So what happened over the weekend in sports? The Raiders looked impressive, the 49ers not so much. In baseball, the Giants played some of their best baseball of the season while the A's played some of their worst. We, however, missed it all as we got suckered into the Lord of the Rings Trilogy on TNT and spent most of the weekend online debating the question of who would win a fight between Dumbledore and Gandalf. For the record, Gandalf totally would--Dumbledore just helped defeat some wizard who looked like a snake. Gandalf helped defeat a giant, flaming eyeball. Now onto the sports ...

Coming to you from da city of Da Bears, it's your American Football Spectacular shorthand 2007 NFL Draft overview for the 49ers and Raiders. The draft is here. What should each team want, and what should each team do-not-want? * For the 49ers, WANT: NT/DL DO-NOT-WANT: WR Shut up. Listen, picking a wide receiver high in the draft simply does not pay dividends by nature of the position. You've got the rare Larry Fitzgerald, and......

We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. These are our favorite tidbits from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: For Da Bears: Marlena Spieler's barley lima soup ends up eaten by a bear, grrrrr! Are we alone in being both amused and scared by that bear-riffic illustration? Filtered water is all the rage, in a sustainable trend started by Incanto and Poggio. Velvety Foamy Chocolate in a Cup sounds sexy and divine but seems better......

The -ists this week had politics on the brain. And what goes better with politics? Partying-- that's two great tastes in one. Oh, and Kevin Federline...can't forget about Kevin Federline. That's three great tastes in one. -Bostonist discussed two big state issues-- what sort of math constitutes a marriage and what kind of alcohol can be sold in most grocery stores. And the politically minded Curt Schilling went on "Jeopardy!". ...

On an average Autumn Sunday, the current Chicago Bears are among the most powerful squads in the National Football League. So, this past Sunday, when the 49ers went on over to Soldier Field to face Da Bears, our team was torn apart on defense and on offense. Why? Third down problems on both offense and defense. ...

Raiders 20, Steelers 13- Okay, we're going to say this and we know we're being your typical wishy washy sports reporter, but we think the Raiders a better team than the 49ers. Not just because they beat the Superbowl Champs (it's the in-thing to do these days) but because even when they do lose, they don't get blown out like a certain team across the Bay. We think too that it's mainly because the Raiders can play some D while the 49ers can't. Case in point, the particular game in question in which the D scored two TDs on interception returns and sacked Big Ben five times. That's positively Bear-like and it's even more impressive when you consider the offense still stinks like day old socks. ...

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for?...

Man, that Colts/Bengals game on Sunday was good. Sixty-two points at halftime, eighty-two total points at the end. All that and Charles Johnson celebrating a TD by proposing to a Bengal cheerleader. Too bad we never got to see the game. Also not shown was the big, first place battle between Michael Vick's Falcons and the Tampa Bay Bucs. As well as the old skool defensive battle between Da Bears and the Panthers that had everyone talking '85 Bears. We also didn't get a chance to see the big Giants/Eagles game and for anyone who has ever lived in the East Coast knows, a big, late-fall throw down between two NFC East rivals is the kind of game that one can just hear John Facienda calling. What we did see, however, was a Raiders/'Skins yawner, a battle between a team already out of it and a team rapidly falling out of it. Unless you're a Raiders fan, that game held no interest to anyone unless they had someone on their fantasy team (like us). What did the other channel, that being FOX, show instead? An interview with Don "Chuckles" Rumsfield. Football, football everywhere, but not a good game to see. Why, oh why can't we see good football games?...

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