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	Al Davis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Allen "Al" Davis (born July 4, 1929 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American football executive, who currently serves as the president of A.D. Football, Inc., the managing general partner of the NFL's Oakland Raiders.
		Davis' first coaching experience in professional football came as the offensive end coach of the Los Angeles Chargers from 1960 to 1962.
		Davis was against the merger and chose to return to the Raiders as their managing general partner, rather than remain as commissioner until the end of the AFL in 1970.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al_Davis (680 words)

	Al Bummy Davis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Al "Bummy" Davis (January 26, 1918–November 11, 1945), born Abraham Davidoff, was an American lightweight and welterweight boxer who fought from 1937 to 1945.
		Davis made a name for himself when he scored a 3 round TKO over the great, but washed up, former lightweight champion Tony Canzoneri on November 1, 1939.
		Davis attacked the men, knocked one of the robbers down and was shot in the neck by one of the others as they fled.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al_Bummy_Davis (467 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Al Davis was explaining why Tim Brown couldn't be more than an occasional player, and why Brown, with his pride and his poise couldn't accept that role on a franchise for which those words are a slogan.
		Al Davis proving that in the heartless business of pro sport there is room for sentiment, showing that in the cruel world of results there is a place for benevolence.
		Al Davis was 75 on the Fourth of July, not so much feeling his age but feeling the pain of what the years have brought.
	www.insidebayarea.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2390490 (752 words)

	The Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Al Davis wasn't the first colorful owner in professional sports, but he's one of the few who became the personification of his franchise.
		Al Davis is the Oakland Raiders and the Oakland Raiders are Al Davis.
		Davis further alienated his colleagues two years later by testifying on behalf of the USFL in that league's antitrust suit against the NFL.
	instruction.elgin.cc.il.us:99 /grd21903/grd2190306/assign5/aldavis.html (1302 words)

	20 Wn.2d 219, FLORENCE DAVIS et al., Respondents, v. D. E. BROWNE et al., Appellants
		Her son, respondent Arthur W. Davis, Jr., who was about twenty-seven years of age and to whom we shall hereinafter refer simply as Davis, was in possession of the car on the occasion in question and was driving it at the time of the collision.
		Davis frankly stated that he saw the car, but that he assumed it was moving along the highway in the same direction in which he was proceeding.
		The Davis car, of course, rapidly approached the Browne car, Davis testifying that it was not until he was within from one hundred to one hundred ten feet of that car that he became aware of the fact that it was standing still.
	www.mrsc.org /mc/courts/supreme/020wn2d/020wn2d0219.htm (5469 words)

	ESPN.com: NFL - In the pursuit of petty payback
		Down in L.A., Davis' lawyers say they'll continue forward with the reprise of his original claim that the NFL shoved him out of the way so that some other ownership group could come in and create a rich tapestry of football legend through which appreciative Angelenos can while away their idle time on Sundays.
		Davis' suit against the NFL is for $1.2 billion, the Oakland suit for $1.1 billion.
		Nope, as of now Davis is 0-0 in court in 2002, with two cases pending; and the one thing you can safely make book on is that he will not call off the dogs until those cases have been seen all the way through to the bitter finish -- and bitter is the word.
	espn.go.com /nfl/columns/kreidler_mark/1439243.html (753 words)

	CNNSI.com - NFL Football - Jury rejects Raiders' $1.2 billion suit against NFL - Tuesday May 22, 2001 08:12 AM
		Neither Davis nor NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue was in the courtroom for the verdict.
		Davis, an NFL maverick often at odds with the league and fellow owners, sat in the front row throughout the six-week trial and spent five days on the stand.
		Davis prevailed over the NFL in 1983 in an antitrust lawsuit that let the Raiders come to Los Angeles in the first place and cleared the way for other teams that want to pick up and move.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/nfl/news/2001/05/21/raiders_verdict_ap (1465 words)

	USATODAY.com - Al Davis makes Super return (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Davis was the first NFL owner in the modern era to hire a fl coach (Art Shell in 1989) and the first to have a Hispanic coach (Tom Flores, 1979-1987).
		Davis has been battling the NFL since the 1960s, first as a coach in the rival American Football League, then as AFL commissioner and finally as an NFL owner looking for lucrative markets in northern and southern California.
		Davis is most absorbed by winning championships, something his team hasn't done since beating Washington 38-9 in the Super Bowl in 1984 — in Tampa, of all places.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/football/super/2003-01-22-davis-ap_x.htm (1216 words)

	AL DAVIS - SportsCrew Forums
		DAVIS, AL Raiders owner Al Davis acknowledged during cross-examination Thursday that he and co-owners earned millions of dollars after the team moved back to Oakland despite his claims that the franchise shift was a financial disaster.
		Davis acknowledged that $24 million was paid to partners -- including $7 million to himself -- in the first three years after the Raiders returned to Oakland from Los Angeles.
		Davis said he was unaware of problems with ticket sales as he inked the 15-year deal to return on Aug. 7, 1995.
	www.sportscrew.com /vb/showthread.php?t=18520 (511 words)

