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Oakland Raiders podcast with Jeremy Kahn: Aldon already counting the days to get back; Tadich Grill owner says disputing family members are not partners of the business

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by Jeremy Kahn

ALAMEDA–On the Raiders podcast a discussion on the recently suspended linebacker Aldon Smith who says he’s ready to get started with rehab for substance abuse. The question is can he overcome it and stay with it in 2016 when he returns? Smith says he’ll be a changed man after rehab and says he’s looking forward to getting back to work with the Raiders.

Former Oakland Raider the late Gene Upshaw whose widow Terri Upshaw and sons have no contact with their father or grandfather former owner of Tadich Grill Steve Buich because according to Terri her father says she married a black man. Upshaw and she were cut out from the family. Buich released a statement to the San Francisco Chronicle saying the family breakup between his daughter and him was not over race but because of Upshaw’s “character”.

Terri insists it was race and that Buich doesn’t even want to meet his grandsons. Terri has said that the only contact that she’s had with her family is just with cousins on facebook. Meanwhile Terri’s brother Michael says the parties who are having this problem are neither owners of Tadich Grill in San Francisco or Washington and that the grill doesn’t practice discrimination. Terri brought this issue up about being banned by the family after Tadich expanded their business to Washington recently as Terri lives in nearby Arlington Virginia.

Terri thought it was about time to bring up the fact that her father Steve banned her from the family because Upshaw was black and that she was no longer welcome in the family. Terri has attempted once to try and communicate with the family but says they will not speak to her even to this day.

Jeremy Kahn covers Oakland Raiders football at http://www.sportsradioservice.com and does the Raiders podcast each week

Bing photo: Gene and Terri Upshaw

 

San Francisco 49ers podcast with David Zizmor: Gabbert ready for the big test at Century Link this Sunday

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On the 49ers podcast today, the 49ers are coming off a one point win against the Atlanta Falcons two weeks ago at Levi’s Stadium. They had the bye this past week and are headed to Seattle to face the Seahawks. They have lost two of their last three games.

The 49ers 3-6 have a huge task in front of them in playing this Sunday at Century Link Field in Seattle and those fans are like the 12th man.  After defeating the Atlanta Falcons last Sunday by a point this will be a different task for 49ers quarterback Blain Gabbert. It will be up to him to deliver and this is his big chance to prove himself against Seattle.

David Zizmor does the 49ers podcast for http://www.sportsradioservice.com each week click to listen

AP photo 49ers QB Blaine Gabbert

 

 

 

 

49ers Hope to Turn Around Struggles in Seattle

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by Joe Lami

The San Francisco 49ers return to action this Sunday, as they travel to Seattle to take on the Seahawks. Seattle has faced their own struggles as well this season with a 4-5 record heading into Sunday. However, three of their five losses have been by less than four points.

It was just a month ago where the Seahawks blew out the 49ers 20-3 on Monday Night Football in Santa Clara. The 49ers offense couldn’t get anything going, even though their defense held them in the game for the majority. San Francisco will have someone new under center from a month ago, as Blaine Gabbert will be starting his second straight.

He won his first start of the year with a 17-16 victory over the Atlanta Falcons. He led two touchdown drives, throwing for 185 yards on 60% pass percentage. The 49ers offense looked revived with Gabbert under center, finally having a quarterback that can get the ball into their receivers hands.

Gabbert’s biggest challenge will come to his right as he will have to avoid Richard Sherman. Sherman hasn’t done much yet this year, with eight pass deflections and no interceptions. Earl Thomas leads the mighty Seahawks secondary with three picks on the year. The 49ers will also be using their make shift running back core, with Shaun Draughn expected to get the majority of carries once again.

San Francisco wasn’t able to stop Marshawn Lynch in their first matchup, who will be looking to have a field day come Sunday.

Seattle has just dominated the 49ers at home in recent years, as San Francisco hasn’t won in the pacific northwest since 2011. The streak will continue this year, as expect Seattle to just dominate the banged up 49ers defense. Gabbert should be able to get something going offensively however.

Seattle 28 San Francisco 13

Oakland Raiders report: Raiders say they’ll see how Aldon Smith rehabs suspended one year for substance abuse

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by Jeremy Kahn and Joe Hawkes Beamon

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ALAMEDA–Aldon Smith who was busted for DUI on August 6th and faces DUI charges in Santa Clara it was at that time the San Francisco 49ers released Smith. Smith had served a nine game suspension for DUI during the 2014 season for substance abuse. This time in 2015 as an Oakland Raider Smith has been found to be a substance abuser again and will serve a one year suspension immediately according to the Raiders.

