite believe it and shortly afterwards took a day off “to see if it was true”.

He went to Rams Park. He checked the moving van. “And my heart was broken,” he said. “It really happened. The semi-trailers drove off. It was gone.”

Shortly after the fans cheered loudly over a distant Rams sack in a large hall in a sloping football metropolis in 2015, Almeida said that if they came back, he would take off on another day and buy season tickets. He would try to see if the vans came back.

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San Francisco 49ers signal Professional Bowler Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, three strikes they need to nonetheless make

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 10:32:56 +0000

The San Francisco 49ers have yet another injury to contend with than strong safety starter Jaquiski Tartt. He is said to be nowhere near ready to return while struggling with a toe disease.

For the time being, San Francisco has decided to replace him with the former first-round pick and Pro Bowl Safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix.

ESPN’s Adam Schefter was the first to report the two teams reached an agreement just days before the San Francisco 49ers preseason opener against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Clinton-Dix, 28, was a first-round pick for the Green Bay Packers in 2014. He played at Green Bay for five seasons and won a Pro Bowl seat in 2016. During that time, the former Alabama standout had 275 tackles, 33 passes defended, and 16 interceptions.

He last played for the Chicago Bears in 2019, starting all 16 games while recording 78 tackles and two interceptions. After signing a one-year deal with the Dallas Cowboys last off-season, Clinton-Dix was fired before Week 1. Now that we’ve deepened their security group, let’s look at three more steps San Francisco should take before its season opener.

The San Francisco 49ers sign Dre Kirkpatrick

11/29/2020; Foxborough, Massachusetts, USA; Arizona Cardinals cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick (20) against the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Paul Rutherford-USA TODAY Sports

With Richard Sherman’s return less likely due to his legal situation, San Francisco brought this nine-year veteran to a training session earlier this summer. Both sides could not agree on an agreement.

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It is now high time that General Manager John Lynch and Co. put this opportunity back on its feet. The 49ers have big concerns behind starters Jason Verrett and Emmanuel Moseley heading into the 2021 season. After playing 78 games over the course of his career, Kirkpatrick would give San Francisco valuable cornerback experience. He recorded 56 tackles, seven defended passes and three interceptions in 14 games (11 starts) for the Arizona Cardinals last season.

San Francisco 49ers trade for N’Keal Harry

Speaking of depth concerns, San Francisco avoided the wide receiver position during both the Free Agency and the NFL draft as if it were a new twist on COVID-19. It’s a bit of a surprise after Kendrick Bourne joins the New England Patriots in Free Agency.

With some big question marks behind Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk, San Francisco would be wise to call the Pats about this former first round pick. Sure, Harry struggled during his first two NFL seasons (33 receptions). But he can be a big target for Jimmy Garoppolo or Trey Lance. The former Arizona State star is also only 23 years old and could allegedly be up for a late pick.

San Francisco 49ers trade Jimmy Garoppolo

May 25, 2021; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo (10) during organized team activities at the San Francisco 49ers Training Facility. Mandatory Credit: Stan Szeto-USA TODAY Sports

The ship could have sailed as it exited this Super Bowl quarterback. And in reality, it makes perfect sense for San Francisco to keep Garoppolo for at least one more season. While Lance has shown at camp, that type of experience should be in the center of attention for a Super Bowl contender.

With that in mind, Garoppolo’s commercial value could soon go up depending on what we see in the preseason. If the Denver Broncos’ quarterback situation remains unresolved, General Manager George Paton could call. Depending on Carson Wentz’s injury in Indianapolis, the Colts may need to show interest before Week 1. If San Francisco can get a second-round pick for Garoppolo and is comfortable with Lance starting out as a rookie, it has to be at least part of the thought process for the team.

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From Kidd to Ligety, distinctive World Professional Ski Tour carries on

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 18:56:36 +0000

This weekend, the 1964 Olympic slalom silver medalist will reminisce when a pro racetrack he once raced regularly stops on his native snow in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

For your information, Kidd won’t be taking part for the sake of the old days.

“I don’t even try to keep up with them,” cracked the 77-year-old. “But I love everything about ski racing.”

“It’s an opportunity for some of these racers to justify their skiing,” said Jon Franklin, CEO of the World Pro Ski Tour. “To show that they belong to the world’s elite.”

The story goes on