	The Dead Pool: Al Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Of my picks that were selected on the basis of personal dislike, Al Davis, the owner and general manager of the Oakland Raiders, is the one who I dislike the least, and one of the more likely ones to die this year.
		He's on there because he is old and famous.) Al Davis is not a terrorist or a dictator, just a pro sports team owner who is despised by most of the coaches he has hired.
		However, Al Davis is 76, and either he is actually a laid-back nice guy underneath the argumentative and micromanaging exterior, or all that stress and animosity is seriously affecting his health.
	deadpool.isfullofcrap.com /oldcrap/2006/03/al_davis.html (407 words)

	Al Davis says "fraud" turned an excellent Oakland deal bad - PittsburghLIVE.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Davis, recalling the buoyant East Bay atmosphere in the summer of 1995, repeated claims Tuesday he trusted assurances by Oakland officials that enthusiastic Raiders fans would pack a remodeled 65,000-seat stadium and return the team and its city to "glory."
		Davis is seeking $1 billion from the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, its chief negotiator and the defunct accounting firm Arthur Andersen for failing to deliver on sellout crowds and causing the Raiders to lose money.
		Davis, 74, recalled during seven days of testimony how he moved back to Oakland partly for sentimental reasons -- it was the site of his first professional football coaching job.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/sports/s_143767.html (765 words)

	Al Davis
		Al Davis received his bachelor's degree from MIT in electrical engineering in 1969, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah in 1972.
		Davis is well known for having built the first operational dataflow computer in 1976 (Burroughs), for his work in parallel computer architecture and systems, and as one of the pioneers in the field of asynchronous circuits and systems.
		Professor Davis and his group are developing an advanced performance tuning toolkit which provides continuous performance profiling capability for all aspects of a specific architecture: issue-rate, commit-rate, miss-rate, fabric congestion, TLB shoot-down rate, etc. and integrates the results into a multi-dimensional visualization environment.
	www.vision.caltech.edu /mariomu/FMIW98/davis.html (911 words)

	A Tribute to Al Davis
		Al was quickly disaffected by some of the arcane aspects of economics — those that might be great for tenure but had no applicability to the real world.
		Al wanted to solve problems and his interest from the start was in public policy.
		Al's failure to play these games may have foreclosed certain career options, but he was usually in his element in the jobs he took, always just below the surface visible to the public but right at the heart of policy.
	www.urban.org /url.cfm?ID=1000497&renderforprint=1&CFID=1622806&CFTOKEN=67309360 (961 words)

	Al Davis - LAST OF HIS KIND - ProSportsDaily Forums
		That and the great thing about Al Davis is he speaks his mind I remember watching him in an espn interview a few years back and they said didn't you help hire tagilbue and he said yes but that just proves I make mistakes.
		Al's gettin' up there for sure - but remember, his mother died at the age of 103 and I've read she was pretty sharp until the end.
		Al Davis was born in 1930 so that would make him 74 or 75 i don't have his bday.
	www.prosportsdaily.com /forums/showthread.php?t=13478 (670 words)

	Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		Al Davis is the only person to have served pro football in such varied capacities as (1) a player personnel assistant, (2) an assistant coach, (3) a head coach, (4) a general manager, (5) a league commissioner and (6) the principal owner and chief executive officer of an NFL team.
		Davis led the 1963 Raiders to a 10-4 record and won unanimous AFL Coach of the Year acclaim.
		Born July 4, 1929, in Brockton, Massachusetts, Davis grew up in Brooklyn and first attended Wittenberg College and then Syracuse University where he was graduated with a degree in English.
	www.profootballhof.com /hof/member.jsp?player_id=51 (380 words)

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		Like Desmond Howard, whom Davis fell in love with after his best years in Green Bay, Woodson won the Heisman (at Michigan for the 1997 season), and he did so in large measure because the Wolverines used him in any number of roles: cornerback, kick and punt returner, wideout.
		Davis has always coveted the hardware - not just what it is, but what it represents.
		Al finally did part ways with Brown, for example, but only at the very, very far end of Brown's productive days in football.
	www.thesunlink.com /shns/story.cfm?pk=FBN-KREIDLER-10-28-05&cat=FP (740 words)

	Sports: Al Davis
		In fact, Davis has become so adept at finding a college for players that students from other schools try to enlist his services.
		WHAT THEY'RE SAYING: "I know Al wants to win as bad as anyone else, but he's not done with his students once their high school career is over.
		DID YOU KNOW?: Davis' brother, Larry, was a member of the 1970 Gibbs football team and was on the practice field Labor Day when lightning struck and killed two of his teammates, Vincent Williams and Robert Newton.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/02/26/Sports/Al_Davis.shtml (437 words)