The Raiders really counted on Smith this season and was hoping that he finally would break through his drinking habit but he just couldn’t handle it any longer. Smith said a in a statement released on Tuesday “First I want to thank the Raiders, my teammates, the fans, our coaches and our owner in supporting me throughout all of this. I’m taking this time to work on myself and become the man I need to be. I had lost my love for the game and it led me to some poor choices, but I’m thankful to the Raider organization for believing in me this season and will continue to get better myself and grow from my experiences. I look forward to rejoining the team next year.”

Smith will lose $323, 529 in per game salary, he’ll miss out on the $514,000 base salary and $1.75 million in roster bonuses. The Raiders will depend on Khalil Mack and Mario Edwards to pick up the slack where Smith left off. The Raiders have another problem with linebacker Ray-Ray Armstrong who taunted and barked at a Pittsburgh Police Dog when the team was at Heinz Field. The action by Armstrong is considered a felony and if prosecuted and convicted Armstrong could face a seven year prison sentence and a $15,000 fine. Sources say that the Pittsburgh Police are prepared to prosecute.

Jeremy Kahn and Joe Hawkes Beamon cover the Oakland Raiders for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

NFL Podcast with Tony Renteria: Manning injury could last at least two weeks, Browns give Johnny Football a try; Rams to start Keenum

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On the NFL podcast with Tony Renteria the Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning will be on the shelf for some time as Manning is suffering from Plantar Fascia in his right foot making it painful for the veteran quarterback to set back in the pocket or just to move around. Manning had been complaining about the pain but after being diagnosed he was told he need to rest the foot.

Cleveland Browns starting quarterback Josh McCown whose suffering from multiple injuries will be replaced by Johnny Manziel. The Browns had lost five straight and are looking for some better effort with Manziel in the starting line up.

The St.Louis Rams will sit their starter Nick Foles and go with Case Keenum at quarterback. Head coach Jeff Fisher said it was not the fault of Foles but the team effort on offense was lacking and a change was needed. Fisher said the quarterback position starts with the offense and Fisher said changing quarterbacks was necessary.

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Tony Renteria does the NFL podcast weekly at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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Oakland Raiders post game recap with Jeremy Kahn:Peterson dominates in win

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By Jeremy Kahn

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OAKLAND-Adrian Peterson may have sat out the 2014 season for the Minnesota Vikings, but the running back never missed a step.

Peterson carried the ball 26 times for 203 yards, including a 80-yard touchdown run with 1:54 remaining in the game and the Vikings defeated the Oakland Raiders 30-14 at the Coliseum.

It was the sixth career 200-yard rushing game for Peterson, tying O.J. Simpson for the most in NFL history.

Teddy Bridgewater returned for the Vikings at quarterback after being forced to leave the Vikings last game against the St. Louis Rams with a concussion. Bridgewater went 14-for-22 for 140 yards and a touchdown.

Rhett Ellison caught the lone touchdown thrown by Bridgewater on the Vikings initial series of the game.

Ellison caught an 11-yard touchdown pass from Bridgewater that gave the Vikings an early 7-0 lead with just under 11 minutes remaining in the first quarter.

Steffon Diggs, Ellison, Peterson, MyCole Pruitt and Matt Asiata each caught two passes from Bridgewater, as the Vikings improve to 7-2 on the season.

Derek Carr went 29-for-43 for 302 yards passing with two touchdowns and two interceptions on the afternoon.

Carr became just the sixth quarterback in NFL history to throw for 20 touchdowns in his first seasons in the league. He joins Andy Dalton, Andrew Luck, Peyton Manning, Dan Marino and Russell Wilson on the list.

This was Carr’s third consecutive 300 yard game and his fifth of the season. The three straight 300 yard passing games by Carr ties the second longest streak in Raiders history.

Carson Palmer was the last Raiders quarterback to throw for 300 yards or more in three consecutive games during the 2012 season.

Carr joins Palmer and Cotton Davidson in 1964 as the only Raiders with at least 300 yards passing and two touchdowns in three consecutive games.

