Zenophon Abraham is the designer and developer of the XFL Simworld and the Oakland Baseball Simworld, and the creator of the simulator concept around which SBS products are built. Both products are the embodiment of his experience in system dynamics modeling, public finance, urban economic development, sports event planning and bid preparation, public relations, journalism, and economics and politics. A creative thinker with a diverse background and a track record of accomplishments, Mr. Abraham created the Oakland-Alameda County Sports Commission, then served as its president. In that role, he headed the bid effort to bring the 2005 Super Bowl to Oakland. With Dr. Rascher, he founded Sports Business Simulations. Mr. Abraham is a results oriented, proactive leader with a talent for thinking out-of-the-box: always developing innovative solutions to problems. He is a top-flight simulation model programmer, policy analyst, city planning and economic development expert, and political and media strategy specialist. Mr. Abraham has served as economic advisor to the last two Mayors of Oakland, as a consultant to several California Redevelopment agencies, and as a popular newspaper columnist. He developed the Oakland Baseball Simworld at UC Berkeley and using documents and materials he recorded during his time with the Oakland Mayor's Office.
Senator Barack Obama came to Oakland on St. Patrick's Day and was greeted by an audience estimated to be as large as 15,000 to 20,000 people - the largest gathering of its kind in Oakland's Frank Ogawa Plaza. This video contains his introduction by Army Sgt. Georgatos and the first five to seven minutes of his rousing 22-minute speech which included a focus on his plan for Iraq. The video is also a glimpse of the sheer size and excitement of the Oakland crowd. Take a good look at the audience,...
This giant party on February 1st starting at The Havana Club at 200 South Biscayne Boulevard, 55th Floor with a buffet dinner and cigar bar from 8 PM to 10 PM, then moving to Brick's at 66 SW 6th Street at 10 PM and going on to 5 AM, is a collaboration between Baeur's Worldwide Limousines and Pure Rush, with Fox Sports Radio, The Havana Club, and Bricks. The website is http://www.purerushmiami.bl... Expected Guests : Troy Aikman, Anquan Boldin, Ray Brown, Luis Castillo, Terrell Davis, Will Dem...
My friend Michael Dotterer is the first and only two sport athlete in Stanford history to earn four letters. On Friday, November 3rd, Michael Dotterer and six other Stanford greats were honored at a special dinner. There, I captured Michael in his element: meeting and greeting people.
This is a vlog of my walk with Oakland City Council District Two Candidate Aimee Allison. Here, Aimee explains her passion and love for Oakland and her district, and the problems and solutions she sees. Finally she states why she's running for Oakland City Council's District Two seat
I met Libby Chansky at the Stanford Athletics Hall Of Fame Dinner on Friday, November 3rd. She and I were part of a large group there to celebrate the induction of my good friend Michael Dotterer, who remains the only two-sport player to receive four letters in Stanford history. Libby wants to be the bachelorette on "The Bachelorette" and to that end, we took this quick video. It's kind of a teaser. For more info contact info@sportsbusinesssims.com
One week ago, my Cingular / Motorola Razor's video display stoped working. I took it into the Cingular store on Lakeshore in Oakland, CA, where the staffer arranged to have a replacement sent overnight; it never came. This set in motion a frustrating sequence of events that's led me to produce this video memo to Cingular President and CEO Stan Sigman. I just want him to get his staffers to send my phone. Chances are, you've had a simular problem with Cingular; pass this video on!
I thought I'd bring the whole YouTube-based controversy over to Blip.tv just because it's equally relevant to this organization and it's objectives and the proud vloggers who are part of this community. To me Lonelygirl15 should not be damned but copied and celebrated. I expain why in this vlog.
This is the commmercial presenting Kate Troescher and her new show, "Kate On Sports" at www.kateonsports.com Her first show will be on Steroids; as you can see, it's a subject she gets worked up about.
I met a Sprint rep at the NFL Draft who asked if I would help the company promote its new Sprint / Samsung NFL Network Phone. You can pick up NFL Network telecasts live. So I tried it and I've got to admit it's a really cool phone. It does show live NFL Network telecasts, which means you can watch the NFL games -- including the Thursday and Friday NFL Network presentations -- right from this phone. Check out the video; get the phone. (This is an example of how vloggers can make revenue -- and ...
Broadway Grand is a development under construction at the corner of Broadway and Grand Avenue on the northside of downtown Oakland. As the vid will show, it's a large mixed-use retail and apartment development which because of its size and placement will alter that part of downtown Oakland forever. Broadway Grand sits what used to be considered -- and by some still is though to be -- a sketchy area with drug dealers, robbers, and the homeless. But what's being constructed in these areas -- hou...