	CNNSI.com - SI Writers - Don Banks - Inside the NFL - Don Banks: Where has Al Davis been all week? - Saturday January ...
		I had gotten wind of a rumor Thursday night that Davis, whose profile has been so low this week you couldn't limbo under it, was planning to talk for the first time all week Friday.
		The word was that Davis was plotting to conduct a press conference somewhere at 11:30 a.m., in direct head-to-head competition with NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue's nationally televised annual state of the league address.
		Davis wanted no part of that query, telling Topkin: "I don't even really know who you are, really, and you're asking me questions.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /inside_game/don_banks/news/2003/01/24/banks_insider (1058 words)

	Al Davis for governor?
		Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis has shown himself to be unrelenting, shrewd and singularly scary when it comes to pursuing his personal triumvirate -- suing, moving and turning loyal fans against him.
		Davis, as the patron saint of trial lawyers everywhere, would have a built- in constituency in Sacramento, where special interests rule the roost and money is prized above good government.
		The great thing about Davis is that it seems there will always be someone for him to kick around, because no matter how vindictive and vexatious he appears, there's always another sucker willing to take the bait.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/01/ED182951.DTL (697 words)

	ESPN.com - Greatness of the Raidess is their future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was Al who said, halfway through this past season when the Raiders were 4-4, "We aren't as good as we were at 4-0 the first four games, or as bad as we are when we went 0-4 in the last four." Al knows.
		It was to Al Davis that DeBartolo Sr.
		Al Davis was suing the League about the direction of his Raiders at the time -- at any time, basically.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1499938&type=page2Story (2235 words)

	Weblog Entry - 05/31/2003: "R.I.P., AL DAVIS" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Davis died of injuries he received when a cab struck him while he was walking near the Virginia Square Metro stop in Arlington on May 19.
		Davis came to Washington in the late 1970s and spent the early 1980s as senior analyst on taxation and finance with the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
		Davis, who was born in Dallas, was a 1968 honors graduate of Swarthmore College and received a master's degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin.
	maxspeak.org /gm/archives/00001218.html (955 words)

	AugustaSports.Com: The Augusta Chronicle's Pro Football Coverage: NFL punter wins praise 12/13/00
		Al Davis traditionally is committed to excellence on the gridiron, not in public speaking.
		Davis as a Raider for 14 years - was presented to Wisconsin's Kevin Stemke, the nation's top collegiate punter.
		Davis was wooed back to Oakland by a number of financial incentives, including an $85 million modernization of Oakland Stadium.
	www.augustasports.com /stories/121300/pro_MPS-6465.000.shtml (850 words)

	Hayes: Still Al's team, for better or worse - NFL - MSNBC.com
		Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis made a splash in the offseason by trading linebacker Napoleon Harris and a first-round draft choice to the Minnesota Vikings for Randy Moss.
		Davis made a splash in the offseason by trading linebacker Napoleon Harris and a first-round draft choice to the Minnesota Vikings for Randy Moss.
		Davis always likes to collect aging veterans with hopes that he can squeeze a few more years of productivity from them.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/9117671 (803 words)

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		Originally coach of the Raiders, Al -- known then and now for his slicked-back hair, Brooklyn-tinged speech, dark glasses and ferocious competitiveness -- was named AFL Coach of the Year in 1963, leading the Raiders to a 10-4-0 record.
		Davis coached the Raiders for three seasons and had a career record of 23-16-3.
		Davis' reign as commissioner lasted only two months, but according to sportswriter Jerry Magee, "Al Davis taking over as commissioner was the strongest thing the AFL ever did...he thought the peace [AFL-NFL merger] was a detriment to the AFL...it was a disappointment to him that they merged."
	www.jewsinsports.org /profile.asp?sport=football&id=4 (914 words)

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		Clearly or not, the viewers will get a glimpse of Al Davis, fleeting as it may be, because no matter what is happening on the field, whether the Oakland Raiders are playing well or not playing well, Al Davis is always a story.
		You can say, as Al has through the years, it's better to be feared than loved, but the idea had more significance when the Raiders were winning, not losing.
		They replace a coach for a team that surely is coached by Al Davis, or at the least is directed by Al Davis.
	www.insidebayarea.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=3040565 (713 words)

	Oakland Raiders
		Al Davis, a former assistant coach for the San Diego Chargers, was hired as head coach and general manager in 1963.
		Al Davis converted him to a tight end during the 1964 season, and he finished his career as one of the best players of all time at that position.
		In this webmaster's opinion, had Al Davis been given the opportunity to continue his efforts, the NFL would have folded or capitulated to join the AFL.
	www.conigliofamily.com /Raiders.htm (2434 words)

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