With their new stadium breaking ground in Santa Clara this week, the San Francisco 49ers reportedly plan to bid on Super Bowl L for 2016.The 49ers hope the team’s new $1.02 facility would host the 50th Super Bowl, a team source told the Sacramento Bee on Friday. And if the team did not get the event, it would bid on the 2016 game.The 49ers are planning for the new stadium, which will hold 68,500 seats and can expand to 75,000, to be open in 2014. The bidding process for the game will begin this summer with a vote expected at the NFL owners’ meetings next May.
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Dozens of tornadoes tore through parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa overnight and one twister killed at least five people early on Sunday as storm sirens failed to sound in an Oklahoma town and caught people unaware.Storms skipped across what is often called “Tornado Alley” in the U.S. Central and Southern Plains and more were forecast. But casualties appeared limited because many of the twisters hit sparsely populated areas, and during daylight hours or evening when people were still awake.
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Matt Cain tossed a one-hit, 11-strikeout complete-game gem and Aubrey Huff belted a two-run homer in the eighth inning as San Francisco won its home opener.Buster Posey ripped an RBI double off the center-field wall in the first inning and Huff and Nate Schierholtz added run-scoring singles. Melky Cabrera posted his fourth straight multi-hit contest with a pair of singles to extend his hitting streak to seven games.
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Facebook has continued its acquisition frenzy Thursday by purchasing San Francisco-based company TagTile.TagTile announced the merger on its website in a post that read, "Today, we are happy to announce that we are joining Facebook, and that they are acquiring substantially all of our assets."
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Five years ago, Justin Edmund arrived at Carnegie Mellon University, a floppy-haired freshman, with artistic talent and dreams of joining a venerable design firm like IDEO or Frog. But during his sophomore year, a recruiting pitch from a Facebook employee turned his head, and prompted a detour of his ambitions."It didn't even occur to me that working at a tech company was something I could do," Edmund said. "I switched my trajectory completely."
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Public radio and TV stations can now air political and “public issue” advertisements, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday in a case affecting a tiny San Francisco TV station.In a 2-1 ruling, the appeals court argued that a law banning such advertisements violated the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by placing too great a restriction on speech without serving a substantial government interest.
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The tales of Homer Simpson and his family have become embedded in television lore, but ever wonder where Springfield, the illustrious hometown of "The Simpsons," is really based?The town of Springfield has become a character of its own on the popular animated TV show, serving as the backdrop to the adventures of the Simpson family. But in 23 years on air, the show's creator has kept the real location of the town veiled, saying he didn't want to "ruin it for people" -- until now.
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George Zimmerman’s lawyers withdrew from his defense on Tuesday after the man who shot and killed an unarmed black Florida teenager telephoned prosecutors directly, contacted a television journalist and set up a website all without their knowledge.Defense lawyers Craig Sonner and Mark Uhrig said they lost contact with their client on Sunday and were concerned for his mental and physical health following a wave a protests across the country that have demanded Zimmerman’s arrest for the death of Trayvon Martin, 17.
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Conservative Rick Santorum dropped out of the presidential race on Tuesday, clearing the way for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney to clinch the Republican nomination.Trailing Romney in opinion polls and fundraising, the former senator from Pennsylvania told reporters he was suspending his campaign. That effectively ends his bid to be the Republican who will face President Barack Obama in the November 6 general election.
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Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Scott Thompson outlined how the Internet pioneer will revive itself by putting in place a new structure to sharpen its focus on users, advertisers and overlooked areas such as commerce.The company said last week it would lay off 2,000 people or 14 percent of its workforce, and it set in motion a broad restructuring.
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Fast Retailing Co’s Uniqlo fashion chain will take its U.S. expansion beyond New York City this year, with a store in San Francisco set to open in the autumn.The retailer said on Tuesday that the store will be Uniqlo’s fourth U.S. location. It already operates three stores in New York, including a large flagship stor on the Fifth Avenue that opened last year.
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An elementary school teacher, a special education teacher and another public school worker in Maryland shared one of three winning tickets for the record U.S. $656 million Mega Millions jackpot, Maryland Lottery officials announced on Tuesday.Each of the three winners who shared the single Maryland ticket will take home $34.997 million after taxes, lottery officials said. The winners chose to remain anonymous.Two other winning tickets were sold in Kansas, where a winner came forward, and Illinois, where a winner has not yet surfaced.
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Baseball experts? There are none. Not anymore. Not after what Barry Zito did Monday.Nobody is expert enough to have imagined that.After Tim Lincecum, Madison Bumgarner and Matt Cain stunk it up in three consecutive losses in Arizona, Zito took the mound in Colorado and not only pitched better than the top three, but he pitched downright amazingly.
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Facebook has acquired the popular photo-sharing application Instagram for approximately $1 billion, the company announced on Monday.The deal arrives on the eve of Facebook’s initial public offering.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Instagram would be operated as an independent company. “We’re committed to building and growing Instagram independently,” he said in a post on Facebook. “Millions of people around the world love the Instagram app and the brand associated with it, and our goal is to help spread this app and brand to even more people.”
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Arizona scored the go-ahead run when San Francisco catcher Buster Posey failed to touch home plate on a force play to complete a season-opening three-game sweep of the visiting Giants.The Diamondbacks also scored the tying run on a San Francisco defensive miscue earlier in the seventh inning to cap a comeback from a 6-0 deficit and defeat the Giants for the seventh consecutive time.San Francisco put two runners on in the ninth before Bryan Shaw struck out Posey to record his first career save.
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