Clive Wafford caught a Carr 10-yard pass for a touchdown, while Andre Holmes caught a 34-yard touchdown pass to give the Raiders a 14-13 with 1:52 remaining in the first half.

Amari Cooper caught five passes for 79 yards, as he tops the 50 catch plateau on the season and joins Michael Crabtree who caught four passes for 55 yards to give him 51 on the season.

Cooper and Crabtree are the first Raiders duo since Charlie Garner and Jerry Rice during the 2002 season with at least 50 receptions through nine games.

Blair Walsh hit three field goals for the Vikings, but the usually reliable kicker missed two field goals on the afternoon.

Carr finally got the Raiders on the board when he found Walford for the 10-yard touchdown pass, and then gave the Raiders a one-point lead when he found Holmes from 34 yards out.

That lead for the Raiders would live for all of 13 seconds, as Cordarrelle Patterson returned a Sebastian Janikowski kick 93 yards to give the Vikings the lead for good with 1:39 remaining in the first half.

Walsh kicked his third field goal of the game to give the Vikings a 23-14 lead, and then Carr led the Raiders on a drive down to the Vikings 11; however the drive ended when Carr’s pass intended for Holmes was intercepted by Terence Newman in the end zone. It was the second interception of the game for the 13-year veteran.

“I wanted to take a shot into the endzone prior to the two minute. I don’t know if he left it a little inside or not, but (Terence Newman) made a nice play,” said Jack Del Rio.

On the first play following Newman’s second interception of the game, Peterson put the icing on the cake, as took a Bridgwater handoff and ran 80 yards for the touchdown.

Oakland Raiders moving to LA podcast: Mayor and city at virtual 11th hour to get funding for new Oakland Stadium

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by Joe Hawkes Beamon

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OAKLAND–Oakland city residents were asked about where is their priority on saving the Oakland Raiders by building a new stadium. They said that building a new stadium for the Oakland Raiders is not the top priority. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff is trying to get the idea of using property taxes that will help subsidize building a new Raiders Stadium as the team is moving in the direction of leaving Oakland as early as the end of this season and could be playing at the Rose Bowl or the LA Coliseum by next season.

Schaff is a lifelong A’s and Raiders fan but says she would not use public funds to build a new Raiders stadium. She went to New York to discuss keeping the Raiders in Oakland with NFL officials and she expressed to the officials that Oakland is a very passionate fan base and that Oakland is a very attractive place for the NFL.

The situation for Oakland keeping it’s team is very much up in the air for discussions. The location of a new Oakland Raiders stadium would be at the current Oakland Coliseum site. The idea of building these new stadiums these days they have to be around businesses, hotels, and shopping. The Coliseum doesn’t have those amenities and that might lessen Schaff’s reasoning to the NFL in keeping the team there.

Joe Hawkes Beamon covers the Raiders each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast below

 

 

Raiders return home to face tough Vikings team

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By Joe Hawkes-Beamon

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OAKLAND — Sunday’s match up at O.co Coliseum between the Vikings and Oakland will showcase two of the league’s best young quarterbacks in Minnesota’s Teddy Bridgewater and Oakland’s Derek Carr.

Both quarterbacks were drafted in 2014 to turn around struggling franchises with Minnesota selecting Bridgewater with the 32nd overall pick in the first round, and Oakland drafting Carr with the 36th overall pick in the second round.

Oakland (4-4), who has already surpassed its 2014 win total after finishing 3-13, is in the thick of the AFC playoff race thanks to their second-year signal caller. Carr has thrown 19 touchdowns to just four interceptions, including tossing four touchdowns in each of his past two games.

In Oakland’s 38-35 heartbreaking loss in Pittsburgh last week, Carr completed 24-of-44 passes for 301 yards and four touchdowns and an interception. Carr is on pace for just Oakland’s third 4,000-yard passing season in franchise history. Raiders’ passing attack anchored by the wide receiver duo of Michael Crabtree (47 receptions, 591 yards, 5 TDs), and rookie Amari Cooper (45 receptions, 653 yards, 4 TDs) and both are on pace for 1,000-yard seasons.

Crabtree recorded his second straight game with seven catches and 100-plus receiving yards in the loss against the Steelers. The Silver and Black could have their work cut out for them when putting the in the air as Minnesota sports the NFL’s sixth-ranked passing defense, yielding just 220.6 yards a game.

