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Super Bowl champ Ravens, 49ers each get 1 preseason national TV game

NEW YORK — The Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens and the team they beat, the San Francisco 49ers, each will make one national TV appearance during the NFL preseason this summer. The Ravens play the third of their four-game preseason schedule on …
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Randy Moss Reportedly Won't Be Back with San Francisco 49ers Next Season

While the team praised Moss during his extended periods of media silence throughout the 2012 season, his decision to remove the restrictor plate from his vocal cords in the days before the Super Bowl provided insight into the attitude with which the … See all stories on this topic »

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Team overview: If you don't count the first two quarters of Super Bowl XLVII or David Akers' entire season, the 49ers were almost perfect in 2012. The defense finished the season ranked third in the NFL and the offense wasn't too shabby either, ranking … See all stories on this topic »

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Penn State Deploys iPad Presentation Tool

Penn State has installed Doceri Desktop, a tool from San Francisco, CA-based SP Controls that allows educators to access and remotely control presentations from their podium computer using an iPad. The university deployed the software in 314 classrooms …
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Super Bowl Halftime Show 2013: Who Can Top Beyonce's 2012 Performance?

When Joe Flacco and the Ravens held on to beat the San Francisco 49ers during the Super Bowl, many were left thinking "That was one heckuva halftime show." Just like The Brothers Harbaugh have the next 11 months to come up with an even better repeat …
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Bus ads with jihadist quotes draw outcry in San Francisco

San Francisco leaders and the local Muslim community are slamming what they call a series of anti-Islam bus ads that contain quotes attributed to terrorists.

The ads, which began appearing on at least 10 city buses Monday, contain quotes such as one attributed to the militant Islamic group Hamas that reads: “Killing Jews is worship that brings us closer to Allah.”

“San Francisco is a city that celebrates its diversity and hateful speech and discrimination against our Arab and Muslim communities will never be tolerated,” Mayor Ed Lee said according to KTVU.

Lee, District Attorney George Gascon and other elected officials joined Arab and Muslim community leaders to publicly condemn the ads Monday, calling them racist.

“These offensive ads serve no purpose than to denigrate our city’s Arab and Muslim communities,” Gascon said.

The ads are paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative and feature Usama bin Laden, the Times Square car bomber and the alleged gunman in the Fort Hood, Texas, shootings accompanied by quotes about warfare and weapons that the group links to Islam.

The group ran similar ads in San Francisco in August and has also posted ads in New York City, including one in September that called enemies of Israel “savages.”

San Francisco’s transit agency believes a First Amendment court decision forces it to accept the advertising. It plans to give the $5,000 used to pay for the ads to the city’s Human Rights Commission to study the impact of discrimination on San Francisco’s Islamic communities and run its own ads against discrimination.

American Freedom Defense Initiative’s executive director, Pamela Geller, told The Associated Press on Tuesday the purpose of the campaign is to show the “reality of jihad and root causes of terrorism, from the words of jihadists themselves.”

“City officials denounce our ads, but not the actual quotes from high-profile jihadists calling for holy war and genocide,” she said in an email.

“Our new campaign focuses on how jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism.”

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.

San Francisco leaders decry anti-Islamic bus ads

San Francisco leaders are denouncing a series of anti-Islamic advertisements that will appear on 10 city buses.

Several leaders joined Arab and Muslim community leaders to publicly condemn the ads as racist and offensive.

The ads are paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative and feature Osama bin Laden, the Times Square car bomber and the alleged gunman in the Fort Hood, Texas, shootings.

The city’s transit agency says it will give the $5,000 used to pay for the ads to the city’s Human Rights Commission to study the impact of discrimination on San Francisco’s Islamic communities.

The group ran similar ads in San Francisco in August and has also posted ads in New York City, including one in September that called enemies of Israel “savages.”

Super Bowl 2013 coin toss prop bet: Can the NFC recover after last year's loss?

The New York Giants may have won the 2012 Super Bowl, but they let the NFC down when they failed to win the coin toss. Prior to that loss, the NFC had a 14-year winning streak in Super Bowl coin tosses, a streak the San Francisco 49ers will attempt to … See all stories on this topic »

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Leigh Anne Tuohy: Michael Oher's Super Bowl Journey Continues 'Blind Side …

Oher's Ravens will play the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday for a Super Bowl title, culminating arguably his most interesting professional season. In fact, if we were crafting a movie-like narrative for Oher's 2012 season, it would certainly have its … See all stories on this topic »

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Doritos Super Bowl commercial: "Crash the Super Bowl" finalist

3rd, the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens will cap off the 2012-13 season in Super Bowl XLVII. It has the makings of an intense 60-minute fist fight that comes down to the last quarter. Thankfully there will be some commercial breaks so the … See all stories on this topic »

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