Running back Latavius Murray practiced Thursday since suffering a concussion in Pittsburgh. Murray is seventh in the league in rushing with 630 yards with three touchdowns on 132 carries.

Bridgewater, who also suffered a concussion of his own in Minnesota’s 21-18 victory in overtime against the visiting St. Louis Rams last Sunday. Bridgewater left the game early in the fourth quarter and was replaced by journeyman quarterback Shaun Hill after taking a vicious hit from Rams’ cornerback Lamarcus Joyner.

On the season, Bridgewater has played steady, throwing six touchdowns and six interceptions, but has steered Minnesota to a 6-2 record tied for first place in the NFC North with the Green Bay Packers in his second season from Louisville.

Minnesota will host Green Bay next week.

But it was running back Adrian Peterson that was the standout performer in the game.

The NFL’s leading rusher finished with 125 yards on the ground, 21 of which came in overtime that would set up kicker Blair Walsh for the game-winning field goal.

The Raiders were torched defensively in Pittsburgh, allowing 597 total yards to the Steelers, with Antonio Brown recording 284 yards receiving on a franchise-record 17 catches. Safety Nate Allen, who has been sidelined with a knee injury since the home opener, is expected to be back and help a struggling secondary that sports future Hall-of-Famer in Charles Woodson.

Woodson leads the NFL with five interceptions in his 18th season.

Minnesota is currently riding a four-game winning streak, in large part to a defense that has yielded just 306.8 yards total per game and holding the opposition to 18 percent (9-for-50) on third down conversions.

Oakland is 5-1 all time at O.co Coliseum against Minnesota, and have won five of their last seven at home dating back to last season.

This will be the second trip to the Bay Area for Minnesota this season. The Vikings lost to the San Francisco 49ers 20-3 in Week 1 at Levi’s Stadium behind a season-low 248 total yards.

Peterson finished with just 31 rushing yards on 10 carries against a 49ers team that historically holds Peterson in check, yielding just 3.0 yards per carry to Peterson, his lowest against any team for his career.

San Francisco 49ers podcast with David Zizmor: Gabbert, Tomsula, & 49ers take bye in preparation for Seattle trip

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On the 49ers podcast the 49ers quarterback Blaine Gabbert was all the rage last week beating the Atlanta Falcons and the 49ers winning by a field goal. Gabbert kept the 49ers in check and the defense didn’t allow the Falcons to score a touchdown that would have surpassed the 49ers lead.

The 49ers have a bye this week as they prepare for the Seattle Seahawks. Gabbert who was named the starting quarterback for the game in Seattle on Sunday 22nd. The team looked like they put out a lot harder in the game versus Atlanta than some of their previous games. The Falcons at one time had a perfect record and are the one of the top teams in the NFL. The win over the Falcons last week could be a turn around for the suffering 49ers.

David explains more on the 49ers listen to the podcast at http://www.sportsradioservice.com below

Oakland Raiders podcast with Jeremy Kahn: Raiders look 90 % certain to move to LA with Disney backer and 20 NFL owners in favor

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by Jeremy Kahn

photo credit bayareanewsgroup.com Raider fans protest LA move at Paramount theatre on Oct 29th

ALAMEDA–The Oakland Raiders have hired Disney CEO Bob Iger in their efforts to move the team to Los Angeles and the reality of such a move that looks close to 90% real. Iger has politcal influences in the Southland because of his Disneyland and California Disney Park connections also with ESPN and the NFL which makes for a strong representation for assisting the Raiders move.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff who went to meet with NFL officials this past week to try and convince them that Oakland is the best and only viable place for the team, that the Raiders can lure fans from San Francisco who no longer has a team playing in their city limits because the BART train comes right to the Coliseum.

Without a new stadium under construction in Oakland and no money to make it a reality and nowhere close Raiders owner Mark Davis has decided to move onto getting the NFL’s approval to move the team to the Southland in what could be the Raiders swan song season in of their second and very last tenure at the Oakland Coliseum.

The Raiders first left Oakland in 1983 and returned in 1995 but poor attendance and dysfunction by the City of Oakland and the Coliseum Joint Powers Authority on constructing a new Raiders stadium has put the idea of keeping the Raiders in Oakland out to pasture. It will be a very sad day in Oakland sports history when the Raiders back up the truck and leave town. The  Raiders could leave as soon as the end of this season and start play in the Rose Bowl or Coliseum in Los Angeles.

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